The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-16
SIDNEY HERBERTS LETTER.
GEN. MILES HAS NO CHANCE OF
BEING COMMANDER OF G. A. r.

of Gen. Young That Contains Err
rOrs-A Roster of the Georgia
Military Institute TO Be Made-A
SugR estion in Respect to Con-
gresham Baker of BroOkIyn-A
New Publication That Deals With
Matters Pertaining TO the Navy.
other Items of Special Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla,
Aug. 15.-Gen. Scott Ship, superin-
tendent of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute. in a private letter to me, says:
Il was distressed to read of the sud-
den death of one of our cadets, a fine
lad, Henri C. Solomons of Savannah,
Ga" The deceased was quite popular
at the Institute and his sudden death
was a severe shock to his classmates
and instructors. was not
surprised when Gen. T. L. Rosser, c..
S. A, went over to the Republican
camp, but / am very much astonished
to learn that Gen. S. B. Buckner, c.
S. A., was a delegate to recent Re-
publican convention in Kentucky.
Rosser was a red hot, unrecon-
structed rebel" and worried the u. c.
" by his bitter attacks upon the
Yankees" But at the Hooker mon
ument unwilling in Boston he made
worse attack upon his old Confederate
comrades than any he ever made up
on the Yankees" The "loaves and
fishes seem to have led him to follow
Longstreet, Malone, Walker, Chal-
mers, Manly, Wickersham and other
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publican camp. No high-minded IN
ion soldier can respect a Confederate
who busters against his cause as Ros
ser did in Boston.
The name of another gallant old
Confederate soldier may yet appear on
the rolls of the U. S. A. Thomas Goode
Jones, Jr, son of Mai. Thomas G.
Jones, United States judge at Mont
gomery, Ala, has been appointed a
| cadet at West Point. His uncle, Sam
uel G. Jones, is already a captain in
! the regulars. The reported
ovation" given Gen. Miles at Cumber-
| land, Md, has no real Importance. He
is being doomed by the Maryland De-
partment of the G.. A. r. for COM
| manderin-chie and has gone with it
to San Francisco. But he has no
earthly chance of election, and him
self admits Gen. Blacks popularity.
The negro in the navy" is
now the disturbing element in war cir
cles. and it promises to become a vexed
question. l have before alluded to
the significant fact that the smartest
negro yet appointed to the United
States Naval Academy has failed to
passed the required mental examina-
ton. And yet nearly a dozen have
| been able to break into" West Point,
from which several have graduated
with credit to their race. The navy,
| however, holds itself a '1ettle" more
select than the army in such matters.
I am glad to note that some of Sa-
vannahs best people have gone to
Castine, Me, for the summer. / have
not seen the dear old town for more
than fifty years, yet it still holds a
warm place in my heart, one full of
cherished memories. All! what town
for visitors who love to delve into the
| far distant past, way back when Maine
was unknown. and colonial Massachu-
sets held sway in all that region.
What thrilling narratives the ancient
fort on the hill at Castine could re-
late had it a voice to speak. And
the bay, too, where the earliest naval
skirmishes took place, and the French
and the English contended for the mas
terry. I am told, however, that the
quiet old sleepy town. so full of I'M
| disturbed relics of an historic past,
that once knew, Is now a popular sum-
mer resort, and elegant modern res
licences crown the hillsides and look
out upon the breezy bay. But no
amount of wealth can ever bring to
that place more truly cultured class
of men and women than found there
in homes of refinement, without gaudy
display, more than half century ago.
They lived an ideal life.
The sketch of Lieut.. Gen. S. M. B.
Young, U. s. A., in the Jacksonville
(Fla) Metropolis contains several err
rors. He did not rise from the ranks,
but had been a brigadier general of
volunteers, by brevet, before he be-
came second lieutenant in the regu-
lar army. The statement that Capt.
Allyn Capron was killed commanding a
light battery at Las Guasimus, Cuba,
is an error. 1t was his son, a lieuten-
ant of cavalry In the regular army,
but then captain in the Rough Rid
ers' regiment, who was killed. 1t is
not true that father and son lost their
lives during this campaign" My old
friend, Capt. Allyn Capron (not Col.
of the light artillery battalion came
home from Cuba and died Sept. H.
1898, near Washington, D. @. His
| father, Capt. Erastus A Capron OF
the same (FirsD artillery regiment
was killed at Chudubusc, in the Mexi-
can War. Both graduated at West
Point, but the son of Allyn who was
killed in Cuba, entered the regular
army from civil life. They Were all
brave soldiers and accomplished Off
GERS, and Fort Capron, on the Florida
East Coast, was named in honor OF
Capt. A. e. Capron. A son of Can't
Allyn Capron has been appointed a
cadet at West Point this year an evil
dence that the heroic element holds ma
triotic sway in the breasts of the mob.
women as we'll as the brave men nt
the Capron family.
Cadet w. E. H. Searcy of Griffin
to whose appeal 1 referred in my let.
ter of July rs, has stirred up the ole
alumni of the once famous Georges
Military Institute at Marietta, and Ca.
Diet j. S. Todd and Cadet Julius I,
Brown of Atlanta, have called a meet.
ing at the latter's office on Aug 2.
to perfect a roster of the cadets DR.
j. Scott Todd was one Of the boy he.
roeS in the Central Railroad bridg.
fights during "Sherman's March from
Atlanta to the sea-" at which time
l think, Cadet Marsh was killed. Capt
John l.. Howard, then of Columbus
Ga, but now superintendent of thu
Clyde Steamship Line at Jacksonville
was also a cadet In that fight anC
held pine torch while the surgeon.
dressed or amputated the wounded
arm of Cadet Todd. Virginia has hon.
ored her heroic cadet soldiers, but
Georgia has neither honored them MOI