Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-07
IN AID OF THE MONUMENT.
Chaplain H. 4. Brown Will Deliver Lecture for the Benefit of
 the O'NeiIl Monument.

At a meeting of the O'Neill Mon ument association last evening J. W. Wilson was appointed a committee to call on Rev. H. A. Brown and re- quest him to deliver a lecture on the Cuban war for the benefit of this fund.
 The elitor of the JOURNAL MINER on
 Friday Lfternoon without any knowl edge of this proposed action on the part of the committee had appointed himself a self-constituted commit tee for the same purpose. and waited on Chaplain Brown, who expressed perfect willingness to do so. Rev. Brown has received his commission as chaplain in the United States army, and expects to leave within a very few days to take his station at some military post. His personal "reminiscences of the brief but bloody campaign in Cuba ara of themselves sufficiently interesting to draw a large audience, as Chaplain Brown tells of his experiences and obserya- tioRs in 6 very pleasing manner, and coupled with this, the object, to aid in the erection of a monument to the fallen heroes of Cuba, the opera house should be crowded on the oc- cssion of his lecture.
 Speaking of his recent lecture in San Bernardino. the Sun, of that city, has the following very favor able mention:
 The lecture delivered by Chap lain Brown of the Rough Ridorh at the opera house last night, was the greatest treat afforded the people of this city in many years. MT. Brown was formerly rector of St. Johns parish. of this city, and came from Prescott expressly for the purpose of giving the lecture, which was for the benefit of the parish.
 It was not a lecture-it was talk such as Mr. Brown might have had with 6 half dozen friends, and in a quiet conversational way, aud with out any attempt at studied sen tences or style, he told of just the things in the Santiago campaign which nobody else saw, or thought to tell of. Perhaps it is true, as he says, that no two people see the same thing on battle field, but certainly Chaplain Brown saw many things which none of the correspond ents noted, and his address was so puuetured with bits of bright de- scriptiou. with ssllies of wit, and stories of what he saw and exper- fenced, that 1t can only be described as one of the most thoroughly de- lightful as we'll as instructive lec- tures that has ever had the battle field for its theme.
 MT. Brown has the sense of humor unmistakably, and while be declined the honor of having made the now famous remark,-"The articles of war be damned" he also intimated that had he not been Chaplain, that would have expressed his feelings exactly. He kept the audience thoroughly amused at the ridiculous things which caught his attention, and he brought tears to . hundred eyes, when he told of the burial of the dead Rough Riders, in one place fourteen of them in one trench, laid away in a foreign land, and with half thousand of their comrades kneeling about their grave, as the prayers of the service fell from the Chaplain's lips
 MT. Brown began with the organ iZation of the regiment, told how he came to be commissioned. gave vivid personal sketches of Col. Wood, of Col. R ,c 5, velt, of General Wheeler, and of h.. rank and file of the army. He told of how men fell as they stood talking with him, on the bat tie field. and of how others went through the leaden hail as If living 8 charmed life. He told Of the pri- vstions of army life, of the suffering and the results, for he saw it all. He wildly portrayed the landing of the troops of Santiago, of the siege and assaults in the three days hattie, of the victory, and then of the home coming.
 It is 6 treat that thousand peo- pie in this city cannot excuse them selves for having missed"