The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-09
k any women who bore in dress or manner

INTO use, we considering u knowledge OF Ger
yond proGa6ility' "D
Though we held pretty tightly to, i%nstruc.
lions in regard to the admiuance of visitors
e the prisoners. yet there were times when
the pathetic pleading OF some sad.:iooking
woman would be too much for US. Then we
would hand over pencil and paper. requesting
tlhe name and battalion Of the prisoner wanted;
bbh,s given, We would hunt ne m9n up and
might happen that the poor creature could not
write. This put the matter beyond our ingc-
nuity unless someone volunteered to escort her
into camp and stay by her during her search.
Though not quite In accordance with our in
.sifrnctions We did this = few time; and each
each cnse dangerously III. and the meeting was
exceedingly painful to witness. we could not
search never ended in n way to he anticipated
always tho s9bbing woman would, suddenly
1unm ior%ard hnh grah somebody before ne
sought.
Once we wont to look UP man whose name
middIe.aeSI woman with a 'liittie girl and boy.
ShS sat down on the guards, bench patiently
long hunt we're told that the man had died the
third day previous and had been buried tho
s snme nifTHbt ssv with t6fa t we th.t ot hs woi in , a vd lung
iIIys% il Santiago. c naikcd a frISnd q, ne
T va" at at the gate ts' wh %ir" We %' now e2 ' Judged rS5i't to
be his m net he lookEed pretty much Of
mother Of, his comrado worried, him. But he
told her about 1t, as. she stood by the guards
her son had caught the fever aud died. With
infinite gentl"ness he spoke to her. mainly. we
EE St%rs he d it sGw R WIN GoG E% %cf hSa G I"pS % s6t es s1Id
his hand and kissed IL before hecould stop her.
She OWNED. no doubt; what we had already
man had done nobly by his comrade before his
death: When she released big hand and sol
MS lace, we Imagine he was CRYING.
and md Was asham med q it before rs VII"
came oyer to the guards who had looked. IN her
boy. These two were feeding II. hlisssfully
rations were poor enough, no more than canned
beef. bread, and cold coffee. but it was their
in fail Tf faith. W6 E'Tvt thu am mo 5tthHS'' cane T2T' nc o HSqp to-
these American soldiers they stood up and took
her blessing as men who are about to ]rcrcive,a
is much the same in either easel Rather awk-
wardly they offered her their food, doubling
much that she would take it. She thanked
them and took it and even ate a little Of it.,
smiling down on the children who were squat
stnF sh S% tn ns9 sI9 rntiaS Gon Hifdr sIa rh,T n1 z EGn away wy
for the dead.
on the ridges about the camp ana along the
line that divided them from the American
PRISONERS. though. were quite a distance apart.
The ordinary work OF tho guards was merely
nominal. Any sraniard who cared TO break
tax" to the brush Oh the other side. where there
were no s%entries. 1t would not Ice IL difficult
matter for him TO get into Santiago. where a
change Of clothing would nut him beyond
Identification. Even if ho held to his uniform
he would very likely hr cIassed ns win those
And II n prisoner desired to remain in Cuba no
was made by our people: that was
q matter between the Spaniard and his Cuban
ncighbors,
Tie prisoners generally, lived in shacks. A
shack isany quickly built shelter from rai n and
ctlked hut. Just big. enough to crawl into. to
the full, one-~tory. honrdod-up AFFAIR which
serves many of TIA" natives for aihouso. Any
thing that "A man could find courage to sleep in
WAS called a shack, The American soldier
was n %misnomer. 4 shack is supposed TO
keep out the rain. The prisoners, knew
hey to make the most Of tn. bamboo
ot the bug palms and other trees near III.
river bank. The AmGricams had not tho trees
they could not have made themselves hahita-
tons to cuual the best Of the, prisoners. They
would run their bamboo roles up and across
sun but the heavy rain also was kept out.
quite a number Of prisoners had hamnOcks:
such lived in luxurious comfort that aroused
Whenever we went among them, We were
courtesy at times. OF course. there
were ,suilon, ones. but that was not to be won.
G der r At, AfSw q Of Us hay" Geen IN SWIMMING
49, ~ '"''i ~ W. ~ ~ " ''I
Of them. far past our lines. in the heart OF tho
Jungle. with no wehpon except oar, trench
the river bank. But they had no notion IL
hothcrinG, us. and We had no fear that they
rads who had been fed on dramatiic a".hor..
Once. whom we wer" all tangled up in tho
Jungl" and had not III" sIighte,, notion whore
bumped into a prisoner. Making known our
to him. h" kindly led us out Of the
brush and far on the way toward our raInI.
until tho tents or our army were before ia
Fever and stomach troubles were thinning
them during al! their stay in, Cuba. When we
men &c. begin 70 dig separate graves ior those
who died. and 50, one trench would be dug
thn day nlied, III and covered up,
Except IN tn" cas-" Of some OF tho officers. thu
other little things to which thcy we're a.
cuStOmed. To get money they sold such odd
things as they had to those among US who
thing to pay for them. 1t. was pathetic
70 see the things they offered TO sell.
would be offered to possible purchasers with
wisttul hope. Non-COmmlssionel officers sold
heir machetns and cockades: buttons and
their huGles, 1t might be that, they did not
Of lace or something of that kind for the mother
Or s!s'er:or maybe il was a sick man who, TO
/ iF .p q SHH N mn i 8 W9 soId i His f bns 9"f / was WIN .sfs
10 say he had nothing else to sell. 1t was as If
ipc2th"r bad sold his rife.
treatment than they looked for. At the time OF
The surrender they were on short rntions.
food, their ra'ions being the same as ours.
Al III" beginning they wrr" famlShcd and de-
@neT ryth in sight; toward the end
stun served out. Our post one" olIcred u sack
corn meal 70 some q them The t!rst re-
used i, h:d,d not care for it. So did the Sec
There is not the slightest doubt they con-