Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-28
WEALTHY WARLIKE MEN
Millionaire Soldiers Who Viii
Fight For the Flag
SOME OFFICERS, SOME PRIvATEs

Some Have Commission. and All Are
Eager to Fight Some of Rooseveit's
Cowboy Troopers-Ham Fish Has Gone.
An EAri's SON Enlists - Persistent Mr..
Chani@rs Regiment Colonel Assors
/ Offers.
| True patriotism knows neither wealth
/ nor poverty. 1t is mistake to imagine
| that nations fighting men are recruit
| ed from the lcwly-that the men 81
| wealth and culture would rather stay
| at home. History has proved this and
| history, true to tradition, is repeating
| herself. In our war with Spain the men
of millions have come To the front.
| They have not alone offered their mon-
ey to the government they have offer
ed their lives If need be. They want &c
fight. And many of them come of fight
ing stock. And many af them are train
ed athletes, college bred meIs who know
that peculiar tingling of the blood
which seems only 10 come to a man
when he gets into big football game
And many of them have seen rough life
Wild stretches of foreign lands.
There are no two men more eager to
| fight for their country than William As
tor Chanler and Theodore Roosevelt
The former IS estimated to be worth a
million, and the latter half million
Roosevelts Rough Riders" will be
unique. New York men of fashion
will ride flank to flank with the untam-
4
And there viii be no lines drawn. One
man viii be as good as another in this
organization, physical strength and en-
darance being the only qualification. II
would be difficult to estimate accurate
ly the wealth represented by the men
who have joined Roosevelt. Teddy him
self, as | have said, is worth half mil
lion, but there are men in his command
who could buy him out several times
over.
Among those who will don the brown
duck suit and wide sombrero which
constitute the uniform of the Rough
Riders are 80 young men from the east.
Just how the 800 cowboys will regard
their 'tenderfoot'' comrades is a matter
of conjecture. Two young New Workers.
when they left for the south, carried
their polo sticks and golf clubs with
them. What do you suppose typical
cowboy would think of a golf playing
cavalryman: And yet it is safe to say
that when it comes right down to the
point of real courage and endurance the
kid gloved element will not be found
wanting At any rate, the cowboys have
n great admiration for Roosevelt, who
has proved himself, in their eyes, to bs
the real thing. He has had lots of ex
perienee in the west and has shown
himself 10 be man of nerve.
And as for the others. any chappie in
the knickerbocker club will tell you
that they viii more than hold their
own. William Tiffany has himself been
a cowboy, in an amateur sort of way,
out i'll Montana and that in the eyes of
the real Rough Riders should give
him certain prestige over his compan-
ions. Moreover. he comes of fighting
stock. He is nephew of the late Mrs.
August Belmont, and is consequently a
granddaughter of Commodore Perry,
whose achievement on Lake Erie is one
of the landmarks of American history.
Equally wei known as young men OF
wealth and fashion are Reginald Ron
aids, Woodbury. Kane, James L. Bur
den, Jr., and Craig Wadsworth. Each
of these took his own servant, although
it is doubtful if the quartet of Wallets
will be retained. Both Woodbury. Kane
and his brother, Nicholson Kane, are
worth in the neighborhood of $3.50, 600,
Nicholson Kane, who is an Annapolis
man, is now seeing service on the st.
Paul as special aid to Captain Sigsbee
L &C. taI L. yNl-
and also made a reputation for himself
on the football field at Harvard. Young
Wadsworth is scion of the wealthy
Geneseo family of that name. He is a
great rider Reggy Ronalds is, as every
body knows, a son of Mrs. Pierre Loril-
lard Ronalds, who lives in London. As
football player he was held in high
esteem at Yale.
And there are others i'll this gallant
troop of Rough Riders who are equal
" well known. Hamilton Fish. Jr., is Il
fighter from way back. His career in
New York is too well known to require
more than passing mention. His oper
atoms have heretofore been confined to
impudent walters unreasonable police
men and the like, but now his bellig
erencv is about to take on a new form
and if he can only be brought to imag
inc that the Spanish army Is composed
of Tenderloin policemen and walters he
can be depended upon to do fearful exc
cution.
Two millionaires who offered TO
raise and equip regiments for the gov
eminent. but whose suggestions Were not
approved, are John Jacob Aston and VIII
liam Astor Chanler. Both of these .nen.
however, have received appointments
Mr.. Astor Is to be inspector general.
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. and
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