The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-12
Der empty, and that meant to me sew
eral dead soldiers.
BECOMES A NURSE.

Der empty, and that meant to me sew
eral dead soldiers.
BECOMES A NURSE.
After the raid on his ranch General
Ewing was captured by the Spanish
and told to leave town on certain
day, but escaped in the uniform of a
Spanish officer and Joined Gomez.
Ewing knew something about nursing,
having been at one time employed to
hold bandages and instruments and
sponge the operating table in Phila-
delphia medical college. So DR.. Rodri-
guez de Martinez, the surgeon-gene-
raj of the army of liberation, got him
to enter his department to organize
hospitals for the insurgent sick and
wounded. 1t was in this very necessa-
ry and humane service that Ewing
won his star as a brigadier- general.
Within the next year he organized
some twenty or thirty sospitals, one for
every division, or band, of the insur-
gent army.
The general was with Maceo when he
raided the city of Pinar del Rio. That
was one of the cleverest performances
of the war. Maceo masked two Cat
lings and two Hotchkiss guns in the
palms near the town and placed the
larger body of his force, some seven
hundred men, under cover. Then,
with one hundred, he rode up to the
picket line and drew out one hundred
or more Spanish soldiers. These pur-
sued down to the timber where Maceo
and another one hundred Of his men
Tplnfnrna nd 3riy ha GrQ nj a tH
back. Then more Spaniards came out
and Maceo repeated his tactics. Final
ly, by gradually increasing his own
forceF OPPORTUNITY. Maceo drew from
the city the entire garrison Of some
two thousand men, who were marched
in line of battle right up to the spot
where Maceo's battery was awaiting
them. This was what the Cuban lead
er had been playing for.
MET ESTRADA PALMA.
Colonel Ewing tells an interesting
story Of the real president of the Gu
ban republic. Senior Estrada Palma,
who is nominally the minister plenipo-
tentiary Of the republic to this coun-
try with headquarters at New York
When the colonel arrived at Atlantic
City in December he was sight to
behold-careworn and clothed in poor
raiment. He made at once for head
quarters in New York. These are at 35
Broadway. He inquired for Senior Pal
ma.
"Oh, he is at the Waldort-Astoria,' y
said the attendant.
'At the Waldorf Astoria" muttered
the returned patriot.
But he went his way to the palatia1
hotel and inquired of the clerk. Just
then a figure that he well knew came
down the main staircase.
There's the gentleman you were
asking for" said the clerk.
The colonel rushed UP to the minis
ter, who at once recognized him. and
seeing his tattered clothing at once
took off his own great coat and flung
1t over his shoulders. The coat was a
handsome one, fur lined, and worth
somewhere from seventy-ive to one
hundred dollars.
"Come right up to my ROOM" said
the senior, pushing him into the eleva-
tor.
In a palatial suite of rooms the SEN
wife, two daughters and the secreta-
ries. After the warmth of congratula-
lions over the safe arrival of a Cuban
colonel-by the way, the colonePs real
rank Is that of a brigadier-gene in
the insurgent army-had worn off the
real president of the republic straight
ened himself up and said with dignity:
why did you come away at this
critical stage? I am sorry to see you.
We need you very much in Cuba
For a moment Colonel Ewing's eyes
emitted fire. He thought of the hard
ships through which he had passed
and contrasted these with the regal
manner in which the head of the re-
public was taking his ease, in his inn
surrounded with all that wealth could
furnish or ingenuity supply. He, ex-
hausted and almost dying from his ex-
ertions in the Cuban cause, and Senior
Palma taking no thought of the NOR
row, safely lodged in the most fash
ionable hotel in New York.
But he repressed his anger, the pres
ident was his superior.
II did not think this Of you," he re-
piled at length and slowly, so as to
give full effects to his words.
Then he drew off the detestable great
cloak which the senior had thrown over
his almost naked shoulders. He
spurned it as if it had been serpent
There" he exclaimed, take it
| That coat of yours would arm a dozen
| patriots
| Saying which he strobe from the
room while the secretaries and attend
| ants looked on in CONSERVATION.
| The colonel found aid elsewhere and
Notwithstanding his rude treatment is
| still friendly to the republic and will at
once return to the island.
| II have taken the oath of liberty OF
DEATH" he says. "And I will keep it,
The colonel had sister, now dead, in
New Britain, and it is because OF the
| connection with this part of the coun-
try that he made his way to Hartford
His home is in Gilead Neb. During
the war he was quartermasters Ser.
geant, then a second lieutenant an6
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