The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-31
.sThs Man WKo Quit"-.
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I found him or he found mel have never been quite< sure--the morning after the disastrous September storm ot 1908. We ran across each other in which had before the storm been the water front of Pensacola. had gone aown to cover for The Advertiser the damage and effects of the most de- man began to live along the Gulf found him, nrst, saw him water wrecs 0sssd snn ana storm sss Ssssered snaons ths matter of dress. But he was as rock ln 2 weary land to q farm raised re- porter. who was unacquainted in his than the chattshoochee River. and who sea story" of the past ten years.
 And while l was receiving the ben- eft of wide experience and thorough knowledge of matters maratime. pick ed out here and there. the main inci- dents of ilis story. Ir was as fire a Graduate of the Naval Academy. oficer Of the American Navy member of the Greeley relief expedition, which went as far north as any white man had sailor of fortune. commander, of the dynamite cruiser Nitchteroy, Admiral in the Brazilian Navy. captain in the Chilean Navy-all of this he had been
 
 for the construction gang which strung the first telegraph wire across the American Continent As, water boy an unfrocked priest taught and taught him lis competition and began q life of ad- venture by graduating from the Acad- eTny with honors.
 hurriedly into a hurriedly written tale cd in December. 1soS I heard from, the story time after time It probably attracted more attention than any story
 The story went in under the title of The Man Who Quit" title which car- Tied the implication that the man felt content to sit idly by on the fence and watch the. procession go by.
 ! rather fancied that the title might fssry s s sg sS S Tso of ts hsa sess xed
 And now comes the sequel He would not stay quit. A letter from him few days ago says that he has reused name of Mount, This thin disguise was adopted to save his own feelings, for he was we'll known not only n Pensacola. but in Montgomery as well. The time has come -about for the re- 'vealing Of his true name and station. The .Mo1nta of that story. which has Charles Fl Hiii. graduate of Annapolis of the class of 1881, ensign in the Amer ican Navy, Admiral in the Brazilian Navy and Captain in the Chilean Navy, and hero of many adventures by hocd and field.
 He writes after q year and a half:
 The heading of your story rankled tn me. for it was the first time in my life had ever, been called a quitter, even though 1t applied only to my spir. It's. hopes and ambitions.
 Tt brought out of me that shred of spirit left which from my early child hood in the West my struggle to go through the Naval Academy, my trav- 'l els to one 5f the farthest points north ever reached by naH. Aad susts Inca me and which had never left me through an adyenturous life in the revolutions of the South.
 T revoited and started out on the Journey back up the scale of life to again reach . position where the world wiU again look for news of Hill. ! Your story was a good one, but if you. believed I would stay quit. you. have erred. I have not lost the light nor have I given It up. with my old spirit which you helped restore. I am a candidabs for the Legislature of Flor ida from this, Escambia, County. and am going to win. The fighting spirit is in me. and you will hear again that Hill Is doing things."
 So to Charles H Hill once The Man Who Quit" but now the man who is fighting new battle for old position, good wishes are waited.