Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-11

Saturday afternoon. During the evening
Colonel Harries and several of the officers
visited the superb Tampa Bay Hotel This
hosiery is the center of the social whirl.
General Miles and staff and the military
and naval representatives of foreign gov
ernments have established headquarters
there. For several hours the District regt-
ment officers mingled in society. They
rubbed elbows with major generals, con-
versed with beautiful women and were in
troduced to foreigners of prominence, at
tired In gaudy uniforms. The contrast to
this splendor and elegance struck me forci-
bly, some time later, after the officers had
returned to camp and retired. Colonel Har-
ries and his adjutant. quartermaster and
chaplain were stretched on an improvised
couch made of several narrow bales of
hay in the open air. All alone, on another
bale of hay, was Major Hine Others of
the officers were reclining on piles of straw
near the horses. Thus they passed the
night. 1t Is said that the popular chap
lain. Captain George F. Dudley, stirred
about daybreak, raised on an elbow and,
aloud to himself: This sporting life is not
what it's cracked up to be-
Wall tents were pitched Sunday for the
regimental staff officers, while the shelter
tents for the battalion field and staff and
line officers were placed in position as soon
as they arrived.
The Army Mule and Discipline.
Attached to the regiment is wagon
train of thirty vehicles. The allowance of
army mule has been increased from eight
to 40. He Is possessed of even more In
dividuality than was the case at Chicka-
nauga. The army mule entertains a far
reaching contempt for all forms and phases
of discipline When the mule, to the num-
Der Of 12O, grows restless, as he does at
alarmingly frequent intervals. the situation
Is real unpleasant. A force of experts is
constantly on duty lassoing and attempt
ing to throw the mule. From distance
not short space. but a full-fedged dis
tanoe-it is quite entertaining to watch the
mule and those who. at the fms of the
session. are usually his victims.
Like the army mule. the censor is very
mi CHI in evidence at Tampa. Every mes
at the telegraph ONCE for transmission
must pass before the eagle eye of the CEN
sor. It IL rumored, too, that all outgoing
mail Is held up temporarily. for fear some
plan for the movement Of the troops now
here. The newspaper correspondents are
feeling the effects Of the censor's blue pen
ell more than any other class, military
been cut down from 1900 to 5000 words to
mere paragraph. The correspondents at
tempt to even up matters by roasting
the censor: They die dispatches to their
papers referring to the Intellectual ca
pacity and Judgment OF the censor In terms
that are not the last bit complimentary,
and make other statements that are pro-
yoxingiy. personal These dispatches are
re ad by the cennor with evident enjoyment.
He smiles blandly and Invariably let's them
through without a word erased.
Couldn't Outwit the Censor.
A journalist well known in Washington,
after much thinking hit upon a plan yes
terday by which he hoped and expected to
outwit the. censor. In the middle Of very
innocent dispatch handed In for transmits
sion In the morning he stated that "the
deet Of press boats would sail at q speci-
fed time. Late In the afternoon he turned
IN message to be sent to his paper direct
Ing that the words ''of press boats's be
eliminated from the morning dispatch. The