The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-09-01
M'eISNIs AT JERSEY CITY


when Captain s. A McGinnis' de
tachment OF Rough Rldera arrived
st Jersey City they mes with a most
reception from the people
The report is too long to publish en-
tire. and we extract the following,
which will be Of interest to the friends
uf the captain and his troopers
TWO HUNDRED WILL TREATED.
81 had to keep about score Of the
boys under guard last night" Captain
McGinnis said TO a Daily Advertiser
reporter this afternoon, "for the people
OF this town treated them too well
Late at night we found that the men
under guard we're getting very jolly
1t was discovered that citizens had
through the barred windows"
Captain McGinnis Is a tall, athletie
aud handsome young man. lie was
chstting with Jersey City belle when
the reporter found him in the armory.
lie wrote his name on hard tack for
her. adding the name OF his troop and
regiment and his home address. Then
a score of citizens handed him haId
tack TO write on.
Captain, / want to 60 out for a
short time said a COW boy trooper,
who was feeling rather gay.
You've been drinking, Seville"
said the captain, "and ought to go to
sleep"
"0nly little with the jolly men OF
this town" said the trooper Hain't
/ always done what ! said ?"
Yes, and do II now" said the cap.
tain. go, but don't drink any more
The trooper went across the street.
Half dozen citizens rushed him into
a saloon. When he came out the cap
tain was watching.
"All right, Cap" the trooper shout
ed. Couldn't help IT, Had to take
one won't do it again. When the
bugle toots I'll report"
sPoILiNe THE MEN.
You see how 1t is," the cap, ain re-
marked TO the reporter. These gen
erous people are spelling my men, But
| can't blame the men, for they had a
rough time at Tampa and are glad TO
get up North, IL we had stayed there
another month nearly all the men
would have been down with fever. We
brought dozen sick men with us
They are in hospital down town. We
are being treated like lords here.
One trooper, little tipsy. insisted
upon telling everybody what a good
fellow Captain McGinnis is. The cap
tain was patient with him. He said
he was one of the bravest men he ever
met
t,rp,-,t 80, 49,, f,.,,,, -, o., 49,. .,.,. & -
the Santiago hght," said Captain Nc
Ginnis. Sergeant Hamilton Fish,
who was shot at Santiago, was in my
command. So was Hallet Alsop Bor-
rowe, Who used TO be in Newark.
made him a sergeant. Now he is a
captain on some generals staff He is
brave man. Ham Fish was a man OF
true grit. he obeyed orders. He would
do anything he was told to do will
ingly and we'll. My men all liked him.
lie feared nothing on earth or beyond,
/ never met a brAver man in the West
ern mining camps than he was None
of the troopers who went to Santiago
are with me now"
ALL PRAISE FISH.
The cowboy troopers were as hearty
in their praise of Sergeant Fish and
Private Borrowe as their captain was
Borrowe was once superintendent oil
the Newark and New York trolley
! line and lived ia Newark.
Sergeant Fish was a splendid sol
der" said a big cowboy trooper
"Sone 70 ks think the papers puffeC
him because he was rich aud an east
ern man, But he had sand. He wa
one Of the men who die in their boots
There was no airs in him."
when we started out 700 of oui
| 200 horses never knowed bride o.
a saddle, not even a halter, for thel
were wild horses from the plains. Fial
was out with the rest of the boy
when these horses made break. III
helped us every time. Every cowboy
liked him. Barrowe and Tiffany ant
the other chaps called dudes, weri
gritty, too"
A brawny trooper with long blacl
beard, but whose face was pale ant
thin, asked Capt. MeGinnis for leav
of absence to see friends. The Cap
ain asked II he had money, and tn
trooper said he had little. The cap
tain handed him several pieces of sill
yer and said;
Take good care OF yourself. Sto
at a restaurant and get some chicken
soup"
That's the kind of man our cap
tain is" said the trooper TO the repor
ter, "he gives all Of his pay TO th
men"
"Oh, he's lovely" the Jersey Git
belle exclaimed II could hug hin
Jor being so kind,
Capt. McGinnis said that Lieutenan
Wintze gave up jewelry business I
Santa Fe to 90 with the Rough Rideri
81 would like his Newark friends I
know that he is brave fellow and
good soldier" the captain said "ll
has gone dove town and may run on
TO Newark"
The troopers attract much attentio
on the street because Of their dres
They wear dark blue wooden shir
, with breeches of brown duck an
, leather leggings sand drab slouc
hat. But the breeches and leggiI
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