The Forrest City times., 1906-11-16
IN CUBA FOR FUN.
MANY AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF
 FORTUNE IN ISLAND.
Disappointment at End of Fighting In. tense Among the Foreign Legion
 New Yorker Angry at Fate.

The greatest old boy of the Foreign Legion in Cuba. says the correspond ent for Harper's Weekly, is Capt. F. B. Webster, an elderly Yankee from Litchfeld, Conn, the country of TO- bust onions and stil more robust men.
 The cap'n would rather eat than hght, but, as it is often necessar. to eat-well, pshaw. man has to have the price, even if he has to Sght for it. And fighting in Cuba just now is al most the best paying profession. He who lives by 1t can eat terrapin and canvasback-if there are still such things beyond this troubled land of garbanzos and papas frituras.
 There is nothing of the fire eater about Webster. On the day after Col Avalos had driven Pino Guerras men out of Consolation, the cap'n and I tenant came along and remarked, Were going after 'em."
 'Dern it all I hope not said the capn, in his slow New England drawl. Here we've been cooped up in that blamed hot train for thirty-six hours, fighting day and night, with mighty little 10 eat, and the rebels giving us no time to eat it. I'm tired of fight ing. What I want is a long sleep and q few good meals. But, say, you ought to have been there when I got those charging rebels right on the f-af1 tell ye they tumbled down off their horses like pack O cards. Here, lieutenant, how soon do We start?"
 Cap'n Webster was a coasting skip per sailing out of Yankee ports for many years He is heavy, stoop shouldered and ''sot in his ways
 He brought few filibuster eargoes into Cuba during the war of inde- pendence. and at the age when most men take 10 golf he grew so fond of fighting that he has never been able to shake off t& Vaccinations of the game. He was United States consul al Cardenas for a while but as soon as this rebellion started he began to help organize the Foreign Legion
 Capt George Reno is New Yorker, tall, slim, pale and bashful. He came down here as free lance war cor respondent ten years ago and acquired the fighting habit He hasn't got his company recruited yet but when they do take the field the Azaldos had bet ter look out
 Lieut.. Adolph Fittig was gentle real estate dealer in Havana until the war began. Then he remembered with joy the fine times he had during his military service in Germany few years ago. Away to the winds went the real estate business, aid the Herr Ober-Lieutenant burst into bloom in his uniform.
 Lieut.. Herbert Shockley is a small and very cheerful fighting man from Philadelphia. When they organized the Foreign Legion he smiled and said he believed he'd take a commission. When he was firing a machine gun on the roof of the armored car and a rebel Mauser bullet went through his leg he smiled and said he believed HcNGl Sll uCh IWICt III tue same place. I wanted to photograph him as soon as he had a little leisure after the battle. He smiled.
 Better wait till I can stand up straight" he advised "A fellow hates to look sickly in picture"
 The angriest soldier of fortune I ever saw is Gilbert H. Carr, who came in great haste all the way from West 18th street, New York, the Morning side Heights district, to take part in the game. Gen. Loynaz del Castillo made him a captain in the rebel forces and then this truce was declared.
 Wouldn't that irritate you?" Carr asked me. How would you like to come all the way down here to have little fun, and then find them giv- ing out rain checks?"
 It does seem trife rough on Carr He is slender. fair-skinned. blue eyed youngster who belongs in the second company of the Twelfth Regi. ment, New York National Guard, when he's home. He has fought in South