The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
MILLIONAIRE SOLDIERS
SOME OF THE wELL-KNOwN NEW
WORKERS WITH FIGHTING BLOOD.
Many of Them Have Joined Roose-
veIt's Trough Riders" and 9th
ers Have Commissions.
New York Herald.


True patriotism knows neither wealth nor
poverty. 1t is mistake to imagine that
a nations fighting men are recruited from
| the lowly-that the men of wealth and Gull
ture would rather stay at home History
| has proved this, and history, true to tradi-
| ton, is repeating herself. In our war with
| Spain the men of millions have come to
| the front. They have not alone offered their
money to the government. They have Of
| fered their lives, If need be- They want to
| fight And many of them come of fight
ing stock. And many of them are trained
athletes, college-bred men, who know that
peculiar tingling of the blood which seems
only to come to a man when he gets into
big football game. And many of them have
| seen rough life on the Western plains, or
| have explored wild stretches of foreign
| lands You may see them lolling indolently
in the club windows, or leading a german,
Or strollng aimlessly along the avenue clad
in immaculate attire. And you may think
of them only as the pampered pets of fash
| ion. But that is only because you take a
superficial view of these things.
There are notwo men more eager to fight
for their country than William Aston Chan
Ter and Theodore Roosevelt. The former Is
estimated to be worth million and the lat
ter a half million. Roosevelt's Rough
Riders will be unique New York men of
fashion will ride flank to flank with the UNI
tanned cowboys of the wild and woolly
West. And there will be no lines drawn.
One man will be as good another in this
organization. physical strength and endur-
ance being the only qualification. 1t would
be difficult to estimate accurately the
wealth represented by the men who have
Joined Roosevelt. Teddy" himself. as I
have said. is worth half million but there
are men in his command who could buy him
out several times over.
Among those who will don the brown duck
suit and wide sombrero which constitute
the uniform of the Rough Riders are thir-
lynne young men from the East; just
how the three hundred cowboys will regard
conjecture. Two young New Workers. when
they left for the South carried their polo
sticks and golf clubs with them. What do
you suppose a typical cowboy would think
of a golf-playing cavalryman? And yet it
is safe to say that when it comes right
down to the point of real courage and en-
dunance the kid-gloved element will not be
found wanting. AT any rate, the cowboys
have a great admiration for Roosevelt, who
has proved himself, in their eyes. to be the
real thing. He has had lots of experience
in the West, and has shown himself to be
man - nerve.
SOME OF THE TROUGH RIDERS"
And as for the others, any chappie in the
Knickerbocker Club will tell you that they
Tiffany has himself been cowboy, in an
amateur sort of way, out in Montana and
that, in the eyes of the real Rough Riders
should give him a certain prestige over his
companions. Moreover. he comes of fight
ing stock. He is nephew of the late Mrs
August Belmont, and is consequently a
granddaughter of Commodore Perry, whose
achievement on Lake Erie is one of the land
marks of American history. Equally well
known young men of wealth and fashion
are Reginald Ronalds Woodbury., Kane,
James T. Burden, jr, and Craig WadsWortG
Each of these took his own servant, al
though it is doubtful if the quarter of
Wallets will be retained Both Woodbury.
Kane and his brother, Nicholson Kane, are
worth in the neighborhood of $3.50, 900. Mich
olson Kane, who is an Annapolis man, is
now seeing service on the st Paul as spe-
cial aid to Captain Sfgsbee. Another broth
err, Colonel Delaney Kane, a graduate of
West Point will also offer his services to
the government. Woodbury. Kane is a noted
polo player and also made a reputation for
himself on the football field at Harvard
Young Wadsworth is a scion Of the wealthy
Geneseo family of that name. He is a great
rider. 'Reggy' Ronalds is, as everybody
knows; a son of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard
Ronalds, who lives in London. AS football
player he was held in high esteem at Yale
And there are others in this gallant troop
of rough riders who are equally we'll known.
Hamilton Fish, jr., is a fighter from way
back. His career in New York is too we'll
known to require more than a passing men,
conhned to lrnpudent walters, unreasonable
policemen and the like. But now his bel
ligerency is about to take on new form,
and If he can only be brought to imagine
that the Spanish army is composed of Ten
derloin policemen and walters he can be de-
pended upon to do fearful execution.
Among the Rough Riders will also be found
G.. Ronald Fortesque, Henry w. Sharp, J. B.
Taller Henry w. Bull Kenneth Robinson,
of New York and William Quad, jr., of
Newburg, N. Y; H. K. DevereauX, of Col
orado Springs: r: c. Walter, jr., of New
Haven; George Kemp of Pennsylvania;
Maxwell Norman, of Boston, and j. II.
Two millionaires who offered to raise and
equip regiments for the government, but
whose suggestions were not approved are
John Jacob Aston and William Aston Chan
ceived appointments Mr. Astor is to be in
spector general, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel, and Mr.. Chanler will be assistant
adjutant general with the rank of captain.
SOME MORE MILLIONA1RES.
Other men of wealth who have received
appointments during the last week are
Charles A Whittier, DR.. Rush Huidekoper,
Erskine Mewitt and Walter L. Bouve. of
Massachusetts. Mr. Whittier will be an in
spector general, with rank of lieutenant
colonel; DIR. Huidekoper will be one of the
chief surgeons with rank of lieutenant
colonel, and Messrs Hewitt and Bouve will
be assistant adjutant generals, with rank of
captain. Mr.. Whittier served during the
civil war, receiving the rank of general, and
now the old war spirit has again broken
loose. For years he has been a well-known
figure in New York and Newport social life.
He is now about fifty-three years old and is
a man of fine physique and martial bearing
General Whittier married Miss Chadwick.
His eldest daughter married Prince Belo-
selsky, of Russia. He is member of the
Union and Metropolitan Clubs of this city
and of the Somerset Club of Boston.
Erskine Hewitt is the third son of former
Mayor Abram S. Hewitt. He was graduated
from Princeton in 1891 is about thirty years
old, unmarried and q member of the Union
University, Fencers', Riding and Players
clubs. He is a fine horseman. Mr.. Bouve
halls from Boston, where he is a social
leader and one of the prominent members of
the Boston Cadets.
Another rich young New Yorker who has
quietly enlisted is Rufus Hatch, whose
father, the late Rufus Hatch, was a partner
in many big deals with Jay Could Russell
Sage and many other Wall-street magnates.
He has become an orderly in the Michigan
militia. While in Detroit he drifted care
lessly into war headquarters and announced
his intention of doing something for his
country. Orderly Hatch is a graduate of
Columbia College.
Lyulph-Stahley Ogilvy has enlisted as a
private in Company d, First Regiment of
Colorado. Perhaps you don't know who I4y-
ulph- Stanley Ogilvy is. Well. if you look up
Burke'S Peerage you will find two columns
afag he nf ,ic