The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-28


mum, Now they swarmed down into the street
OF the canal and waited for the troops. The
Chinese converts nOckcd out Of their houses
along the street and filled the bridges over the
canal. There were many glad welcomes OF tho
indian troops. as can easily be Understood, but
naturally II was when tho white men began TO
come along that enthusiasm reached ia height.
Some of the houses were supplied with whiskey
and water for officers and men. and here and
there about the compound were women who
served tea. One NJ these has my undyinR
thanks for a drink that saved me from collapse,
NOT 4 TgARruL TIME.
Somehow I had expected a somewhat fearful
time. but there was none OF II. Tho only tears
! saw were shed by a man who had gone into
the hospital to see n friend and found him 40
III and weak. after having made n splendid
record for himself In the early part Of thetronble.
that he could not speak and could hardly shut
his fingers on his friends, That man went
out into the yard and stood up under a tree
and cried.
The common salutation to a white man
seemed 10 be, We're glad TO see you" and
the almost invariable answer was, We're
mighty glad TO get here And that had a
twofold fervor.
BEslEdERs CHASED AWAY.
All this time the Russians had not come
up, for some reason. and the Japanese were
still pounding away with all their force at the
Chi-hua gate. Not with all their force. either.
for when they found that all the other troops
were coming through the Tung-pien-mun
they sent three battalions around TINT way,
These got up 10 their legation in the evening
about 0 o'clock. From their old positions
- ~ u.n II ~ I..--I.I Ia. A.. rkInaaa
were keeping up a lively fire on the legation
grounds all this time. Part Of one Of the In
dian regiments was sent out almost immedi-
ately on reaching the British legation to man
the barbados and keep down the fire Of snipers.
Bullets we're whizzins about the yards quite
promiscuously, and ono Of them hit the only
white woman who was wounded In the siege.
A NAL party Of American marines went
down 10 tho Chen-mun. the big centre gate
In the Tartar wall on the south aide and chased
the Chinese away from It. They went along
the wall from the part that had been he'd by
the foreign guards just south Of the legations,
Soon afterward the Russians came up with
a battery and blew In the gate. which had been
shut by the Chinese. That opened an easy
way Of getting out TO the south part OF the
city. The sun went down with continuous
firing still going on all around and bullets drop
ping In the legation grounds very frequently,
Yet the relief had come and no one seemed
10 care in the least what more the Chinese
tried to do.
Everybody went straight 10 his own kind.
British 10 British. American 10 American, Rus
sian 10 Russian and so on. The Ministers were
busting about NJ busy az they ever had been
In their lives, consulting with the Generals and
trying To answer a hundred different questions
In a upinuta The yrop,an orau STEADILY mora
cheerful. and before the evening was over one
young woman who had been visiting In the
American legation when the trouble began
had reached the conclusion that after oil she
wouldn't have missed II for worlds.
Naturally. there was n good deal of confusion
that first evening Most Of the British troops
were marched into the British legation grounds.
apparently with the expectation OF camping
there. n very unsatisfactory place. They finally
went through the wall into the Imperial carriage
park. which adioins the legation grounds. and
found an excellent place. The Americans were
all paraded through the British legation also.
and then there was considerable difficulty In
finding a camping ground for them, A miSer-
able place was chosen finally, simply because
II had got 80 late that something must be done.
II was In the mud Just outside the Tartar wall
with all the filth and slime Of the Chinese city
next 10 llFllls 1 llFTt NlFN Cdlul'tut hONfNtI,
and to help things along for them II rained
nearly all night steadily.
PEKIN 4 JIMMIE OF WRECK AND FILTH.
The people from other legations who had been
living In the British grounds all went back 20
their own that night. that Is. those did who
could Some Of the legations had been wrecked
so completely that they were nothing better
than heaps 81 brick and stone. The buildings
In the American legation were all practically
intact. however. and Minister Conger and his
family and guests got back into their own house.
as did Mr.. Squlres and Mr.. cambridge. the
secretaries.
That ight Pekln was nothing but a tumble
Of noise and filth and wreck and barbados
and dead Chinese. II looks. I suppose. very
much like any Chinese city. except that the
streets are wider. the buildings being in the
usual bis-walled and curved-roofed architec-
ure An immense number in the Chinese city
seemed to have been destroyed, for there was
ruin and wreck everywhere AS We went through.
and most OF this had been done by the Chinese
Themselves 1t could not have been the work
OF any Of our shell fire II was just an exhi-
bition OF what the Boxers do when they happen
20 feel eXuberant or 10 have a grudge against
some one. ! turned in for the night with It
all going round and round In my head. and no
end TO Il
ATTACK on THE FORBIDDEN CITY.
Next morning. Aug IS. We started of bright
and early to do great things. The Americans
were going into the Forbidden City. Charee
had asked the Russians II they wanted TO ioin,
but they did not, 80 the Americans were going
alone The operations we're to begin from the
Chen-mun AT q o'clock. II was still drilling
and di.aRreeable when Reilly took his guns
up the steep rampant to the top Of the huge
gate and posted two Of them 10 range along
the Tartar wall 10 the west. toward the Shun-
chih-mun. whore many banners were still
flying All along tho wall there we're the tents
Of the Chinese soldiers. Boxers or Imperial
troops or what not. there must have been thou
sands Of them. Everywhere the wall was COW
cred with their tents and banners. Far 10 the
westward from the Chen-mun. near the Shun-
chih-mun, We could see Chinese moving about
on the wall Reilly sent a few shells down there
but for some time evoked no response. Then
from tho bastion Of the Shun-chlh-mun there
rose several small puYs ~ blue smoke No
reporto Of the gun ever reached Va. nor was there
any indication a. 10 The character Of the weapon
the Chinese had fred. Certainly no shell or