Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04

reaching clear to the roof of the build
| ing. All the rooms, immense affairs,
| face the court and are very cool. The
| dining room was over $50 feet long
and about so feet wide and all of 20
feet high The room 1 had was about
| 10 feet long, 90 feet wide and 70 to
% feet high. The doors are massive
things. reaching from the floor to the
ceilings, and the windows are sliding
apparatus almost as high, reaching
from the ceilings to within a foot and
q half of the floor. They are so ar
| ranged that the whole sides of the
rooms may be opened. the shutters and
windows. sliding back one upon the
other. There are always two sets OF
! slides too one serving as windows and
the other as shutters. The windows
were small transparent squares (about
one and one half inches square, OF
shells which serve as glass and thus
do not keep out all the light. but will
keep the the rain from coming IN
| They are Very ingenious constructions
None of the buildings are plastered,
! but have board walls finely painted
and decorated with fresco work A
person has to see them in order to
/ understand what they look like. You
will find very little furniture in any
of the houses, even of well-to-do fam
lilies, they haveing the opinion (Which
is undoubtedly true) that the less fur
niture there is in room the cooler 1t
| is.
Reports for Duty
Monday, October 9Th, 1908. report
ed to the chief commssary of the d.
vision. all the headquarters offices be-
ing located in the most historical
building in the city, namely Fort San
tiago, which you heard so much about
during the Spanish war. 1t certainly
is a strong point in war. On one side
the Pasig river flows and on the other,
at the time of war, there was deep
moat (this has since been filled up);
in fact the entire walled city was sur
rounded by deep moat during the
time the Spanards had the islands
| The fort has a wall around it which in
some places is all of twenty-five feel
thick. Even today this fort Is gar
risoned and is not considered public
thoroughfore; in fact. If people come
there in vehicles and are suspected as
just sight-seers they are not allowed
to pass the sentry at the outer gate
Well | am leaving my subject again
it would appear. I believe l was say
ing l reported on Monday. The CHIEF
commissary informed me 1 had beer
selected to 20 to this place and would
pIOCSGu TO lHdl SltLtlOll Oh uISl u dis
port which was to sail the following
Wednesday at five p. m. ]. there.
fore, arranged what little business
had there and was already to sail a
the appointed time, in fact had giter
up our hotel rooms. In the afternoon
, l received telephone call stating tina
tho sailing date of the "Liscum" hat
been postponed until the following
evening, so we had to re-engage on
rooms. When Thursday came l wa
informed she would not go until Fri
day at five O'Clock. This time remain
ed good, although we did not leave thu
+ wharf at Manila until ten o'clock tina
night. 1t was for the uncertainty o
the sailing date of the Liscum that
did not deem it advisable to stray too
far from the hotel, for it was just a.
likely for them to change the date tt
an earlier one as a later one. We
however, had chance of visiting
, Cavite (eight miles across the bay
before leaving Manila.
t Leaves Manila.
We left the wharf at Manila as stat
ed, about ten o'clock p m. Frida
4 October 8. 1908. In accordance wit
4 the law it was necessary for us t
spend twenty-four hours at Marivele
the quarantine station of Manila. 10
G Gated about twenty miles from tina
L
cholera in the islands. We left tina
!. station about ten o'clock Saturda
evening and stated on our trip aroun
tn. islands. Iloilo is really only abou
400 miles south of Manila, a run c
e about SO hours under ordinary cir
: cumstances, but. owing to the fact tha
a we had the paymaster Of the army o
), board who was making his usu:
O monthly rounds to pay the soldiers {
: some of the remote posts Chat is re
e mote from Manila), and other ur
e avoidable delays which l will mentio
: later, it was eleven days from tt
h time we left Manila until we got
s our destination. and we had travele
IS over 1000 miles. l tell you 1 got tire
If Everything went along finely, nothir
I to do but kill time," until the morr
! inc of October 18th, when we wei
e leaving camp Hayt, Oras, Samar, P.
I about eight O'Clock, when a case
e sickness broke out on board whit
n afterwards proved to be cholera. TIL
la being the case it was necessary for i,
l. to run for the first quarantine static
= which happened to be Caoit island
1T Cebu bay. We arrived there the 70
A lowing afternoon about one o'clo,
in and after the quarantine officer hi
le boarded us and examined the patie
lie he stated that we would have to
e, disinfected the following day.
ii Pajamas and kmonas.
"a Sunday October 18th l spent in
70 queer way. l never spent Sund'
rf like it before and never want to spel
- another in the same manner, ev
= though w did have some fun over
Early in the morning the sick m;
:, (who was "Squawman," a viii
~ man who has married native) w
~ taken ashore on stretcher in an u
II, conscious condition. q mean the m;
20 was unconscious, not the stretche
~ He was placed in what is known
= the Dead House." That is that pa
cd of the quarantine station where
he hopeless cases are put. although tn
W have the same attention as in a fiji
- class hospital; in fact, it is one pa
of the hospital. After breakfast
n first class passengers were tax
u ashore. We were compelled to take
to bath (not that we needed it, but
i'll, remove all germs) and while in t
m. shower our clothes were taken and r
20, in sacks which were put through
he steam process in order to kill all t
W germs that might be lurking there
ar While our clothes were being treat
RS in this manner and while we we