Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1898, Page 17

—— UNIQUE ‘TEA GOWN. Ceorrighe wwe, by 8 Belew, STYLES FROM DUBLIN + Late Designs by the Irish Court Costumer. —__>+—__—_. SWANLIKE NECKS AND SLIM HIPS Embonpoint Out of Question for These Styles. —————d A FALL STREET GOWN —__-— DUBLIN, August 6, 1898. n will have her followers a with swanlike necks is evi- ory of the fashionable mo- > work for the poor un- ed to embonpoint and dou- ra joke, nor is| cratic milliner who will not is minus a pompadour coif- of TI f the aut tunately, most faiseurs are more con- siderate, 2 long, sweeping lines are em- roduce the elongated effect, and ateliers comes the refreshing news to those who suffer from shortness of neck that exquisite models are cut slighty V-shaped at the throat, an innovation most flattering to the contours of the face, but one more likely to be acceptable elsewhere than on our prim isles, where a bared | throat—no matter how pretty—is consid- | ered out of place, except at the royal] drawing rooms or court receptions, where the fair sex seems to supply the scantiness of cloth above by trailing superflousness below. Our model of an elegant teagown ccm- plies with the tendencies of fashion, as it is cut a la princesse, a style which becomes figure and which endows the tall with nd the short with graceful dig- y, while the long train stlil adds to these | much-d red effects. The teagown of our Sllustration ts made heavy pink ribbed silk and is lined out with white liberty satin. The of the gown opens loosely over a nd petticoat of pleated white silk red at the waist line under a belt of pink silk, which passes around the outside garment and is inserted in the seams of the lcose front and clasps in tron: with a helt of exquisite workmanship in gold set with turaLoises. ‘The loose fronts form reveres over the blouse and these are artistically draped With points of white Brussels lace. A dou- ble-pleated flouncing of piuk chiffon insert- ed and edged with narrow lace borders the front reveres and falls gracefully down on both Fides. ‘The yoke at the back is of pleated white silk and is edged with narrow white crimp- ed lace. The deep Watteau fold falls into & leng train. Tight Sleeves With Puffs. Great liberty is allowed in the decoration of the modern sleeve, which must be tight, with a suspicion of its past volume at the shoulder. But th> comfortable-looking full- ness is a delusion and a snare, for the lin- ing incloses the arm tightly, and the free- dom of motion has bidden adieu to the arm for years to come. The v satin foundation of the slezve of our model makes no exception to this rigid rule of fashion, and the fullness is supplied artistically by a high standing puff. of pleated white silk, which is caught on the upper arm betwe2n the pink silk of the sieeve and the lining, and is defined by the seme crimped white lace as edges the yoke of th Kk. The collar is high and stiff and is deco- rated with three rows of narrow crimped lace. The neck ruching 1s of pleated chif- nd under the chin is fastened a little at of white Brussels lace h2ld with a miniature simili of the buckle at the belt. With the tendency to flaring effects be- iow the knees, a dainty fashion appears ain, particularly designd for evening or indoor skirts. This fs inserted panels of pieated mousseline de sole, Liberty silk or any contrasting goods or color between the many gores of the skirts. One model of y brocade, a floral pattern on an ivory tin ground, has these inserted panels of pleated rose-colored chiffon between all of the eight gores, which gives the skirt a de- ded fullness at the hem, while it admits of extreme scantiness and excellent fit over the hips. The bodice and sleeves are trim- med to match. No Real Overskirts. In spite of all apparent symptoms of a re- turn of the genuine overskirt, it is very doubtful if we shall see any such for a good while to come. A few models for fall wzar show a separate tunic, however. One de- sign, suitable for a very slender figure, is of black cashmere. The skirt {s composed of an underskirt and a tunic, both of black cashmere. The tunic {s cut in zig-zag points and falls to below the knees. The points are trimmed with bias folds of satin and edged with a deep black silk fringe. The underskirt has th bias folds straight around, and the hem is covered with the silk fringe. The bodic2 is In blouse form, opening in front over a puffed vest of poppy red crimp- ed chiffon. The small besque is'in points like the epaulettes, and both are edged with fringe and trimmed with satin folds. The collar is of folded r2d satin and the belt is of oxidized silver studded with finely cut garnets. This gown is well adapted for fall street wear, and a novel little round hat of black raw, trimmed with red taffeta, veiled with ck tulle, and r2d cherries, completes the costume. L2ypet Lin (ALFRED Manninc, Dublin) A Steamer Bag. Brom Harver’s Bazar. A steamer bag is a useful state room ad- junct to the traveler abroad, and under the name of “compactus” it 1s not without henor at home, hung unostentatiously on the inner side of a closet door. The size can be proportioned to the space {t is to fill, but twenty-two inches by twenty-elgtt or thirty is the most useful size. As the contents make it a weighty affair, the ma- terial must be substantial. For traveling, red or biue denim bound with white braid can he white or ecru duck; , Striped ticking has also It is to be hung up on three S with braid loops. There are n pockets. One large square pocket e entire back, and ts intended hes. On the front there are ockets, of various shapes and the large opening behind them another. The top is crowned with round pin-cushion. Petticoats. From Harper's Bazar. It {s a very serious question what is the best petticoat to wear with thin gowns that have no stiffening in them. Skirts need to hang right in order to look well, and in order to accomplish this it 1s neces- sary to have a well-fitted, well-hung petti- coat. This petticoat must be made like a regular dress ekirt, fitted over the hips, with fullness at the back, and put on to @ band or yoks. About at the knee ts a deep flounce, either a Spanish flounce or an ac- cordion-pleated_one, trimmed with many small ruffies. Where the flounce joins the skirt may be a narrow feather bone, and tkere should also be a feather bone run through the lowest ruffle. These skirts must be as long as the dress skirt, other- wise an_ ugly gap shows where the petti- Doat ends. = To Beautify Your Window. From the New York Herald. No one has any idea how artistic a win- | dow can be made until she has tried the following plan. Curtain the window with rather a coarse mesh of net—the fish net is just the thing. Then invest in an aspara- gus fern and allcw it to travel upward on this curtain, weaving itself in and out and all over at its own sweet will. It will cross over to the over curtain, reach a tendril | over to a picture cord or wire, climb over the picture hook, down on the other side, or along the molding, or both. In fact, there 1s nothing so beautiful as a white lace curtain of which such a feath- ery mass of green {s the most Important part. Of course, either the curtaln must remain up until it falls to pieces or the fern must be sacrificed. Use a curtain which need not be of such value as to make it necessary to destroy the fern. The festoons of this beautiful vine cannot be equaled by any other style of deccra tion, and being natural and growing rap- idly adds greatly to its charm. 20 A Cycle “At Home.” From the London Sketch. A picturesque cycle “at home” was given by the mayor and mayoress of Henley, Mr. and Mrs. Lidderdale, the other day, Miss Miller, who carried off the prize for the best decorated cycle, had adorned her wheel with red and white satin ribbon, the mud guards with moss, the forks with doyble red geraniums, with a pooa composed of smilax, asparagus fronds, guelder roses, white peonies, gladioli and syringa. There was cycle hockey, tilting at the ring, tent- pegging and all the other gameg that the wheelist can play. The Gretna Green race pamsisted in a lady and gentleman riding band in hand to a given point, dismounting and signing their names and addresses ina feeister, remounting and riding back hand in hand. (Copyright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) “Has she gone back on you, Georgie? “Yep. His popper gives him fi’ centsa pe ES ‘week: 'n’ mine gives THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST is, 1856494’ PAGES, MINE EXPLOSION IN BALTIMORE HARBOR. EXPLODINGTHE MINES | How the Harbor Defenses Have Been Removed for Future Use. TERRIFIC POWER OF EXPLOSIVES oe Mines in the Potomac Discharged in a Storm by Lightning. SAFE FOR THE FUTURE Written for The Evening Star. The use of mines in defensive warfare at exposed seaport towns will remain, at least until another war, an experiment. Although the phantom ships bearing the yellow flag of Spain never materialized the moral effect of those mysterious forces un- der the water was ample to allay the fears of panicky marts of trade and industry ac- cessible at least to possible bombardment or invasion. However, the country and particularly the seaboard inhabitants owe much to Gen, John M. Wilson, chief of the Corps of En- gineers, for the feeling of security and a: surance which this part of the warlike preperation gave to the government and Bp 2 cordon of mines stretched by the officers and men under General Wilson's command was considéred well worth all it cost, as a lesson learned at least scientific- ally in the art of sudden war. ‘The experience theoretically acquired can be utilized in practice if the improbable, a war with a European power, should come out of any mistakes of diplomacy or in- terest over the eastern question: It is estimated that the submarine mining of the harbors of the coast was accom- plished by an expenditure of not over $1,250,000 for material and labor. Of this amount, however, a considerable portion can be saved by the successful lifting of the mines and their storage in magazines for future use. Unloading the Mines. The chambers, which are of iron one- half inch thick, can be saved, but must be uncharged, as dynamite, with which they are loaded, will deteriorate with time, and, therefore, could not be relled upon for future use. ° The extracting of the charges from all mines $s a very dangerous operation in the simplest, and in some cases impossible from the point of safety. These will either be exploded or stored. The government, therefore, comes out of this war with Spain with more than mere paper lessons bearing upon a complete sys- tem of harbor mine defense, which in an future emergency will defy the boldest at- tempts of ary powers of the earth to at- tack American seaport cities. The plans, specifications and tentative results of this deadly network of ex- plosive force, with its subtle meshes of wires, anchors and buoys, are stored away fn the barred, bolted and safeguarded ar- chives of Gen. Wilson's headquarter: where no foreign military or naval attach or his tools can lay hands upon them. The will stay there for use, if need be, at short notice. Gen. Wilson, in addition to the drawings end charts of all mines as used in actual practice, will have for fu- ture reference a detailed report from the engineer officer in charge upon the placing of each mine, its care while in place, its condition when removed or performance if exploded. A Mine Explosion ‘The {Ilustration, from an original photo- graph, the only one thus far received at headquarters, wap taken very recently by Lieutenant Charles W. Kutz of the En- gineer Corps at a shore point 1,200 feet from the scene of explosion, at the entrance to Baltimore harbor. It represents one of a series of triple groups of ground mines. Hach mine contained 225 to 250 pounds of high explosive. The depth of water was 81.5 feet. The area of Mft of water was 250 by 150 feet. The maximum height of upheaval of the body of water was ¥ feet. The mine tops stood flush with the bottom of the channel, the mines them- selves having settled in the mud. The force exerted by this single explosion was sufficient to destroy in a moment the most formidable vessel of any navy. The tremendous explosive power of the oflicially unascertained but logically deducted and popularly believed force which in an in- Stant converted the immense steel struc- ture of the Maine into an unrecognizable mass of scrap and a mortuary of several hundred brave men of the sea was not over- estimated nor overconclusive, confronted by the mighty exertion of this single group of mines In @ series in Baltimore harbor. ‘The lifting of a solid cube of water 27,500 feet surface and 31,5 feet depth, or 856,250 cuble feet, 225 feet in the air’ represents a lifting force greater than any human construction could resist. It is safe to say that in case of entanglements in the set- tling of territorial questions upon the first indications of adjustment by warlike meth- ods the entire chain of harbors from Port- land, Me., to Santiago, Tex., and from San Francisco to Puget sound can be mined in -— than eanase | days. e orders for removal did not requt the lifting of all mines, but only such as endangered the main channels of exit or approach to harbors. After the final arrangement of peace the oe ae! mines will be taken up and stored. Floating and Ground Mines. The mines in use by the Engineer Corps are floating and ground. Th» former, buoy- ed near the surface, contain automatic bat- teries, which are operated by the simple disturbance of equilibrium, thus igniting the fulminate and causing the explosion. The ground min3s, to be effective, are Umited to 30 or 40 feet depth of channel. ‘They are anchored at the bottom in place and operated by insulated connecting wires from casemated battery stations on tha shore. - Exploded by Lightning. ’ Among the eccentricities of mines and their susceptibilities at um2xpected mo- ments may be mentioned a mysterious oc- currence In these defenses of Washingtop under Col. Allen, A few weeks ago, Instsad of a Spanish fleet ascending the Potomac from the Ches- apeake, bent for Washington, ong of those sudden storms of lightning and thunder made its appearance from the bay. Suddenly appeared a vivid streak of lightning. At the same instant followed & tremendous detonation. Instead of' ema- | gar nating from the heavens above sound came from beneath the ple of the Potomac, and with it re nous volume of water. Three successive flashes of lightning were thus instantly follcwed similar explo- sions, the roar of thunder in the air being completely overwhelmed by the uplifting force of the mines. the splash of waters and the report of the explosive. The men in the caserrates were some- what eppalled by such an unexpected ex- perience. Upon examination it was dis- covered that isolated groups of mines at different points in the lines were blown up, leaving those adjacent iniact. It is aiso sirgular that not a mine was disturb- ed in the water nor was any damage done to the firing appliances and batteries in the casemates. It is a mystery how the explosions were caused unless the electrical current struck the water immediately over the mine. the to explode it, The mines were replaced with little difi- culty, and the connections with the mes of the transmitting w were restored. RANDOLPH KEIM. —+ —— The New Ear Florets. From the Chicago Time The fashion for wearing earrings has for some time past been slowly but surely re asserting itself. Of late a totally new de- velopment of this branch of the jeweler’s art has been introduced in the form of the small, gracefully designer r florets.” The idea is distinctly novel, and is based -Herald, upon the assumption that, to be worn to the best advant. a jewel should be mounted and arranged so that the orna- ment ves and lines of t were, ng their appear- utely wrought scroll work, ei sold or mounted with pearls or di i et ate tachment can be adapte t drops of any size, or a com| «ment if worn alone. It is easy , and me of the patterns a for wearers whos while others a > cars have The Chairs Need a Soaking. From the New York ‘Times. Every woman does not know what is the trouble with her big rush chair which lecks so cooi and pretty on th which seems, all of a sudden, to have con- tracted spinal trouble and absolutely re- fuses to stand upright without havin something to lean against. There are cros: pieces of wood on the inside of the round, barrel-like lower part, which prevent the chair from collapsing altogether, but the back 1s weak and flimsy. “The cure is not a diMcuit one, and it is easy to apply as soon as there is a rainy day. These chairs are ter rushes, and even in their te they crave moisture. If the chair is put out on the lawn in a hard rain and allowed to stand until it is thor- oughly soaied, it will dry quickly and re- gain its necessary backbone. If the rain does not come at a convenient time, the en hose will be equally effective and do the work more quickly. The chair dries in urprisingly short time. It should be scaked as often as once a month. piazza, but The Spirit of the Hour, From the New York Herald, A new frame for the picture of the sol- dier boy may be made at home with a yard each of red, white and blue ribbon No. 8. Only a glass of the size of the picture is required, and ribbon wound round the edges as a frame, interwoven at the corners in a basket weave. The ribbons on the back hold the photograph in place, and the whole is very pretty on a small easel. It 1s quite the fad for the pretty girl to be Photographed in a drapery formed by the stars and stripes. This makes her a verita- ble Columbia, and is cially effective if tinted In water colors. As a mascot for her Sweetheart in the army or navy it cannot be equaled and is calculated to keep his enthusiasm for the cause right up to the topmost pitch of courage. se-- Prickly Heat. From Harper's Bazar. The mother whose children suffer in hot weather from prickly heat will be glad to know that if she will put baking soda into the water in which her children are bathed she may do much toward preventing the arrival of the irritating malady She should not wait until the rash appears be- fore she adopts this simple means to slop its progress, but may all through the sum- a added to the little ones’ bath In one family where this precaution Was taken none of the children was trou- bled with prickly heat during the ‘entire Se: nm, although every preceding year the small boys and girls had been liberally pep- bered with the distressing eruption. an Tommy’s Sunday Afternon as It = Will Be, From Punch, bat- “Tt has been decréed in several ln talions that in future no soldier will be allowed to walk arm-in-arm in the street with a female.”—Daily Paper. DOWN AT SANTIAGO Letters From Members of the First Reziment. TIS EXPERIENCE AT THE FRONT Some Graphic Recitals of Scenes and Incidents. HARDSHIPS ENDURED > Int letters are being received from the gallant boys of the Ist District Regt ment of Volunteers at the front that give exce Giers. Do nt insight the life of the sol- Under date of July 27, Capt. Charles r of Company C writes to his brother, are now camped from Santiago and the render. From the day up to the day the Sp the regiment aged in digging trenches, outpost and guard duty, ete. We had companies in the trenches at all times in full view of the enemy's lines. The first @ay my company was ordered out to dig trenches in order to complete our fortifica- tions, which extended for miles and com- pletely surrounded the Spaniards, who were protected by a flag of truce. I noticed two Spaniards approaching our lines carrying a flag of truce. I saw by their actions that they wished an audience with the officer In bout two miles ene of the sur- landed in Cuba rds surrendered we was é charge. I immediately constructed a flag of truce with my white handkerchief at- tached to a ramrod, nd with an inte preter we met the Spaniards midway be- tween the works. Through my interpreter I learned that they objected to our working en any fortifications long as the of truce w displayed, I called the officer’ attention to the fact that the day before, under similar circu ances, they had con- structed a battery, which was in full view from our position. After quite a parley I agreed to discontinue the and reported to Col. Harrie: the cow I had pursued. T ht be- e the surren: , the work re ning in- my company was ordered out to finish the job. Digging Trenches at Night. “This particular trench was about a mils from camp, and 10 o’cloe! with Colonel Harr and Major Hines, marched with bated breath tread to the point to be defen wer> equipped wi nition and cart once on the wor ork temporarily He approved en d ammu- started at , a detail cf fifteen men in the company, | and noiseless | ‘The men | (Swedish) nagot annat i be superior to any other kind in pastry.” Ex-cook for King of Sweden | Cleveland Baking Powder Co.. (Advertisement No.6, Language and Sign Series.) New York. “ Jag har alltid funnit Cleve- land’s Jastpulver battre puddingar, bréd och bakelser.” Lranslation: “have always found Cleveland’s baking powde Cart RATHEKE, f = i Cleveland's marknaden for to the market for pudding, bread and OO BAKING POWDER get it first, and it stays with them the longest. The negroes or Cubans wear no shoes at all. I don’t see how they can get along, for some of the boys have very sore feet from briers sticking through their We are living in our large tents nd most of our troubles are over, but m not looking for giory down here can send me home as soon as they ve all the newspapers that count of the fight before tia- ill have to tell me all about the can only get a confused idea from _a paper now and then. Save a map and I can explain the different positions, for I saw a drawing of the whole when I dined at brigade headquarters the ning of the surrender. When I get home a people will hear so much war talk that y I guess you will drive me out.” Helpless Under Fire. Ex-Representative S. S. Yoder has re- ceived a letter from his son, Early D. Yoder, who ts a private in Company G, Ist District Volunteers. It is dated July 18, 1898, “In the Trenches, Five Hundred Yards From the Spanish Breastwork: He writes as follow “The rain has sheets and filled our trenches. been pouring down Mud in six water to our waists—I cannot keep | my paper dry, and my hands are dirty “We left all our stuff except haversacks, canteens, guns and ammunition on board | of the transport, fifteen miles from here. | “We w rdered to take two days’ ra- | tions five days ago, and have had nothing INSURGENTS, the trenches with shovels, the remainder of the company guarding the men doing thetr work. The company continued in reliefs of two hours, and after hard and laborious work we completed the trenches just as the moon in all {ts glory made its appearance and exposed our position. It was the work of a moment to form the company in fil and on hands and knees, breathiess, the boys crawled away from the point of dan- ger. When we arrived in camp we turned in in quick order, completely played out with the strain on physical endurance re- quired by the work we had performed. The next day came the surrender. The two ar- mies were drawn up in line in front of the fortifications, and again from one of the batte the signal was given that the stars and stripes had been raised over the city of Santiago de Cuba. Such a sight will never again be ssen by me, At the signal the bands played the national airs, the bat- terles belched forth in ierrible jutes and the soldiers yelled as if their lives depended on their shouting. Am going into Santiago this morning with a party of officers. We will be mounted.” A Picture of Camp Life. In a letter to Mr. J. W. Protor of No. 607 224 street northwest Corp. C. W. Gwynne of Company A, Ist District of Columbia Voiunteers, writ as follows from near Santiago, under date of July 30: “J hold the record of doing the longest of guard duty in the regiment, thirty without relief; it should have been twenty-four hours. I was sent to the bri- gade hospital with nine men. The men were relieved by nine others, but the reg- inient that was to send the corporal to re- Neve me did not have corporal fit for duty that was not already assigned to hi post, so I had to get one from our own reg- iment, which is also badly crippled from mountain fever, they call it here. The Ist Illinois the regiment which was te have sent the corporal, but over half of them are either down with fever or just getting over it. You need not worry about , for I don’t think I will get it now, and even if I do it 1s not dangerous, for they all seem to get ell in four or five days. I Gon’t know how I kept awake so long, un- less it was from being amid so much suffer- ing, which gets to my nerve; but the worst of it was, after I got off I had to walk about two miles to bathe, and, of course,*I changed my clothes and washed my soiled ones, for I never carry any dirty clothes with me. Pants for a Pillow. “When I did go to bed you can bet I slept, even if I did use my pants for a pil- low. I forgot to mention that a friend of mine from our regiment is head of the com- missary and kitchen there. The first thing he gave me was what I thought was fresh milk, but it proved to be condensed, with ice cracked up in it. Oh, but it tasted good. Then he gave me a dinner of fresh beef- steak, fresh bread, fine coffee, plenty of sugar, milk, fried potatoes and a stew of canned beef and onions. Quite a dinner. If I could have gone to sleep at night I would not have cared if they had kept me there thirty hours more, for he gave me my meals the whole time I was there. But we are getting plenty to eat in our own camp now—fresh beef and fresh bread—so there is no danger of our going hungry if we can get it cooked, and I am making love to my cook, for he knows his business. I thought I would be on my way home before now, but it looks as if we will stay here for some time yet. “I can picture you in my mind imagining my being sick with yellow fever, starving, lying in a mud hole with Spaniards shoot- ing at me every minute, but don’t believe @ word of such rot, for the truth is I am in the best of health, and there ts no yellow fever here, or typhoid fever, either, and it don’t rain'all the time, only once or twice @ day, and we have more than we can eat, the only trouble being to cook it. I get the water, a comrade gets the wood and am other cooks. For breakfast we had betf- steak, fried potatoes.and onions, one wart and a half of coff sugar and con- jensed_milk—a regular Delmonico’s break- ae Oh, yes, hardtack, I forgot to men- jon. Thinks It’s Homesick Fever. “The fever we are having here the call mountain fever, but I think it is home- tr hour: | sick fever, for the ones that fret the most | else to eat since. On account of the diffi- cult landing, the horrible roads, jungles, mud and rain, we had no provisions what- ever to take care of the sick and wounded. We live on excitement. “We dug our trenches five feet deep, and while the Spaniards keep up a constant fire we are not allowed to reply. The Span- jards have Mauser rifles and smoke! powder, with which they can kill us at 2,000 yards. We have only Springfield rifles that @o not reach over 80) yards, and our black, smoky powder makes us a target for their sharpshooters, Red Cross Over the Bull Ring. rom where I am I can see plainly into ty. We are right in front of the am- | phitheater used for their bull fighting, a | grand building. They have converted it | into a fortress, yet fly the Red Cro: | from it. The Mauser bullets sing cor ly over our heads, but only cut the | from the trees, which fall on us. We fe much relieved and brave now since Captain the thing | Ships tc take them home. By thet time not one in ten of us will be able for duty, and God only knows how many will be food for these hungry vultures. Relief Demanded. “So long as the excitement la and we were fighting no one thought of complains ing, but now, when we have not a thing to do but to fill up with malaria, typhoid fever and yellow jack, we want to go to Porto Rico, or somewhere where we can breathe pure ai “Tt is all well ¢ respondents in jovgh for r the ¢ity yer core at the Caney Church. ®. palace and cafes, to write for press at home. but you never hear from behing the trenches out hers “They say we oing int moun- tains as soon es t paniards can @ise pense with our servi The native dow tor the inter is more © than th w uld endure ht the Spasiards, but this fever c us at the rate of five and six hundr ay.” Work of Hired Sharpshoote Again he wrote: “SAN JUAN HILL, Sa “We are now camped will ever be memer: to the American People, where the sell was enriche? by the heroic blood of £0 many of our soldic “Most of cur men were k i by the best xpert German and French sharpshooters that money cc This accounts for the unheard of po number of officers killed. One gencral and three commanders of regiments, killed almost on the same spot. We were halted before w@ got under fire, and all officers were ordered to take off everything designating their rank, even non-commissioned officers. “These sharpshooters even lurked in the rear like savages, shot a chaplain, Red Cross nurses and’ wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers. In the hospital at Siboney lies one of these sharpshooters, who killed fifty-two of our men before he was dislodged from his hiding cocoanut tree. He was brought a Yankee bullet through both his legs, We tell him we are going to hang him as soon as he gets well enough so he can endure it. “Tliness has decimated our ranks, and it makes me shudder to think of what would have become of us had the Spaniards held out ten days longer. “For reasons already stated we had no ambulances, and no ambulance corps. The wounded had to do the best they could. Of course a great were taken care of, but some were missed. One poor fel- low with his arm shattered met a com- | rade with both legs shot off. He promptly took him on his back and started for the hospital, tft miles away. The official port sa: ‘Eighty-two missing.’ This means eighty-two wounded crawled into the bushes and the vultures picked their bones. Songs Sung Before Santiago. “I aid not think that there could b> so mvch humanity and in war, One night, in those stenchful trench nly five hundred yards from the Spaniards, somebody started to sing ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.’ The boys sang it through, every word, making the hills rejoice. Then we sang ‘Sweet Rose O'Grady.’ Then the Rough Riders s.arted ‘On the Banks of the Wabash.’ When we came to that part, LOOKING DOWN THE SUNKEN ROAD. Capron’s battery is in position just behind us and in fair range of their trenches. Now, if they would only give the command all along the line, and open on them with the artillery, and let us charge on them with our bayonets, we would drive them into the bay in less than an hour. I would rather dle that way than to starve and stick in the mud here for another four or five Gays and nights. We have nothing to eat, no sleep, not a dry stitch on us, no cof- fee. The cannons boom over our heads, but we are not allowed to shoot, but are ordered to keep our heads down, and are only allowed to peep through our rifle holes.” After the Surrender. After the surrender on July 16 he wrote: “At 9 o'clock we were all in line. Soon after the Spaniards deposited their arms in the city arsenal and then marched out to the trenches where we were, the Spanish and our officers in front. We presented arms, The officers first shook hands with the Spanish officers as they came up with- in reach. Beme of the men then shook hands. The Spaniards were starving. I threw them a few crackers, but did not shake their bloody paws, nor drink their villainous rum, which they offered in ex- change for food. I thought about the path and chaparal for fifteen miles from here to where we landed. They are full of dead and partly-buried Cubans, Spaniards and our own brave boys. We reburied some of the heroic Rough Riders where they fell, that. had been washed out of their shallow graves by the rain, but the eér is full of Bie and the ugly vultures are thick and I to me, Those who want to “*hobnob’ the Eleody can do so. I don’ “We are to stay here to guard these nice dons until they send to Spain for palace ‘From the hills there comes the scent of new-mown hay,’ the boys held their noses and laughed. Then our band struck up “The Star Spangled Benner,’ and it was taken up for five miles. This was when the flag of truce was up. You never ask a sol- dier for half of his hardtack and get re- fused. His canteen was yours in that tere rible heat, and he would shars his blanket, if he had one, at any time.” A Description of Mountain Fever, On July 80 he wrote; “We have plenty to eat, fresh beef. Many get sick from over-eating. We have what ‘s called ‘mountain fever.’ It is a peculiar disease, comes on suddenly; you become dizzy and keel over; then fever and pains, You make your will, say your prayers and went to die. The surgeon dopes you, you sleep a night or two, and you are all rights You are acclimated and an immune, but it you take yellow fever or the dysentery, while you are weak you die. “The boys say we are all going on a sum- mer vacation up to Coney Island. Some say we are going to Newport to teach the | four hundred how to becom? immune. ; “I think the Waldorf-Astor would suit me. At any rate, we are all happy at the — prespect of getting away from these hor- rible sights and smells, the tarantulas, § land crabs end sand ants, but we will not, as long as our m>mory lasts, get rid of the horrible remembrances of what we have ! gene through since we landed here. Fett grant that none of our boys may be : here, is re We ow> — to the | Kindness of our officers, and untiring care and skill of our surgeons. The | ers of the District of Columbia boys thank them for the lives and health many of their sons,” ms