The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-17
HE POSES AS A WAR HERO.
.p,yrFR STREET Bows down BEBoRE
SAMNEL MdIM.

ant ~eamuel's story IL n tumble Of I'm
ros.ible Feats-Says He Was Captured
At III Cansy, Escaped and Walked TO
pIurr Del Rio and BACK and to Havana.
All Baxter street 10 kneellng at the feet OF
pnc,er Samuel MaJin. Into that d hand
atmosphere where the priceof' pants Ia usually
:, mora Importance than questions OF national
,,,lo,. he has come from the war. crowned
ulh. n hero's laurels. That he has wreathed
.hem for himself Is Of little Importance. since
p..,er street doesn't know It. According to
Ma own tale. Maxim had the rare honor OF be-
inc CAPTURED by tho Spaniards after the fight
a, Fl Caney. With this ns a basis. ne ro-
-o,ncss concerning his experiences as = pris-
amer and takes most remarkable liberties with
.Ine, distance and army regulations.
Maxim is a nephew OF Samuel Fineberh. n
secondhand clothier at Worth and Baxter
s.rocts. lie Ia a younR man OF adventurous
aisposition. His present home 10 In Lexing-
.on. Nv. but a few days ago he appeared In
p,,t.r street,and started his boom as a war
hcro Now all the small boys point him out
,s he passes along the street. and the girls
think he is the finest thing that ever roped In
a"Rube." 4
Maxim declares that he was q buRler in the
rhitd Cavalry, U. s. A., but with seeming
,,nd.sty he displays no uniform and no cam
r,icn hat. lib says that he enlisted as a buRler
Al Chickamauga inst for this war. and was
assigned to the Third Cavalry. He went with
them to Cuba and fought with them. but he
doesn't begin his tale'o adventure until ono
afternoon after the big fight. He and an
ether bugler in the regiment were sent out
scoutlng- buglers are 80, often selected for this
duty-nnd were picked up by a band OF Spanish
"""SThey marched us.clear across the island to
pinar del Rio relates the heroic, bugler. and
matched roof, about fourteen miles from the
night we escaped-broke out through the roof"
much, / guess they didn't care whether We
where did you go then2"
back to FL Cancy. but we didn't find our
regiment n, ! 5fdD; The he cit, city Of 81 S9n i ! had hSd
Of the SeNenty;arst New York at FL Caney.
and and a. o6 We ; s aidn' We eel SaGte sS t 3 s.e . IL taoSF so
we went through the country and got there
ali right. The other bugler died Of fever OF
under an assumed name because his, people
send them his uniform and Bible and l did i;
pine street, When | got to Havana l went to
the Lieutenant-G General in command and tried
he General said he. didn't have anything for
me, but he sent me homo on the Panama"
Didn't they arrest you as a deserter?"
oh. no. You see my regiment wasn't
there ..
And the General wouldn't give you q iobP"
said there wasn't anything doing. so l came
up here and went to Chickamauga, where |
you / was lucky to get back. II the United
States ever has another war they'll have to get
along without me-"
This was about all the detail the bugler fur
nished. but il was enough to make him the
hero Of Baxter street and at the same time to
convict him of being q monumental prevari:
Rio. 500 or more miles. through a war-wasted.
roadless country and back again, and his
wouldn't give him q job. are all right as long
az they go. and Baxter street Ia certainly as
proud of the bugler as o he had come
back shot full of holes.