The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-05-06
so SOON FORGOTTEN
Rough Riders Comment on the Mel Ory
Of New York

From Golfers Weekly.
| The other burial was that Of a single
man, Mounted Policeman Haywood one
Of my comrades in the first Volunteer
Cavalry. Henry II Haywood was one
Of the four New York City policeman
who followed the summons OF their for
mer chief. Theodore Roosevelt, and en-
listed under him in the ranks Of the
Rough Riders He was Sergeant in
Troop X, the troop which. owing To its
late formation, contained an unusually
large contingent of Eastern men, among
them Woodbury. Kane, its Captain, and
the late William Tiffany, who was pro-
NOTED TO be its First Lieutenant. Hay
wood. after his transfer from the mount
ed service. was attached to one Of the
downtown precincts Of New York City,
and during his service there attracted
the attention Of Police Commissioner
| Roosevelt by several acts Of cool bravery.
| He was the first New York policeman
who jeopardized the tenure of his muni-
cipal post by going to war la the
first fight at Las Guasimas he distin-
guished himself by his impetuous
bravery. and was promptly promoted
to the first vacant Sergeantcy in his
troop one week afterward no lost his
life in the charge of the Rough Riders
up San Juan HUI. After the battle Col
Roosevelt paid a warm personal tribute
TO his bravery. His former police
comrades in the troop buried him ON
the battle. field lt was then discovered
that he had no relatives in New York
City.
When the troopship. with its load Of
dead soldiers, arrived in New York.
Haywood body, like the others. would
have been shipped to Washington. If
one of his comrades had not remem-
bered him. This man, policeman
himself, went to the wharf and made n
thorough search through all the boxes
until he found the name Of Haywood
Then he reported TO the New York
Chief Of Police and made an earnest
appeal that the Police Department as
such accord an honorable burial To its
former member Reluctantly the
request was granted
The Captain Of HaywOOd's last pre-
CinCt was Instructed to furnish
an escort Of one hundred men for
the funeral procession from the wharf
TO the Church Of st Teresa. where
service Of absOlution WAS conducted by
the Rev. Father Mcintyre A
band Of music led the procession.
Afterwards u number OF policemen and
some others who had known the dead
Rough Rider walked from the church
to the ferry leading to Cypress Hill
Cemetery
For his military honors this dead
hero had TO depend on small band Of
his former comrades in the police force
of New York They turned out in two
platoons, and four police officers who
had served at the front acted as pail
bearers Two Of these had been among
his fellow troopers. Fourteen other
Rough Riders appeared to fire the last
three volleys over his grave. OF this
pitiable remnant OF one of Americas
proudest regiments a round dozen were
recruited from the Wild West Company
of Buffalo Bill As soon as the funeral
was over these twelve Rough Riders
rode hastily back to New York city TO
perform their part as exhibition cow
bows and bronco busters in the arena Of
the show.
As we crossed the ferry one of the
Rough Riders told me what he thought
uf the funeral
This here town is queer place. "
he said. First they all go wild about
somethin', next they forget it. Do you
mind. last fall when our outfit was
mustered out. how them people carried
onl Why, they couldn't do enough for
us No, we lacked for nothing When
the Colonel ran for GUY nor and won
out most OF us made tracks for home,
and that was the end Of il.
"Tain't that way out West. Our
people there don't forget thing so
quick. | tell you, if this here funeral
had cOue 10 Oklahoma the whole Ter
ritOry would have turned out Hal Hay
wood was one Of your New York City
men, too, and he warnt so bad either
He put up a good fight, he did. as
might have done old Oklahoma proud.
All the same, none Of your townspeople
turned out TO see him buried, but only
them policemen that had TO- Where
was all them fellers in Haywood's troop
that belonged to them high. toned Fifth
avenoo clubs, with outlandish names
the Nickerbuckers, the Amulet. and the
likes Of that:
why, when Phil Sweet came along
and told US at the show how he couldn't
get nobody to help bury Sergeant Hay
wood we thought he was just joshing,
but when Brien, what used TO cook for
his troop, said it was all true, sure, we
had to believe it. And now, by golly,
we see that they was right. IL we
hadn't turned out, there might have
been nobody even to shoot off gun
over the place where they buried Hay
wood