The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-09
REILLY, THE GUNNER
Some Traits of soldier Through
and Through.
From the Kansas City stzr.)

tETom the Kansas tlfy Star
Dr.. Ernest Robinson a phys elan IN the
Rialto Building, served as surgeon with
Reiily's guns for two years at intervals,
FROM Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. through the
many hikes in LuZon- Mos+ of the facts
here given are the result of questions put
70 DR.. Robinson Had Reilly not been
struck by Chinese bullet as he stood on
the wall of Pekin, he would soo7 have com.
pleted his thirty-sixth year in thu Emeri-
can Army, and still captain He never
had higher rank in the volunteers as have
many Of the regulars. nor had he ever any
staff duty that can be recalled Where his
battery was there was Reilly, and politics
and pull at Washington were unknown
TO him
With all his hard work in the field he
was frail, physically Lacking one inch Of
six feet. he weighed only rs pounds nor
mally, and in the field his weight was less
than 30.
Getting too thin fer this business he
would say in the morning after the night
rest On the foor Of q native hut. My
shoulder blades are about through
Thank you, McAuliffe; You are very
good. Protz," or Smith" could be heard
every few minutes. wherever Reilly hap
I pened to be, for IN courtesy he went nearly
: to he extreme. Enlisted mza who ar
/ ranged his bunk, put up his tent, or
/ brought water, all in their line Of duty,
+ were sure Of an expression Of thanks. His
I orderliss and tTumpeJeTs were two Ger
mans who had enlisted years age and had
! been together in one battery for ten years.
/ Protz was in the ifties and Blonn only a
year or two younger. Each Of them was
/ nearly six feet and thick and broad in pro-
/ portion Reilly's footsteps were logged by
/ one Of them, on and of duty, and though
'bunkies, there was tings of jealousy
between the two Germans over their cap
tain. Each had a handsome silver match
safe gift from Reilly on the return from
Cuba, and Protz's only complaint was:
DE captain he cuss us out: lie down.
der; lie down, when under fire. and he
walk around without bending knee
battery's captain was 6 fatalIst, as
were Lawton and many others who have
had taps" blown over their graves
There's no use lodging" he would say
| You viii be hit when your body and bullet
are at the same place at the same tim,
and that's the only rule there is TO it
The chances are that man can be in
eighteen OF twenty euga gements without
being wounded"
But you have played your chances,
haven't you, captain?"
Possibly, but I am now playing on
those of some poor fellows who got it,
early in the game he replied. But
when die want it to be in action
York after the return from Cuba, he got
| fifty or sixty horses from what was known
as the Yale Battery, a volunteer organiza-
/ ton from. the college. His own horse was
towering, rangey bay called Sherman 81
1 He was a Kansan by birth and his tire
| less energy showed that he had other Jay
i hawker qualities. Captain Reilly bought
| him at Fort Riley, took him TO Tampa.
/ Cuba. Fort Hamilton, N Z, San Fran
/ cisco, Manila, and to China, where '.Sher-
man. like a good army horse, under an
| empty saddle, followed his masters body
| to the grave. On campaign Sherman
walked so fast that the other officers
| horses captered or paced to keep up
Captain Reilly had his own theories
/ about the use and care of artillery and he
/ put them into practice. Every man in
| Reilly's battery wore his khaki coat, rain
or shine, no matter how hot II might be.
| They might leave OF their shirts or very
skins K they would, but the yellow blouses
/ had TO be worn, SO that the men might
pot make mark for a native bullet.
! Despite the many engagements of F bat
! terry the casualties 49, comparatively