Show WRITES OF THE I 1 TROOPS willis mccornick gives a truthful statement conditions ARE VERY BAD I 1 fully forty per cent of th the army Is sick A low rever fever that leaves the tb men lien in poor shakea graphic description all praying to return nome home any amy exertion it a herculean task the spirit all gone out of the men iden an interesting A aggregation impressive SI sights bab mrs airs W S McCorn fick of 0 this thin CRY has received from her son willas the fol I 1 owing additional graphic recitals recital to lo those printed a few days ago in a I 1 letter e t to his hi father the lian banker ker 0 f tills mtv they give a picture 0 of C c conditions on in the fever stricken arm army Y near santiago re do cuba july 17 7 1898 sly dear mother I 1 hope you R are re it not 0 t disappointed at this long wall wair but bilt I 1 bained you how slow communication on would be from rom here indeed I 1 am taking my first opportunity to witte you you know from the papers that this part of the army Is not noi going to porto alco and it thore there to Is to bo be a havana II avani c campaign it will not take place till the tall fall so at present I 1 see nothing but 0 return to the states I 1 am going to I 1 write us as accurate an account as possible I 1 ot of the camp lle life here because I 1 know you ou would like sonic some reliable information I 1 Ite member I 1 am doing it for this reason only and not because I 1 am in any vay everything Is ns as I 1 expected and I 1 am perfectly to stay ot of murse course that a al if fighting is 19 over is u bitter disappointment and I 1 am no now experiencing the really hard bard pa part rt of camp lle life with no thrill thrift of excitement to relieve it tile the army lit Is in a very bad condition probably 40 per cent sick ekk they suffer buffer front from a peculiar sort of fever ever not very high and attended with headache and sick stomach it lasts but a few ew days and leaves a man in it a bad shape no one knows anything of yellow fever here where x ate a are but the fever I 1 have just juat been telling of Is quite bj bad enough en from it the men lose weight get weak weak and lifeless they are gloomy crushed in health and spirit but they bravely do their duty dragging one foot fool after the other imagine these men with Bt gley beards their jacw lion blown and crinkled like leather their cheeks sunken their protruding this Is the onnel of the would take a napoleon colget another tight fight out of 0 these men now buell a short time lima ago ao lull of 0 snap and spirit that their lighting fighting m as as good as any on record they pray to return hume home and can one blame them they have no nothing thing to ilo do alt all day but if lie e in a dog tent nut not live anve feet high with th nothing covering the eternally damp glouid but a braid or a few pieces 9 of bamboo if a man doc not lie lit in one line of these sunbaked confined pieces of canvass it Is because he Is assigned some work such as ca iring wood some two or three miles digging pits or keeping fire for the cooks such isora Is not lot hard but this cuban sun makes any exertion a herculean lak I 1 1 I 1 i 11 ll n 1 I 1 AM am As as well as I 1 was I ll 11 alte and with my immediate companions and we vc ha have ve aclus inthis troop called callad the mangoo goo clib clab Four rout Harvard follows fellows 11 and nl one cap cha from yale belong also hill larned lamed and bob wrenn you saw the former play the littler latter for the tell tennis championship at N new port two tuo years ago we play piny vard alln ln the evenings and during the day when not on duty we take long loar tramps over the hills here we ie lind find mang langoe e and d almond albion trees sap sapodilla odillo pine pineapples ap pp les aya and ad cocoa nuts we wander over old spanish in trench ments forts and blockno blockhouses its seg the country Is so ao different front from any an Y I 1 have lave ever seen that even tills quiet q t amusement Is so ag agreeable that I 1 woul would d not exchange it for saltair then the people me are ara of such buell vast interest in tile the tent lent I 1 with fill me is an aho ho came all the way front from AuM rolla to join the rou rough h riders and to do so resigned his cogg commission as captain in the british army he Is a regular baitis too in tile hie tent next to me ine Is 0 n man alan who ought fought to la the civil war uh jib guerrillas lie he Is un it fully for every evers poo poor rat meal at we ie have here he thinks ec borne me of 0 MAKI in washington la hl having an extra good one so 30 wants wanta hir hl gun ready I 1 v lin hen hi returns there he H also insists that the doctors assign ohp niost niest convenient trouble to each cach man wanting to be treated nod and had a tei terrible grievance the other day when the doctor told him lie had measles 0 the here would keco bret hartle busy for ome time to come think of the combination prospectors miners cobda coboa co boa scouts old army men college men the rough element clement pr dominates predominates still they are arc the best hearted bearded truest of men they share their laila haril hard tack lack and nurse a stranger as if lie were a brother they are decidedly I 1 tary in appearance right kight shoulder a arbib amb looks like a broken picket t fence but they impress one as fighters when tried lined up with a double row rov of cal cai t ridges lit in their bit belt and a carbine in their hands with their beards beard tight dran weather beaten facts faces and delci determined mined they are mure more ampt I 1 than another body of men would be with all the snap and clash dash of military pot action many of their comrades lie under it not more than a stones throw from liere bere when evening cri ii comes and the regiment jont lines up tor for inspection and ill the band plays playa tile the star siar spangled banner banco ciery si liggy head falls falis and the ld haid wrinkled wi inkler faces relax into expressions it depth of fe feeling cling tenderness pathos patt ton that could riot not well be surpassed by A mother standing as near I 1 the he trenches coigne oft the grave of it her 0 r boy it Is tile the most lug and at the same time impressive sight bight I 1 ever expect to see from all indications I 1 shall see sec y you 0 soon anti and until I 1 thin lien remember I 1 u am nu I 1 well unless you receive rei alve it a cable to the cont iary lary with love loe to all I 1 am your loving son eon 1 I |