The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-19
DIR. INQUIRE ON
GEN. LEES STAFF
Reported That the Well Known Sur
geon viii Go to Cuba,
HIS SON DENIES THE REPORT,
Interesting Interview with DIR. NC.
CURE on the Changes Since the
Civil War In Military Surgery.
Favors an English Alliance.

Or. Hunter Mcclure. who has been at
White sulphur Springs FOR several weeks
Tor his health. is improving steadily. A
letter was received from him yesterday
hy his son. DR.. Stuart Mcclure. saying
he Was in good spirits and feeling much
better.
4 dispatch 20 the Washington Star from
white Sulphur Springs yesterday says;
DR.. Hunter Mcclure. tho famous sur
Feon Of Richmond. Va. who was during
tho civil war medical director Of stone
wall Jackson's Corps. has accepted a po-
sition on the stan OF Major General Fitz'
hugh Lee. and will accompany that Cen
orsl TO The front or wherever else the
latter may be ordered as soon as he re
covers from a. temporary illness WIN
which no is now suffering.
Tot. Mcclure is al present foJouIm"S
with his family at the White sulphur
Springs. where he was Yesterday seen by
a reporter Of the star at his cottage. the
same which was at ono time occupied by
Mrs. T.. $ Grant
CHANGE IL MILITARY SURGERY.
Asked as 10 his views on various mat
tiers growing out OF the war between the
United States and Spain Dr.. Mcclure re-
piled as follows.
''The changes in military surgery since
the close OF the WAT between the states
are very great. and a man who was con-
sldcrcd skilful and proficient IN his pro-
fession IN that war. II he has not kept
. Ia -a..aHn~ wHf harsa to 1auWn fgrre-
thing over again nowadays.
we had anaesthetics In the days OF
1851 10 1866. but knew nothing Of antisep-
tics. which in these times are so impor-
tant and essential 90 the saving OF life.
The modern missile is entirely differ
ent from what was used I'M the war be-
tween the States. then a soldier who
could shoot once a minute was regarded
as skilln. now with % magazine gun he
can shoot twenty or thirty time as often.
The missile itself IS very different; the
s-teel-jacketed bullet from a Krupp-Jor-
gensen gun goes through q wall one
brick thick az 1900 yards. or equal TO
through the bodies of seven men in line
at hat distance.
DANGER FOR DOCTORS.
Doctors will not as easily ind a safe
place during the modern battle as they
did in the olden time. There will be a
necessity for a larger number Of assist
ant surgeons. because there will be the
danger of more deaths from hemOr-
rhages on the battlefield. possibly nurses
as well as assistant surgeons should be
taught how 90 arrest hemorrhages.
Had we known anything about anti
scptics when Stouewall Jackson was
wounded his life might have been saved
clean anti-sepuc surgery can De practiced
ou tho modern battlefield. and 10 VIII
make am immense difference in the NOR
tality.
"T think the war win be a brief one.
unless some other nation comes in. and,
F $50. 10 will Doe almost interminable
Eut even after we have taken Cuba
7ud the other Spanish possessions IN the
West indies 1--WE already have the Philip
pine islands. which We Will soon do,
Spain viii probably prolong the war by
refusing 90 agree 10 It's termination. or
she will have lost an her colonial pos
sessions and her armies and fleets.
ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND.
How. then. can we be able 10 make
her accept terms of peace it is difficult
60 see. They are "a brave. arrogant. te-
nacious people. and may give us trouble
even after being thoroughly and honestly
,vhipped.
81 think the gOvernmel- ought 20 an
mex Hawaii. hold on 10 the Philippine
Islands. and. ST IL ever becomes neces-
sary. have an alliance with England. ]
am convinced that we have got TO nave
that alliance before long.
France thoroughly despises US, and
will soon join with the other Latin ma
lions against us. 10 gill then be a ques-
ton Of whether the Slavs and the Latins
shall govern this country on the Anglo
SaXons.
about the time Of Christ there came
from the East a horde OF people who
overran Greece and Rome. destroyed tn
civilization OF that day and brought
about. for hundreds OF years, what we
now know as the Dark Ages. The same
thing threatens again"
DENIES THE REPORT.
Or. stuart Mcclure when asked last
night about the report that his father
would become a member OF General Lees
stan said that there was no truth Ia II,
that DIT. Hunter Mcclure had not, and
would not accept such a position.
10 viii be remembered that Or. Nc
Cuire sometime before the United states
declared war against Spain. wrote "a
governor Tyler. Offering his services
through him 90 the Federal government
iq the war against Spain and volunteer
rle 90 20 20 the front in the event OF hos
t%I'ties. This may have been the found
alton upon which the report above rests
A special telegram to The Times last
night from Washington. d. C., says:
General Fitzhugh Lee o-night declined
20 discuss 70 rumor 10 the effect that DIT
Uunter Mcclure. OF Richmond. had ac'
cepted \ position on bis stan.