Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

That was Just a little the hottest place 1 was ever in" remarked
Weston, the boss, as he squinted down a row of opera chairs to see if
they were in line. THE Spaniards did not get on to what we were
after when we put of" from the New York. Thought we were desert
ers, according to what 1 learned afterward." The boss builder
tried to shoot that launch out of the water. We were too busy to
watch carefully, but my recollection is that they came near to
doing it,
I'VE cut two tweIve-foot sections out of the two cables, the Amer
lean and the foreign wires into Havana, and took them back to the
ship. Everybody was wounded but me.
well, yes. l did get a scratch on the arm from a splinter they
shot of the launch. but that wasn't bad" he admitted modesly,
Poor Green, one of the squad, died of his wounds. He was groan-
ing in the pit of the launch while we were hacking at the cables and
we couldn't do anything to help him while the bullets were flying
about. That was the tough side of it."
After the lighting was over in the Atlantic Weston was a member
of the detachment that took up the floating mines along the coast
This was a job, where tons of explosives were hshed out of the har-
bors. That kind OF fishing is work for sure hands. The first mis-
take with a charge Of guncotton is not repeated,
With Weston in the erection of the Brandeis building twelve vet
Grams of war have worked. Often they have met before. so often. in
fact, that they have come to style themselves the Continental
Tramps" Never before, however, have SO many of them come to-
gether on a single job.
One Of the "fghtingest" fighters of the theater builders is Ser
geant Theodore schaener. "Sarg," as they call him, is too busy in
his plasterers uniform to bedeck his expensive front with medals,
but he had them slowed away in his trunk. schaener took a hand
in twenty-eight Philippine engagements.
schaener it. was who carried Colonel Friedrich Funston. now a
brigadier general of the regulars. when wounded from the firing line
at Ito lilo to safety in the rear. Again schaener became a factor in
the making Of history when he accompanied Funston in that swim
ming expedition across the Passig river.
schaener didn't care in the least for tan-coored marksmen in the
jungle, but he is nightly timid when the innocent eye of the camera
stares at him.
A bonnie working laddie of the soldier clan is George Hardy, or
namental plasterer unco' deft wi the trowel, late of the FOrtysecond
Highlanders. the famed old BLACK Watch" George was one of the
Draw solder boys that figured in the capture Of General KrOnje. That
military gentleman OF many whiskers delivered to the custody of the
English, much to the honor Of her majesty, the queen, the Forty
second took up a little matter Of discussion with the Beers at Paar-
desburg. They still tell tales among the Kafrs about that day,
when the Black Watch. with their kltes flashing in the sun, marched
out to the warning shrek Of bagpipes sounding the battle song Of
those fighting Hghlanders. Hardy figured conspicuously in that
fight He had six medals for gallantry in battle.
A certain mischievous cockney plasterer of that whitecoated crew
often seeks 10 make sport of the Highlander.
"A great sOdJar you be. fighting with a trowel," he leased.
"Dinna ys remember wa the English got on at Lucknow" re-
Joined the uDrahed Hardy moving along with his work as he began
to softly whistle the battle song of his regiment "Ken ye ma the
Forty-twag"
Then there was silence for a Bit The English are sensitive about