The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-24

reresa Deaa's Tender Heart Touched
by Many Things she Sees.
L<s,ie's Week.,

iarra Bay Hotel. Fla. June - rse.
An INFORM military instinct Is 20 ;aks
=, ,-i-Ass as yoa md them. and say nothing
ian2i is fun O. military interest.
iaeSe army officers. who are cid in the
service. said little before. but are saving
.aosnlHg now about tbs packed condition of
me transports before their next .s~narture
1or tnea-pscked with 1900 hunau souls.
am mistaken. One officer did saw some
'nhg- Win horrible stencil in NY nas-
TITS. with my head Dizzy my eyes Blinded
ana my senses s.ckeaed with shs c.css
hSt' 'hick atmosphere % one tra-spert I
staggered 20 him and said
get 10 Cuba
he smiled and told ne scientifically and
automatically how each man in ths
computing Of air space. had ,wenty-fo,.r
lee' OF II al 10 himself. Then he said
something mere about superficial areas
cuo'c teet, British methods and American
Iecessioes- When ne had finished my
nearing and understanding had sickenea
WITH the rest ! only saw. and am sttu
seeing H. nunks IN rows one above the
other. hunks 10 hold four men, hunks TO
noid three men, saDdwiched in between
decks. where above were Officers and
horses. oeiox-mules. Tho transport was
Formerly banana boat. Ii had been au.i,
with special attention for the ripeu!rr Of
oananas-hananas which are loaded green
and must be nursed with hot air in the
transportation. The atmosphere was what
one might expect
One young fellow OF g. whom I .os7na 10
ne tfe son Of Col. Theodore Baldwin. Of
the Tenth cavalry. smiled bravely. and
SAID: 1t will not be so bad when we are
out at sea; they viii allow US TO go any
where We want-or canon the ship
Where We cant There may have been,
scientifically, twenty-four feet OF COM
puted air space" TO each man. but that
young fellow. Just then, had exactly the
foot space on which he was standing This
boy. this son Of Col. Baldwin. was al coll
lege. He wanted 10 90 20 war. and. 10
make sure Of getting 10 the front. OF GO
ing with one OF the regiments THAI would
be tha first into Cuba. lie went with his
father, and will enlist in Cuba. He cannot
join his fathers regiment for the reason
ii is a colored one. His mother, with
whom / talked afterward, said: Il would
like TO have kept my boy At home. but
Then the tears came. and were checked
back / knew. Brave mother OF brave
boy. Her boy, with the rest. wanted a
chance. He wanted TO make a name for
himself. He knew himself TO be OF hero
stun. and he wanted this chance. that 9TH
ers might know. II could only be told. IN
this selfish, hurry world OF ours. by his
going INTO the very jaws Oh 0eatn. ooE
boy, poor mother!
His mother said he was a born soldier.
His great ambition has been to go 10
West Point. Col. Baldwin and himself
tried in every way to get him an appoint
ment. She said, quietly and without one
shade OF bitterness, We had not enough
political pull" Think of that. The son
OF an officer OF our regular army. a man
who has given his whole life to the serv-
ice for his country. needing a political pull
10 get his son into West Point!
AS ! walked down the dock TO where
cars were being emptied and loaded I saw
a plain coffin, without name plate or box
resting on the floor OF freight car. Some
body had died out there on the wa:er while
the transports were waiting. l asked who
il was. and was told that the coffin held
the body OF member of the medical corps,
who had been fooEshly adding whisky 20
the heat OF the climate and OF the trans
port.
While these army officers are saying
nothing, il looks TO me as II many Of them
feel keenly the position they are in. They