Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-04-12
DORSEY HOME.
Thunder Bolt" Gets Back Safe
and Sound.

He had q Hard Time of it In the Army
Poor Opinion of our Island Posses
sions-Natives no Good-0niy One
Man in the Regiment Entered the
Regular Service.
Arthur Dorsey member OF the both
regiment band has returned home,
He came in on the evening train
Thursday from Pittsburg. Dorsey is
looking thin from the effects of the
various attacks of illness from which
he suffered while away but otherwise
he seems very well indeed. He had a
varied experience in the Islands and
does not desire to go back.
He states that but one man in the
regiment re-enlisted. That one had
been discharged at his own request at
He found this impossible to do and
had lost all his money. He then re-
entered the service. The rest of the
men came home aside from few who
took places on the police force at sew
enty-f1ve dollars month.
Dorsey saw man who was with
Frank Lazier when the Morgantown
lad died in China. Lazier was cor
poral and had a fine record with his
shipmates. He died after sixteen
days Illness with varioloid. He was
buried there by his mates who deeply
regretted his death. He was always
a popular fellow and his mates liked
him even better than the average
marine is liked by his comrades.
The abolition CT the canteen is
claimed by Dorsey to be bad idea.
The men get out and get the native
liquor which makes them crazy. In
the canteen they got only beer. The
profits went into the mess fund SO
that their beer cost them nothing but
the actual cost OF manufacture and
transportation.
This native liquor is awful. Dor
sey laughed at the claims of those
who say that the Americans made the
Philippines drunkards. He says that
they can give cards and spades to any
one in the drinking line. The chill
dren even drink the vile stuff and
they stand it easily while the foreign
er is knocked out in the first round.
Every member of the population
from children hardly big enough to
walk to the oldest inhabitants smoke
constantly. 1t is a funny sight to
see old women smoking long black
cigars or to see the babies pulling
away at a cigarette.
The country is poor one in his
opinion. The heat is awful. 1t is
always hot but some times it is hotter
than at others. There is no place
that is comfortable The rainy sea-
son only aggravates the climatic con-
ditions.
In kind with all the other soldiers
who have been there Dorsey thinks
very little of the fighting abilities of
the Philippines. They several times
met the regiment in which he was
enlisted but very few men were kill
ed. Thirty was the total number
killed by the enemy. One hundred
died from disease in the regiment.
The band made great hit every
where. Their nightly concerts in
! Manila brought out a large crowd
each time and the papers over there
claimed that this band was the best
IN the service.
After twenty months Of absence
the young fellow is glad to get home.
While in the islands he saw Lieuten-
ant White and First Sergeant Utt.
He did not see the rest of the Morgan
town boys who were there. The
other regiments are to be brought
home soon. There will be little need
Of keeping them there. The capture
of Aguinaldo is expected to do much
toward ending the rebellion.
Many Of the insurgents are coming
in and surrendering and they seem
likely to entirely suspend hostillties
before very long.