The herald., 1898-11-01
Men OF TIE SEVENTH
RECEPTION AND BANQUET CIV
EN- BY THE JoNATHANS
Returned Army and Navy Volunteers
Entertained by the Club-Tales
of Manila and Santiago

The officers of the Seventh California vol
unteer regiment, and Captain Frank Z.
t'rantz of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, were
handsomely entertained by the Jonathan
club in the parlors OF that organization last
evening The club rooms had been beau
tifully decorated with flags and flowers,
which formed pleasing background for the
rich dress uniforms of the officers. The
early part of the evening was devoted to
speech making, and after an elaborate col
lation was served in the banquet hall, where
aided by the flowing punchbowl the war
dogs loosed their tongues and fought again
the battleA Of their youth.
President +. X. Rule, in short address,
welcomed the guests and appointed Major
M. L. Owens master of ceremonies. Major
Owens called upon Lieutenant Randolph
Miner, U. s. N, who was present at the
fall of Manila. The lieutenant said Manila
was good place, worth taking, but that
California was a great deal better, and he
was glad to be here.
The guest of honor, Capt. Frank G.
Frantz, was the next speaker. At the men
tion of the Rough Ridrs, tn rgimnt in which
he wars captain, three ringing cheers were
given.
After thanking the club for the honor be.
slowed upon his regiment through him, he
said:
Newspaper accounts of the fight before
Santiago have been very straight, due large
ly to the fact that the correspondents were
always on the firing line. Our regiment, as
you know, had it's birth in Arizona, and for
that reason was given the name of Rough
riders. The name, while good one, car.
RED with 1t wrong impression, namely,
that 1T was composed of cowboys and COW.
punchers. Right here l want to say that
the men IN the regiment were selected and
represented the best specimens of manhood
IN the country.
Our embarkation and journey to the
Cuban coast was uneventfui. The first ex
cltement was caused by our landing. which
PAS very hazardous, being made IN omen
Doats IN heavy surf. After landing we
pushed on toward Santiago. The first and
second days we failed to encounter the
ftPanlsh tt;na forces. On the evening of the
T,,h 1r,Lu gay our advance guards found a dead
warm, showing that Spaniards were in mr.
neighporhood. The find was reported al
once ana the regiment was ordered to half
an advance guard was sent out and in a fev
minutes we heard the crack of the Snan;sI
gyms. We'll, boys remarked one Of tba
ottLncers, tt, the ball has opened We were
tneh oroered to break in open order and
shots came. ioii' "Iich the
Here wish to correct another errono,,,
statement that has been made n has hoor
stated that we fell into an ambush III.
is not correct. The Spaniards intended 't.r t1
surprise us, but our advance guard block az
the scheme. The fight that followed edith tbe
next day was hot one, but nothing to on,
charges before Santiago. When these charge.
We're ordered the boys sprang up WITH !
yeil, though most of them never expected te
return. Kettle Hill was taken after a hrie
hight and we proceeded to the second. Their.
we were compelled to make a stiff stand
remember on this hill John Hapan. one NJ
the members of my company, a bow hardly
70, who was splendid shot, remarked as
came up to him, God, but this is prett,
shooting The last fight made by us wa,
from the trenches, with the enemy less thar
400 yards away. tell you it meant busines
every second of the time, and we were moi
sorry when the four-days' truce was called ;
After paying Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
high tribute as man and an officer he
concluded by referring to the regular sol
dier as the backbone of the army. "The
regulars led" said he, "and the volunteers
were willing followers"
At the conclusion of Captain Frantz's re-
marks three rousing cheers were given the
captain, Colonel Roosevelt and the regular
soldier
Toastmaster Owens said he believed Teddy
would be elected governor of New York and
that two years later Mckinley would be re-
elected and that in 1904 Roosevelt would re-
ceive the presidential nomination.
"The National Guard was discussed by
General G. F. A. Last, who said that he