The Washington times., 1901-09-05
LETTERS FROM ABROAD READ.
Meeting of the Soldiers. sailors,
md Marines, CIuh

Owing to the fact that the first Monday
of this month. the usual meeting night,
was holiday. the regular monthly meet
ing of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club was held last night at the clubhouse.
81 Street northwest There was a large
attendance and the president, Miss La
vinia Chase. occupied the chair.
After the disposal of routine business a
number of letters were read from MEM
bers stationed abroad, In which were in
terestingly described life and customs
in foreign lands. One of the correspond
ents. a member of the Marine Corps.
wrote from the Brooklyn Navy Yard that
the soldiers in Washington are not treat
ed as well by the citizens as they are in
Brooklyn. Another letter which proved
highly interesting was that of Private
William ]. Murray. Eleventh United
States Infantry. now stationed in the
Catalan Island, p. :.
I'VE were fifty-four days coming over.
he writes. ''and had great deal of sick
ness on board. Tie would not let us
land in Manila, but sent US to this place.
My company is In Constellation. and am
with a detachment of forty here. We are
having a great deal of rain, as 1t is the
rainy season.
and almost daily have a little encounter
with them. Three prisoners are here now,
but we have sent already forty to Manila,
with four insurgent officers. We are at
the foot of a very high mountain, and can
see the insurgents signaling every night.
The enemy are giving us lots of trouble,
but we have had no casualties on our side.
These people here are like savages. We
cannot speak to them, as there is no in
Il
time we look at them. We were out look
ing for sor1e sweet potatoes, and ran
across some of them. who ran like wild.
You will excuse us for not writing a
better letter, but l am writing this by
candle light in a tent. We cannot buy
a stamp or a bit of paper here, and most
of the boys are writing letters home on
almost any kind of paper they can get
hold Of. We have a very hard time to get
anything. We forage almost everything
We eat. There has not been a boat here
since We landed, and it did not bring any
rations.
After the reading of the letters the reg
ular order of business was resumed. A
motion was adopted to spread on the
minutes the fact that, on August last.
there was married at the clubhouse Writ
Libbey. a member of the Hospital Corps
and of the club. The president announced
that she had been advised by Mrs. Ad-
miral Higginson that the latter had call
ed meeting of members of the Woman $
Army and Navy League, to be held this
afternoon at Newport, to consider the
welfare of the club. Miss Chase also an
nounced that General Bird. of the Quar-
termaster's Department. would address
the club on the evening of the last Sun
day of this month on matters of general
interest.
Another announcement was to the effect
that the lyceum course would commence
on the first Wednesday in October, and
that Chaplain Pierce, u. s. A., on that
occasion would deliver a lecture on the
Philippines. Preliminary arrangements
for a housewarming to take place in the
latter part of October, and for the ceie-
bration of the third anniversary of the
club on November Is, were also discussed.