The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-07-13

trenchments-NinthC Cavalry Not BEHIND
Its white Comrades i'm Giving the Young
Alabaman Welcome Skaters Dispatch
Announcing the Exchange.
Washington, July S.-General Shat
ter's telegram announcing the exchange
of Lieutenant Hobson and his men
Is as follows: 1t is addressed to the sec
reatry OF war and dated Headquarters
Fifth Army Corps, Cuba. July 6.-"Lieu-
tenant Hobson and all his men have
Just been received safely in exchange
for Spanish officers and prisoners taken
by United States. All in good health
except two seamen convalescing from
remittent fever
The full list of the Merrimac crew
is as follows: Lieutenant Richmond F.
Hobson, assistant naval constructor:
Daniel Montague. first-class machinist:
George Charette, first-cass gunners
mate; j. c. urphy. coxswain; Osborn
Deignan, coxswain, resident of Stuart
Ia. George F. Phillips. machinist:
Frank Kelly water tender: Randolph
Clausen, coXswain.
Men at the Front Grow Wild.
After the exchange had been made,
according TO a copyrighted Associated
Press dispatch, las Hobson and the
men of the Merrimac approached the
first line of entertainments occupied by
the Rough Riders low murmurs ran
from one end of the line of cowboys and
eastern athletes to the other, and by
the time the returning party reached
W.
ing to be restrained by the admonishng
of the officers, cheering wildly and rush
ing over every obstacle that CHANGED to
be in his way i'm his effort to reach
Hobson and his party and grasp them
by the hand. The released prisoners
were soon surrounded and compelled to
stop to receive the greetings. congratu-
lations and vigorous. heartfelt. hand
shaking of men they had never seen be-
fore.
Was Rough but Hearty Welcome.
Sunburned cavalrymen vino had spent
their lives IN the saddle on the plains of
Arizona, New Mexico or other western
states or territories, and who did not
know the difference between ships
maintop. bilge or keel, threw their arms
around the sailor boys and literally
dragged them over the entertainments
all the time sending out yells that under
other circumstances would have struck
terror to hearts even as gallant as those
of the Merrimac heroes No mountain
fastness Of the west ever resounded
from shouts Of an Indian war dance that
equaled the wild outbreak of American
spirit that occurred at this meeting Of
the sailors who did their duty with ev-
cry Spanish gun in the harbOr trained
upon them and the hardy men under
General Shafte-.
Forgot His Race Prejudice.
The Seventy first New York voun-
teers, near the Rough Riders, was the
next regiment to fall upon HobsOn and
his men, and almost Immediately the
Ninth and Tenth cavalry. both colored
regiments, Joined in the general enthus-
iasm, and cheer after cheer arose as
Hobson and his companions forced their
Wv through the lines of white and coll
ored soldiers Hobson. so far as posi-
BILE, grasped each hand extended toward
him. and neither he nor his men made
any protest against the most uncom-
Portable crowding and jostlng which
hey had 70 undergo If the young officer
whose home is in Alabama-has any
race prejudice he certainly forgot all
about 1t as he passed through the line.
Of soldiers on his way to General Wheel
er's Headquarters