The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
SPENDS VACATION WATCHING BATTLES Texan Tells of His Frolic in
 Hayti CITES SOME ACCIDENTS Forces Take Fortnight to Get Ready and Sometimes Somebody Acci-
 dentally Gets Killed Dur
 ing the Fighting
CITES SOME ACCIDENTS
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
 John H. Kirby of Houston, Tex, one
 of the biggest lumber operators in the southwest, got back yesterday after being in revolution for three weeks. The
 crack of rifles got so monotonous at I times that MT. Kirby said they kept him from sleeping. Danger? Not at all Those who were shooting just seemed to be try ing to make a noise, and casualties were Literally accidents.
 MT. Kirby's revolutionary experiences were gained in Santo Domingo, though he did not take part in the troubles down | there. He had vacation coming about five weeks ago. and having heard about
 the yellow pine forests that are languish- ing down there for the woodman's ax. he decided he would go and take a look at l them. He spent much of his three weeks | on horseback visited about a dozen | towns and explored the country, acouir- ing an enthusiasm for the rich soil and a
 poor opinion of the enterprise and en- ergy of the inhabitants, but decided that
 for an American lumberman there was
 not anything doing down there until a
 little more railroad building had been done.
 Everything in the way of business is | at a standstill in the parts of the country
 l visited" said Mir. Kirby at the Wal dorf yesterday. "Of course this is due to the revolution. There is between 4o0o GOO and S000,000 cubic feet of excellent yellow pine in the forests along the Ja- qui valley but it Is not situated so that 1t could be got unless a railway is built from the mouth of the Jaqui I'D the val ley to Santiago. Such a railway could be
 supported by the development of the won derfully fertile lands along the way, and 1t would run sufficiently near the pine
 forests to make feasible the operation of
 extensive sawmills
 Sent Train Down Decliyity T intended to dlsembark at Puerto
 Plata and go thence by rail to Santiago.
 but few days before our ship arrived the revolutionists had captured a train filled with soldiers, cut the engine loose
 and let It and the cars run down a de- cliyity, smashing the cars and killing or injuring most of the passengers, so 1t seemed little unsafe to go ashore and
 doubtful about getting anywhere if we did So we landed at the port of San
 chez.
 We undertook to go from there by rail
 road to La Vega, but just about that time La Vega fell into the hands of the reyo- lutionsts, and our train had to stop at Maccris. So we had to take to horses
 l saw at Maccris active hostile prepara- tions but not many active revolutionists ! though the sentiment of the better class of people seemed in their favor They have a peculiar method of recruiting by | liberating prisoners or catching farmers. simply putting guns into their hands and pressing them into service. Every com mander is a general. There doesn't seem to be any lower rank
 ''To get to Moca l had to ride 40 miles.
 reached the town early Sunday after noon and went to the leading hotel the
 St Francis. About 8 o'clock that night
 a band of revolutionsts, coming from the hills overlooking the town. came down
 and attacked the government guards at
 the railroad station, which was only about
 midst of the firing. I had gone to bed
 and when the noise had been going on
 about half an hour I got up and closed
 the window, because I didn't want any
 revoutionists climbing in to share my bed. l thought that the whole hotel had
 been riddled, but when we went to in-
 vestigate the next morning there was only one bullet hole fin the building. The government troops. we learned had not
 fired a shot. Only one man was wounded
 We were told that the attack had been made to prevent the government forces from going to the help of La Vega and the revolutonists had kept up their firing only about 40 minutes and had then with drawn