The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-17
SIDNEY HERBERT's LETTER.
A TRAGIC INCIDENT ON THE COAST
OF GEORGIA RECALLED.

SunX the ARMY AttCI thc YEA
erals Death-Hazing in Religious
CoIIeEes-The Standing of West
Point Cadets in Their Respective
CIasses-An Incident at the Mill
burn House in which n Picture Is
Not True to Life-An Article Glow
Lee Ended the War" Criticised.
The Case of Gen. Johnston Differ
emit From That of Gen. Lee-other
Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla Nov.
14.-The death of Capt. J. S. Kennard'
formerly of the United States army,
at Athens, Ga, reminds me that have
a letter from him, dated Jan. 30. 1885,
on board the United States steamer
Henry Borden, at Mayport, Fla, in re-
gard to the lamented Lieut.. Hove, u
S. N, who, in 1886, killed Surgeon Pal
rner. I think. at Hon. 7. Butler Kings
plantation, on the Georgia coast, where
they were serving on coast survey duty
on the United States brig Porpoise. Sa-
vsnnah lawyers figured in the famous
trial that followed. of which I shall
write fully some day. I think Capt.
Kennard and Rear Admiral Thomas II.
Patterson dead several years. were
the sole surviving officers who served
with Lieut. Hove. waiter
Cummings Butterworth. probably son
of Hezekiah Butterworth of the Youth
COMPANION. of Boston, gives the NO
vember issue of the American Boy OF
Detroit. Mich, a very interesting de-
H. T]aYr y
birthplace and early home of Gen.
Israel Putnam. The same monthly has
an admirable sketch of The Roosevelt
Bows. and the Other Boys of the White
House" and it is not, like some other
sketches on the same subject, full OF
errors. An illustrated article on True
Americans" argues that they were the
Indians displaced by foreign imml-
grants.
The Rev. Henry Whitney Cleveland
Of Atlanta, is jumping on sam Jones
in the Journal, with both feet" In the
pension and public school discussion
and Sans reply will be red hot no
doubt. But Cleveland flies too high"
when he refers to Maj. Gen. Clement
A. Evans and Brig. Gen. Bennett II.
Young. Both were brave Confederate
soldiers. vet the former was only
brigadier general and the latter col
onel. =. A Savannah veteran who
was in the Confederate navy wishes TO
get a copy of a "Stonewalr' Jackson
song that was sung in the army after
the Generals death. Can any one give
me the words of the whole song, one
stanza of which was about as follows:
IA man more kind was never born,
In battle no one holder;
His loss all noble hearts will mourn,
This gallant, faithful soldier.
Chorus:
ION a bright May morn in 6S,
All eager for the action" etc.
. II seems a little strange that just as
f1azing has been abolished at West
Point Military Academy and the Unit
ed States Naval Academy, and the Vir-
GINA Military Institute, as we'll as
some other prominent educational in
situations, 1t has broken OUT in sew
eral religious colleges, ana also in some
female colleges. Hazing in the Wom-
ems College at Baltimore recently Gre
ated quite a sensation, while Philadel-
phia now boasts Of "A Boys League OF
White" the main feature of which is
the hazing initiation, in which the
hearty laughter" of the hazers is ming
led with 1.-The fear" from the victim,
who is suffering an initiation cere-
rnony covering some three or four
hours of this hearty laughter" on one
side, and "squeals of pain" on the 9TH
er. II strikes me that the time has
come for general legislation on this
subject, and also a general movement
of the police to suppress all such cruel
practices, whether in schools, colleges.
or secret societies. Why make night
against cruelty to dumb animals when
man, the noblest of all the animal Gre
alton, is the object of these unrestrain-
ed and unpublished cruelties?
1t is not good plan to be too greedy
and want the whole earth with a
fence around it," Misled by another pa
per's statement that 'the first five ca
diets, in order of merit, at West Point,
are all Southern boys" the Atlanta
Constitution says: There is something
in the air of the South by which the
native is buoyed up. He stands first
because he cannot help it," l think sue
cess depends more on the air of the
boy than of the South" and this
boys him up to win deserved laurels,
Now. the first five cadets referred to
above were in the fourth class. In the
first class they stood Missouri North
Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and
W
II. Lee, of the engineers, recently
killed in the Philippines. The
second class stood Him
ois. Alabama, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl.
vania, Pennsylvania, and the third
class Arkansas, Massachusetts,, New
York, Illinois, Georgia. In this class
No. l is Douglas Macarthur, son of Gen
Macarthur, and No. 4 is Ulysses S
Grant, third son of Gen. Fred D. Grant
while No. Is Julian Larcombe Schley
OF Savannah. Out of these twenty stal
cadets the South has eleven. which is
one more than half. 1t is hardly fair
TO take the lowest class as a standard
OF merit, although many cadets gain
one or two numbers during the four
years. while others drop back one or
two numbers.
In its announcements for 1902 the
Youths Companion has a number OF
army and navy writer's listed for mil
itary and naval articles, and c. A.
Stephens, we'll known author. is tc
furnish serial story. entitled Seek
ing Uncle Sans Camels." Now this
serial will have an interest for many
old Savannah people. for IL was the
late Gen. Henry c. Wayne of Savan.
nah, then a brevet major and quarter
master in the United States Army
who, in 1857. brought Uncle Sans
Camels' to this country and located
them at army posts out in Texas. Ir
other countries camels had been used
In the army. not only as beasts OF bur-
den, but as aids in artillery move
ments. But before Mai. Wayne's i'm.
ported camels could be properly accIi-
mated and trained for our army. the
Civil War came on and they were neg