Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-02
COL. HAwKINs DEAD.
Commander of the Pennsylvania
REGIMENT Dies ut Sea-Arrival In

heGlment Dies ut SeA-Arrlval In
'Frisco,
San Francisco, CAL, Aug. 2.-col
Hawkins of the Tenth Pennsylvania
regiment is dead. His death occurred
on the transport Senator on July IS on
the way from Manila. The Pennsyl-
vania troops have arrived here.
The transport Senator entered the
harbor last night with flag at half mast,
owing to Col. Hawkins death. The
colonel expired two days after sailing
from Yokohama with his regiment.
Apoplexy is said to have been the
cause of his death. The body was ems
ibalmed on board the ship and brought
here for shipment to Pennsylvania.
| Members of the First Nebraska vol
unteers are affirming a story which re-
| fleets seriously upon the bravery of sew
| eral of the, regiments of regulars sent
over since the policy of reinforcing the
Philippine army was adopted. a lesser
percentage of the volunteer organiza
ton is declared also to be affected.
In soldier vernacular the charge made
lis that many of the soldiers composing
the army under Gen. Otis have been at
tackled and vanquished by cold feet. =.
/ a disease which causes tremors to run
down the back and keeps the blood
from circulating in the pedal extrem-
lities. The symptoms are never felt un-
Hess the eyes of the person stricken are
fixed upon a line of the enemy or his
Iears are hearing the hum OF hostile bull
Ilets.
| The Nebraskans do not intimate that
/ a majority of the troops on the islands,
| regular or volunteer, are towards, OF
| that many regiments ever halted in a
lcharge. The records of every battle and
skirmish would prove the falsity of
such insinuation. They content Them
selves with saying that the victim of
| cold feet once ne is convinced by field
service of his malady devotes his en-
lergies to preventing himself from GET
ting into future embarrassing positions.
So familiar, they say, did the balance
| of the army become during the time
iof steady fighting, with the tactics
called into use few days before for
ward movement or a battle was expect
| ed, that one-quarter of the camp was
dubbed camp cold feet The section
1 in question was the one to which Were
! sent the men afflicted with ailments of
| q temporary character.
I'VE were using the term cold feet, -
said a sergeant, long before the rein
| forcements of regulars got there. We
/ meant it to apply to fellows whose grit
sometimes failed them. shouldn't Won
| der if we used it most in speaking of
officers who always happened to miss Il
| fight To show how unjust an applca-
! ton it could have we can furnish an
instance in the First Nebraska itself.
Capt Luke F'ory of Company G. who
was fatally wounded at San Francisco
| del Monte, seven miles from Maloos,
was regimental adjutant for long
| time, and so never was on the firing
| line. Without intending any spite the
| boys got to laughing about his freedom
| from danger, and the first thing we
knew some one was intimating that he
| was liable to cold feet. 1 don't know
whether he ever heard it or not, but
certainly he was soon transferred back
| to his company at his own request. He
was shot at the first yolley because he
was exposing himself with reckless
bravery. In the hospital, where he lay
dying for two days, he never once spoke
of his own terrible suffering, but asked
| continually how the other wounded of
| his own company We're faring. l don't
| doubt but that many we dubbed as be-
| longing to the cold feet brigade We're
Drawer than we who used our mouths so
| much.
The fact remains, Just the same
that the complaint became epidemic
with the coming of the regulars. Some
of them had fought in Cuba at that
Gen. Otis never sent any of them into
| a fight unless he had to-that is, un-
less he couldn't find a volunteer regi-
| ment to go in and get shot to pieces.
The regulars grew fat under that kind
of treatment and in getting plump they
got lazy. l shouldn't wonder if they
objected more to the long marches than
to the fighting. / don't think many of
them We're towards. They looked on
| fighting as trade. therefore as work
and consequently to be avoided"
| Against two regiments the Nebras-
| kans place the stigma of having quit. y
One is an organization of regulars
which saw hard service in Cuba and ac-
quilted itself honorably, the other is a
western regiment now on its way home
In both cases the panic is said to have
been momentary and soon over, the Of
ficers apparently being more to blame
than the men.
Died Mt 100.
Neillsville. Wis, Aug. 2.-Margaret
Garvin, aged 1O6 years and seven
months, died yesterday in the town of
York. She was the oldest person in the
state. She leaves surviving her four
sons and daughters. thirty grandchil-