The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-12-14
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Gems. BrsekinridEs and Hawkins the Chief
speakers OF the Evening.

SPEAKER OF the Evening.
A hundred and city men had places at the
Quill Club dinner at the Windsor Hotel last
evening and they expressed vigorously their
warm feeling Tor the army and navy when
Gen. J.. q. Breckinr ridge and Gen. Hamilton 8.
Hawkins talked OF the accomplishments OF
their own and the complementary branch OF
the Government service. Gen BreckinridGe
Interested his auditors In some stvTtes cf Gen.
Niles. He said in the beginning that when he
came here he thought he had SOME amusing
stories to tell but he found that Gen. Miles
had been on the witness stand testffyinR and
had told all his Jokes.
I'm tell you q story that Ivs never told be-
fore" said the General. "A man one day
asked Gen. Shafter for something to eat.
Now. there may have been some shortage Of
food in Cuba, but whatever our soldiers lacked
it was their business to endure. But to this
man.. . Cuban. IL was a surprise TO find that
when he had come out from Santiago to sscHps
starvation he had dropped into an awful de-
gree Of hunKer without apparent means Of
satisfying it. He asked TO be permitted to go
70 where he could see somsthinG &c. eat. even
though he couldn't huy il. Gen. Miles was
there. Gen. Shafter finally sent the man TO
bis table and when he came. back he had IN
derRone a great transformation, n rennrknble
Gen. shafser. who hadn't been able to eat
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four days. asked il the man had eaten. He
had: be hadn't asked for anything to eat in
three or four days. be said. q his family
was starving. Gen ShAfter said: Bring out
my cow And he babe the man take ft. Every
time he saw the man he said. Take your cow
now. take your cow The man wouldn't get
out Of stRht, and Gen; shatter said: Where's
the calf2 Give him the calf
20 away laden. he said: Blessed II there isn't
the best beRgnr LAYER saw he beat ShafterirI"
The company LAUGHED uuroariouslJ and
had Q fresh outhurst when the General added:
1t only shows the. kfndltness OF heart that
prevails whenever he Gen Shafterl can do an
act OF complete kindness"
The company had deal Of fan over Capt.
Nicol Ludlow when it was ann 1unced that he
was compelled to decline the clubs invitation
because ordered 10 take the Massachusetts,
20 sea. and that. on his unexpected return last
saturday, when he was informed that the
lamp still held out TO burn he declared that
his feelings were unfit for publication"
Cen Hawkins said that there was In COM
mon speech an unnecessary distinction. be-
tween regulars and volunteers. Under our
composed OF essentially volunteer soldiers.
/ do not think any expedition In history to
invade foreign territory ever bad so fine a body
o. men as those who went with Shafter." Gen.
Hawkins said. Our Govern nent for fifteen
years has established a system OF physical e1-
animation impossible TO any other Govern
ment. It IL i'm possible for any Government TO
standing army equal to hat for fifteen years
maintained by our Government. The nasu-
raj consequence Is hat the same bod Is NOR
0lv superior to any .similar body Of men ever
seen for the simple reason thai no dissipated
man could pass the Doctor"