The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-02-08
Logan Boy
Arrives at Manila, to Enghge I'D sers
vice for His Country.

AT SEA, ABOARD SHfp PATHEN,
Nov, 30, 1899. dear Mother, Faith
or, and brother Arthur | will now
take pleasure in telling you Of our
trip. We sailed from Frisco on
Nov. 14th, and arrived at Houolu-
lu on the 23rd, stayed there two
days, and then we set sail for Man.
lila. We are now four days sail
from Honolulu and we are out
great ways en- the deep blue sea
VIII ere our vessel rocks like u rocky
by baby on a tree top, when the
wind blows the cradle will rock,
80 does the ship. Well Mother,
how do enjoy this trip. Maybe
it will not be so funny after a while,
but 1t was fun to see the boys heave-
ing up Jonah, and was glad I was
able to hold him down.
Our rations are soup,bread, meat,
and coffee twenty-one times week
For one meal we get about pint
of soup, J pint of coffee, meat the
size of mans fist, bread the same
size, and boiled potato with its
jacket on. Sometimes we get
served the second time IL we eat
the first quick enough and you can
bet on us for that, the soup is made
of meat, beans, and peas, about two
or three gallons of beans or peas
put in an eighty gallon tank with
few pounds of meat then oh my,
zee the boys dive after the beans.
Fingers you know were made be-
fore forks, so you pretty near know
how we do when we dine. We
take bath every day and wash
our clothing twice a week. They
let us go bathing in the BAY when
we stopped at Honolulu, and you
know how / like to be in the (wat-
.
er) well. maybe you think I didn't
have time then, it looked like a
boat load of big pumpkins that had
been dumped in the water to see
the boys, three or four hundred of
them, boiling around on the water.
The weather is very hot here now
it is like the hottest summer days
at home. 1t will be twenty four
days before we see land again. Our
boat is an old English stock boat
made into transport, and there
are two of them with six company's
on each one. Some of the boys
dom, like soldering but 1 like it
all right so far, just so they don't
run me up hill to much in drilling.
How is old Logan? I'll bet the
boys are having lots of fun skate
ing; imagine 1 see them on Rem
pe's pond just now.
4n ANIL IllLlIIlNE lSLAND,
Dec. 23.-Well now we are in Man
lila bay where Dewey had such
scrap with the Spandiards, there Is
an American fleet here and an
English fleet, the soldiers come on
board to see US but we are not al
lowed to go ashore yet The coun-
try here looks about like Cuba
there are lots Of Spandiards here,
they come to the vessel to trade
with US. We were thirty days on
the water. My Captain is O'Conel
from Columbus, Ohio; FIRST Lieu.
tenant Bachelor, of Chicago, I'll;
Second Lieutenan. Powers, OF Bos-
ton Mass, and the Colonels name
is Kyler. The day after we land
ed General Lawton was killed and
they hurried US ashore and gave
us 100 rounds of ammunition and are
holding us ready for action. We
axe All 4Nipto bhiIdChS HoAI Hi Auii-
la, the barracks is made of bamboo
poles, rooted with bamboo leaves,
the floor is made of bamboo poles
split and laid fat side up. 1t is the
greatest thing ever saw, it is very
muddy here it has been raining
several days but when it is dry it
is pretty country. The streets
have large trees about thirty feet
apart which make nice shade.
Well Mother, | do not think there
Is much danger here the mos dang
er is when on picket duty for those
Filipinos are very treacherous, the
Americans fire volley or two into
them snd they will run. Well
Mother, you can see by this I have
been several days writing thi, let
ter, began it aboard the ship and
L am finishing ii in the barracks.
1 will close by saying good by,
love to all.
WILLIAM II. TIMBERLAKB,
Nipta Barracks,
Manila, Philippine Island.