The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-21

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Something to Talk About--I. j.
Cowles Has Been Made a Corporal.
He is the First of the Scranton
Delegation to Receive Promotion.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
Tampa, Fla, July 17.--Michael Nc
CURE, Of Company f, was a visitor in
our company yesterday morning look
ing for a man bearing a name exactly
the same as mine. His peculiar ap-
pearance and wild, staring eyes con-
vinced me that perhaps 1t would be
better for me to suddenly evaporate.
When a big, brawny man like Mike
looks for anybody. 1t is sure proof that
trouble is ahead, because he has the
reputation of being the most quiet maj
in camp. The cause Of his anger, how
ever, was as follows: When Mike left
scranton ne promised to write every
day and let his girl know all about his
military life, but since pay day he has
written but one letter, and in tfat let
ter ne stated that he was in the hospi-
tai suffering from a severe wound on
the head caused by being struck with
a cocoanut which was thrown at him
by monkey, while the company was
at drill. In addition he told about the
enormous lions and tigers which now
ana again carry away whole platoon
of soldiers and also that the men were
compelled to sleep on the tops of CO.
coanut trees in order to avoid the
numerous venomous reptiles and in
sects. OF course the truth at once
leaked out that Mike had been read
ing last Wednesdays Tribune. When
I wrote, however, l was under the i'm
preston that my name would not ap-
pear, but as 1t did l must, therefore,
publicly apologize to Mr.. MCGUIRE s
lady friend and tell her that Mixes
letter was perfectly true, at least that
portion where he speaks about the
enormous lions"
TROOPS PAY DAY.
Last Monday was pay day and as a
consequence much business has been
done by the merchants Of Tampa.
Eick Evans, Evan Paul, Abe Roos and
Pat McLane chipped in and bought a
lot of mosquito netting, intending to
make nets to sleep in, but when the
package was opened it contained moth
ing but Spanish moss. Yesterday Roos
received a letter from his cousin who
keeps clothing store on Penn avenue
thanking him for the cheese cloth and
saying he would send the proceeds of
the sale. Abe told me afterward that
he mad mailed the wrong package
substituting the cloth for the moss.
Over in Company l there is a Chi
nese laundry kept by Mr.. Cass Idly
Fue. His real name is Emlnet Cas-
sidv. the Fue being another name
which he occasionally uses when wip-
ing the sweat from off his brow. His
efficiency in the washee washee busi-
ness draws him considerable trade and
his Golfers are already beginning to
run over.
Alfred Roberts, of Olyphant, who is
in Company 6 and David j. Powell,
who used to represent the Mutual Life
Insurance company of Lackawanna
avenue, went down to Tampa on q
leave of absence last Wednesday and
there met a young man of their ac-
quaintance from the Sixty-ninth New
York volunteers. The bay looked so
calm and serene that a row in a boat
was suggested, and they accordingly
started to put their idea into eXecu-
ton. They Were captiNated, however,
by the appearance of a fine looking
yacht which they hired for an hour
at the modest rate of 81. However,
it is unnecessary to relate their vari-
Gus adventures. Suffice it to say that
they arrived in camp dripping wet.
Powell says that if they hadn't
tackled so much to the left they would
have been all right but it is doubt
full If the real facts will ever be known.
A TALL SQUAD.
!. J. Cowles has been made a COR
roral of Company I. Cowles used
to be an employe of the Adams Ex-
press company, and was formerly in
the Thirteenth regiment. He holds
the distinction of being the best built
man in the regiment, and the eight
men in his squad are the tallest men
in the army. John Lavelle stands
feet, ~ inches, John King, feet,
inches. and the rest vary from feet
to G feet, 5 inches. Cowles looks the
ideal picture of a soldier. He is
straight as an arrow and of a most
commanding appearance. He is the
first of the recruits from Scranton to
be promoted.
There are upward of 200 men in the
division hospital who We're wounded
in the battle of Santiago. They draw
more crowds than any street fakir
could dream Of 1t makes our blood
Loil to hear the various accounts.
During the past week we have been
having drills in extended battle order
The time of drills has also been
changed. the reveille going at AIS in
stead of SIS a. m.
Thomas McHale, of Company e, was
seized with severe cramps while in the
sham battle yesterday and had to be
carried away in the ambulance. Com
pany G was fortunately in the re-
serve line. and there escaped the work
OF digging trenches, etc.
FOURTEEN FROM OLYPH4ANT.
There are fourteen men from Oily
phant in the Eleventh, and there are
few from every borough and town
in Lackawanna county. The men from
Olyphant are Alfred Roberts, Richard
Evans, Michael Rutledge, William Will
liams, George Twaddle, Patrick Can
non, Thomas Edmunds, Patrick Gal
lagher, Thomas Michael, Anthony
Murphy, James Hoskins, Thomas Heff-