The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-02

the men knew hat they must face that
which is more awful than powder and
smoke, than cannon ball and dynamite
shell. They knew they must fight a foe
unseen and insidious. horrid, hatred.
devastating. a foe which works in
secret and spares few.
During the rainy season. which rom
in Cuba in the spring n lasts
until September, the germs OF yellow
fever are born and grown. They have
their being in the swampy lands, and
they feed upon the green, thick mists.
No African jungle has anything more
deadly than the yellow fever Of Cuba
Colonel Hood, in his long service
along the gulf and southern states,
once had yellow fever. How he came
out of ii alive not even he could tell,
for the records show that only one man
out of a hundred escapes, but escape
he did, and when the war fever took
him he felt that he could go to Cuba
without fear of taking the Cuban dis
ease.
And the the idea suggested itself
to him that he form a regiment of yell
low fever immunes. He knew that in a
short time, should the war be over. ii
would be necessary TO keep an army
garrisoned at Cuba, and for this work
no one could be as well adapted as the
AtilpW ct lHlIIluitS.
He at ono paid a visit to Washing
ton and there saw President Mckinley
and Secretary Alger. In a few days a
bill was passed by congress authorizing
the raising of an immune regiment"
The bill was introduced by the house
military committee and provided for
the enlisting of a sufficient number Of
immun volunteers to make 10 regi-
ments. The membership of each regi-
ment was limited to LOSS men.
Colonel Hood set to work to form the
1st regiment. The difficulty of II was
that they must all be volunteers. and
all Of the volunteers must have been
through a siege of yellow fever. At
last he got 1t together, the whole 1,03S
men. These he gathered at Camp Caf-
frey, and there they are now living,
waiting for their commission and the
order TO march to Cuba.
Yellow fever has the striking pecu-
liarity hat those who have come out
of IL are s~ingularly tranquil all the rest
Of their lives. Every malarial germ and
every latent poison in the body seems
TO be driven out by the fever or killed
In the high temperatures, so that when
the invalid RECEIVERS, IL recover he does,
he is free from every defect Of blood
or bone. All the evils which he a ac-
cumulated In a lifetime are cooked out
Of him by the deadly heat and his flesh
- as III III AAH b'N1 % IoAtH as
that of a healthy newborn child. With
this renewal of strength the yellow fe-
yer immune commences to enjoy
himself. He takes life happily and
never knows what II is to be angry.
Blues are as far away from his temp
from the moonlight CLEANS. He is sun
ny. contented, more or less industrious
and certainly happy.
The immunes at Camp Caffrey rise
early in the morning, for they are un-
der military discipline. M take an
early morning dip. Yellow fever has
broken out in Louisiana, but they are
not afraid Of ii. If there be germs in
the LAKE they NOW hat they will be
unframed by them, and they linger in
the tepid water, even though the hot
mlsts of the sultry night noat over II,
Inc hev enjoy a splash along green
shores when others dare not enter.
After the dip the immuns gets his
breakfast, and right leisurely he gets
at it. He can eat anything and every
thing he ~pleases, and IL a comrade has
been fortunate enough to bring up a
fish or bring down a bird or steal a
watermelon, II Is part of the camp
fare; and the immune cooks, eats and
enjoys 1t as though ii were tho chief
aim of his existence.
The immunes are generally men from
fine families. Many of them, like Col
onel Hood, are born aristocrats and
most of them are pat~ricians: and they
come to the camp bound My by one
tie-namely, that Of a fearful fever
through which they have passed safe
ly. The false opinion prevailed for a
time that the immunes were a very
low class who a been through yellow
fever in the of the large cit
les, In which they live, but his is a
mistake. 1t would be hard TO find any
regiment in the war which Is composed
of men of better families than these
remarkable yellow fever immunes.
In the war department this regiment
is known as the I'd y. S. volunteer In
fantry, but at home they are known as
the most remarkable regiment in the
world.