TEDDY AT SANTIAGO, DEPLORES ARMY’S BLUNDERS
RoughRid er;
Hardships
Recounted
‘‘Tell the President, for Heav
en's Sake, to Send Us Every
Regiment Possible,” Roose
velt Writes Lodge.
Shatter Held Inefficient
(Copyright, 1926.)
(While Roosevelt was awav in th«*
Spanish war. Senator Lodge kept him In.
formed of affairs in Washington. Speake
I'honiH* B. Heed had incurred Lodge 5
opposition through trying to prevent the
annexation of Hawaii Roosevelt wrote
every few days describing the intolerable
conditions in the Florida camps prior to
the troops’ departure for Cuba Russell
A. Alger, secretary of war. was the ob
ject of criticism. With increasing bitter
ness. from all over the country. Later
the outcry of ’embalmed beef brought
the criticism . to a climax, hut it was a
long time after the war when Alger fin
ally quit the cabinet.)
Washington, May 31, 3898.
Hear Theodore:
The secretary of war told me on
Saturday that he had ordered your
regiment to Tampa, so that I suppose
you will be in a position to go with
the first expedition. T do not think
they mean to send any men to Cuba
until they can get a large army to
gether and sweep up the whole at
once. I think <this it^v/ise. For various
reasons I am in no hurry to see the
war jammed through. We will come
out better if we take our time.
The administration I believe to he
doing very well and to he following
out a large policy. The opposition
now comes exclusively from Reed,
who is straining every nerve to beat
Hawaii, which the administration Is
very eager to get on military
grounds.
Always sincerely yours,
H. C. L.
TAMPA BAY HOTEL.
Tampa. Fla., June 6, 1898.
Senator H. C. Lodge,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Cabot:
Edith has been down here for the
Inst three days and it has been a per
fect treat having her. I think she
really enjoyed It. She saw the camp
and the mounted
drill this morn
ing—at which by
the way, all the
representative* of
the foreign
armies were pres
ent and expressed
great wonder at
the way we had
We expect to
start for Cuba
on the transports
tomorrow. Those
of us who come
back will feel
mighty glad to get home no matter
what they encounter in Cuba, I
guess.
I had an awful morning, for the or
ders first came out that only four
troops out of our 12 were to go. In
which case I should have had to
stay here with the remaining eight;
but they have now sent eight and
so I go. The four that are left feel
fearfully.
They send us dismounted but we
should he glad to go on all fours
rather than not at all. It will be an
outrage, though, if they do not send
the horses after or together with the
remainder of our men very soon. If
not too much trouble I wish you
would see the secretary and have him
keep us in mind, and have the horses
sent to us very early. It is a little
bit rough to make us fight on foot
with only two-thirds of our strength.
If I had been left behind, 1 should
have had to telegraph you to use
your endeavors to have me put into
the front.
Ever faithfully yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
FIRST U. W. VOLUNTEER CAVAL
RY. TROOP A.
Fort Tampa, Fla., June 10, 1898.
Senator It. Lodge.
Sentate Chamber, Washington.
Dear Cabot:
No words rould describe to you the
confusion and lack of system and the
general mismanagements of affairs
here; a good deal of it is the inevlt
ible accompaniment of a sudden war
where people have resolutely refused
to make the needed preparations, but
x very great deal could be avoided.
For p. month the troops have been
gathering here in a country where
lines of temporary railroad could be
laid down for miles In 21 hours, yet
lo this day, while the troops are at
Tampa, there is but a single line con
necting them with the point of de
barkation nine miles off and there
\re no switches to speak of and no fa
milies whatever for tinloading freight
or troops. There are hundreds of
freight, cars containing stores of all
klnda which nobody knows anything
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amout, and the sing!# line Is so
jammed that it is impossible to move
over it as fast as the mule trains go
alongside.
When we unloaded our regiment at
Tampa we had to go 24 hours with
out food, and not a human being met
us to show us our camp or tell us
anything about what we were to do.
When we were ordered to embark
here it took us 12 hours to make the
nine miles of railroad, and on the
wharf not one shadow of preparation
had been made to receive any regi
ment; no transports had been as
signed in advance, and there was ac
tually no office for either the com
mlssary or quartermaster. We had
lo hunt all over the dock among 10,
000 people before, by chance, we ran
across first one and then the other,
and each regiment had to seize its
transport and hold it against all
comers; nothing but the most vigorous
and rather lawless work got us our
transport.
Three Days to Kmltark.
Under these rlrrumstannes It, of
course, took over three days to em
bark the troops. Xo sooner were
they emloarked than we received word
from Washington not to start. We
have been here two days now; the
troops jammed together under the
tropical sun on these crowded troop
ships. We are in a sewer; a canal
which Is fostering as If it were Ha
vana harbor. The steamer on which
we are contains nearly 1,000 men,
there being room for about 500 com
fortably.
We have given up the entire deck
to the men. so that the officers have
to sit in the cabin, and even so. sev
eral companies are down in the lower
hold, which Is unpleasantly sugges
tivs of the Black Hole of Calcutta.
We are apparently to be kept here
three or four days more, for they say
we are "to start on Monday. Th"
officers’ horses were embarked last
Sunday with the artillery horses: they
have had to dlsembarke them for the
simple reason that they began to die.
Of course, there was no shadow of
reason fop putting them aboard until
the last moment,
Tf the people at Washington under
stood the fearful danger to health that
lies in keeping these troops on the
transports, and understood further
that they cannot he disembarked and
re-embarked under five days’ time,
they would surely make up their
minds in advance whether they In
tended to start or not, and when they
once did put us on would let us go. j
Four of five days of th's will reduce
the efficiency of the landing force
just about 10 per cent, and must in
evitably shake the morale of the men.
Our men are behaving peculiarly
well, as they have behaved all along;
we have a remarkably fine set; they
never complain; hut surely they
should he put Into action as soon ns j
possible before letting some malig
nant disease break out In the crowds
here on shipboard. They won't even
let us put out Into the hny. where
we should all swim In spite of the
sharks, and we stay crowded In this
fetid ditch, the men not allowed to
swim or go ashore, where Indeed
there Is nothing to do In the thick
sand.
Do, old man, try to see that the ex
pedition Is no longer deferred, be
cause the bad effects of so deferring
it are evident to everyone, and do see
that our horses are sent after us at
the earliest possible moment. But
above all, let us get over now, to
Cuba or Porto Rico, and have neither
peace nor armistice until the job Is
thoroughly done. Kver yours.
T. R.
P. 5?. One man should he In abso
lute control here, with autocratic au
thority, especially over the railroad
people, who have behaved very badly.
On hoard the If. S. transport Yuen
tan.
Port Tampa, Fla., June 12, 1898.
Hon. H. ('. hodgp,
Senate Chamber, Washington. D. C.
Dear Cabot:
I wonder If it would be possible for
you to tell the administration, that Is,
the president, and If necessary the
secretary of war. Just what Is going
on here and the damage that Is -being
done. Of course. I cannot speak
publicly In any way: X should be
court martlaled If I did, but this let
ter I shall show to Wood, my colonel,
and it is written after consultation
with General Young, my brigade
commander.
I shall not show this first para
graph to Wood or to Young, for I
want to say that It would be Impossi
ble to get a better man for colonel
than Wood has shown himself to be,
and so far as X am concerned I am
entirely content with Young as a
brigade general, but otherwise the
mismanagement here la frightful.
Wood thinks that If Miles could he
given absolute control he would
straighten things out and X most
earneetly wish the experiment could
be tried, though personally I cannot
help feeling that Miles might have <
remedied a great deal that has gone <
wrong If only he had chosen or had i
known hotf\ Think of embarking
troops by sending their regiments (
hlggledly-plggledly from their camp t
io the port 10 miles away on a one- <
line railroad without ever assigning >
to each regiment its transport and '
without having a single officer de
tailed to meet the regiment and show :
them where to go or what they were 1
to do.
I'p All Night, 1
Our experience was that of every
other regiment. We were up the en- '
tire night standing by the railway
track at Tampa, hoping for trains
that did not come. At dawn we were
shifted to another railway track, and
then owing lo some energetic work
of Wood and myself sureeeded In
getting the troops on empty coal
cars, in which we came down to the
wharf.
At the wharf We could find no hu
man being who could tell us what
our transport was. General Miles and
General Shafter both told us that If
we did not find out soon we would
not be aide to go, and said they knew
nothing more about 'It. The quarter- (
master general and the commissary
general were allotting the boats. ,
Neither had an office nor any place
where he was to be found. The wharf t
was over a mile long, jammed with
trains, wtih boats everywhere along- ,
side, 10,000 troops embarking.
Through this crowd Wood and I had
to hunt until almost at the same time
we both found the quartermaster gen- .
eral. He allotted us a transport and
advised us lo seize it instantly if we
hoped to keep it. The advice was
good, for it proved it had been ni- j
lotted to another regiment—the
Seventy-first New York. While Wood
went out into the stream in a boat
which he had seized fur the purpose
and got aboard the transport and
brought It in. I brought up my 400
men at a double and took possession
in the very nick of time to head off
the Seventy-first regiment, which was
also advancing for the purpose.
Meantime they unloaded oi»r stores
about a mile off and we had to bring
them up by hand. However, all this
we could stand, but just as soon as
we were all loaded and ready word
camp that there had been a complete
change of plans and that the expedi
tion was indefinitely postponed.
As it had taken three days to load
all the troops and would take six to
unload them and load them again, it
was obviously unwise io do anything
but keep them on board until there
was definite information from Wash
ington. So, thanks to this vacillation
of purpose at Waahington this Is the
fifth day we have spent (and the
eighth day some of the troops have
spentl packed and sweltering en these
troop ships in Tampa Bay under the
semi tropical June sun.
Bathers Defy Sharks.
Tn spite of the sharks, we let the
men bathe at morning and evening,
as it Is too hot during the rest of the
day. The shore is mere sand, but
fortunately we have been moved out
of the fetid ditch beside the wharf
where we first lay, so that the men
can be very rarely sent nshore. We
have given them the entire deck and
they n(u> packed so close that they
can gel no exercise and no drill, while
the officers, except when inspecting
the ship or attending a disembarka
tion. have to keep to their own cabins.
Now, if this were necessary ho one
would complain for a moment, and
the men are perfectly cheerful as it
Is; but It is absolutely unnecessary;
the five days' great heat and crowded
confinement are telling visibly upon
/the spirits and health of the .troops,
it seems incredible that a place like
Tampa should have been chosen -with
out previous Inspection, that no im
provements should have been made in
the railroad facilities at the place dur
ing the last month and that the ord
nance and quartermaster departments
should have fallen into such Inextric
able confusion; a confusion partly due
to their own dilatory inetnrienry and
partly due to the utter Incompetence
of the railway managers here and the
inadequacy of their system. Finally,
it was Inexcusable to get the troops
to Tampa unless it was intended to
embark them, while it seems literally
Incredible that they could have been
embarked before It was Intended to
use them.
All this Is In the past now, hut at
least it may be possible to prevent
su< h blunders In the future.
I did not feel that I was fit to be
colonel of this regiment and I was
certainly much less fit than Wood,
who lias done heller with it than I
possibly could have done, but 1 am
more fit to command a brigade or a
division or attend to tills whole mat
ter of embarking and sending the
army than many of those whose bust
ness It-Is to do the work. I do not
know whether the circumstances at
Tampa were exceptional; if not. there
ts need of an Immediate and radical
hang® or the InefTioienry of our gov
rnment In 1S12 will be more than t
laralleled. c
Naturally this Is not a letter that t
an be shown to anyone, but lam go- <
ng to keep you informed as to the i
arts, and for the credit of the conn- 1
ry and administration I wish you 'J
rould try to straighten things out. t
We are already in the yellow fever i
one and at the beginning of the yel
tny fever season, and 1 only hope (
hut no weakness or vacillation will t
uevent our being put where we can i
lo some service inasmuch as we are }
lready running the risk. I doubt If i
luba is much more unhealty than i
he low coast of Florida now. r
Give my love to Nannie. i
Faithfully yours, I
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Washington, D. C., June 13, 1S98. >
Personal i
Dear Theodore:
I knew perfectly well what n state
f things existed at Tampa, but your
leseriptlon brought It home with a
■ividness which no other account did.
Ve were entirely unprepared and the
lisorganizalion is something fright
ul. The underlying fact of ail is
hat we never have a sufficient army
rfld are always cught unprepared
i hen we go to war. In some respects
t is quite wonderful to me that we
[et along even as well as we do.
You are likely, I think, to have
icnie sharp fighting at Santiago, hut
cannot but believe that the town
vill soon be in your hands.
I will do everything in my power
ibout your horses, but my power is
cry helpless when I come up against
he immobility of the War depart
rient. Still there is nothing like try
ng.
The navy has done splendidly all
ilong. Allan,• you will lie glad to
tear, Is doing extremely well. He is
ncthodical and firm and has got hold
if the business with great rapidity.
Some very comic incidents happen
vhich I should like to enjoy with you.
William Lloyd Garrison has de
flounced Charles Eliot Norton as a
ingo because he said the admlnistra
ion should be furnished with funds
o bring the war to a speedy close,
ilthough it was an infamous war.
Then Gamaliel Bradford and Moor
Held Storey are to hold a meeting at
Faneuil ball tomorrow to denounce
:ha adoption of an imperial poliry by
the Inlted States. The drift of public
opinion in favor of an imperial policy
seems to be absolutely overwhelming,
tnd the democrats here seem to be
going lo pieces on it.
Always sincerely yours,
H. C. L.
•Charts* Allen of Ma**achu*ri t*. who
flail HUcri-erted Roosevelt a* a**iauvnt aec
telary of ihe navy.
Washington, June 24, 1S98.
Personal.
Dear Theodore:
If you ever get my other two let
ins you will know how much I sym
pathize with you in all the disorgan
ization front which you suffered at
Tampa. It is pretty well known
here but people
are very shy in
making public
criticism for fear
of hampering the
government In
any- way. 1 think
matters are slow
ly Improving but
the trouble is, as
it has been from
the beginning, in
the War depart,
inent. I noticed
with great inter
est that when il
came to landing
the troops under
naval management at Sanllago, it
was most rapidly and perfectly per
lurineu,
I have been to the department
about your horses, and a* I wrote
you they told me they would try and
send them as soon as possible and
hoped you might be able to get some
there after you were established,
which seems a difficult and wholly
vague provision. 1 will do the very
best I can, but 1 feel very hopeless
and helpless at the War department.
To you, in the midst of war, the
things we are doing here must appear
very tame, and it seems hardly worth
while to tell you that I am devoting
all rny strength to securing the nn
nexation of Hawaii. It Is humdrum
work compared to that In which you
are engaged, but not. I think, use
less. Always sincerely yours,
H. C. Ixklge.
Camp 2 Miles from Santiago,
June 27, ‘112.
Dear Cabot:
Well, whatever comes I shall feel
contented with having left the Navy
department to go into the army for
the war; for our regiment has been
In the first fight on land, and haa
done well. Iewas nothing more than
a brisk skirmish, for Young's brigade,
the advance guard of the army, had
but 900 men on the ground, of whom
aver 90 men were killed or wounded
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'iur regiment furnished over half j
ho men, and half the loss. Toting
id well. So did Wood; and in fact
ho entire regiment. I had command
f th“ right squadron, until, In the
rivanre we got touch of the regu
irs, who had come up separately,
hen Major Brodie was shot, and I
ook command of his squadron, the
ight, and led it in the final charge.
It was very thh k country, and the
(paniards wet* in a very glrong posi
ion. 1 thought they shot well. Our
,'uban scouts and guides ran like
hcpp at the first fire. The smoke
rs* powder made it hard to locate
he men who were shooting at us:
nd our men at times dropped thickly
then we rould not tell where to fire
tack. Shatter was not even ashore!
’he mismanagement had been mad
lening. We have had very little to
at. But we rare nothing for that,
s long as we got into the fight.
Yours ever,
T. R
(Washington, T>. ft.)
June 29, 1838.
’ersonal.
!)ear Theodore:
Perhaps among the alarms and ex
urslons of your active war you may
ike to turn your thoughts to some
hing frivolous. I have two little
dories which I think will amuse you.
i’he second one Is confidential.
The first is this: A Madrid paper
ins given the following description of
mu: "He wuis horn at Harlaam and
mmlgrated to America at an early
tge. Ho was educated at the town
if Harvard where there is a eommer
lal school, as there are no colleges
ir universities in the United States.
Je then became a policeman in New
fork and Is now commander of the
\meriean navy.” This is perfectly
genuine and is a translation from a
Spanish paper.
The second story is this: Whenever
[ go in to see the governor (Bong) he
s very apt to close the doors
ind call upon me for sympathy in
egard to his worthy colleague in the
War department. Day before vester
Jay he had a story which was not
serious like most of his plaints, bul
which had tickled his sense of humor
immensely. The secretary of war
[Alger) had come over and said that
he wanted a convoy at once to take
a tug and lighter to Shatter. Thg
governor asked him why he did not
send his lighter with the expedition.
He said that he did, but that the
lighter had been lost. I may say. In
parenthesis, nobody knows where
I hat lighter was lost, hut it seems to
have disappeared somewhere.
Alger then said that Shatter was
[airgraphing for a lighter and that
he must send him one at once. “Very
well," Bong said, "I will furnish you
with a convoy. You can have the
Fern,' which will answer your pur
pose '' The secretary Baid he was
very much obliged and then he hesi
tated and said: "Now that you have
given me a convoy, don't you think
you could furnish me with a tug and
a lighter?” which I am bound to say
was what ultimately happened.
It would gratify you very much, I
tin sure, to hear the expressions of
delight and pride from your friends,
imperially your ft lends In the senate,
at the victory won by the Bough
Riders.
The newspapers are nominating vou
for governor of New York, and 1 have
not the least doubt that you can go
to congress If you want to, which, I
think, you would like by and by, and
If you keep on as you have been doing
and succeed In living through the
war. you can hope f"r much belter
things than a seat In congress. All
of which Is very satisfactory to me.
Always sincerely yours,
’ H. C. L.
Trenches Outside Santiago.
July 3, 'US.
Dear Cabot:
Tell the president for heaven's sake
to send us every regiment and above
all every battery possible. We have
won so far, at a very heavy cost; but
the Spaniards fight very hard and
charging those intrenchments against
modern rifles is terrible. We ure
within mensurable distance of a ter
rible military disaster; we must have
help—thousands of men, batteries
and food and ammunition. The other
volunteers are at a hideous disadvan
tage owing to their not having
smokeless powder. Our general* is
poor; he is too unwieldy to get to the
front.
I commanded my regiment. 1 think
I may say, with honor. We lost a
quarter of our men. For three days
T have been at the extreme front of
the firing line; how I have escaped 1
know not; I have not blanket or coat;
l have not taken off my shoes even:
I sleep in the drenching rain, and
drink putrid water. Best love to
Nannie.
Your ever.
T. R.
•Oeneral Shaper. commander of the
t'nlled States fnrree In t'dlia, *»• of auch
great aue that he could hardly move
about.
July 4., 1898.
Dear Theodore:
Great news this morning and 1
cannot resist sending a line to tell
you how rejoiced wo all are. You
again brilliantly distinguished your
self at Kan Juan on Friday. You
are one of the popular persons of
the war and deserve to be. Pray God
you come out alt right. We have
been living with our hearts In our
mouths.
A letter from Kdith this morning
says all well at Oyster Bay.
I congratulate you and admire you
more than you can conceive.
Best love from Nannie.
Yours,
H. C. I,.
IThe following Ictlcr and others ap
pearing during the coming week are pen
ciled script*—written bv Kooa*-\elt in the
trenches of the Santiago battlefield,)
Trenches Outside Santiago,
July 5, ’98.
Dear Cabot:
Not since the campaign of Orassus
against the Perthlans has there been
so criminally Incompetent a general
as Shafter: and not since the expedi
tion against Walcheron has there
been grosser mismanagement than In
this.
The battle simply fought Itself'
three of the brigade commanders,
most of the colonels and all the reg
iments Individually did well: and the
heroism of some of the regiments
could not lie surpassed; hut Shafter
a Announcement!
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ART RANDALL
Director 0/ Randall’s Royal Orchestra
Selected a Kimball
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Randall's Koval Orchestra
which has been entertaining ai
tlie Strand theater for the past
live weeks, selected a Kimball
i’iano. I,ike other famous
musicians, Mr. Randall selects
the Kimball because of its supe
rior quality.
For 50 years Kimball Piano* have been *old in Omaha
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1513-15 Douglas St.
never came within three mllea of the
line and never has rnme; ths rnn
fusion Is incredible. The siege guns
have not yet been landed! The mor
tars have not been started from the
landing place. Our artillery has been
poorly handled. There Is no- head;
th« orders follow one another In rap
id succession, and are confused and
contradictory to a degree. 1 have
hold the extreme front of the fight
ing line; I shall do all that can he
done, whatever comes; but It l» bit
ter to see the misery and suffering,
and think that nothing but lnronipe
tency in administering the nation's
enormous resources caused It.
The fighting has been very hard. I
don't know whether people at home
know how well this regiment did. I
am as proud of It as I ran he; and
these men would follow me anywhere
now. It was great lurk for me lo
get the command of it before this
battle.
Rest love to Nannie.
l'ours ever,
T. R.
CT» be continued tomorrow. wtlh noire
of Roosevelt's letterv penciled In the Son
.loan trenches.)
Liberty of Escaped
Iowa Prisoners Short
Missouri Valley, la., March 21. —
"Tuck" Long of Missouri Valley
and Harry Poe of Woodbine, the
two men who dug out of the county
jail at Logan early Thursday morn
ing, had only a short season of lib
erty. Long came here and his rela
tives Immediately took him back,
end Sheriff Milliman found Poe in
bed at a neighbor's at Woodbine.
Roth men were back in jail by noon
Thursday.
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Hut he soon changed to more prof
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tune of close to $200,000. The poni
boy of five years ago is today tht
owner of a home worth $15,000, an
other dwelling at 915 North Fifty
first street; two duplex apartmenll
and a beauty parlor patronized bj
many of Omaha's elite. He is said M
have wide investments also in lows
and Kansas farms.
Mr. Allison was arrested Pt. Pat
rick's day by agents of Prohibition
Agent Robert Pamardick, while un
loading 65 gallon cans of alleged alco
hol at the garage of the late Jimmie
Griffin. With him were Clarence
Ilanfeldt and Earl Straley. Thla 1«
said to be the business in which he
has ‘ marie good'1 in a financial wav.
This is the first time he has been
arrested.
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