Arizona republican., 1900-11-30
NOW A FAMOUS AMERICAN
Kitchener's Trooper Appears in Full
 Uniform aud Arouses Park Row.

Uniform aud Arouses Park Row
 Pedestrians on Park Row yesterday afternoon stopped to gaze at tall. athletic ic-looking man who strode along that thoroughfare dressed in the full uniform of a British soldier. Ine Iran swung along with the faincest un- steadiness in his gait. but held himself erect and straight as an arrow. ard. with a "ship-me-somewhere -east-of- Suez' air. appeared rather 10 enjoy the universal interest he attracted.
 He wore a rather rusty but neatly fitting suit of khaki. Over his right shoulder. across the breast, and under the left arm was suspended q broad bandolier as on the battlefield. exec pt that no cartridges were in it. His calves were incased in brown legglngs and on his heels jingled heavy spurs. Perched jauntily On the side of his head was a British reglr ancal to!age cap of black, showing q bit of yellow ribbon. on which were the l:tters "N. H. K"
 This is the uniform of "Kitchener's $ Horse" one of the most famous and hardest fighting cavalry regiments in the South African war, and the sight ly unsteady soldier on Park Row is one of the survivors, of whom there arg less than 200 out of a total of 1920 offi- cers and men forming the original body, and he is an American.
 He fought with the regiment for thir- teol months, was in seven general en- agreements, besides a score of skirm ishes, was wounded more or less ser iously seven times, the last wound be- ing a shot through the right lung, re- ceived at the battle of Zand river, which laid him up for good, and he was invalided home. He has his dis charge papers showing his service in the regiment, and while imbib.ng some much needed refreshment in a Park Row resort he carelessly exhibited to an admiring throng seven scars on various parts of his body caused by Boer bullets, not counting a broad red blotch on the back of his hand caused by the teeth of a Boer officer in a hand to hand struggle.
 The name of this warrior is E. D. Curran, and he is on his way to his home in Atlanta. Ga. where his broth CT. A. V. Curran, is traffic chief in the employ of the Western Union te!e- graph company. It was rather diff cult to get Curran to speak of his ex- periences last night as he said he was tired of fighting and talking of fighting. He added, however:
 ''I drifted from Atlanta into Mexico, and in 1896 I went from Vera Cruz to South Africa. I stuck to my business of railroading, and was foreman of q gang of workmen on a bridge on the Cape Town railway. three miles from Kimberley. in October. 1899. when the Boers began closing in on the place. Then I had the choice of three things join the British. join the Beers. or get shot.
 ''1 took chances with the British. and as "Kitcheners Horse" came along then. I joined troop G, under Captain Warren. formerly chief of police Of Natal We started right out on months trip through the rebel terri tory and we fought in Doer. Br1.ts- town. Prieska. Thaba N'Chu. Lindley. Hei,bron. Bloemfontein. and a dozen ether places that can't remember. We were in General Ian Hamilton's column. and there were 10000 men it it. We were being bothered all the time by the Boers, but half the time we didn't seem to be trying to stop them. We just kept marching on.
 T used to see the BOers. They would come up close to us, fire a volley and then retreat. These were in sight every day. I used to say to the fel- lows around me: There are the Bosrs right out there. If we want them. why don't we go right out and g5t 'em, why don't we go right out and get 'em.' but we didn't seem to want 'em.
 'I got my first wound in the battle of Thaba NChu-shot clean through the leg. Say. that was a hot battle, and it's all rot to talk of the British always being in the open. We got behind rocks every time, officers and all. It was question of doing that or getting killed. Why when them pom poms. CT machine guns, of the Roers got at US. the way the bullets came was like getting money from home. There was no living unless you were behind something. I put my hat up on rock once and got it full of seventeen