Evening star., 1898-07-26

for any invalid, and there could not have
been better place to establish such a
headquarters than is found here. Being a
couple of days nearer to the West Indies
than is New York 1t has All important ad-
vantage, as sick men needing surgical
treatment cannot be got 10 a comfortable
hospital on land too soon.
Plenty of Fresh Food.
No difficulty is now being had in securing
all the fresh food needed for the hospitals,
and wholesome diet is provided. For the
dangerously sick patients there is special
diet which is being prepared by French
chef. who has been chief cook at the White
House under President Cleveland, has pre-
sided in that capacity at the Metropolitan
Club of this city and in the homes of sew
eral millionaires of New York, where his
services could command a salary of $3.50
any day he should care to offer them. No
more patriotic act has been performed ty
any one since the war began than by this
french chef, who has become thoroughly
enough Americanized in his ideas to want
TO see the United States master Spain, and
he is doing all he can to bring that result
about He has son on one of the Ameri-
can battle ships, and when war was de-
clared he considered how he might best
help America win the fight. He was too
old to shoulder a musket, and he knew he
would be worth more as cook at one of
the American hospitals At that time he
was a chef in the house of a prominent
official in the West Indies. He left this
place and paid his own passage to New
York to offer his services to the govern
ment to cook for the wounded without paw
Now he is serving a special diet to the
most needy in the hospital, and no million
aire club in New York ever had finer cook
ed food placed on its tables. During the
first days of the hospital he was hampered
b. lack of material but that trouble has
about disappeared.
The name of this man is not given be-
cause of his request He wanted to escape
observation altogether and to have nothing
said about what he is contributing for the
war. All the surgeons and nurses are fully
awe to the great assistance he IS giving
them. and many a patient whose life is
hanging in the balance today Is being he eIp-
ed to recovery by him.
here is no greater patriot than that
man.. a surgeon said today when he saw
the chef busiy at work over a hot range
preparing dainty food.
Queer Experiences Recounted.
Naturally these soldier boys swap stories
or the terrific campaign in which they were
wounded. There are many lucky unlucky'
men, who have received injuries that would
have been fatal had the Mauser bullets
wounding them veered an eighth of an inch
from the courses they took. One of these
lucky unlucky'' fellows is big Private
Charles Deutschberger of Company C, list
New York Volunteers. Deutschberger was
victim or a sharpshooter A Mauser ball
came down on him. making slight furrow
in the lower lid of his left eye, doing no
injury to the eye itself. The ball then
passed through his cheek. came out the
lower part of the jaw without crushing a
bone. entered his chest and travelled
through his body about foot, making its
final exit below his ribs. There is no
marksman in the world who could have
hred that Mauser bullet and have made it
do what it did without a mishap The
things that that bullet might have done
and did not are enough to make Private
Deutschberger tremble, but he Is as well
today as II he had never been wounded. A
variation in the course of the bullet of AN
eighth of an inch would have blinded him.
and 1t would have had to change it's route
only trifie to have passed through his
heart.
Corporal Louis Daum Of Company C, I'd
United States Volunteers, has a blue fan
mel shirt that he will hoard as a precious
relic OF that rush up the San Juan hill.