The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-09
ARMY AND NAVY GOSSIP.

William Clark. the negro private of
company e. Twenty-fourth infantry.
who was carried as dead from the field
of FL Caney, was recently given a
banquet by his Washington friends.
Jacob ]. Schwartz. who died last
week in Boston. had been SO years a
soldier. having enlisted in the German
army in 1912, and left it and joined the
United States army in 1874. serving in
the Mexican and civil wars.
Sergeant Henry ]. Eberman OF
troop K, First United States volun-
teers, who died in st. Mary's hospital,
Brooklyn, last week. was a former
member of the Manhattan police force,
which he left to enlist in the rough
riders.
One of the 5000 DIauser rifles sur
rendered by the Spaniards at Santiago
and brought to this country was load
ed, and. being thrown too heavily upon
the wharf, it went off, the bullet kill
ing William Hickey, one of the laborers
engaged in handling the weapons
DR.. Edward Breck, the only secret
agent of our government of American
birth and nationality whom the United
States has had in Spain during the
war, mas just returned from that cOun-
try to Berlin. DR.. Breck. who was
arrested in CadiZ on suspicion, but
succeeded in getting away, has brought
back plans of nearly every Spanish
fertilization.
General Greely's order Of congratu-
| lation to the signal corps should not
| be overlooked, for the work of that
body during the recent war was, In its
way, as important as that of the army,
while the risks run by it's members
were scarcely less and their exposure
to vicfssttudes and disease were quite
as great. They did their arduOus work
in such an admirable manner as to
meet all the eXigencies of the service
and were fortunate enough to escape
almost wholly both from the bullets Of
the enemy and the diseases from which
the soldiers suffered. But, then. they
were not confined in the detention
camps.
Lieutenant Colonel Augustus II.
cambridge Of the Fouth infantry, who
has just been retired at his own re-
quest after 40 years of service is one
Of the older officers who rose from the
ranks. He enlisted in the Fourteenth
infantry on Aug. IL, 1858, and after
four years service, during which he
became sergeant, was commissioned
second lieutenant in July, 1852. He got
his company in 1866. became major in
1892, and lieutenant colonel in 1897,
After all this long service there We're
still 10 lieutenant colonies ahead Of
/ MIN on the list. Major Baker, of the
same regiment, was also a sergeant
before the war and got his first COM
mission in 1865.
While the report of the change of
| General Gomez from an attitude of
friendliness towards the United States
to one of hostility comes rather sud
denly and from locality which has
| been the hotbed of contradictory and
| unauthenticated rumOrs ever since the
| opening of hostilities, there are con-
| sideratiOns, nevertheless, which tend to
make it credible. The old soldier is
one of the truest and most uncomDro-
missing of the Cuban patriots and,
| though displaying much of the out
| spoken bluntness Of the genuine SOL
der, he is also a diplomat Without
! any loss Of faith in the integrity of the
! United States, he sees that the growing
sentiment for annexation among Gu
/ bans themselves and among those
] SpaniardS who for commercial rea-
| sons intend to remain on the island
may easily force our government to
change its position and he could find
no better time to check this movement
/ than now, when Mr.. Porter's visit and
| the nature of his duties make it evil
dent that the intelligent competition
of American merchants and business
men is to be a factor in the Cuba Of
the future. He knows the strength of
/ this argument with the people he has
to deal with and does not hesitate to
use it.