The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-15
LIVES OFFERED FOR CURA
MANY HUNDRED VOLUNTEERS
 TENDER THEIR SERVICES.

The New York Cuban Junta Declines All
 the Country and in Mexico and Europe in
 the Interest of the Patriots--Eleven
 Women Offer to Serve as Nurses.
 New York, Dec. 14.-The Cuban junta had more callers to-day than on any one day since it's establishment. Strong limbed Americans to the number of nearly eight hundred tramped upstairs and asked that they be enlisted in the army of Cuba. Not one of them was accepted. The laws of the United States prohibit the enlistment of men here for foreign armies. The men who want to fight in the Cuban cause have been so numerous lately that the Gu ban leaders here now issue to appli- cants by letter @ printed form declin- ing the services of the sympathizers.
 Delegate Palma received over score of telegrams from Jacksonville, Key West, Tampa, Dallas, Tex, Paris France, Hayti and different points in Mexico, stating that meetings were be- ing held for the discussion of the Gu ban question, and asking for intelli- gence regarding Maceo's alleged death.
 Cleveland, O., Dec. 14.-All this fore noon a stream of men poured into the rooms of A. de Arango, the local Gu ban leader, and volunteered to join the Cuban army. It Is estimated that there were 150 of them, a large proportion being well dressed young men of good education and apparent good Circum- stances They were told that no more men were needed. Eleven women in dividually offered to go as nurses. They said that they did not want pay, but thought it was their duty to nurse the sick and wounded. The majority bore marks of refinement and some had evil dences of wealth. They were advised to write to the junta in New York.
 Boston, Dec. 14-Eighty five men, strong fellows, intelligent and we'll up in military training, left Boston to- night, bound for Cuba, where they will fight in the army of the insurgents. They were in command of Lewis Mar shall of East Boston, who has seen service in actual warfare. He was a corporal in the Union army during the rebellion. Since the outbreak of the war in Cuba his sympathies have been with the insurgents, and he has in many ways assisted them materially. The men volunteered their services to the cause over a month ago and since that time they have been drilling per- sistently each day and anxiously awaiting the time for their departure.
 They received no promises in the way of return for their services from the Cuban junta in this city, but they per sisted in their requests to be enlisted as volunteers and said they were will ing to die, if necessary, for the cause of Cuba. They even paid their own expenses, and when they boarded the cars this evening each man carried in his pocket the latest revised manual of military tactics and enough money to purchase supplies for many days. They will buy their own rifles and side arms, if necessary, before they sail. Their commander, MT. Marshall, will be given captains commission in the insurgent army, when they arrive in Cuba.
 When they arrive in New York the men will be marched to one of the suburbs, where they will be drilled with other recruits for a. few days, af- ter which they will all embark for the seat of war The men will be shipped from New York to Jamaica on a Brit ish steamer, afterward sailing in small parties to Cuba, landing at some one of the many little inlets, of which the Spanish as yet know nothing. Some of the men will go by rail to Jackson vile, Fla, and from there to Cuba, in one of the many fast ocean tugs In the service of the insurgents. Many men have been sent to Halifax by rail, and shipped from that port to Jamaica on British ships as colonists. A few went by boat from Portland to New York and thence to Cuba by way of Key West.
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