The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-11
Little War Sketches.


Gunner Frederick Joseph Molloy, OF th'
gunboat Castine. has been writing somt
interesting letters TO his mother, Rich
mond (Va-) window. from off Cienfuego.
and Key West. An especially interesting
one (doted Key West, May q. and publish
en- in the Richmond Tiwesl follows:
We arrived here last night about 10
afteer a very dangerous journey. and
thought at one time that all was up with
US. Commander Schley left US by our
selves in Cienfuegos- Here are his or
ders:; heard him give them myself. ane
l viii give you his very words. as
heard him; here they are:
Castine, you will lay nine miles on
shore for thirty-six hours. for the Scor-
pion, and If she does not come N that
time you win go TO the meeting place and
walt twelve hours. II she comes, proceed
to Key West with her. II the Spanish
feet comes. DO the best you can. Destroy
all written orders, code and signals and
key to CIPHER. I am going 10 Santiago
de Cuba"
What DO you think of that order 10
leave a little gunboat by herself. with
three gunboats In The harbor. and the
Spanish feet liable to come at any time
We did not mind the three boats in the
harbor, for we could have licked them,
but If the big ships came in and caught US
all would have been up with US. Narrow
escape!
Eearly on the 1noring of the 18th we
sighted large man-of-war In the mist
we could not make out her flag, and we
were not looking for any OF our ships as
large as that. After a long time we got
close to her. Captain said she was Span
lard and, turning TO the men, here are
his wordsi
Steward. bring me my sword and re-
volver. Men. she is big, but am going
to do the best l can, and hope you all
will do the same Fight for your lives. "
Just as we were going to let a broad
side into the stranger, and believe the
captain had the word "hre" in his
mouth we saw Old Glory flying in the
air.
1t was the Minneapolis. How is that
for a narrow escape?
Does that look like war? Must close; 1
am well. FRED.
Commander R. NJ. Perry (herois name)
is the Castines captain.
Here is an extract from letter written
by Newton, Mass. lady: "A Mr.. Howe
was foolish enough among the neighbors
to express his admiration for Spain and
denounce our government and sneer at the
amount of flag raising going on. When he
came out of his house in the morning he
found painted on his sidewalk in letters
as large as could be got on. Remember
the Maine To Hell With SPAIN his
steps painted red, white and blue, the
whole place surrounded with red, white
and blue paper and little bits of flags stuck
all over the house and in the trees. I didn't
see the sight, but those who did said II
looked very pretty. The flags and paper
were speedily removed by Mr.. H, but the
painted words and steps were still there
few DAYS ago. The papers said it was the
work of mischievous boys, but the suppo-
sitton is the boys were pretty old. The
streets in Boston-the business ones-look
handsome enough with the number Of
hag s strung across them, and the sight is
grand
One officer Of the volunteer army, says
a Washington correspondent, has distin-
guished himself with his pen in his semi
,fficial capacity. In front of the office of
Adjutant General Corbin is a register in
which many officers who visit the war
department must record their names, date
IF arrival in the city, date of probable de-
oarture and the occasion and authority Of
the visit. Major ]. T. Louden of the One
Hundred and Fifty Ninth Indiana volun-
.eers. on duty a Camp Alger, visited the
war department today. He registered his
name and the requisite dates, and in the
column devoted to occasion and authority
If visit wrote:
"Order of the president to whip the
Spaniards."
A Chicago exchange Thursday gays:
Fifteen young women organized into lit
lie society of their own invention made a
lassed attack on the young naval re-
'ruits who jumped off the O'Clock train
rom Quincy at the Union station under
he command of Lieutenant Commander
Holman Vail. As they fell into line each
me had pressed into his bond q little
Olume bearing some such title as Great !
Deeds of Great Men" or ''Heroes Of the /
'ea," and written upon the fyleaf of each Z
vas the information that this little book /,
5 for an American sailor from an Ameri- /
an girl" These recruits. who hail from
'hicago and Quincy, are on the way to
Norfolk. where they will go on board the /
ruiser Newark.
Miss Clara Barton, president Of the Ma /
Ional Red Cross, has gone to Washington .
0 ask permission of the military authori- /
res IL tSLdbiiSH TNtQ Truss
t all the permanent military camps IN
he United States. the purpose OF these
eadquarters will be TO supply medical ala
necessary, and other relief to the SOL
iers. Headquarters will be in charge Of
led Cross representatives. who will be
nder the direction OF The military author
les
Brigader General Francis Vinton
reene, formerly colonel Of the Seventy
irst New York regiment. who Is on his
-ay to San Francisco to report 10 Gen
raj Merritt and TO proceed to the Phil
pine Islands, is a lineal descendant OF
eneral Nathaniel Greene. CT the Revo-
,tionary war. General Grant appointed
i'm a cadet-at-large TO che West Point
Hillary academy in 1865, and he gra-
uated at the head OF his class IN 1870.
Is army record is not a short one. in
bite of the fact that he IS now only IS
ears old. In 1855 the Century Magazine
lblished a serial article by F. V. Greene
I the National Guard. which was unIver-
lily commended by army men
DR.. Raymond Speer. assistant surgeon
! the flagship New York. has written for
le Medical News an article showing the
Tects of the explosion of a shell from
war ships gun. DR.. Speer says:
"A fragment of one of these shells
ruck a man -arnaf Earfrr1a0 on rha an