The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-20
BOBR SCOUTS
HAVE COME HOME.
They Declare the War is By No
Means Over.
\ LACK OF GOOD HORSES
Makes Operations DiTcult-Eighty of the
Number Stop in New York and
Relate Their Expert
enCea.

New York, Nov 19.-The old Wander
bilt hotel, at Forty-second street and
Lexington avenue, has plunged into the
heart Of the Transvaal, and the Boer-
British war is being fought from bar
TO garrett About eighty scouts, all
wearing the indescribable Boer felt hat,
cooked UP on the side after the manner
Of Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, swarm
around and tried to smoke up all the
cigars and put down all the whiskey
and beer in the house.
Representatives from Irish societies
in New York and Chicago received the
scouts and heard their war stories. as
they stood up against the bar Saturday.
AS the night progressed the yarns be-
came longer and louder, and the clerk
finally wished his house had been raid
ed by a gang of Rough Riders SO things
would seem quiet for a while.
Almost every white nationality was
represented in the crowd. About
twenty of the scouts are natives of Chi
cago, and they are going home. The
rest came from the Transvaal, Holland,
France, Germany, Ireland, England,
Austria, Italy and almost any other
place. Where they are going very few
of them know, and at midnight only a
small number cared.
A good many of them are diamond
miners. some having helped to open
the Kimberly mines, but now they are
willing to go to work on the tunnel.
Some are set upon going to Colorado,
and all want to become citizens Of the
United States.
They declare the Boer- British war is
not half over and will not admit that
the Beers are played out. All the
farmer soldiers want, they declare are
horses. The scouts would not be in New
York now IL they could have secured
horses in the Transvaal.
But 1t being impossible to get around
the country on foot and there being n,
trolley cars or automobiles to hirs,
they desired to take up an opportunity
to come to Manhattan.
The so-called Chicago Ambulance
Corps was coming home. The corps
which left Chicago under the command
of Capt. Patrick O'Connor, had thrown
it's fortune with Col. Blake and his
Irish scouts. When this organization
became horseless and scattered, the
Chicago boys began to think of the
town by the lake and invited such
homeless scouts as were at hand to joir
them on the Journey.
The party of weary warriors was
made up, consisting of about eighty
scouts, and started for America, pass
ing through the RED Sea and the Suea
Canal. then to AustriI and Germany
and the United States.
One contingent arrived Thursday
morning and was detained at Ellis
Island until the other arrived yester
day. Then they were all released NJ
once and were piloted to the Hote
Vanderbilt.
Thus citizens should not be surprised
II they see some odd looking, h,sie,
fellows stroliing down Broadway will
shooting hats pinned up with a it'll,
button or red, white, blue ard greer
flag. They are only the young mer
who have grown tired Of Col. Blake ant
the Boer cause because there were n,
horses to ride, and now they will tel
everybody who will listen to their tale,
of woe what the Beers are and tn
British are not.
The Irish societies of New York ant
Chicago are going to look after thei
welfare for time and they will be dis
| tributed throughout the states.