Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1902, Page 26

B THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb Price, 6c per copy—per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as S8econd Class Mail Matter. For advertising rates address publisher Communications relating to nhotozraphs or articles for publication shou'd be ad dressed, “Rditor The Illustrated 3 Omaha.” Pen and Picture Pointers NE of the wonders of the volun- teers who fought in the Philip- pines is how the Filipino marks- men managed to miss Color Ser- geant Richard Holmes of the First Colorado. ‘‘Big Dick,” as the boys affectionately called him, is six feet and several inches from the top of his tawny head to the sole of his ample feet, and THE LATE WILLIAM BEARDSHEAR OF AMES, Ia. MILLER was voted the best natured and most mod- est man in a regiment filled with good fellows. He carried the flag fiom the day it was placed In his hands by Governor Adams in front of the capitol at Denver until he returned it to the hands of Gov- ernor Thomas in front of the capitol six- teen months later. It was a beautiful bit of siik, fringed with gold, mounted on a rosewocod staff topped with a gilt eagle when Big Dick Holmes first unfurled it at Pt tD THE the head of the regiment. It came home literally shot to pleces, as the fllustration shows it, a mute witness of what the regi- ment went through in its Philippine cam- paign. It is now carefully preserved in the capitol at Denver, one of Colorado’s most precious mementos of a regiment whose record is the pride of the people of the state. One of the features of the home- coming of the regiment was the welcome glven that tattered banner as it passed up Market street In San Francisco, borne by the stalwart youth who had carried it through the rising t'de aleng the beach frcnt of Fort San Antonio, and who had held it aloft wherever the regiment had marched all the way from Manila to Calum- pit. From the water front to Van Ness avenue in San Francisco Market street was jammed with people eager to welcome the Coloradoans, and the sight of that wind- torn and shot-riddled banner was a signal all along the l'ne for the most enthusiastic cheers that ever rang In the ears of the Colorado soldiers. Never looking right or left, Holmes and his escort, the color guard, marched briskly along, apparently oblivious to the ovatlon they were receiv- ing. And that night, at the Ellis Street armory, when called upon to face a gather- ing of the San Francisco Relatives union, he blushed like a schoolgirl and admitted he would rather face a regiment of “Goo- goos'” than that hall full of cheering friends. On his return to Denver Ser- geant Holmes had another momentous task to fmce in sul the welnamr 7P his fellow citizens. He was garlandea—as were all the boys—with flowers on arrival at the depot, and was singled out for es- pecial attention at the banquet which fol- lowed, but the worst of all his troubles came when he had to s&tand up on the capitol lawn and face the camera. No Mauser rifle ever held the terror for him that did the tube of that picture-making box. Then he tenderly cased the flag which had been his dally companion through many months of actual danger and priva- tion, and, turning it over to Governor Thomas, a tear glistening in his eye as he did so, he ended his soldler life and stepped back a private c'tizen and a splendid repre- sentative of those soldiers of whom Mrs. Jean Hooper Page of Denver wrote. “Not glory they sought, nor life's shallow Nnrmrww(n'nr_ nor hope of renown-— s They battled for God and their country's fair name, And the flag that ne RSty General Irving Hale, the first president of the Soclety of the Army of the Philip- pines, is an excellent example of the American volunteer soldier. He went out at the head of the First Colorado and was the first volunteer colonel to win a star in the Philippines. He was recommended for promotion on account of conspicuous ability in the operations before Manila, his tommission dating from August 13, 1808, the day the city was taken. General Hale commanded the Second brigade of the Sec- ond division of the Eighth army corps, and the First Nebraska regiment served under him. On the first step out of Malolos on the way to Calumpit, the First Nebraskas changed the plan of attack and drew from General Hale that expression which will always be a part of the Antelope state's military glcry: ““There goes the First Ne- beasles, and all hell can't stop them!"™ Colonel Stotsenburg misunderstood an order and charged his regiment against the Fili- pino trenches. He lost his“life, but the charge was not in vain. It cleared the trenches and made the crossing of the Quingua river possible at a point that had been thought impracticable. General Hale personally is one of the most genial of men. He was the idol of his regiment, and in tile e b +- 44 er came down. MONUMENT TO THE DEAD OF COMPANY F, FIRST NEBRASKA VOL- UNTEER INFANTRY, UNVEILED AT MADISON, Neb.,, MAY 19, 1902. ILLUSTRATED after his promotion became very popular with not only the men under his command, but with his brother officers and his superiors. He was born in New York in 1861, but has lived in Colorado since he was 4 years old. In 1884 he was gradu- ated from West Point Military academy with the highest record in the history of that famous institution. He was made first leutenant in 1886, serving with the En- gineer corps. In 1890 he resigned from the army and associated himself with the Gen- eral Blectric company, of which institution he was western manager when war was declared against Spain. His record in the Philippines is an enviable one, his service continuing from the mustering in of the Colorado regiment until the close of the volunteer campaign in the islands. He re- signed his commission and resumed his con- nection with the General Electric com- pany at Denver. —_— Major General Arthur MacArthur is another of the general officers who took part in that campaign who will be a wel- come visitor at the Council Bluffs reunion. He had command of the Second "division of the Eighth army corps and directed the active operations against Aguinaldo’s army until the insurgents®were scattered. He has promisel to be present and make an address on one day of the reunion. Briga- dier General Funston, U, 8. A, is also ex- pected. He went out as colonel of the Twentie.h Kansas, which regiment saw much hard fighting along with the other voluntee's who served vision. in MacArthur’'s di- ot Death removed last week two of Iowa's BEE. foremost citizens, Willlam M. Beardshear, long identified with the Iowa Agricultural college at Ames and the cause of educa- tion nationally, and John F. Duncombe of Fort Dodge, eminent as an attorney, an orator and a democrat Mr. Beardshear's fame had reached far beyond Iowa among the educators of the nation, and, indeed, his fatal illness was contracted while at Minneapolis in attendance on the sessions of the National Educational association, of which he was president. His continuous efforts were too much for his physical strength, and a nervous collapse overtook him, from which he did not rally. Mr. Duncombe was one of the pioneers of cen- tral Towa and had long been known as a lawyer and a talker of unusual ability in a state which has become famous for its attorneys and orators. Being a towns- man of the brilliant Dolliver, the merits of the two were frequently compared, but being a hopeless democrat, Mr. Duncombe rever attained to prominence in the affaire of the nation. He was highly honored by his fellow Hawkeyes, though, and filled many positions of honor and trust within the gift of the people of that state. At his Fort Dodge home he was affectionately called “the grand old man of Towa.” Mr. Duncombe was 71 years of age, and Mr. Beardshear had reached the age of 52, —_—— President Roosevelt's home life is not the least interesting phase of his many-sided existence. He is a high type of the Ameri- can husband and father and is blessed in kel iis wife and ekl 2 family that is worthy of him and his high position. Mrs. Roosevelt, who was Miss REdith Carow, is cne of the most cultivated and CAPTAIN C. A. VICKERS AND SERGEANT A. H. VICKERS, COMPANY F, FIRST NEBRASKA—SERGEANT VICKERS WAS KILLED AT GUI- GUENTA, P. L CHILDEN PLACING FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES OF THE SOLDIERS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT, August 10, 1902, THE LATE JOHN F. DUNCOMBE OF FORT DODGE, Ia. accomplished women in Washington. She is the second wife of the president, who was married when very young to Miss Alice Lee of Boston, who lived but two er three years after her marriage. She Bad ane (Continued on Eighth Page.) WALTER M. RILEY, COMPANY F, H FIRST NEBRASKA—DIED AT MA- ‘ LOLOS. ARTHUR SIMMS OF COMPANY F, FIRST NEBRASKA—DIED AT MA- NILA.