The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-03
HERO AND A
PEDAGOGUE
Graphic Story of F. D.
GameWelI.
WOMEN WORKED WELL
Peking Professor Narrates to the
Advertiser Thrilling
Story.

or the hundreds of foreigners, civilians
and soldiers who withstood the terrible
siege of eight weeks in the compounds of
the British and American Legations in
Peking against the hordes of Chinese.
none achieved a greater reputation for
courage than F. d. Gamewell, professor
of chemistry and physics in the UNIVERSE
~ of Picking, now here on the America
Maru. 1t was he who planned the fortii-
cations for the British Legation and the
enclosure which the foreigners held so
bravely until the relief force planted its
flags upon the walls of the city and rout-
ed the Chinese soldiery.
1t was this self-same Professor who was
one of the men of the hour and whose
scientific training stood the Legations
and inmates in such stead. He was made
chief of staff of the Notifications commit
tee and directed the movements of the
marines and soldiers placed under his
charge. He planned the system of coun-
termining within the defences to prevent
the Chinese from tunnelling beneath the
buildings and blowing them up He or
dered the thousands of sand-bags with
Tense walls. He ordered the deep trenches
dug within these walls of sand so that in
case the Chinese drove the defenders
away from them they would scale the
walls only to encounter the deep moat
Not only was one line of defense erected
in this manner, but in certain sections OF
the enclosure held by the foreigners a
triple line was made.
First Of all. let me praise the women
defenders OF that British compound" said
MIR. Gameweil last night. They were the
bravest set of women / have ever seer
or heard of. Knowing what fate would
befall them, they We're doubly active, and
assisted the men In a manner which can
net but give them the name of heroinas
when the full history of the siege is told
They We're the ones who made bags o.
silk and filled them with sand There
were thousands upon thousands of thesy
bags made. Further than that, they look
ed after the food supplies They watch
ed every morsei. They lived on mule ana
hcrsefiesh-'curried horse'-while We wert
withstanding the terrible-sheA fire which
the Chinese artillerists poured on US
They were noble set of women. They
were every inch as brave as the men.
| "One of them Is known here. / believe
Miss Bessie Mccoy did wonders. She va.
at the head of the food committee anc
bore her part with a fortitude which vii
always be remembered by those whom she
assisted
I'VE know that the Empress Dowagel
was behind the entire movement agains
us. That she declared war, and that Wal
did and does exist in China is evidenced
by the edict she issued while we wer,
besieged. We have seen this edict will
our own eyes, and every foreign Ministe
I In the trenches has seen it. When theI
full reports reach their respective Govern
ments this one fact should weigh NOR,
In the final conclusions as to what polio,
shall be pursued in China, than any 9th
err believe that when the United State
Government sees with its own eyes tn
evidence of the Empress Dowager's gull
ithat II will be 10th to withdraw tn,
american soldiers. A state of war exist
ed in China. In her edict tbs. Dowace
said. Let the Princes and Generals i,
charge OF the soldiers cooperate will
the Princes and Generals in charge o
the Boxers, and drive out the foreigners
The soldiers who fought US were Impe
rial soldiers, and used the most modarl
rifles
Mr.. Gamewell showed the Advertise
representative a Manlicher rifle which
was taken from one of the Imperial ar
lsenals and said there were thousands O
these boxes piled up and undisturbed
| j his shows that the Government ha,
been preparing for an outbreak for SOM
time to come" said Mr.. Gamewell Tn
rifle was of the carbine style, takes sever
al cartridges from clip, and car be Cd
Grated with great speed. 1t uses smok G
less powder. The only noise made by
Is the working of the magazine char1ber
This trouble has been fomenting sine
lSSS,' said Mr.. Gamewell 1.-THE coup a
letat OF the Empress when the Empcro
was practically dethroned and many o
the Reformers were beheaded, was tn
signal for an attempt to drive out tn
/ IInr
IT, foreign and she displaced the progress
i've members of the Government with ION
servatives. After the occupation of Kio
IChou by the Germans, trouble began 4
brew. 1t took first the form of i unite,
militia for local protection, as they term
ed 1t. 1t spread and the desire was ex
pressed to destroy the Catholics; then i
spread to the Protestants and then to a.
foreigners. The cry was raised to exal
the Manchu dynasty. Their warcry wa
Down with the foreignersr
! When the Boxer movement began
there was pressure from the Legation
to have the offenders punished, but III
violence spread to the northward an;
broke out with violence in Pao Ting Flu
Then the Imperial railroad was torn u
and finally communication between Pc
king and Tien-Tsin was cut off, / ha
a, furlough and was to leave within forty
eight hours of the time the trains wer
IstCpped. Ihat Is the reason l did not &c
out before the siege began This was O.
May u. In the meantime the foreig
Ministers had asked for Legation guard:
lThese were sent up and arrived in Pc
King on Thursday, May 81. On Tuesda
all communication with the outer worl
was cut of. No trains have run since
as the railroad is destroyed and has M
Deer repaired. On Thursday we began t
reinforce the Picking University. wit
Wnich was connected. 1t was the lare
est Protestant church In China and bt
longed to the Methodist Mission. All {
.he missionaries were brought to hi
nIiiolng and we had twenty marines wit
US. We commenced to fortify ourseIve
and intended to hold out as long as ~
could. On Wednesday. June L.. the
commenced burning the foreign churcbt
and everything outside the legations "
held out one week.
1t was on Wednesday at o'clock
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