6 BEW YORK LETTER. •. Sponial Correspondence. r t rntrM the ltrldgo. The Brooklyn Bridge Railroad will ■o longer be operated by the city of New York. Under a contract entered into by Bridge Commissioner Shea and the receiver of the Brooklyn Elevated railroad, and ratified by the supreme court, the Brooklyn Elevated has taken possession of the bridge railroad and will operate it, paying 120,000 a year s tor track privileges and ten cents a car toll. The city will be relieved of the heavy expense of operating the railroad and It is hoped that a deficit In the finances of the bridge will be avoid ed. CYRUS THORP. The Maid—"Miss Ethel Is not in. sir, but I'll tell her you called." Algy— "Aw—thanks. Tell her right •way, please, no you won't forget it," .. ..i_j wr&r.-.- MAJOR GEN W. R. SHAFTER. Was Considered Just the Man to Free Cuba from the Spaniards, Major General William Rufus Shat ter, commander of the United States army of invasion into Cuba, was re cently described by his life-long friend. Senator Julius C. Burrows, as "every Inch a soldier, and Just the man to clean the Spaniards out of Cuba." The son of a pioneer farmer, William R. Shatter was born In the town of Galesburg, Kalamazoo county, Mich., October 16, 1835. With scant educa tional opportunities, the future general toiled on his father's farm until he at tained his majority. By that time he had saved sufficient money to carry him through the winter term at the Prairie Academy. He returned to ag ricultural pursuits, but the monotony of a farmer's life was Irksome to his ambitious spirit, and the outbreak of the civil war found him ready and wil ling to become a soldier. At the first opportunity that presented, young Shafter tendered his services as a private. He was a fine specimen of manhood physically, hardy, athletic, a dashing rider, and very handy with a gun. Persons in local authority appre ciated his worth, and he was commis sioned first lieutenant In Company I of the Seventh Michigan infantry. He was mustered Into service a few days after the repulse of the Federal troops at Bull Run, and from that time to the present he has been in the military ser vice of the United States. Mo V~ MAJOR R. SHAFTER One of the first engagements In which Lieutenant Shatter's company partici pated was the battle of Ball's Bluff, which resulted in disaster for the Un ion foVces. Fortunately the Michigan militia emerged from the battle in fair condition and rendered effective service with McClellan In the peninsula cam paign. At the battle of Fair Oaks Shatter was wounded, but he so dis tinguished himself that the command ing general said in his official report: "Lieutenant Shafter of the Seventh Michigan volunteers, In charge of the pioneers, was slightly wounded, but kept the field and furnished a beautiful exhibition of gallant conduct and intel ligent activity." In the summer of 1862 the Nineteenth Michigan regiment was organized and Shafter was assigned to It with the rank of major. The regiment joined the western army and for a year or more saw a great deal of hard service in Kentucky and Tennessee. In the of ficial reports of the middle Tennessee campaign Major Shafter is praised for meritorious conduct and specially men tioned as "one of the most deserving officers of the Nineteenth infantry." Together with other Federal officers, he was captured by the Confederates, but his gallantry in battle had been so con spicuous that his captors allowed him to retain his horse and side arms. He was a prisoner of war for three months and was exchanged in May, 1863. , Soon after Shatter's return to I his command he was commissioned lieu tenant colonel of the Nineteenth regi ment and this promotion was speedily followed by two successive brevets, the first as colonel in recognition of his gallantry at Fair Oaks, and the second as brigadier general for "gallant and meritorious conduct" at Thompson's Station. He served for about a year as lieutenant colonel of the Nineteenth and was promoted to be colonel of the Seventeenth regiment of colored troops. He remained in this latter command until the close of the war, and was mustered out of the volunteer service November 2, 1866. Frlor to his retirement from the vol unteer army, however. Colonel Shafter was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Forty-first United States Infantry, and his connection with the regular army has been unbroken ever since. In every station of responsibility he has acquitted himself with credit. With the development of plans for the invasion of Cuba the president and secretary of war began to look about for suitable leaders. Prominent among the ellglbles was General Shafter. Pres ident McKinley made him a major general of volunteers on the fourth of last month, and he was assigned to command the troops in the Santiago de Cuba campaign. "Put Shafter on the island," said Senator Burrows to Sec retary Alger, "and I will guarantee that he will speedily clean out Cuba from end to end."--New York Times. Would Change Fiscal. Little John (after casting his penny Into the fuud l'or the Bamalam Island ers) —I wish I was a heathen. Sabbath School Teacher— Oh, John ny! Why do you wish such an awful thing as tbnt? Little John -The heathen don't never ' have to give uothln'—they are always glttln' sowethiu'. —Harper's Bazar. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. A l MONTAUKCAMP. There Is Need of Great Haute In Prepar lng for the Army. Montauk, L. 1., Aug- 10.—At present the situation here is fairly satisfactory. It Is true the Unlited States army au thorities were not prepared to take ad equate care of the detachment of the Sixth cavjfry which arrived Monday night. There were no tents on hand, and if the Long Island Railroad had not permitted them "to sleep in the half completed restaurant building which is being put up near the station the two hundred sick men would have had a disagreeable and perhaps dangerous ex perience. Another detachment of 325 troops from the Sixth cavalry arrived here yesterday. Wtth them were thirty sick, making the total number of sick now in camp thirty-six. None of them Is dangerously 111. The noon train brought fifty ser geants and five officers of the Fifteen Pennsylvania, U. S. V., Signal Corps. The tents and equipments for the troopers have arrived and morning found the plateau the businest scene that Montauk has ever known. Car penters who arrived during the night went to work early and before noon nearly all the tents for the Sixth were up. Reveille sounded at 6 o'clock and with it the Montauk camp began its ex istence. The following temporary or der was issued from General Young's headquarters at Third house: Reveille, 6 a. m.; early mess, 7 a. m.; midday mess, noon; taps, 10.30 p. m. The main problem, indeed the prob lem upon which everything depends, is that of transportation. So far as the railroad is concern d this problem has already been solved. Since Thursday two and a half miles of sidings have been laid and the railroad is in a posi tion to receive at least two hundred carloads of supplies or or men a day. Where the difficulty will come is in un loading these cars and transporting the supplies and men io the camp, which is several miles away. Grave doubts are expressed whether it Is possiblt tor the quartermaster's department to Eolve the problem. At noon to-day there were 1.500 mules on the ground, but there were practieally no wagons. Every carload thai has been delivered to the Long Island Railroad has been rushed to this point, and is now on the side tracks, but until to-day not one step had been taken for the unloading of these cars ana the removal of tents, blankets, hospital stores, lumber, food, medical supplies an I the thousand and one things which will be necessary un - less 'Montauk camp Is to be the scene of a great military tragedy and a great military candal. The arrival of a few hundred cavalry men yesterday showed how important adequate preparation will be. These men had not been in Cuba, they had not spent day after day on the firing line in the biasing sun and the chilling night ruins. They hud been In camp within the boundaries of the United States under the charge of officers who took the best, possible care to preserve the health of their commands. Never theless one-third of the cavalrymen who arrived yesterday were practically helpless. They eauld not have marched one mile after they left the trains if their lives hud depended upon it. They were lifted out of the cars by com rades hardly stronger than they, and lay upon the ground uncovered and unprotected until the railroad company offered them the use of the restaurant. Unquestionably when the transports begin to arrive from Cuba and to un load 25,600 men who have been subjected not only to severe climatic conditions, but to the most strenuous test of en durance imposed in human experience, the problem will be a thousand fold more serious. The Cuban veterans will have spent a week on board crowded transports. There will be, undoubtedly, thousands of sick. For these there should be provided ambulances to transfer them from the landing place to the hospitals, hospitals to shelter thein, doctors and nurses to attend to them, medicines to cure them, and del icacies to tempt their appetites. The solditrs who are nut invalids will need tents and food and water, and the thou sands of horses and mulss at the camo will also need supplies. The first of the transports will. It is expected, ar rive on Thursday, and within two weeks thereafter the war department states that from fifteen to twenty transports will steam into Fort Pond bay and unload their thousands of sol diers, both well and 111. Unless the government works faster than It is working now the experience at Tampa will he repeated with the tragic additional fact that It will not be fresh and healthy troops whose lives will be at the mercy of the war de partment, but that it will be a broken and semi-invalid army which must be taken care of. Suit* Against ltank Springfield, Mass., Aug. 10.—Receiv ers Kliss and Hyde of the defunct Hay State Beneficiary Association of West field and Boston have tiled suits against former officials of the concern for am ounts aggregating ISM,OOO. The suits arise from the belief of the receivers that he former directors have failed to account tor amounts aggregating, over SIOO,OOO. The receivers allege that at one time Weattteld officers sold rights of the company to a Boston clique for ninety thousand dollars and that later the rights were sold buck to Westfleld parties at $70,000, and in this way, the receivers claim, the rights of the many thousands of members were used for mere speculative purposes. OUiMtroiis Firs In Itinmnrck. Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 10.—Fire last evening burned a large portion of this city, causing a loss of several hundred thousand dollars' worth of property. The flames started In the agent's office of the Northern Pacific depot. In a short time the building and the big warehouses of the company were in llames. Every drug atore In the city was burned and all the grocerlea but two or three, two newspaper offices and the great bulk of the bualness portion of the city, with several blocks of residences. Many people are homeless. The -Sumoan Coaling station. Washington, Aug. 10.—Plans have been completed for the proposed coal ing station at Pago-Pago, Samoa. It IS estimated the work will cost $250,000, and the plant includes n steel pier run ning out some distance from the shore. At the end of the pier there will be a depth of $5 test. _ RICHARD IS A FIGHTER. Lieutenant Commander Walnwrlght Iv a Rival to "Flglitlug Dob." Contemporary naval annals are now threatened with a "Fighting Dick" In addition to a "Fighting Bob," and sure ly Captain Evans would not grudge this meed of glory to his junior In the line. From that awful moment on the night of February 15, when Wainwrig.it stood beside his captain on the sinking quarterdeck of the Maine and gave the order to lower away the boats, he had looked forward to some such opportu nity as that which linked his name wtth the Gloucester as lndlssolubly as Hobson's Is linked with the Merrimac. Not that Walnwrlght Is a man to brood on vengeance. He has a heart too big to cherish malice. Only his dearest desire was that he might have the good fortune to he an Instrument of retaliation. No man knew better than he the ghastly horrors that followed that night in Havana harbor. No man was more certain than he that the Maine disaster was not an accident, and none was better qualified to reach a Just conclusion. During all the long weeks following the disaster it was Waln wrlght who toiled beside the wreck, and above It, from dawn till dark, di recting the divers' work, recovering the bodies of the dead, familiar with every development of evidence, the confidant of every grim secret brought to light by the submarine research. April 5, long after Captain Slgsbee and all his other subordinates had been relieved of their painful task. Wain wright, the sole surviving officer of the Maine left in Havana harbor, pulled down the weather stained flag that had floated day and night from the shrouds of the wrecked battleship. When Walnwrlght left Havana the United States government relinquished its sov ereignty over the Maine. "DICK" WAIN WRIGHT. Mr. Walnwrlght was in Havana har bor continuously for seven weeks after the Maine was blown up. During all that time he was never known to set his foot In Havana city. "I don't care about shore leave," he used to say, when his friends asked why he never appeared In the Ingleterra hotel with his fellow officers. If you Invited him to a little dinner or a quiet game of poker you got the same answer, or else he was too busy to spare the time or too tired after his day's work on the water. Then, if you watched him, you might see him go below Into the cabin of the Fern, where he had his quar ters, and, lighting his pipe, he would spend half the night pouring over sec tional drawings, perhaps with Ensign Powelson, or studying out some new bit of submarine divers' evidence that seemed to clinch the truth about the Maine. This taciturn lieutenant commander, moreover, so it was whispered by his friends on the Fern, had registered a mental vow never again to enter Ha vana city unless at the head of a bat talion of bluejackets. Verily, If ever a man remembered the Maine, "Dick" Wainwright did. Big hearted, as are most brave men, the death of 266 of his gallant subordinates left a wound that would not heal. He was as popular evith them as with his fellow officers. Though a strict discip linarian, the Maine's executive officer during the two months he had been attached to the ship in that capacity had won his way to their hearts. Lieutenant Commander Wainwright has coined one phrase that will proba bly live In the traditions of the navy, "Fighting cannot be made a safe busi ness." The battle of the Yalu river had cal | led the attention of naval experts all j over the world to the terrible execution wrought by splinters from small boats and portions of the superstructure of ships of war when struck by modern projectiles. Mr. Wainwright, among other officers, was detailed to write a treatise discussing the following ques | tlon: "If about to go into action what I disposition would you make of your small boats with a view of securing the greatest safety of your men?" Wainwright's reply was an able one. The pith of It, however, was substan tially contained In the following: "If about to go Into action In com paratively shallow water, I should, if time permitted, strip the vessel clear of her small boats and moor them safe ly at a distance until after the fight. If pressed for time, I should simply put them adrift. If about to go Into action In deep water, I should set my boats adrift anyhow, leaving the ship and her officer;- and crew to take the chancer or rthtlng cannot be made r. Mr. , cobably Inherits h's fig He is the son of old CV ...-in-right and comes of geoo stock. His appoint ment to tip ~aval Academy was from the District of Columbia.--Chicago i Times-Herald. V _ x PERFECT FOOD—OS Wholesome aa It Is Delicious." J\ 0 WALTER BAKER & CO.'S O 1 IrBREAKFAST COCOA! yv B •• Has atood the teat of more than xoo years' use among all \# fSj jAfl -KjM classes, and for purity and honest worth is unequalled." 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