New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-12
STILL AIDING THE SOLDIERS
REPORT OF THE WOMENs NATIONAL
WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION.

,rsrr THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE TREASURY
ALFRED H BALLS TELLS HIS STORY AND
is SENT TO CAMP wALwoRTH
n. regular meeting OF the Executive Committee
q, TIE Wonens National War Relief Association
vas held in the Windsor Hotel yesterday morning.
Mrs Waworth presided Those present were Mrs.
Eugene McLain. Mrs. V r Raymond Mrs Hull.
Mrs z E. Anderson. Miss Helen Gould and MISS
Anne Rhoades The total receipts Of the associa-
ton 10 date are S376oS "a. and the balance in the
bank Is $3.50 70.
A check for 500 was received from Miss Warren.
a, Saratoga TO be used in assisting furloughed SOL
djers and 81 received through The World" for
the suffering soldiers.
T. was reported that the transport Victor carried
A J. Mcintosh and Edward A. Sumner with
large supply OF necessities to Santiago. These
goods are intended for at the yellow FEVER
hospital but II in the judgment OF these two men
they are needed at the general hospital. then they
may distribute them as they see 1T Mr.. Sumner
IL q lawyer. and will represent the association as
counsel The two representatives, carry personal
letters 70 General Corbin. General Lawton and a
letter from Captain McCnntock. a Rough Rider,
now m at Fort Wadsworth, to General Wood.
Colonel Greeneat has also given them letter to
the medical authorities. The members Of the asso-
ciat,on feel that with these letters the way viii
Re opened their representatives and the supplies
they have will get into the proper channels
Just as the meeting closing considerable ex-
element was caused by the entrance Of a man, by
the name Of Balls. who begged the women TO aid
him 10 get TO hts home In Jacksonville Fla. When
asked II be was a soldier he replied: NO. am
not a soldier but II II hadn't been that was shut
Up in prison down there ia have been fighting
them Have been In prison. and Just arrived on
the Berlin Monday afternoon"
To Mrs Walworth he then told the following in
terestng story:
II am Alfred n Balls of Jacksonville. Fla. and
was at work Havana railroad at Cristo sta
ton al the time of the destruction OF the Maine.
AS hostilities commenced I secured my
transport and prepared TO come home on the Mas
cot and enlist in the Army"
AS Mr.. Balls had held his place two years and
half he knew the country thoroughly, and
speak the Spanish language Ike a native He was
well Drowned. and being dark complexioned would
readily be taken for spanard. He said that
with his companions. also Americans he taken
prisoner and placed in Moro Castle before he
could notify the United States Consul OF
his trouble. At the end OF week he was taken
from Moro Castle and separated from his COM
panons. Mr.. Balls says ne thinks the reason they
were taken from MORO Castle that they feared
the destruction Of the castle He was taken TO
Cabanas. and kept there three and half months.
and fed twice a day bread and water-some
times he would be forgotten. and he would not get
his bread and water for two days The cell In
which he was kept about twelve feet long by
hve feet wide. Just long enough. he said for him
to take three steps without stopping.
During the time Mr.. Balls was confined he knew,
nothing OF what going on He could hear the
booming OF the cannon and the buge sounds bu;
eeou!d learn none Of the results OF the battles
Finally Just month ago yesterday. he was set
free, for special reason that he could discover
MS clothes, papers and money. amounting 10 $3.50
prisoned, so he was turned out with ABSOLUTELY
nothng on him but Spanish rags. He was anxious
three days he stayed in the town and slept on the
pisza benches. but at the end Of that time he was
to!d by the Spanish authorities that II he did not
sst our Of the town he would be put in prison
He went 70 the United States Army and by the
encers IN charge was 10 Santiago on a boat
belonging 70 the Martinez Line Mr.. Balls says
mat all along the route Of the steamboat at every
place they touched-that being fifteen towns-he
could could see where Uncle Sam had been pounding
thrown about and the docks ruined He was taken
So s. Spanlard on this boat. which was, carrying
speak a word Of English Iest he get hot beans" in
h SP saS a a R r. sanh y yCgnesr
pair OF old trousers and shirt belonging TO a
the Americans gave him o'u WORKOUT coat ~hich
Upon arriving a, Santiago he went to General
n enarge o. ocean transPortation, asking that Mr.
transport that could accommodate him. Mr. Balls
bRgh 9ptaned passage on the Berlin. which arrived
he has number of interesting relics in the way
heas Tgeh and hs picked up in Sub "a
mcked up on San Juan Hill. Mr.. Balls says that
she spaniards must have fed in great haste be-
..ause Otherwise they would never have lost these
.uckets as they look upon them the first thing i'm
e morning and the last thing at night, precious
are these lottery affairs
"a paper. Extraordnario FL impartial" dated
ooTp'ennoer t. has an Interesting article entitled
La Anexlon de jamaica telling that the Amer
can DULLES and pigs are Jamaica, trying
Sis'usde the population there 10 revolt against the
DiIusn and become OF the United States. IL
.nos Dy saying: Poor Mexico she goes next The
f.n.eiicsns VIII not be satisfied until they extend
"gth me North 10 the South Pole
IRE programme describes the scenes at continu
SSus performance at the Teatro Sober. in Havana.
s yne scene comprising boats made Of pasteboard,
"y,ms me brave Spanish squadron sinking the
lance monitor Merrimac IN the harbor Of Santi-
eso de Cuba" acknowledging that IL takes the
~no;e squadron TO sink American ship. A
c%Moa Is portrayed between the Spanish ships
Tg1n4e de Venadito and Nueva Espana and La
ss.echa and the American squadron. The PERFORM
enSe hhishes up with the explosion Of the Maine.
.cetecotding to the programme, these scenes are
and q cents
MT Balls in Havana at the time OF the
,ssa'he explosion. and says he feels convinced that
a., az population was expecting It, for as rule me
tsrS' s are filed with people after sunset and the
SSSssiceiy anybody was the streets and the band
siiIot play After the explosion the streets were
~ eh9 the band began playing.
nIs WalWorth sent Mr. Balls 10 Camp Wal
,orIth az No 3lS East Fitteenth-st., 10 spend the
sa -, and be cared for until the association could
CT transportation for him.
VOLUNTEERS ORDERED HONE.
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