The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-02
'I1HER HARE OF TEXAS.
I. Gallant Texas Trooper Who Res.
cued Gilmore.
.ut,yIFw WITH HIM IN KANSAS CITY
Il. .sthery Youth Of Nearly Fifty
= s ,""s Followed Beer Signs Through
the Luzon Mountains.

~. A. Texas and built on the plan
sorsbum stalk-stralght as rule,
H. hints and little meat; thirty-one
w We ,he United States army, served
~. ~, Custer, fought Indians from Mon
WI = Mexico. rescued Lieutenant Gil
=. u. nd twenty-five Americans from Eli
rs, w, promoted to be brigadier general
'gi -.rnteers and now a major In the reg
y. .syvlee. That's Luther r. Hare.
general Hare is guest of his brother.ln.
N r,ptaIn Craycroft on Llnwood ave
NJ has the bearing Of well-bred
.,r,b tempered by the reserve Of a sea
LIZA soldier. His ruddy, smooth-shaven
q. might eyes and supple body give him
- ,ouesrance Of a man of half his years
Nm closer observation detects the lines
nm, the mouth, cheeks and forehead. lie
j, Az feet nine inches tall, and weighed
10 rounds when he returned from the Oil
~. hike. Today he viii leave for lis
~ REGIMENT, the Twelfth cavalry, at Fort
M Houstok Texas
II vas the Thirty-third infantry that
rsone Hare recruited In Texas and II
~ aid that half of his 1900 men could
,a1sk over a coyote with a revolver,
'rppfore left Texas my father seemed
!. have bis mind set on the rescue OF GIL.
nore and his party. Let all other things
x h possbe. he would say, and get
soog Gilmore out Of the Fillpinos hands.
+, Iieberman Of Kansas City was my
Kin surgeon and between the two of MS
1, sct 1900 men, physically At TO go any.
. r. nd my 70 20 1,o
seeking together, for soon after reaching
Ialcn General Wheaton ordered me north
Ri joIn General YOung's command, and
|fsung Al once sent me out after Gilmore.
|Wt we're about 10 the center OF North
In fuion-at Bingnat, in Arara province
rhen we made the start with 1876 men and
|pme natives
There is nothing quite like Luzon
|tall In this country. The foliage hides
|.nles aud breaks and the streams are dot
led WITH hidden, sharp rocks. A msstep
Ind the chances are few We forded the
Liver twelve or fourteen times a day
Everything that grows there has a polnt
N 50 edge and it's thorn or cut at
|tftfy turn. In Arizona the Apaches wear
'lrsschclouts, but the Filipino mountain
Tribes have to add hats to their uniforms,
|iof the atmosphere Is thick and moist, ard
There d no living without head covering.
I've bad hve days ratlons and lit on the
Fillmore trail at once. The best we could
ID from daylight to dark was four or five
miles but the trail grew fresher and there
|Eas practically no opposition. We saw
FEW 81 the natives, and they were pcacefuI
|roantaln tribes, engaged in tobace1 crl.
Pre- We passed through the district pro
|tndns the finest tobacco in all Luzon. and
freethtlout people grew It.
Once We came to doubtful place in the
ltsll and piece of blue flannel shirt ser
Re iieht But the best guides we had were
|Ihak marks on the cliffs. These generally
|fcs ne form Of Drink Blanks Beer and
|fe Knew Americans had written 1t, but we
A oadefed why they should choose to mark
~ rails with suggestions of that natrre.
NJ hsd been out eleven days, think,
|yhsn We ran onto party of frteen insur,
sns eeortng three Americans We az,
E.tseg. killing fve Fillpinos and the others
Et ieaying the prisoners. They were
oa Ghmore's. party, had escaped and
'.sso recaptnred. Gilmore, they said, was
E.es, I'VE days ahead, Early the second
~. .y nfr We came upon the naval officer
~ his party. Their captors had heard Of
In " eomlns and fed. Gilmore begged Them
NV e leave him without food or arms.
Ya lls men had had little except pony
"a. i'r two days before we reached
fillmore had been prisoner nearly
|ssat months when we found him and he
t'nn dA5ed, In fact, none of the men
INV, aemonstratlye. True Americans,
f VIZ, nad never ceased to hope and the
<,s s. Nhe rather as a matter of course.
1890 authority had always been rec
lis saissa py MS men and he had nnado a
f, y. named Langford his executive or.
i NY were explained. Langrord was
f,s fs sGr an American brewery anu was
bRsIsn while In some out-of-the. wav
fIs - mulahmlhg trade. On the march into
SS.aSi Vsss.alns he took some chalk from Il
ssssSs.. ngsse and with this wrote Drink
k5s .,s peer along the trail. The Fiji,
IN n course, demonstrated.
81 m nrly Advertising nv bear'
|tw.S,u told him, and the insurgcnt
&,.st 49, was good Joke. One Of Gil
|5n.r,,.n men, 2 young fellow from San
firri,s 'po =, aad little monkey which ne
nd AZ. =, III ~ tne trip and they made
6si.o. @s,,'es i, 10 the Luzon mountains are
il mai. shese hungry men would Iead
~ nkey 70 the fruit and III nc ale
N r rvr,n eat, otherwise the most tempt.
lits NAN would go untouched-an the
ied i in MN never abused the trust
1snI uad no rations and decided IL
n A. r nearer to float down tho river
Sei Ipo.,,aern coast than TO try 10 90
tksr nslis took us out near Apawi.
9ss r,,s found the Princeton. in less than
MI va c.., hlce was practically the only
E2t All, MI could find. on the entire trIo /
tM w. b, "ne man. He died of SMALLPOX
<NA. n etbought his body back on 4 raft.
IA a. otner men We're infected
&,filr " soIhes and shoes, my men were
III IA wen on as GIlmore's. The sail.
o. ss;d .sen given natives clothes. but
<anklss s outfits were hanging on the
ENlqusrtssrns me way from General Young's
y, ffl" Hare talks Of the Gilmore rescue
fEeh tbroua been nothing more than
PAS u ',uIgh rough country and an.
u sS t ala Men who have served with
&szbl,r however, that on the march Tue
M HI. private Jared as Well as Hare.
worked as hard as the humblest
ssiIs,nIssss, Kind Of an officer that causes
\ b sprSsd said a Kansas CITY man
flhsss ,r With Hare fourteen wears ago.
|fbei lots OF men In this town who
~ II tSs ses i IN Hare's troop and every
Pea thsy WI come to see the lieutenant
he ~ yarn he Is here
enandssr copper still thought Of his old
IN "a as lieutenant Hare rs now
#s Ess ms NAY mere Is no one 10 saw that
major too soon.
n bALLADE OF npIionr