Show I BUTT Bun WON FAME SAVING MULES Presidents Aide Improved the Transportation Methods in Philippine Campaign It was the su ees of Captain Archibald W Butt in handling mules chiefly and also In successfully directing his end of the quartermasters department In the Philippines along in 1900 while a captain of ot volunteers from Georgia that directed the attention of ot the war department his way and later led up to his selection from among thousands as military aide to President Thodore Roosevelt After Atter he had been fifteen months with President Pres President PresIdent ident Roosevelt Roo evelt President William H Taft took the reins as chief executive And Captain Archibald Butt was one of the few of ot the old regime to remain Captain Butt Archie Butt has gained the title of being the Presidents shadow There is not a time when the President is out of ot his room that the military aid aidi aidIs is not at his side aide Ho lIe has been there ever eyer Bince ince William Howard Taft became President of ot the United States Captain Butt is a genial good fellow a former newspaper man and much sought after at all functions wherein the President takes a part White While Archie Butt was a newspaper correspondent in Washington he took the command of a volunteer company as cap tain quartermaster and saw service both bothin in the Philippines and in Cuba He was accepted by the government on Jan 19 1900 and arid was honorably discharged from the volunteer service on June 30 1901 1801 it t was during the brilliant career of ot the young officer in the volunteer service that the th attention of at the war department was called to him He was the first man manto manto manto to take a shipload of mules to the Phil Philippines PhilIppines without losing a mule and the method he ho employed was most simple All Captain Butt did was to dump the mules into the water and make them swim to shore Other officers had put the mules in slings and lifted them from the large vessels to smaller ones and had killed B or more before they landed them This was one of ot the achievements of the young officer and other original and successful undertakings were jotted down to his credit Some persons persona have confused Captain Butt with an officer oC formerly at Fort Douglas The Pi Presidents aide said last night that the officer who was once at atthe atthe atthe the local post was Wl Captain Edmund Butts and no relative |