The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-14
RECEPTION.
.os.l Entry Into the Amer
''.u Camp at Siboney.
|,,r TRIBUTE PAID AT FIRST

r raced Young omcef
y wh'' cneers-Redheaded, Red
~ y, soldier Loaped' sh'D sn,,'Tso
esd ' I'd Broke the speii-Tho
" yode In an Ambulance
.,o rifle pits behind him filled
VIII ' 'uv of the enemy, with the
y ' =. before him filled with thou.
:, pr II bis friends, Assistant IS s.: Naval al
pds o. .a ~ Hobson left Santiago on
'''l asv, July 7, with his seven COM
~ a''a and was delivered into the WEI y.
" aD arms of the American army at
ming ' rnba. The trail up which they
honey o : broad one between the high
lpe W." 18th the great trees above meet
't i an arch overhead. For hours s, ,,, be,
thew came officers and men VINO
' ~. on duty in the rife pits had
n ' uv on these banks, sprawling
y y, w." sun and crowded together as
'n0 ~ won On the bleaching boards
o*'s s' - field. Hobson's coming
,"s dramatic picture CT the war
y = sun sun was setting behind the trail,
- 10 came up over the crest he was
y n :. against it. Under triumphai
~ nalms the soldiers saw q young
CD ~ the the uniform of the navy, his
~ '.h;ts with the prison pallor as
. W.T., Si duck and strangely in con-
: viii nth the fierce tan Of their own
y !" nth f serious eyes, who looked down
thsm steadily. For a moment ne
s 70 sit motionless and then the
Zinc hand struck up 1.-The Star Span
~ ' BANNER" A strange thing 1t was
~ M one cheered or shouted or gave
'.der but every one rose to his feet
,.wlv took off his hat slowly, and
oa 50, looking up at him in absolute
:,sroo II was one Of the most I'M
' .ss;ve things ever saw. No noise nor
srs NOR shouted acclaim could have
.aobod the meaning or the depths OF
sslinp there was in that silence.
Then q redheaded, red faced trooper
..ned down into the road and shouted,
sThree cheers for Hobson" The men
,.red and cheered. The rough riders
iva cowboy yell, and officers with
ms NJ their own in West Point leaped
n and down, and a foreign attache
|srew M his helmet into the air. Hob
an rode down between the lines, rails
uc his cap and smiling doubtfully
Prohably no one ever received reward
swiftly or from such worthy hands
those of the men who first laugh
I'm what he was to his countrymen.
They were no seekers after celebrities
That will come later. They were mel
instead, who knew q brave man, be
cause they were brave. They had wol
tbe very ground he was on from tn
enemy. 1t had cost them the loss G
800 comrades. They came runnln
lfum the trenches with rifles, from tn
lake where they had been washln
clothes. They charged up the hills {
San Juan second time and surrounde
them in shouting, happy mob. Bt
hind him rode two Spanish officers WI
had been taken beyond the lines only
Ind no one to exchange for them. The
LAT on their horses, blindfolded wit
"frst aid to the wounded" bandage
and listened to the tribute the Amer
cans paid their young countryman.
There is always something hume
Gus about the jackies, and after Il
serious, earnest face of Hobson 1t was
comic relief to see six obstinate null
fragging an ambulance loaded vii
seven clean, smart bluejackets, gri
ming, shouting, rolling over each 9th
l. In gee. Every one who had started
run after Hobson stopped to cheer ther
but they were turned aside from chez
BY the enlisted men shouting, "Say, b
you sea fellers did not do thing
them the other night"
Say, we heard you; see?" yelled t
jackies. "Your shells fell right into o
hospital yard" "Say, but we wish
we was with you; see?" "They col
in dead in CARTS" "You could not s
the street for Them"
1t was no time for choosing simil'
3 Men were standing on the rising ban
and the hills, waving hats and Shot
Ing. Officers were shouting Hobsol
name. Photographers were leapi
about, perpetuating a moment. 1t "
.he same story all the way to Sibont
Every little group Of soldiers they cal
across stood at attention at the unusl
Aght OF navy uniform. When tn
recognized the men, they waved tn
hats and cheered.
Hobson was the first officer / hf
seen saluted in six days. They hf
oeen too busy to salute. Before he ca
I'M Seventy-frst New York was mel
nga road, but the men gave y
Wnen they saw him and rushed wa
nigh through the river and stopped
eavalcade while they mobbed him, sht
Doth his hands at once and gave b
,aree cheers. AS he rode along they t
nim some things that had harper
while ne had been in Jail and how 1
uay ne had become q national hero.
= IL was the most wonderful rid
young man Of 90 has ever undertaken
70 tide through the enemy's coun
guarded by your own countrymen;
every side to hear cheers and APPROX