| Show r HERO OF THE SANTIAGO FIGHT Major General Shatter Passed Through tho City Today 110 CROWD AT THE DEPOT Taft litneral Wat In Reminiscent Imed 1 Talked Army Ittperlenr and Iald Utah Volunteers The hero ot the Santiago land cam rlen Major Cleneral Win It Hinder Passed through tills city today on the jia nrande Hostile on hU way la Han > ra iclico where he aDd to take com man I of tile California or Pacific dl M ion A considerable crowd rathercd at the depot to Ret a look at the Rcncrat antriex them Major Thompson com Insulting officer at Tort Douglas and porto other military men The train III 0l 3 arrltvd at H minutes to 12 oclock and it flat general stepped oft Ibo train to lok around ho wuf Immedlalply llironite1 by the largo crowd And by Ihe fchool children all of whom de ilrrd to ihako hit hiuiC a I privilege uhlch the general Rootlnaturvdly veto 11 at many at iioiillile IKJor Thompian emcnuncd the Leon era ral 1 chief attention and by him the News reporter wat Introducvit to citneral Hhaflrr The general U I n Plant man above medium height lie U courteous In demeanor with a mu > Was voice and blond with the bearIng bear-Ing of a true Rentleman tile dlxnlty of I a tolJler A ready convrrfatlonullit he I engaged nt once In remlnliccncet of their early aioclutlon In this nor n-or the Cl tilt War and spoke Mx > ot riprrlenrtt nn the plaint In buffalo l rnCt lhl II Illhtlnz The last liuffaln hunt 1 had aid the general I mananed lo cet three hurraloa with rite pilots Oeneral Hhaflrr It ran 1 H > fven nt a clance la I every Inch A nol < ll r Hit prevent corpulency dKd not detract much from the Impression that he It I n nthlcr Hit head It I mafilve hla gray tyrt keen hit face bronie from ei > li uro Ilk tilt Cuban climate Hit rauitnche and hair are Iron gray and Inclined to U I Ihort Hit inotvmelilt ire quirk hit talk direct He aeema cdhe and hli muscled ore well do eloped After a Beetle of handshaking and PlcfMnt words I to the crowd about him at each extended film hand tha Central turned BO Into the car Ono iiort woman extended her hand and Mid I wMi ti > phase hands with the general fail blett You Thank you madam1 Built Oeneral Mutter RltliiR her hit hand od haa surely dune Pike And With tilt reverent remark on hit film the general mounted the > car platform thlnklna no doubt of the Kenea of danger ihroiigh Mhlch he hat passed In the civil moil In the Hpan lih war Within the car Unit Col John Q Cannon Col C H llurlon low > r Insists and Major Thompfon engage1 In a lively and Interesting conversation for halt an hour Uhen an the Utah vnlunterrt lo be relraicd I was the nrtl question put lot Ihe general Just nf toon ua we rail leopoilbly prove them he replied They are line battrriet he remarked and Ulan hit good rNuwn In Ile I proud of tlirin Their gooll record It I due In the tact that like all 1 she other American trout they are rlghlert end their et regionally tine tertlcet ore duo la tha fart that they hate had prior prncllra In I handllnR IhI vlerio before they went Into action WIn one train r Inc toward Floor In a dlvlilon ot IM men 1110 nf them Ihe iimmand lin oltlrtr reH > rled lo me had never U < ore street a gun I told him In get ammunition right there and then onI start them nt It for there wai na tellIng tell-Ing how moon they might have to fire at an vivrny11 Me Western men know how lo ohm they are liinly wells their cum luzRettt 1 Col Citnnoiu Yet Paid tile control And I thai Isam the difference nt Vantlago The Spaniards about Hantlauo In great intonations did nit Pacific a blow When lit V men wont out tu one laruo division of letrral Ihoutandt of the Spanish Iroopt with tht mefiaiio that leneral Tvral 1 the Spanish commander had turrendenxl 1 rll had i Included I hit I out Inc olllnllld In II surrender they should nol bellovis II Tiler thought Anwrlcant could not l me In HantltRo and font two ninnra back with tome ot my men la at It II Mere actually a ioN that uo had taken she city Why did they turrcnderT some one Risked uklWII WII u final no Idea that that little Campalign or IIIln 10 drive lite IIInlh i vri out oi the riuniiago harbor until tall tire wart but ulivn Ihe Hpojilih oitl tuli realized that they had In Cuba about liwo inn wholly cut off from supplies and n lntance by Ont das ruction I nf Certrmt ilevt they con ijultd r that they might aa well r atop then na later when their condition WOUld bo till Were I did not think Oeneral Total could IM In rarnvit uhen It laid he would tumndrr all hit men most ot tihgm were away out of our reach but tile Knjtllih Consul there tvhiwa frlendihlli was Invaluable n il Wendish ilo 1 ij lHltedly uiiured me that Torul Mould do at he paid and that he would our 10M If rail theiw men What of the war In Manila T Well I only hope whll American blood It I being split there that no one will dli courage our bore out there who are doing the fighting They art not lu fourased by any meant und whether any mistaken hate been or may be made nt to our iwllcy there 1 title Ibo fiihllng li I going on there thould IHI I r4 grumbling that might discourage IhnnThe The coloml troops ton made a iplendld record In Cuba There nat oine contempt Mt tonnnlt Hum nt first among memo of lha rrglnunti particularly of the toluntrom hut thai nulckly I uud away after the level ntht or tfco Your llrnt command of a regiment was of a iilurnl 1 one wai It not T skeet l Arthur Brown Yet raid Ucnerul Shatters and that wall what llrat brought me In the t attention if Ulornl Thomat at I he battle if Haxhvllle There was then write feeling against the enforces troops road tome tllchllnir remorka went made which I had tu bear Iwth In reference to myself and lo I my com Intend but those milt UilnKf patiird away When leneral Thomas thoie I Ml Held men I wo among Ihuee chosen to unlit him i Again and aualn the general talked of other mattert only lo ha led dealt to talk lro hit owrt experience When Arthur Ilrown remarked thLtho nm I ot Kalamazoo Mich the gencrali town this reminded I Col John Q that big wet hit town alto and ta far aa he native town was epwirrall here were three of A kind lxiw > er strewn i end Col QL11neen toix Ago rIffillern themtfltca And to the convention went merrily on till the train flatted to mote and the visitors with A hatly grip of the hand bode the general goodbye good-bye byIt Will fits flrit Visit to thla city and he Pays ho will may anhllo Iho next time he come In early 1 dayt Iho general was well known In Iho Weal at nn Indomitable Indian fighter |
