Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . ere fair sam-ples, then the Cubans were no greatshakes after all. Xote the descriptionmade by our artist on the spot: Theyare mostlv short of stature, wear littleclothing, but each one has a gun ormachete, or both. One fellow not overfifteen year
Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . ere fair sam-ples, then the Cubans were no greatshakes after all. Xote the descriptionmade by our artist on the spot: Theyare mostlv short of stature, wear littleclothing, but each one has a gun ormachete, or both. One fellow not overfifteen years of age, with face of , clothed in trousers one legof which is entirely gone and the otherparth, wearing no covering on theup]ier part of his body, carries arifle over his shoulder, has a belt full ofanninmition, and in the other handcarries a two-pound can of beef. Thegrin upon his face extends from ear toear and betokens contentment with allthe earth. These voung men of ours, who aretaking this Cuban trip, are boys in na-ture as well as years, and it is not at allstrange that they lose little time in sam-pling the resources of the locality. Not-withstanding all of mans Ixiasted men-talitv, he has never gotten away fromhis stomach, and something good toeat is ever a prominent subject in hismind. In this respect he differs from. Clarence E. liiTiER. Co. C. LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 107 tlie lower orders only in degree,and thehungrier he becomes the nearer he ap-proaches the creature from which,through generations of survival, he issupposed to have sprung. Here is therecord of one of the company just offthe boat, and whose stomach is biggerthan all thoughts of Cuba librc: ThenG. S. and I started off to see what wecould find in the way of grub. We metF. D. coming back with a chicken in hishand, and he said he gave fifty cents forit. He claimed to have bouglit it of awoman who could speak notliing butSpanish, and after making all kinds of in departing tried to des
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