The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11
THE SPANISH CAMPAIGN.
Some Ancient History DiShed Up
by lone of the UnfortunateS."

July 81, 1901.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE GLOBE;
DEAR SIR: Seeing the article in last
weeks edition regarding General Har-
ries and his troubles in Cuba, written
by one of his admirers, reminds me
of other heroes CD whose deeds Of
valor CD have, up to the present time,
gone unrecogniZed, except in one in
stance when the heros in question
managed to hypnotic the worthy ed
itor of the Star and exploit some of
their heroic deeds before the unsus-
pectlng public.
The gentlemen in question are our
present District surveyor Captain
LOCKER, and his over-worked brother
Reggie" whom l believe holds a po.
sitiol in the Riggs bank, which I sin
cerely hope he fills to a better advan-
tage than that of quartermasterser
geant, which office he held under his
brother the captain.
While in the different camps Of this
country, things went comparatively
smooth, as the favoritism afterwards
shown did not crop out until the Look
er family had gotten out from under
the influence of the h-tO-be-feared
Harries. But after Company II was
detached from the District of Colum-
bia regiment anG started on its en-.
cheering duties to Porto Rico, the van.
ity and selfesteem of the old and hon.
ored family had plenty of scope to as.
sert itself, and it was a matter of won.
der and envy to many of the boys
without a "stand-in" why an enlisted
man could hobnob with commi ssioned
officers, share their comfortable state
rooms, put on clean shirts, change
their dainty neckties every morning,
not to say anything about having guam
titles Of luggage carried around at Gov
ernment expense. But subsequent
events transpired to make us cease to
wonder, and We finally came to think
that to be a captains brother was
equal TO being the commanding officer
Of the company. At any rate, after we
were safely landed in Porto Rico, the
poor hard-working sergeant took up
quarters with the officers i'm a comfort
able house, eating the good things only
supplied to the officers table and the
boys that did the hard work all day
had to hustle for the small amount
they received to eat, while the man
paid by the Government to look out
for and provide the rations needed to
keep soul and body together, lay in a
comfortable hammock, read novels,
smoked good cigars, and ate choice
fruit provided by the natives for the
table of the commander of the post,
only sallying forth on one occasion in
time to jump overheard into the bay
and save the life of a poor unfortu-
nate who had fallen off the pontoon
bridge into two feet Of water. CI am
sure it was no deeper, as they both
waded out together, and / was within
three feet Of them, and for which act
Of heroism / hear his brother, the cap
tain, is going to have Congress vote
him a medal Of honor at the next ses-
sion, Shall we also give the gentleman
credit for holding AN infuriated mob at
bay, single-handed at Yacco, P. l.,
which was reported to headquarters,
and is still talked about and enlarged
upon by this same hero, and which |
found was on a par with his life-saving
episode, and when a squad Of men land
ed In that town an hour later in an
swer TO q hurried call for assistance,
we could not find a man, woman or
child n the street with a search war
rant After l had talked with two sig
nal men, who were a half block away,
and had heard nothing of the mob and
could find no one but Reggie that
had. began to think that perhaps the
poor boy was trying for another medal,
and forthwith forgave him for the ten
miles he had made us travel in the
dark on a wild goose chase.
However, If the 9entleman derives
any great pleasure from such tales, 1t
is a shame to bring his many admirers
10 know the true state Of affairs.
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