The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-14
BASIS FoR a ROMANCE.
How n CaDtaIn's Daughter NuFsed n
Sick Private Bnck to Life.
From.the New York Journal.


It may be a romance before the snow
flies the tale of how Mildred Mlard took
a fainting soldier to her home and nursed
him He was a young country boy when
he Joined the army Of Uncle Sam He was
a weak youth when his sweet nurse put
him aboard the train for home yesterday.
II the romance does not come TO pass with
the proper finish there VIII remain 10 De
blamed a young man IN a bicycle suit.
Miss Mildred Milard is the daughter of
Harrison Willard, the composer VINO mas
been warrior. He was captain OF the
Nineteenth Infantry and his spirit OF war
Injected his family of daughters. Ihey are
intense patriots. Miss Miliard, while not
a professional nurse. has been trained in
the care of the sick, and she has done no
bic duty among the soldiers in the home
camps.
Through the influence Of Col Brown
she was appointed a nurse by the Red
Cross Society and was sent 70 Camp
Black, much to our disappointment, Ior
she lOnged to go to the front. However,
with The true spirit of the soldiers daugh-
ter. she accepted the order as it was given
her and went to work on Hampstead
Plains among the ranks of the men VINO
sickened and died thousand miles from
the scene of conflict
1t so happened that Charles L. Belcher,
of Philmont, ~ Y, a young giant who was
studying law in this city when the war
broke out, joined the Two Hundred ana
Third Volunteers and was sent TO camp
Black. When he enlisted he thought that
he might have a chance to go to CUBA,
but in common with the hundreds OF otner
young patriots who spent the summer IN
the lowlands of Hampstead, he was dis
appointed.
He lay an camp did guard and police
duty, and waited in vain for the summons
calling him and his comrades to the front
He saw man after man so to the hosptal
with typhoid fever and finally he Went
himself. He asserted. when he was found
by his friends. that his illness was caused
by diet of crackers and tainted mush.
Last Sunday word reached Mr.. Belcher's
family in Philmont that he had died an
Camp Black. Immediately Undertaken
Hochstrasser, of that town, was Dispatch
de to Camp Black with a coffin, and there
was mourning in the home of Private
Belcher The undertaken was instructed
to secure the body of the young SOLDIER
and take it home for burial.
Undertaken Hochstrasser reached the
camp and made inquiries He found Fri
vate Belcher-but not corpse As
matter of fact, Private Belcher had the
appearance of a corpse, but the breath OF
life was in him strongly enough to impel
him to leave the hospital and make an
application for a furTough. 1t was While
he was awaiting action on his application
that he was met by the undertaken VINO
had been instructed to recover his body.
The undertaken had known Belcher
from boyhood,g and when he met him N
the flesh it was a joyous surprise to him.
Young Belcher succeeded an getting his
| furlough, and in company with the I'M
dertaker who had come for his remains he
started for New York.
On the same train from Camp Black
came Miss Willard, who had been work.
ing in the hospital. She happened to be
near young Belcher on the ferry from
Long Island when the soldier tainted and
fell into the friendly arms of the under
| taker.
| Hochstresser explained to Miss Millard
the circumstances under which he had to
take the journey to New York, and the
young woman was Mortified.
1T expected to take home a corpse, "
! said the undertaken. but when / found
him alivepI believed my journey would be
| a Joyous surprise for his parents rather
than funeral procession. Now I am
| afraid will have to take him home IN a
coffin after all. AS soon as we reached
| New York I must place him In hospital"
81 will have him taken to my home,
said Miss Millard
And so she did The most comfortable
room in the fiat at No. 1872 Amsterdam
avenue was placed at the disposal of the
| sick soldier. He had the best medical at
| tendance and his every want was antici-
pated, and filed by Miss Millard. The TN
| dertaker, convinced that the soldier boy
was in good hands, went home to tell the
sorrowing parents that their boy, instead
of being dead, would soon be in position &c
| visit them. ,s@i
Yesterday young Beleher insisted on 20
| ing home He was dressed, and with the
assistance of a young man in bicycle
1 suit Miss Willard put him on an Amster
dam avenue car and took him to the Crane
! Central station. Weak as. he was, he re
fused to allow her to assist him to th'
train, and his efforts to climb up on tn'
] steps Of the car were pitiful. AT 3:2S O'CLOCK
he got away from Phllmont and arrived
| home safely yesterday evening
A crowd of young women talked over th'
affair in the Minard fiat after the soldie
had gone. They touched on the romance.
IT don't know" said one of the youns
women, "but l think it was clever pla!
of-(meaning the young man i'm the cycl
suit1-to help the soldier to the train"
II don't know either" said anothe
Young woman, wisely, "but III just be
| that soldier suit goes further than bicy
Gle suit these tines