The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-05
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
Joined the Foreign Legion in Cuba for
 Various Reasons.

Joined the Foreign Legion in Cuba for
 Various Reasons.
 The greatest old boy of the Foreign Legion in Cuba, says the correspondent for Harper's Weekly, is Capt. E. B. Webster, an elderly Yankee fro Litch- field, Conn, the country of robust on- ions and still more robust men.
 The cap'n would rather eat than fight, but, as it is often necessary to eat-well pshaw! a man has to have the price, even if he has to fight for 1t. And fighting in Cuba just now is al- most the best paying profession He who lives by it 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 were chatting when a cheerful Lieu tenant came along and remarked, We're going after 'em."
 Dern it all! I hope not" said the cap'n in his slaw New England drawl. Here we've been cooped up in that blamed hot train for thirty-six hours, fighting day and might, with mighty little to eat, and the rebels giving us no time to it. I'm tired of fighting. What l want is long sleep and few good meals, But, say you ought to have been there when I got those charging rebels right on the transverse When the gun got to going I tell ye they tumbled down off their horses | like a 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 should cred and sot in his ways
 He brough a few filibuster cargoes into Cuba during the war of independ- ence, and at the age when most men take to golf he grew so fond of fight ing that he has never been able to shake off the faclnations of the game, He was United States Counsul at Card enas for a while, but as soon as this rebellion started he began to help or ganize the Fireign Legion.
 Capt. George Reno is New Yorker, | tall, slim pale and bashful He came down here as a free lance war cores pondent ten year ago and acquired the fighting habit. He hasn't got his com pany recruited yet, but when they do take the field the Azaldos had better look out.
 Lieut.. Adolph Fitting was a gentle real estate dealer in Havana until the war began Then he remembered with joy the fine times he had during his military services in Germany few years ago. Away to the winds went the real estate business, and the Herr Ober- r-Lieutenant burst into bloom ir his uniform
 Lieut., Herbert shoc1ley Is a small and very cheerful young fighting man from Philadelphia When they organized the Fireign Legion he smiled and said he believed he'd take a commission. When he was firing 8 machine gun on the roof of the armored car and rebel Mauser bullet went through his leg he smiled and said he believed lightning never struck twice in the same place. I wanted to photograph him as soon as he had little leisure after the battle. He smiled.
 Better wait till I can stand up straight" he advised. "A fellow hates to look sickly in a picture.
 The angriest soldier of fortune ever saw is Gilbert H. Carr, who came i in great haste all the way from West 115th 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 me. How would like to come all the way down here to have a little fun and then find them giving out rain checks?"
 It does seem a trifiss rough on Carr He is a slender, fair sklned, blue eyed youngster who belongs in the second company of the Twelfth Regiment New York National Guard, when he's at home. He has tough in South Africa | and in Q fau. South Auarirap ravo1,1-