Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-12-06
IN CUBA FOR FUN.
MANY AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF
FORTUNE IN ISLAND.
Disappointment al End of Fighting In.
tense Among the ForeIyf Legion
New Yorker Angry at Fate.

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Legion in Cuba, says the correspond
ent for iarper's Weekly, is Capt e..
Is. Webster. an elderly Yankee from
Litchfleld. Conn. the country of ro-
bust onions and still more robust men
The cap'n would rather eat than
night, but. az it is often necessary to
eat-well, pshaw. man has to have
the price, even II he has TO fight for it,
There is nothing or the fire eater
about Webster. On the day after Col
AyalOs had driven Pine Guerras men
out Of Consolation, the cap'n and
were chatting when a cheerful lieu
tenant came along and remarked,
We're going after EN-"
"Dern it all! hope not said the
cap'n, in his slow New England drawl
Here we've been cooped up in that
blamed hot train for thirty-siX hours.
nghting day and night, with mighty
little to eat, and the rebels giving us
no time to eat it. I'm tired Of fight
Ing. What ! want is long sleep
and few good meals. But, say, you
ought to have been there when | got
those charging rebels right on the
transverse. When the gun got going
! tell we 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 a heavy, stoop
shouldered and 'sot in his ways"
He brought few filibuster cargoes
N he IS
pendence, and at the age when most
men take to golf he grew so fond of
lighting that he has never been able
to shake off the destinations of the
game. He was United States consul
at Cardenas for a while, but as soon
as this rebellion started he began to
help organize the Foreign Legion.
Capt. George Reno is a New Yorker
tall, slim, pale and bashful He came
down here as free lance war cor
respondent ten years ago and acquired
the fighting habi,
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 a few
years ago. Away to the winds went
the real estate business, and the Herr
Ober-Lieutenant burst into bloom in
his uniform.
Lieut.. Herbert Shockley is 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 machine gun
on the roof of the armored car and
rebel Mauser bullet went through his |
leg he smiled and said he believed |
hghtning never struck twice in the
same place. | wanted to photograph
MIN as soon as he had little leisure
after the battle. He smiled.
Better wait till l can stand nm
straight, he advised. "a fellow hates
to look sickly in picture"
The angriest soldier of fortune 7
ever saw is Gilbert H. Carr, who came
III great haste all the way from West
10th street, New York, the Morning.
SIDE heights district, to take pat in
the game. Gen. Loynaz del Castillo
maze MIN captain in the rebel forces
and then this truce was declared
wouldn't that irritate vou9" CO..
asked me. How would you like to
come all the way down here to have
a little fun, and then find them qiv-
ing out rain checks?"
IL does seem trifle rough on Carr
he is slender, fair-skinned. blue
eyeu youngster who belongs in tba
second company of the Twelfth Regi.
nent, New York National Guard, when