Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1903-05-29
AMONG THE VETERANS
Notes and Incidents Picked up Among

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Notes and Incidents Picked up Among
| the Veterans at the Soldiers
Home.-By One of Them.
It is busy place about the Home
just now, this writer counted eighteen
busy men about the boiler house, on
the road work and grounds yesterday
and they are kept moving by the
Bosses
Archie Findlay, Cuban soldier,
is very poorly with tuberculosis. He
is making brave end determined
fight for life. All the old veterans
sympathize with him and regret to see
a young man fading away as he is
doing.
M. L. Burt left for Lead on Sundays
train in high glee. When he came
here about two months ago he was
hardly able to be out of bed whole
day and a nervous wreck. When he
left he was as spry as a boy and had
gained over 90 pounds in weight.
| Merrick Moore came down from
Hermosa and went to the hospital. He
is paralyzed on one side and in very
bad condition generally. Moore was a
Mexican soldier, so his age is factor
in his case that can't be overcome, yet
DR.. Somerville will patch him up if
careful nursing and close attention
will do it.
Cap. Allison is gardening and is
investigating the market prospects.
He says he expects to have as
much as five bushels of lettuce, a
bushel of radishes and other articles
correspondingly large to go into the
market with. If glut occurs in the
market, put brake on Cap, for he is
the maj ket breaker.
The sermon by Rev. DR.. Clark on
Memorial Sunday is the talk of the
boys, all saying, sit was the best l ever
heard" Surely it was a masterly
effort, and does one good to listen to
such burning words of patriotism and
eloquence. About 40 of the boys we're
marshalled and went under the leader
ship of Col. Lucas. AS your corres-
pondent stood and saw them pass with
bent form, limping gait and furrowed
cheeks, could not but think. aare
those the men whom [ knew 40 years
ago as sprightly and beardless boys?"
Yes, they are the remnant of that class.
Not so active, but just as brave.
Many of the boys believe kind
Divine Providence has watched over
us this year. 1t was known to the
management the boilers in the heating
plant were in an unsafe condition
when we entered into the winter. But
by careful and constant attention of
Engineer DAILY he was able to keep
them going, they leaked and we're
failing all the time. The great fear
was that an explosion might occur at
any time and do incalculable damage
and destroy precious lives. Who can
tell what might have happened? But
finally week ago instead of an eX-
plosion with its train of damages and
casualties, the boilers flatted out. On
tearing away the jacketing it was re.
vealed that the heads of the boilers
were checked, cracked and rotten. II
seems impossible that they should
| haII
came. 1t is not to be wondered al
when it is recalled that for thirteen
years the boilers have been in constant
use every day, when the life of the
same is 6 to 10 years. Now they will
be repaired, reset and made as good a.
new, and with the addition of new
boiler, the plant will be the equal OF
any in the state The work is beins
pressed as rapidly as possible to com
pletion by the time the new comman
dant arrives on the ground AL
considered we feel as il Providenc,
spared us calamity.
Monday evening camp fire wa:
held in the chapel with Mrs. Farr anc
Rev. G. B. Clark as guests. Mrs. Far
made very instructive and entertain
ing address, one full of information
and loyal good cheer to us. She wa.
followed by Mrs. Dr. Connor who very
pathetically mentioned the fact tina
thirty nine years ago in this month he
husbands father was shot dead in
struggle over battery taken from ou
. men and which was recovered by Capt
Lucas regiment and Comrade Connor'
regiment who were brigaded together
;. AS the battery was hauled back b!
, hand after its recapture Capt. Lucas
placed Comrade Connor's body on on,
of the cassons and brought it back t,
Union lines in safety from the fielt
:. =, finally held by the enemy. Who ca,
;, wonder that strong bond exist
l.