The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-06-11
TITUS IS HI TOWN
Tells How He Climbed the
Walls of Pekin.
WILL 60 TO WEST POINT
First VIII lake a Course in
PrePatory SChoo.

The happiest nan IN wichita yesterday
was 3 2. smith HIS grandson, whom he
has Looked for for SO lang. cane at last
Calvin Pearl Titus. the wichita hero Of
the Chinese war. arrived here On the early
morning train yesterday from Colorado.
where he had been visiting his uncle.
Captain Lee HIS grand parents. 8Ir. and
Mrs Smith. ana other relatives met him
here He VIII remain here Until Thursday
OF this week. when he WIN visit friends
at his old home la owa.
The war in China and the capture Of the
capital Of the country OF more than sour
hundred million people is now history.
The allied armies Of Europe and America
made this history. but This modest soldier
from Wichita is the political hero OF that
war His name has gone round the world
and pjeopIs Ia ali lands know that CAL
Kin Titus was the first American 10 scale
the walls u elin In war that only the
future can re1 what IT'S results wiz be.
People here do not want 10 hear of The
war. Tor they have resd al about that.
what they want % know is how il hap
pened that this modest boy fr9n Wichita
came % be The first man IF the victorious
allied army To elmo that 7.al and look
over into me ancient city that was
power for ages before Columbus dlscov-
cred America
Calvin Titus was seen By a reporter Of
the Eagle soon AFTER he arrived III the
city yesterday. He is the same modest
boy now that be was when he used TO
march with the Salvation army in this
city and assist his uncle Captain Lee.
run the meetings. People Wsnt % know
nov the came 20 climb the walls az Pekin
In face of shot ana shell. What he saw
and how he felt and what he thought
when he was climbing and al about it.
bit Titus Is aggrevatinely modest and
when one has talked with hin he VIII
come 70 the conclusion that Young Titus
simply thought he was climbing q stone
wan and that when he found he reach the
TOP without getting shot that the next
thing be thought was 70 ten the other
boys 70 come en- That is about the way
Titus seems 10 regard an action that sent
his name around the weird and made
al his courtr1uen proud Of his hero
ISM Doubtless the first tine that il
cawned or the mind OF Titus that ne had
done something was when the officers OF
his regiment congratulated him for his
galiantry.
How did II come that You were the
first 70 climb me wall27 Titus vas asked
Wei. you seee, i was a blgIer for The
Fourteenth regulars and my regiment had
advanced close to the walls cf the city
We were getting a cross Ere from the
enemys guns and we ran u16er the walls
for protection When we got 20 the wan
I heard our officers talking as 10 whether
il would be possible 70 climb I'D The si1es
and I told Colonel Daega-r thar Z tho1cht
/ could climb up The wan was atout
thirty feet high and t,lr u large maud
colored brick Through long standing tie
mortar had been washed our and that
left room il the creei-es Tor hand hoI5s7
~Did you STRIP Tsp -he clin5r
mo. / 5ust took on my accou trements
and lert on my coat and shoes. I caught
nay fingers ia the places where the NOR
tar was washed ont and hunted FOR toe
helis. In that way soon reached the
top
what did you see when you first
reached the top and looked over the
walIs"
even. when reached the tor. could
see men on one side az me hring at our
men On the ground On the other side
was q fort They did not seem TO see
me ard I tod our boys On the ground
that IL was All right ana for them n come
On. While the other BOYS were climbing
could see the Russians some distance
away huddlsd n enc 81 the gates and the
Cinnamon were making g. arm 1or them