The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1903-02-28

cal sciences, the result OF his own pain
stalking study and exertions. Fond OF
exercise and OF outdoor sports, he learnt
in his early youth how 10 ride and shoot
and swim, so that before reaching mans
estate he was proficient in manly sports.
His first occupation was that OF travel
ing agent for Il commercial house, and
next, having studied electrical engineer
ing, he found employment with the Gra-
mercy Sugar Refinery Company in st.
James Parish, after which he secured a
position with Jack Bokenfohr, commits
sion merchant in New Orleans, who sent
him to Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
La, to represent the firm in that town.
Called back to New Orleans by the Sc
rious illness OF his wife, Mr.. Saucier
had the misfortune to deplore her death
and three months later their only child
also succumbed to Illness. Prior to his
marriage Mr.. Saucier went travelling,
and in his wanderings he met party of
prospectors on their way to develop some
mines in Mexico.
While the party Of miners were in the
depths of the Mexican mountains they
received the intelligence that war had
been declared between the United States
and Spain. The blood of generations
of soldiers pulsatedin the veins Of young
Saucier, and he abandoned all prospects
o, fortune in the mines and hurried
to San Antonio, Tex, where he at once
enlisted in Troop II. of the Rough Ri
ders' Regiment, Captain Curry. The
hardy Americans. composing this troop
we're cowboys and plainsmen from Ari-
zona and New Mexico, and they formed
as sturdy and daring body of soldiers
as the worlds history has ever known.
AS soon as the Regiment was complete,
it moved to lamp, Fla, the rendezvous
Of the United States troops, and Colo
mel Roosevelt gladly accepted their SER
vices.
Trooper Saucier had become quite a
fayorate with his comrades, owing to his
merry disposition, his unfailing good
hGmor and his facile Improvisation Of
verses. There were two poets in the
Rough Riders Regiment Trooper Sau-
cier and Sergeant Donaldson. They
Kept the soldiers in excellent spirits with
their songs, their jokes and their martial
flow of versification. Saueier composed
a song which gained immense popularity
among the boys. 1t was entitled "A Hot
Time in Cuba, and when the regiment
got its marching orders at Tampa, Cap
tain Curry called Saucier to the fore and
asked him to sing his song under the flag
and the effeet Of it may be imagined,
when the entire regiment took up the
chorus at the conclusion Of each stanza.
Trooper Saucier served through the
war, from Tampa to Cuba and to Mon
tauk Point. He was an orderly or
mounted courier under the personal
command of Colonel Roosevelt, and this
detail bringing him inclose daily contact
with the commander, caused him to be
specially observed by the Colonel. The
result of Trooper Saucier was eminently
favorable to the soldier. just before the
regiment was mustered out, Colonel
Roosevelt called Saucier to his tent told
told him: Afteryour discharge, come and
see me as want to give you a letter GER
tifying TO your splendid service as SOL
der" Colonel Roosevelt wrote on the
back Of Trooper Saucier's discharge:
81 have been struck by the appearance
and bearing OF this trooper. He has act
ed as model soldier"
In June, 1902, and in November of that
year aIso, Mr.. Saucier visited the presi-
dent in Washington and was cordially
received. The president told him that
he would favor him whenever the occa-