The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-29
OUR new YORK LETTER
WAR ARTISTS AND CORRESPONDENTS
FEATURE OF THE TOWN.

They Are All Glad TO He Home Again.
bat All wish TO Return and See the
Finish of the wsr-Dr. schiey. Son of
the Commodore.
NEW YORK, July a9.-[Special- RE
turned war artists and correspondents are
| Just now a great feature OF Park row,
where most of the newspaper offices are
located. Most Of the men are looking
brown and hearty after their West Indian
sojourn, and two or three of my acquaint-
ances who went away pale and worn seem
actually TO have been made over again by
some weeks of open air life and the en-
forced simplicity Of diet which prevails at
the front And, while they are all glad
10 be back among their friends again, and
TO hear the sounds and see the sights or
good old New York" once more, every
mothers SON of them expresses the hope
that he may return to the south In time
TO see at least part of the Porto Rican
campaign.
The greater number of these young men
for few reporters or picture makers over
40 have been at work describing or depict
ing the scenes and incidents of this war
put in more time at Tampa waiting for
Yet there is hardly one who has not en-
dured his share of privation and hardship.
Half q dozen Of them, and maybe more,
were Obliged to 60 to Cuba without their
outfits, and on landing near Santiago,
found themselves without extra clothing,
medicine kits and the like, and In some
instances almost without pads OF paper or
lead pencils. This was one Of the results
of the beautiful mix up of general sup
plies and personal belongings at Tampa
and Port Tampa, and, while nobody agrees
with any one else exactly as to where the
blame should rest, all are unit In the
opinion that the trouble was wholly I'M
necessary in point of fact. They are also
unanimous in their expressions OF scorn
regarding the inefficiency, to use mild
expression, of the Cubans under Garcia.
Grasping Cubans.
"The chief notion of the Cubans," said
one of the correspondents, "seems to have
been to bleed the Yankees as much as pos
sible. You have heard the stories of Gu
ban thievery. / saw them robbing the
bodies of the dead. / know of their re-
lieying wounded men, still alive but help
less from their hurts, of money belts,
watches and other valuables.
81 know of a Cuban who was urged to
help get desperately wounded man to
the shore hospital.
How much you givef queried the
Cuban.
"The man named the figure, which was
liberal
All right, said the Cuban. PAY in
advance
"This the wounded man could not do,
having been robbed of his spare cash, pre-
sumably by a Cuban, but the money would
be assured on arrival at the shore.
" NO money down, no help said the
| Cuban. You'll never live to get to the
shore. / have heard the officers talk, and
| they say you won't last long. How can
| get my money after you're dead?'
"Then he sauntered away, rolling Gig
arctic as he strolled and humming a
| Spanish air. AS matter of fact, the
! wounded man did not live long, but it Is
an open question whether his life could
not have been preserved had he been able
to get to the shore, where there were much
better facilities for dressing hurts than
anywhere else. Possibly there were no
other cases quite so bad as that one, but
( there seems to be not q shadow OF doubt
that the half starved Cubans in Garcia's
army honestly looked upon the Yankees
| CHIEFLY III tnt llBnU TlSuU BOOu WINGS.
AS to the value of the Red Cross work
| ers, the newspaper correspondents are all
agreed, though there is in their minds q
grave question with regard to the eff
cheney of the service. This question pre-
sented itself one day when wagon train
was wanted to get supplies to the men
storming Santiago. Wagon trains were
mighty scarce just then, and, do what
they could, the military authorities could
not scare one up, but Clara Barton, de-
sirous of conveying food, etc., to the Gu
ban refugees from Santiago, got o wagon
train all right, and the refugees were
promptly relieved. The moral of this
"lies In the application ont" 1t Is a
matter for thought whether to condemn
Miss Barton for insisting on ministering
to the wants Of the refugees and thereby
making United States soldiers suffer, or
the military authorities for allowing them
selves to be overridden.
Life on Dispatch Boats.
The correspondents and artists who
worked Gin the field" undoubtedly had
their own hardships, which even the pos
session Of well filled pocketbooks could
not alleviate, and personal peril was not
I. the least of these, but the men who did
duty mainly on dispatch boats and were
not subject to such immediate dangers
had no picnics.
AS between artists and writers, the
former Jared the worst on the boats. At
this season Of the year the waters of the
southern coast Of Cuba are continually
troubled. There are many days of com
parative calm-days when the waves are
hardly big enough to affect the steadiness
of great war vessel at all-but there are
always short, choppy seas Of the sort that
make craft Of the dispatch boat size boh
about most uncomfortably.
1t is bad enough to write on boat that
is rolling and pitching as small vessels dc
In such waters, but 1t Is very near the
impossible to draw pictures in such cir.
cumstances. Yet some Of the most graphic
drawings sent to the papers here were
sketched aud finished when these boats
were never still for tho space of two Sec
onds. Moreover, some Of their pictures
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