The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
'jncIe Sam Pays Big Roll to
: His Nephews.
PAY DAY IN PHILIPPINES
Once in a While All Are Dis
appointed,

When the transport drops anchor in
Manila Bay and the quartermaster cap
tain goes up tie river Pasig to the Office
of the captain of the port there is re-
joicing from the water front to the Army
and Navy club, in Gale Baiacio, for the
gentleman with the shoulder straps real
ICES that row, TO the pomp and circum-
stance of war-as expressed by the func-
tons. at the governors palace IN Male
conan and the generals receptions in
Malate r0adis to be added the materiaf
consideration of valor-money-or as the
natives say it. dinero
Certainly the man VINO goes -a-soldier-
Ing has a right to expect prompt pay.
Ordinarily he gets it. Sometimes. for
various reasons, he waits. One OF the
oldest Of these various reasons was ad-
v8lced on the recent arrival in Manila OF
tie United States transport Sumner. The
umner, being the money ship. the word
sas exultsntiy- passed around Manila the
minute her tunnels We're recognized off
CorTegidor
NOW argued the captains and the
colonies, and the 1ieutenants and the
/.shave tails" and al the rest Of the
grand army, now we will get our money
and spend it in more or less riotous liv-
ing 'neatlf the shade Of the shelterng
palm
But said one, Colonel Charles II. Whip
pie, BY way of being The chief paymaster
of the islands: ''Aianama"
And from the consequent questonings
developed the fact that Uncle Sam had
been doing a little job of wishing and
ironing money. and not till the wash was
dry could the creditors get their pay
The why of it was this:
When the good ship Sumner, drawing
clear of the Folsom street cock, in San
Francisco, and heading out past the Pre-
sidio and the Faralone Islands, had been
on her way not longer than it takes from
ten O'Clock to tiffin time the discovery was
made by certain of the favol<d pasen-
gers that money was aboard. The Sumner
was a Variable treasure ship. carrying
paper to the value of S550.000 stamped
with the promise Of the government of
the United States.
Now everybody knows, such a sum
of ready cash as this is not TO be care
&SS11y AtAAANA0Q VI AA5Alt4S NO4ASAlGls- tl III
won't do to take a fortune of this mag
Tlitude and stow it away IN a steamer
trunk~under the bunk and ait-isr,t the
regulations even 10 put it in the little
safe In the qusrtermaster- captains snug
Office on the main deck. No. some more
secure hiding place must be found.
Such place ives found fer the Sum
ner's $500 First the money, which was
fn denominations Of ones, tRos. tens and
twenties, had been neatly bound. mp IN an
appropriately sized packages and tlIa |
whole collection placed in a-iafe,,,- Nooser,
box, iron bound, and lined with tarred |
paper. Next. the box had been taken
aboard.
THE place for this money!, decided the
'euartermaster captain, is the powder
Ehagazine"
The captain argued 1t would he good
thing to Keep the bills in a dry place
Next, he argued that the powder maya
zine was Il dry place. Ergo. the powder
magazine was a place good for the
s55oOoo. The logic Of the quartermaster
captain was lawless
The money. WAS stored away in the pow
der magazine, ana the favored passengers
who had been let into the secret that
half a naiiiion dollars was the principal, |
corga forgot all about its presence on
board after the first few hundred miles
had been passed and the charms-of sea,
sky and smoking room had begun TO /
work.
Everybody who was on board agrees it !
was very fine voyage indeed: that is to /
say, a very nne voyage til the coast OF /
Japan was reached. Now and then a 4
thing called q typhoon sweeps along the. +
coast of japan. and when this happens |
persons i'm the neighborhsod are aware of +
the fact. a 4Nphoon is to the coast. OF !
Japan what the cyclone and the hurricane /
and the tornado would be 10 Kansas is /
they were all rolled into one and given I
running start
The good ship Sumner encountered 4
typheqn eff the coast of Japan. 1t were
superfiuous to speak further on this point.
The Sumner encountered a typhoon. That
was all
"Anyway," said The quartermaster cap
tain. shakily. after It was all over. any
way the money IS safe. It's in the now
der magazine
lust TO make sure. however. he took
yvhat is termed In the east q 'Iook-see"
The Powder magazine held two things
water and the money pox--princinauv
When the quarter1pasJer captain got 20
Manila he turned the box over to Colonel
Nhipple- Here's your money he said.
He hesitated We had tyrhoon OF the
coast of Japan, and possibly you'll fna
the stock has been watered''
tglnnaT KEf1fr,r,fo ,,~,-,,.,e a.,
mine has beea sailed. all right" he
Rgreed- Then he added: This aaif mill
ion dollars has been washed clean enough.
II is now time for the ironing.
In one corner of Colonel WhppIe's osice
In the Santa Potenciana building. in the
walled city part Of Manila, STANDS a TWEEN
teth century letter press. The colonel
called one Of the little brown brothers
who do duty as helpers and gave him
instructions to put the greenbacks unde,
the screws. Several gallons Of water
naFlng been squeezed out. tlae prenars-
lions for ironing were commenced.
blottlns paper MAS laid on the tables
and on the Aotters the bills. ei.hte-n II
care. were spread When one hundred
bills had been laid out a rnuchacho armed
with a steaining iron. the sort that II, The
states only tailors use. hut which in the
EAST are In general usage. ran It's 50
Esing surface along The damp dollars uoI-
shed them to a grateful crisp and PASSED
IN to the next table.
And then. after the sea washing and
the charcoal ironing, the Gsh-ing man
In the far east got the Tzv due him and
with his wallet erammed comfor7ing'v
sauntered over 10 The Army ard Navy