The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-26
BICKERING IN MANILA
CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITIES
HAVE WARM TIME.
THE WOMEN TAKE A HAND,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LEARNING
CAUTION, 1T SEEMS.

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Army Groceries Any More and the
| Army Has Taken Their Carriages.
| Washington. Oct. 25.-The represen-
tatives of the civil and the military
power of the United States in Manila
are having a regular nursery row
| among themselves. According to
short stories received here from the
insular capital, they are having more
| squabbles among themselves than the
wives of officers, diplomats and off,
cials here have on the subject of pre-
cedence at receptions and dinners.
That is saying good deal, too. 1t may
not mean much in society, where the
hand shaking with the host and hos
tess goes on in the order of first come,
first served"
The pickering dates back to July 4,
when the civil government was nomi-
nally made supreme. "Nominally" is
the proper word to use, because Gov.
Taft is hampered by the military, and
Taft limited the authority of Chaffee.
The military was 10th to give up any
of the control it had. The first evil
|
the wife of a prominent officer import
ed some Chinese servants in defiance
of the law forbidding Chinese immi-
grafton.
That affair started a lot of trouble.
| The civil authorities retal1ated. by for
bidding soldiers to walk on the Lunets,
| the water-fron park in the evenings.
| Their officers came back at "Tafts
minions" by stopping concerts given
by military bands so that now the fav-
orite promenade. is quiet place after
| night fall.
The next move was the withdrawal
of commissary privileges from Ameri
can civilians. Before that order they
| could buy groceries at the army depots
at wholesale prices. Now If they want
American food, they must buy it from
| the shops at fancy prices-prices null
tiplied four or five times. This hard
ship falls hardest on the school tearh-
ers, who were sent out several months
ago. The cost of their living is now
so high that they are in a miserable
condition. Native food, they claim,
makes them sick.
Gov. Taft bumped against this order
in an unpleasant way. He tried to buy
plated ware for his table, but the SOL
diers wouldn't sell it. He cabled to
| Washington for and received authority
to buy it from the commissary. This
| infuriated the army officers so that
| they took from the civil officials the
carriages that had been bought with
public funds from them. Now the civ
| il officials are walking to and from
their offices. and are making official
trips also on foot, or in public convey
ances. While army officers performed
civil functions they all had carriages
bught with public funds.
The score on petty meanness is
largely in favor of the army up to this
time. The only thing army officers
wives have lost is the right to import
| Chinese servants. They get their gro
ceries and other supplies cheap; they
can have military band concerts by
ordering them, and carriages are to be
had for the asking and without ex-
pense to themselves.
"BuIlics," Not Boys"
| Although nearly all the newspapers
reported that one of the witnesses at
the Schley court said that Schley en-
couraged his men during the battle of
Santiago by saying: "Give them h,
boys it appears from the printed tes-
! timony that Schley said "bullies," not
boys 'Bullies' is the technical term
| of endearment old salts use towards
their men. 1t semes to be akin to
the use of the word bull" as an ad-
| jective to describe the rank Of an OH
| Ger.
Engineer in Chief Melville of the
navy is a typical old-time officer, both
in language and appearance. AS he is
| a woman n-hater-though why such
kind-hearted man should be anything
| other than a lover of the other sex docs
not appear-it is not altogether ueces-
sary to have a care for the niceties Of
language He doesn't. He uses the old
| navy terms in preference to -he ordin-
ary words For instance. ne never In
ouires if Secretary Long is in his CT
flee. "Is the bull-Secretary in?" is the
way he asks that question. With him
| the executive officer of ship is the
''bull-lieutenant," the fleet captain is
the "bull-captain" and the fleet chap
lain is the "bull-sky pilot" The ad-
! iective indicates that the officer to
whom it is applied is the ranking man
of that grade. If an enlisted man calls
on the Admiral, he asks: well, my
bully. what is it?" and the term is
not an insult, either. When Schley
called his men "bullies,' he was doing
the proper thing, and they evidently
appreciated his kind attention by CIV
ing the Spaniards what he prescribed.
No News About Miss stone.
All questions concerning Miss stone,
| the American missionary NOW III lHS
hands of Bulgarian brigands. proyokes
the Second Assistant Secretary OF state
to wrath. The other day a luckless
wight of a newspaper man walked in
| TO Mr.. Adee's office and reached his
| desk before the hard-of- hearing assist
ant secretary saw or heard him. When
| Mr.. Adee saw him he made two sweeps
with his arms and dumped everything
that was on his desk onto the hoor.
Here you are, keeping busy man
| from his work" yelled. Mr.. Adee. 1--WE
been trying for four hours TO write
| letter and have finished only four lines,
because you're all around here asking
about Miss Stone. / won't tell you y
word about her, not a word"
OF course the reporter retired. But
| he knew the irascible and peculiar
| Adee 80 he came back In ten min
utoa.
There was the second assistant max
! ing snap shot photographs OF the
yachts on the Potomac, desk and tenn
per both all right and IN good order.
But he still adheres 20 the embargo
on news about Miss Stone.
Benhsm's Economy.
Admiral Benham exciteE many
smiles every day among the constant
.