The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-08
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Four companies of the famous Fill
Pine constabulary passed through Ho-
| noIuIu yesterday en- route to the st.
Louis Exposition, on the United States
transport Thomas. The Eleventh Uni
ted States Infantry and large list of
casuals were also on the vessel The
Thomas arrived early yesterday morn
ing from Manila and locked at Naval
Dock No. l. The vessels stay was
of short duration, taking its departure
for San Francisco shortly after
O'Clock.
The Filipino scouts were a source of
interest to Honolulans. Representing
four lighting tribes, the Macabebes. 10
canos, Tagalogs and visayars, types
of Filipinos who have been in the pub
lie eye ever since the Aguinaldo revo-
luton, the little soldiers proved a
drawing card. They presented a nat
ty appearance in khaki and leggings,
and displayed soldier1y attitude that
|evoked favorable comment.
There were Ais Filipino Scouts
aboard commanded by Major F. de L.
Darlington First Infantry. Lieut.. W.
c. Johnson is the battalion adjutant.
and Lieut.. j. C. Brady, the battalion
quartermaster The men have worn
the uniform of Uncle Sans so1diery
for about three years. first in the quar-
termaster's department and since then
as constabulary.
The Filipino battalion carries its
band of fifty pieces.
The Eleventh Infantry had but 612
men commanded by Col. A L. Myer,
Lieut.. Col Wygant is being taken to
San Francisco a very sick man, and
will probably be retired in a short time
owing to illness As Captain Wygant
of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Color
ed1 he received terrible wounds in the
charge up San Juan hill, Cuba, in 1898,
from which he has never fully recov-
cred.
The 11th has a long and honorable
history. It's Philippine record began
about May 13, 1901. The organization
for public notice during the Samar
campaign. Detachments from Maa-
sin and Tacloban, the latter under
Colonel De Russey, were among the
first to respond when the appalling
news from Balangiga of the almost to-
tai annihilation of "C'' Company of
the Ninth Infantry was carried to
Leyte by survivors of that immortal
garrison.
The 18th participated in the fighting
that occurred from time to time in
Leyte and occasionally served Oh Sa-
mar after that, but it's chief service
was the policing up of Surigao prov
ince, when after that other and lesser
Balangiga, the sack of Surigao town
by Conceptions outlaws, both military
and civil governments, forgetting for
a time the division of responsibility
wed with each other to punish the aw-
full atrocities of the outlaw jail-break-
ers and poured scouts, constabulary
and all the available infantry troops
into the turbulent province with a
brigadier general, Jesse NJ. Lee in COM
mand.
Then the excitement somewhat sub
sided and Coloney Myer was left in
charge of field operations to perform |,
the nara ana lIldHhleSS lnSh VI CiSetlA-
ing the province of outlawry without |
driving the pests into the next prov |
ince. He accomplished it by throwing |
out his living trocha so as to shut off !,
escape into Misamis, and then, draw !
ing his lines tighter, swept the hotbed |
of insurrection clean. Then, after a |
long and arduous service, the 18th was
brought north and quartered in Manila. |
Since the days when Lukban and Nal |
var gave battle in the open, with uni !
formed ranks. no regiment in the Phil |
ippines has seen more active service.
Captain John S. Battle of the !
Eleventh Infantry, is credited with be- !
ing the largest man in the United /
States Army. His appearance on the !
streets yesterday confirmed the report. !
The battery of Austrian field guns,
brought to Hawaii by Kalakaua after
his tour of the world, We're taken
aboard the Thomas, to be shipped to i
Benicia arsenal. The caissons and
carriages We're in a depIorable condi-
ton. The tongues We're rotten and
broken, and the whole consignment will
probably be consigned to the junk pile.
Five general prisoners from Camp
Mckinley and a few soldiers on fur
Tough were given transportation to
San Francisco. The prisoners are to
be confined at Alcatraz.
The transport left late in the after