The San Francisco call., 1904-04-16
BRINGS FAMOUS
FILIPINO BAND
Army Transport Sheridan
Reaches Port With Many
Passengers From Manila
NATIVES POOR SAILORS
Constabulary Musicians Ex-
pected to Create Big Sen
satiOn at st. Louis Fair

Among the passengers who arrived
here yesterday on the army transport
Sheridan, Captain Peabody, were 2S0
members of the Philippine constabulary
and ten officers. who will to-day depart
for the ST. Louis Exposition. This is the
second batch of Americas trans-Pa-
| cif1c wards that has reached this con-
tinent and before the st. Louis Ex-
position closes the people of the United
States will have first-hand opportunity
of learning good deal about the peo-
pie that inhabit Uncle Sans Far East
ern possessions.
Among the native policemen who ar
rived here yesterday are nren from
every province of the archipelago and
in their ranks ten tribes are repre-
sented. Small, but smart looking and
soldierly, each little constable looks
| duplicate of the others. Tagalogs, VII
sayans, Ilocanos, Moros, Bisols, Caga-
vans, Macabebes, Gadons and Ibanags,
| in the neat uniform of the constabu-
larry service. all look alike and, accord
ing to their officers, are all imbued
with the same spirit of loyalty to the
| flag and devotion to duty.
FAMOUS CONSTABULARY BAND.
The famous Ccnstabulary band ac-
companies this sample of the Insular
Governments protective arm. Lieuten-
ant w. H. Loving, the chief bandmas-
ter and the man responsible for his
musicians wonderful execution, is a
crinkle-haired negro just brimming
over with martial melody. He is a
| graduate of the Boston Conservatory
of Music and in the Far East has won
notable fame as a conductor. In the
band are eighty three pieces. and, in
| the words of Captain Peabody, the
| Sheridans commander, tits the rip
roaringest orchestra that ever blew sea
air through brass"
! 1t was only at Honolulu and Naga-
saki, however, that those who had not
made the bands acquaintance in Ma
Mia learned anything of it's quality.
Although good musicians, the bands
men were bad sailors. Seasickness
played no favorites with the natives.
| They all succumbed and nearly all the
| time the transport was at sea 280 dusky
| constables suffered the dismal tortureS
of marine biliousness and in groaning
heaps lay about the troopers decks
! like bunch of sick monkeys. The Fill
ipinos came up from the transport in
punches of twenty and thirty last night
and were landed by the cars at the
corner of Third and Market streets.
They gazed around in great amaze
ment at the whirl and buzz Of the city,
and were especially interested in the
electric light display. They looked at
the towering Call building with ad
miration and delight.
CONSTABULARY OFFICERS.
The constabulary officers who ar
rived on the Sheridan are: Captain
Ira Keithley, in command; Captains
L. E. Ross and r. w. Jones, Lieuten-
ants l.. r. Sweet, N. S. Gilpin, w. H.
Loving, Felix Llorente. c. NJ. Pendle-
| ton. c. H McIlvaine, NJ. Colmenares,
| A. A Cameron and John S. Manning.
The Sheridan, in spite of the fact that
| between her last three trips she has
made very brief stays in port, came
into the harbor yesterday shining like
| a Yacht Credit for her smart appear
ance is given to Chief officer Randall.
in whose nautical religion holystone,
brass polish, elbow grease and paint
hold the high places.
In addition to the constabulary the
Sheridan brought 391 members of the
! Eleventh Cavalry, $50 casuals. 55 pris-
oners. 40 sick and 168 other passengers.
The ranking officer on board was Brig
| adler General Francis Moore, who was
| accompanied by his wife and daughter
and has come home for duty in the
! United States. General Moore spent
| several weeks in Japan before boarding
the Sheridan, but learned little Of the
situation. He came away, however,
with a great respect for the Japanese
ability to limit knowledge of Japanese
affairs to the people of Japan.
is PRESIDENTS COUSIN.
Captain H. L. Roosevelt, of the
United States Marine Corps, who has
been on duty with the Asiatic squad
| ron. returned on the Sheridan, accom-
| panied by his wife. Captain Roosevelt,
| who is cousin of the President, mar
ried the daughter of Judge Morrow Of
the United States Circuit Court short
ly before he left for the Orient. Judge
! Morrow, Bert Morrow and a party of
friends were taken to the Sheridan on
the revenue cutter Golden Gate, on
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