The sun., 1903-09-27
GEN. YOUNG IN NORTH LUZ0N.
THE ARMY'S HEAD POPULAR
WITH THE FILIPINOS.
First He Fought Them Hard-Theu He
Governed Them Well-DemOcratc In
Ills Ways In the e'Field-Almost Rcck-
less In His Total Disregard Of Danger.

First He Fought Them Hard-Theu He
Governed Them Weil-DemOcrauc In
Ills Ways In the 'Field-Almost Reck.
less in His Total Disregard Of Danger.
Gen. S. B. NJ. Young, head of the General
staff Of the United States Army. Is very
popular among the natives OF northern
Luzon.
First they learned to fear him a. vigor-
GUS fighter; then they came to respect
and admire him as a just Governor.
1t was Gen. Young who brought all tEe
northern provinces Of Luzon under the
American flag. His northern campaign
was one OF the most vigorous OF the Philip
pine war. hes e-s' Ss
For whole week he cut himself loose
! from any base of supplies and pushed
through hostile country after the fleeing
enemy. He subsisted on forage only:
| For one week the question throughout
the Philippines was, where is Young7"
When again he appeared it was in the town
of Vigan, two hundred miles north OF the
place where he had dropped out OF COM
munication with Otis in Manila.
| His entrance into that town was not
little spectacular. A few days before it
| had been bombarded and taken by the
battleship Oregon. whose marines landed
and held it until company Of the Thirty
third United States Volunteers could 70.
! lieve them next day. 'n.., .a ~;
/ Then the insurgents under Gen. Tino
! attacked the town one night. and were
only repulsed after a fight in which eight
! Americans were killed and many wounded.
} After that the Americans considered them-
! selves practically besieged, believing the
country about to be alive with insurgents.
This was their situation when one day
| they heard heavy firing In the pass that
+. led into the mountains of the interior
| Several hours later large, stout ofiicer.
F.! with white hair and mustache and ruddy
! but stern face, rode into town with squad
! ron of cavalry behind him. 1t WAS Gen.
F. Young He had just driven the last Of
| the insurgents into the mountains.
! This was the end of his weeks forced
4: ride Thenceforth, he made Vigan his
! Headquarters, whence he directed all fur
F! ther operations.
| In spite of his gr,If manner and soldierly
abruptness, officers and men alike under
J Young greatly admired him. Albert Son.
| nichsen, who was Gen. Young's guide and
interpreter at the time of his occupancy
of yigan. tells the following story. which
| illustrates the Generals democratic ways:
| "A report had come in late one evening
f, by native that some escaped Spanish
! prisoners were in hiding in a small village
up the pass, the whereabouts Of which
I knew only definitely, having spent
| night there as member Of the captured
Gilmore party.
AS the Spaniards were supposed 10
, have fresh information OF the location OF
| the insurgent forces, it was important
| that they should be brought in as soon
| AZ possible So I was sent out to bring
| them in safely through the outposts.
! at took me two hours of hard riding
! through pelting rain and over a shlsh
covered road to reach the village, but
upon arriving I lost no time in locating
| the Spanish officers, who we're hiding in
the huts Of friendly natives. All were
old comrades Of mine In confinement.
Il soon discovered that one Of them.
| Colonel, had an important despatch from
| Col. Hara, who had switched OF into the
j interior after Tino. So we set out on the
return al once, slowly, as the escaped
officers were on foot.
"We reached Vigan at about l o'clock
in the morning, and 1 at once hurried the
Spanish Colonel with the despatch into
Gen. Young's quarters. He was still up.
working at his desk in his shirt sleeves
Covered with mud, wet through and
almost completely tagged out, we threw
ourselves into cane chairs while ! inter-
preted the Spaniards information. Young
rose offered us flask Of whiskey. and
then disappeared through door leading
into the kitchen and the cooks room. Next
thing we heard his deep voice intermin-
Cling with the clatter Of dishes. From the
trend Of his energetic speech we gathered
that he could not find the cook
Presently the General reappeared In
both arms he carried plates of beef, rice,
bread, cold coffee and various other re-
freshments, which he spread on table
before us as dexterously as the missing
cook could have done. And we grate-
fully accepted his services
Youngs chief opponent in Northern
Luzon was the boy General Tino. who.
a year before had wrested the northern
provinces from the Spaniards. Young
professed great contempt for Tino. III
ever get that kid, I'll spank him. he
was in the habit Of saying.
On the other hand, Tino did not fail to
secure little quiet amusement out Of his
pursuer.
One day a native brought information
that Tino was near by. on mountain called
Kabugoa, which overlooks the pass into
the exterior. Young at once sent young
insurgent officer on parole with word to
Tino, offering him liberty II he would sur
render Tino sent back an answer. along
with his compliments, that he was enjoying
the fun too much to think OF such thing.
Hang his impertinence. growled
Young, upon having the message inter-
preted. but at the same time a grim smile
played under his stubby white mustaohe.
Quite correspondence followed before
Tino finally surrendered, and the two Gen.
erals--the American veteran OF 90 and the
Filipino boy of 2l--grew to have secret
admiration for each other At least. Tino
was never spanked
Young seemed almost reckless in his
disregard of danger. The writer came up
from Manila to Vigan on a steamer which.
through the ignorance Of pilot. was piled
UP on a sand bank of Vigan. A gunboat
came to the rescue and got us of, but not
until we had attracted attention ashore.
We put ashore in boat On the beach
we saw solitary figure watching US. We