Have Left For Manila

HAVE LEFT FOR MANILA

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PROFS. WURSTER AND SHUR-

MAN HAVE STARTED

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On their Trip Across the Continent

to Take the Steamer on Which They

Will Arrive at Manila in March

Prof. Dean C. Worcester and Private

Secretarles Dr. P. L. Sherman and

Garvin Denby, left at 11 :35 o'clock

last night over the Canadian Pacific

for Toronto, where they take the train

tomorrow for Tacoma, Wash., on their

way to the Philippines. They will be

joined at Toronto by President Schu-

man, of Cornell University, who, like

Prof. Worcester, is one of the three

civil members of the commission to the

Philippines. Col. Denby, the other

member of the commission, will go in

about two weeks, as soon as he can

get through his duties with the war

investigating commission.

A special car has been provided for

them by the Canadian Pacific, and the

party will number eight or nine, in-

cluding the three private secretaries of

the commissioners, two stenographers

and an officer of subsistence. They

sail from Seattle next Monday and ex-

pect to arrive in Manila about March

1, after being met by one of Dewey's

vessels at Hong Kong and taken on a

short cruise with stops in Japan. At

Manila, Admiral Dewey and Gen. Otis

will join the commission when it sits

as a general body. Most of the work

of the civilian members will be done

independently, however.

Prof. Worcester is a discreet and

quiet man, anyway, and he is doubly

so nowadays. Questions were put to

him last night with no avail. He has

spoken before in favor of keeping the

Philippines, but just now he is care-

fully refusing to give any official opin-

ion on the subject of any intimation

that he will act on that private

opinion.