Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-12-21

Son Of "Black Jack' Noted for Fight
Ing and Dressing Well.

bis brief military career ealneo ths
reputation Of a soldier, and at the
same time, in the face Of almost In
superable difficulties, preserved hii
reputation as man who knew how ia
wear clothes. He had an advantage in
this latter achievement, however, IN
the fact that he was handsome feI
low. In face and in figure and IL
dress it is not likely handsomeI
fighter went TO the Santiago cam
paign. He was round-faeed, and the
expression of his countenance wal
youthful almost TO boyishness. There
was frankness in his dark, luminous
eyes, and a pettioning smile was al
ways playing around his mouth. HI
seemed more actively considerable ant
obliging than one would expect of {
soldier. And those who knew him IL
Cuba remember him as a soldier.
In his bearing Major Logan was .
West Pointer. He was only LITTLE
above medium height, but he was &
tightly built figure, with square shoul
ders and athletic proportions. Ther
was probably little too much exacti
tude in the studied precision of his
carriage and movements, but one wht
was looking for a fighting man would
pass that when he measured his mus
,ular lines, his strongly sinewed neck
an his well poised head. His head
no vever was little too large for 0
professional athlete, but none toe
small for a man who would some day
fling brigades where daring and dis
,retiOn would have them.
| As to dress. there was not a soldier
about Santiago on the American sldt
who was in his class. In this respect
Major Logan might suggest either the
well trained beau or the mkish Apollo
Of the plains. 1t depended on ones
mood at the time. His SLOUGH hat had
wider rim than the regulation cam
paign hat, and it was OF better quail
ity. He tipped it at rakish angle
and dented the crown On four sides.
as they do where the cowboy learns
tricks of dress from Mexican caballero,
His uniform and its insignia were as
the regulations prescribe. As Yves,
Pointer he couldn't trqnsgress there,
and as a man who knew the science OF
dress he wouldn't think of doing such
thing.
Uniforms may be made of the same
material and in conformity to the same
regulations and still be widely differ.
INT. Major Logan demonstrated that.
He wore his uniform with such pretty
accuracy that one never would be
brought to notice it, but to observe
the general effect, because there was
. suggestion of abandon in the way
be left a button unfastened or cooked
lapel. Soldiers didn't wear their
blouses all the time in that campaign.
They usually stripped to,their wooden
shirts. Even in the matter of wooden
shirts there are degrees of effect.
That, also, Major Logan showed to be
fact, and emphasized it by wearing
black silk scarf always tied with q
fetching effect in studied disorder.
Such figure as that he made when
be reached Tampa as assistant ad.
jutant general of the independent
brigade under General Bates that was
sent to join the Fifth Army Corps, One
day he came up from Port Tampa and
met some Chicago acquaintance on
the veranda of the big hotel where the
corps headquarters were established.
"Hello, there. What? Is it Major
Logan with accent on the title.
Eyes, didn't you know | was in the
armyw
mo. The last time | heard of you
you were planning horse shows in Chi.
cago."
snow, see here. Do Chicago people
think can't do anything but run a
horse show?'
The earnestness and the suggestion
OF injury done that he crowded into
the sentence made it little embar,
RAISING to his Chicago acquaintance.
81 am not only in the army" he
added, "but have succeeded in get.
ting attached to an outfit that will ba
with the first expedition. want to
see some fighting. l want a chance"
His outfit was among the first to
land at Baiquiri. The first night
ashore lot of soldiers found ware.
house full of native brandy, and cult
waited liking for it before taps were
sounded. There was enough of the
strong stuff to make two army corps
drunk. Major Logan discovered it,
and twenty minutes later he had saved
the army from delirium tremens by
smashing the hogsheads.
When Bates brigade marched out
over the mountain trail from Siboney
on the night of June 30 Major Logan
was as exuberant as boy. This
brigade had lain back at the beach SO
long that it was doubted whether il
would have a share in the fighting,
The next day it had more fighting
than any other portion of the army,
and the soldiers in that outfit" who
had been eyeing Major Logan critic.
ally heretofore, changed their minds
those OIL them at least who thought
he was not soldier in fact as well
as in appearance.
There were many "sons of their
fathers" with that army, and all OF
them had staff Jobs" but when that
long day of fighting for Bates brigade
was over there was one son who had
found favor in the eyes of the enlisted
man, and that is high praise.
He can fight as well as wear
clothes said a first sergeant, and first
sergeances have to be won. From