The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-05
LANGulD HEROES.
Kobbe and othar Valiant Fighters Appear
Almost dIase.

AIHNOSk CIaSe.
AS quartermaster, Sawtelle might be
well out of danger if he would take the
precaution. Once his wagon train is
safe he wanders as far into danger as
his time viii permit. He lives on the
prospect that he will have a chance to be
In at the front in the next fight, only to
have hope deferred by Gen. Macarthur.
This indefatigable young man is a lit
tie languid in his panner. Mai. Kobbe
and Lieut.-Col. Wallace of the Monta-
mas are also little languid Stotsen-
berg of the Nebraskas was languid. 1
am beginning to think that languor
oIten goes with fearlessness and a clear
head.
For the experience, / accompanied the
supply train from the Gag Bag river to
San Fernando recently. The distance
is Il miles, which my pony can cover in
three hours 1t took the supply train 1S
holAs. The pace of the buffaloes was
not so much to blame for this as the
delay in ferrying the caribao carts over
the Rio Grande. If Gen. Luna could have
stood on the bridge, which he had dam
aged so effectually as to close it to We
nicuiar traffic, the yells Of the coolies
as they pulled the carts from the raft
upon the steep bank, with two great
nres to furnish light, would have been
sweet music to his ears. The first of
the supply train went over at 2 D. M.
and the last, Capt Sawtelle breathing
a prayer of thanks. at a. m. Before
this the advance of the train,h start
ed, q caribao solemnly leading, so as to
set a proper pace for the mules, who
seem to US, in our present environment,
Meet chargers AS a vanguard and a
fHArRn0Td
cavalry. The two troops of horse and
the one troop of pony cavalry Of the
Fourth have been the guardian angels
of the supply train.
Here the latter-day theory of the
waning value of cavalry has been
killed and pinioned. Our force of cavalry
has been so slight that it has been
worked almost to death. AS a body if
mas been in no severe fights In platoons
ana squads 1t has borne it's share of
losses. Under Major Bell, Fourth cav
alrymen developed the force at Ouinga
which gave to the Nebraskas, who
came to their rescue, such a bad half
hour. At the pumping station on the
Iullaaan river twenty Fourth cavalry
men neld their ground against two hun
dred insurgents in trenches at seventy
five yards, with a loss of nine killed and
wounded. In the face of this fire. Can't.
Wheeler stood up. directing his men and
using carbine himself with precision.
The way the captain acted would
nave put nerve into stick" said Lieut..
Batson.
Nobody was worried by the prospect
Of attack ard everybody was tired. The
longest separate half was two hours in
getting over some muddy ruts In the
road. Had it not been for one of the
Nepraska's caribaos, who refused to
pull, this delay would have been cut in
two. The Nebraska caribao in question
had already bad reputation. He now
feeds in pleasant pastures, under the
stigma of a dishonorable discharges
from the quartermasters department.
Y. ;. A. It Is the rule that IL one carl
boa stops all stop, and we could not go
on without him. Walking his horse as
slow as he could, it seemed hard for
Maj. Rucker to appreciate Just how
slow a cariboa can be. At intervals the
escort had to stop and dismount until
the craaking of the carts could be heard
again.
"Confound the country and confound
the cariboai" the major would say
I'll retire as soon as ] get lieutenant
colonelcy"
The major he's said the same on M
dlan campaigns. Age alone will take
him out Of the regular army He Is a
born .cavalryinan. The Fourth gets its
spirit of corps from him.
Before daylight we came to an open
ing and the cavalrymen stole a hair
hours sleep on the ground, and then
rode on into the town Of San Fernando
That afternoon the soldiers had chew
ing tobacco for the first time in three
days, and all tired quartermasters were
called blessed.-Collier's Weekly.