The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-03
BANKRUPT IN GUAM
SEVEN PASSENGERS OF SHERIDAN
WENT ASHORE AND WERE
LEFT
FATHER COLBERT ONE OF THEM
Forgot Sailing Orders, and Find
Themselves Exiled on Island
without Money or Mer-
chandise.

Because of their unconquerable Yankee
curiosity seven passengers of the United
States army transport Sheridan, when
arrived in Manila on Sept Is, are eXiied
on the island of Guam sans money,
clothes, friends and comfort When the
transport anchored off Guam on the
evening of the 18th inst. for the pur-
pose offs depositing and receiving l;:s,ll.
Brig. Gen. Grant made hasty trip to
the island. Many of the passengers were
anxious to go ashore also. but were in
formed that the transport would sail i'm
mediately upon Cen Grants return.
About thirty minutes before the ship
weighed anchor a party consisting of
Chaplain William Colbert capt. and Mrs.
Crowley, Seventeenth infantry; w. R. L.
Best, veterinary surgeon L. S. A, and
II. c. Lamson, Joseph Flaherty and
Frank w. Spicer, school teachers Ell
route for the Philippines the latter
Mortified, Mimi, boy, concluded to take
a boat and go to shore to see the sights.
They went They are there yet. but the
landscape does not seem so enhancing as
it did that evening at sunset. AS they
started TO row away they were again
warned that the boat would not wait for
them if they were late. Then good
Father Colbert stood up in the boat and
said cheerily: Fear not, my friends,
they would not dare to sail away with
out me-" But alas they did.
The happy little party reached the
island and started out to see the sights.
The longer they Gtrolled the more delight
ed did they become with their Surround
irgs and all thoughts of boats generals,
sailing orders and Filipinos fed In a
few hours they came back to the shore
TO take the transport. But the boat was
many miles away toward its final desti-
nation and seven lonely, exiled Amer
leans looked at each other Sheepislly,
while six of them thought things which
they dared not utter in the presence OF
the preacher.
Then they began to think of the night
and where they would lay them down to
rest, but alas they could not scrape up
money enough to rent a rafter on which
to hang. On account of petty thieving
upon the transport most of the pas
sergers had left their valuables in the
possession of the quartermaster and he
has them yet. Dead broke in a strange
land. without a change of clothing, with
no Geographic communications with the
civilized world, wholly hereft of the com"
fCrts of home, the little party could only
fall back upon the philosophy4o religion,
with mental reservations concerning the
government. The only recreation Lett
them was to sit out upon the beach md
practice Christian Science. and listen to
the sea was sadly swishing against the
shore: Blessed are the trusting, for they
shall get left"
The Sheridan made the trip in twenty
four days from Frisco, bringing al pas
seEgers and 525 sacks of mail. A NUM-
Der of officers and officers families, to-
gether with school teachers and soma
pleasure seekers, Were onsboard. Thee
was no sickness during the voyage and
the entire trip was a peaceful and pleas
ant one.
The Sheridan brought 1000 tons of army
supplies to Manila. Among the pas
sengers was Miss Lucinda Ansbro,
formerly a teacher N the ST. Paul
schools. Miss Ansbro will join the teach
ing force in the Philippines.