April 8, 1000.
Polished in Society
Versed in War
(CopyrlKht, 1!M0. !y Huth Kimball Gnnllnor.)
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Of nit tho
Iwenty-nino nntloiw represented by tho
diplomatic corps nt Wnshlngton only eight
havo paid our government tlio compliment
of Including ofllccra of tho army and navy
In tho staffs of their embassies and lega
tions. Flvo ICuropenn nrmlos aro at present
represented nt Washington, and Germany,
COLONEL A. H. LEE BRITISH MIL1TA
Husslu, Franco and Japan havo sent naval
attaches, Tho military attache Is no now
thing at tho capital, but tho coming of tho
"llrst naval attacho Is a matter of very
recent history, and was a token of tho
Interest awakened In tho great and growing
naval powers of tho world by tho exploits
of our shipe.
Tho duties of a military or naval attacho
aro not onerous, and tho layman has tho
vaguest possible Idea of his mission. Tho
minister or ambassador Is understood to
bo engrossed In affairs of state, but tho
attacho seems to havo nothing to do but
attend assiduously to social dutlce and lend
thu gllltor of gold-laced uniform and gay
decorations to an occasional stato enter
tainment. Ho Is always young, anyway
tho right side of mlddlo ago, and ho is
usually a dancing man, or at least a dining
man. Ho Is In great demand by
ambitious hostesses, and his namo Is on
tho dinner lists of tho socially great. So
ciety is, Indeed, a part of his duty, and
no man not perfectly fitted to mako a
favorably Impression In Washington Is over
sent hero as a military or naval attacho,
for' ho Is expocted to add to tho social
priHtlgo of tho legation to which ho Is at
tached. Sorlrly .Not tin Only Duty.
Hut attention to socloty Is by no means all
his duty. Thero aro a great many things
ill American army and navy affairs which
foreign governments like to know about and
it is precisely these things that It Is tho
business of tho attacho to learn, though ho
In no sense of tho word a spy. Almost ev
ery foreign nation has secret moana of In
formation concerning our fortlllcatlos nnd
our a r amnion U, but military and naval at
taches do not deal In secrets. An army of
ficer recently stated hoforo tho house com
mltteo of military affairs, whilo a bill tor
tho reconstruction of Port Hamilton, at Now
York, was ponding, that plans of tho fort
and tho surrounding works wore in tho pos
session of foreign war ouiccs and It Is
known that tho Spanish authorities had
many maps of southern coast fortifications,
which oven tho Innocent amateur pho
tographer Is forbidden to snap his camera at.
Such Information as this, however, Is ob
tained through channels less olllclal than
tho attache. Tho attaches aro hero to sco
only what tho government officially permits
them to see. They visit shipyards and array
posts and mako Investigations of mothoda of
transporting troojs, of victualling armies
and of supplying fuel to tho navy. Thoro
Is very llttlo that a military or naval at
tacho wants to know that tho department!
'at Washington do not furnish him evory
facility for learning. His work Is open and
abovo board and tho position Is ono that Is
almost always conferred as a reward for
srmo especially meritorious service. In con
soiiuonco tho military and naval attaches
aro tho very cream of tho diplomatic corpi
and a flnor body of men could hardly bo
found tho world around.
MonI Wlilcly Known II lie In-.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Lee of the
Hrlllsh embassy Is, no doubt, tho most
widely known of tho military attaches, nnd
a better liked man cannot ho found In all
Washington. Although ho Is only a year or
two past his 30th birthday, Colonel Leo
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to Katlsfy a soldier of twice his years. Hi1
wan cemml.HHloncd a second lieutenant !
the royal artillery nt 20, and went out t i
Hong Kong as adjutant of tho llong Kong
volunteers. Ho was stnft olllcer of the
coast defense school on the Isle of Wight
from to 1S93, when he came over to
HY ATTACHE.
Canada as profess r of tactics at tho Hoyal
Military collego at Kingston. Ho camo from
Kingston nt tho beginning of tho Spnnlsh
Amorlcan war to Join our army in Cuba ns
British military nttneho. Ho has written
several magazine articles on tho Cuban cam
paign, but tho men who woro with hliu down
thero say ho h.is left tho best part of his
oxperlenco untold. Ho showed himself In
Innumerable Instances to bo both bravo and
kind of heart. All tho day of tho El Caney
engagement ho wns with General Chaffco,
nnd under flro for a great part of tho time.
Ho himself tells that ho Imitated tho ser
pent's mothod of travel In making his way
fiom ono part of tho lino to another. Onco
In tho course of tho dny ho camo upon nn
Amcilcan soldier, a mero boy, who had
lain out In tho burning sun, desperately
wounded, for hours. Ho wns almost un
conscious, but ho roused himself ns the
young olllcer drew near, to ask If ho woro
a surgeon. Bullets woro spattering every
where about, but tho Englishman forgot nil
about them, and went tenderly to work to
dross tho soldier's wounds ns best ho could.
Tho boy died In his nrms, hut not without a
fervent "God bless you," for tho holp which
had como too late.
A group of attaches from half n dozen
Europenn armies watched together tho
charge un San Juan hill. Some of them
said It was foolhardy to attempt It. Somo
of them said It was madness. Thoy were
nil learned In tho science of war, and tho
toxt hooks nowhero rccommcuded tho
charging of an entrenched position by dis
mounted cavalry without bayonets. They
shook their heads and prophesied many
things. Leo alono was silent. Ho said
nothing till tho lino had gono up and up,
and the American Hag glenmcl In tho sun
from tho blockhouse at tho top of tho hill.
Then ho turned to his fellow attaches and
took off his hat.
Friendly lo A nut I en.
"Gentlemen," ho said, "this Is a great day
for tho Anglo-Saxon."
That speech Is tho keynote to tho wholo
man. Ho Is a kinsman of tho Lees of Vir
ginia; ho haH married very recently, too,
an Amerlcnn girl, nnd his ono great hobby
Is an Anglo-Saxon alliance. Ho lets no
chnnco slip to further friendly relations
botweeu Englnnd nnd America, nnd only
hl3 Intlmatu friends know how many ar
ticles ho has written on tho subject, for
thoy appear anonymously. Ho recclvod his
commission as lieutenant colonel In January,
1899, In recognition of his services in Cuba.
Among all tho nlno or ten uniforms Colo
nel Leo's rank obliges him to possess, ho
prizes nono so much as tho bedraggled
khaki coat ho woro In Cuba. It hangs In
his "den," and ho tronsurcs tho canteen nnd
battered tin cup that go with It moro than
ho docs tho gorgeous snbrotacho which
dangles from Ills belt on stato occasions.
It Is a dazzling thing, that sahrotacho, or
mounted officer's pockot. It fairly blazes
with gold laco. Tho royal nrms nro em
broidered on It In red nnd gold, tho figures
standing out nn Inch and moro from tho
black background. Tho artillery arms aro
worked below tho Hon nnd unicorn, with tho
mottoes, "Ublquo" nnd "Quo fus et gloria
ducunt " Colonel Leo, with his snhrotnche,
bis heavily laced uniform and his cocked
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hat of black beaver with tho pltitno of white
nnd scarlet. Is as striking a llguro as one
can Hud even on a gala day In Wnshlng
ton. Hy way of amusement, Colonel I.oo col
lects autographs and r el lea of Napoleon
Ho possesses Napoleon's own pistols, with
tho case originally inado for them. They
aro of the long lllntlock pattern, perfectly
plain, except for an e.iUinlto Medusa's head
In repousso silver on tho butt. They havo
been an heirloom In his family since the
days of his grandfather, who was In the
diplomatic service nnd In Paris when the
allied sovereigns entered the city, after
Waterloo, t'nllko tho military attaches of
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other countries, Colonel Leo wears no ordira
or decorations of any kind.
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Tho handsomest man among tho military
and naval attaches nt Washington Is Llcu
tennnt Commander von Hobcur-Paschwitz,
tho naval attacho of tho Gorman embassy.
Ho Is as typically German as tho kntsor
himself, and loyally combs his moustache
In tho very military fashion his sovereign
Invented. Commander von Honour was with
our army In Cuba and watched tho sea fight
off Santiago from tho ship Seguranca, on
board which thoy spoko eight languages
that day, for thero woro two Russians, two
Japanese, two Englishmen, two Germans,
an Austrian, a Norwegian and a French
man, all attaches, on tho dock. Tho lieu
tenant commander says It was groat fun
to hear tho bullets lly, ns ho did hear thorn
when ho wont on shoro to bo with tho land
forces In tho engagements which followed
tho sea victory, but thero aro thoso who toll
of acts of kindness shown by him to
wounded soldlors, and of othor things more
than ordinarily bravo, tho merest roforonco
to which sets tho handsomo officer to blush
ing llko n boy. Ono of tho correspondents,
who was with tho army, relates mat on mo
dny of tho battlo of El Caney, as ho sat,
tired to death, by tho sldo of tho sun-bakod
road, making coffeo In an old tomato can,
Von Hobeur-Paschwltz camo riding along
on a woo-begono army horso. Ho va3 cov
ered with dust. Ills fnco was scnrlot with
heat. Ho had a bullot holo through his cap,
but ho was no erect ns If ho wero on tho
bridge of olio of tho kaiser's men-of-war
at a nnval parade. Ho stopped when ho saw
tho coffeo nnd his mouth" wntcred nt tho
aroma of It. Ho had emptied his canteon
hours before for tho rolief of a thirsty
soldier with a Mauser bullet through his
shoulder. Ho looked at tho tomato cau
longingly.
SOIll Of Polllflll'HN.
Tho correspondent offered him a drink.
Tho German was tho soul ot politeness. Ho
was nenrly dead for a tasto of tho coffeo,
but ho couldn't think of robbing tho c rre
bpondont. Ho would bo very grateful, ho
said, for a doml-tasso a doml-tasso out of
nn old tin can by tho sldo ot a broiling hot
Cuban road in wartime! Tho correspondent
held up tho tin, tho officer seized It and
tho Imperturbability of tho German navy
went to pieces In tho Instant. Ho drank
nnd drnnk nnd drnnk, and when ho handed
tho can back If thero was any doml-tasso
nrywhoro about tho placo it was tho amount
of fluid left In tho bottom of tho can. Then
ho dismounted nnd sat himself down In tho
dust, In all tho tarnished glory of his uni
form, and went to work to help mako moro
coffeo.
Lloutcnant Commander von Hebour
raschwitz was a momber of tho gcnoral
staff In IJorlln hoforo ho was sent to Wash
ington and has been decorated on several
occasions. His cnrllest decoration was ecu
forrwl on him by tho king of Swcdon, who
camo to visit a training ship of which ho
wns In command when It touched nt Stock
holm. Ah alde-do-cnmp to tho grand duke
of Weimar, at tho opening of tho Kaiser
Wllholm canal, ho was decorated for his
sorvlces, Somo of his badges of honor aro
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