Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 245, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 15, 1913 Page: 2 of 4
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my sabre and pistols and made me prisoner.
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the twelfth century, and derived his
from his place of residence. Wombell,
that the real “blunder” was that the Eng-
lish brigade commander was not allowed
latitude enough in the execution of general
orders, for aside from a brief excursion of
ty, the first ancestor of which there is
any record being Robert de Wombwell, who
was living at the time of King Stephen in
Captain Perill of the 11th infantry, ac-
companied by H. B. Emken and E. J.
Roark, returned yesterday morning from a
hunting trip. Plenty of quail and dove
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The old troop Sergeant was spokesman,
and "Beggin’ your pardon,” he said,
“You wrote o’ the Light Brigade, Sir
Here’s all that isn’t dead.
And it’s all come true what you wrote.
Sir, regardin’ the Mouth o’ Hell,
For we’re all of us nigh the work-
house, an’ we though we’d call and tell.
They laid their heads together, that
were scarred and lined and gray—
Keen were the Russian sabres, but
want was keener than they—-
And an old troop Sergeant muttered:
“Let’s go to the man who writes
The things on Balaklava the kiddies at
school recites.”
They went without band or colors, a
regiment ten file strong,
To look for the Master Singer, who
had crowned them all in his song;
And waiting his servant’s order, by
the garden gate they stayed,
A desolate little cluster, the last of
the Light' Brigade.
moral effect was tremendous, although not
immediately so, since it required poets to
make it immortal and an enduring example
of English courage and unquestioning obedi-
ence to orders.
There have been poems written on the
charge at Balaklava in nearly all the Euro-
The French cavalry is on your left.”
With this message Lucan rode to Lord
Cardigan, the commander of the Light Bri-
gade, and repeated Lord Raglan’s order.
Lord Cardigan gave one long look down the
valley, swept the front and flanks where
the Russians were being rapidly reinforced,
and without a word of criticism gave the
order to advance.
In twenty minutes it was all over. Of the
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honor , the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
“No, thank you, we don’t want alms,
Sir, but couldn’t you take an’ write
A sort o’ 'to-be-continued’ and ‘see-
next-page’ o’ the fight?
We think that some one has blundered
an’ couldn’t you tell ’em how?
You wrote we was heroes once, Sir—
please write we are starving now.
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five minutes made by the Heavy Brigade ; horse was killed under me, and this time
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The poor little army departed, limping
ing and lean and forlorn,
And the heart of the Master Singer
grew hot with the scorn of scorn,
And he wrote for them wondrous
. verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English
were scourged with the thing called
shame.
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selves on the hills. As they had no orders,
they made no move.
It was then that Lord Raglan sent his fa-
tal order to Lord Lucan, who commanded
the British force at the mouth of the Vor-
ontsov :
“Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to ad-
vance rapidly to the front and try to pre-
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A good assortment of sizes nd colors
and low prices on easy terms. All guaran-
teeded by us. We have in stock also a
large selection of Xmas bicycles.
Mrs. L. W. Matteson entertained at Auc-
tion Bridge for her house guest, Mrs. A. H.
Yerxa of Buckeye, Texas, Friday afternoon.
A salad course was served at the end of the
games. Those who played were Mesdames
Yerxa, Sawyer, Gustavus, Wilkins, Fried-
ner, Van Treece, Ward and Gliot.
No house in the
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on the Russian flank, they saw, while wait-
ing for orders from headquarters, the Rus- thirty Rusian Lancers, who took from
sians clear the valley and establish them- i
total force of 673 troopers who followed
their leader less than a third responded at
evening parade and less than 100 still had
their mounts.
Sir George Wombwel, who had been
detailed from the Seventeenth Lancers to
attend Lord Cardigan as an extra aid de
camp, rode just behind his chief. A min-
on, and advance with them down to the
guns. There, however my newly caught
Sir George Wombwell, for several years
the only surviving officer of the Light Bri-
gade, was educated at Eton, and at the
age of 22 went to the Crimea as a Cornet
of the Seventeenth Lancers and took part
in the battles of Alma, Inkerman, and
Close to the fifty-ninth anniversary of
the charge made fampus by Tennyson’s
poem there died at Newburgh Priory, Yorks
England, the last officer among the troop-
ers who galloped to glory or the grave. He
was Sir George Wombwell, who was then
a Cornet of the Seventeenth Lancers and
acting A. D. C. to the Earl of Cardigan,
the leader of the charge. He died in his
eighty-second year, and is survived by just
eleven troopers:
Alderman Kilvert of Wednesbury, Major
(then private) Phillips, Capt. then (private)
Percy Smith, J. Whitehead, W. Olley, W.
Boxall, H. W’ilsden, all of the Fourth
(Queen’s Own) Light Dragoons; M. Hol-
land and J. Parkinson of the Eleventh Hus-
sars. G. Gibson of the Thirteenth Light Dra-
goons, and J. Mustard of the Seventeenth
Lancers.
This fifty-ninth anniversary, Oct. 25,
has also brought to light a forgotten poem
by Rudyard Kipling called “The Last of the
Light Brigade,” which, written for a cer-
tain purpose twenty-four years ago, achiev-
ed that purpose, although it did not tend
to increase the poet’s popularity with the
English people, among whom he had been
only a few short weeks. They did not rel-
ish the wrath of the young journalist, who
had come out of India with a literary repu-
tation made by the paper-covered volumes
of Wheeler’s Railway Library, badly print-
ed in Allanabad, although since then they
have borne without resentment the casti-
gations of “The Rowers,” “The Bear That
Walks Like a Man,” and “The Recessional,”
the last of which brought a painful pausp to
the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary
of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1897.
The young Kipling was moved to write
“The Last of the Light Brigade” by the
following circumstance:
An attempt had been made, but with poor
success, to raise a national fund for the
thirty-odd survivors then living of the
charge at Balaklava so that those who
were really in need might be saved from
passing the few years they had to live in
the workhouse. The amount collected was
a little over 8100.
Th charity which had the matter in
charge advised about twenty of the veteran
troopers, who had gathered in London in
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ancestor on the distaff side of Sir George
Wombwell, and the bones of the great Lord
Protector are believed to repose in a stone
vault at Newburgh, Yorkshire.
There is no record of this tomb having
been opened to verify the tradition, and it
is related that King Edward VIL, who vis-
ited Newburgh several times when Prince
of Wales, after inspecting the vault one day
laughingly remarked:
“Look here, Sir George, I shall never be
satisfied about this until you’ open the
vault. Why not send for the workmen at
once and have it opened now?”
“No,” replied Sir George, “I have heen
brought up in the belief—I shall die in the
belief—and I will not open the tomb for
anybody.”
At the close of the Crimean War Sir
George returned to England as the fourth
Baronet, his father having died during his
from St. Petersburg, where he was Mex-
ico’s minister, would be pleasing, it is said,
to Great Britain but there iswospecial
sympathy for him in Mexico and also there
is reason to believe that his appointment
is not desired by Washington.
If Huerta does vacate the presidency,
■it is more than probable that his successor
will be some one not identified with nation-
al politics or rebel movement.
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They strove to stand to attention, to
straighten the toil-worn back;
They drilled on empty stomaches, the
loose-knit files fell slack.
With stooping of weary shoulders in
garments tattered and frayed,
They shambled into his presence, the
last of the Light Brigade.
ute later he was dismounted. He wrote: : pean languages, and, curious as it may
I so quickly succeeded in catching and seem, it was the chance of an American, A.
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forth the only measures this body would be
expected to enact and that care would be
taken to see to it that among them there
was none which would be objectionable to
Washington.
It is not denied that to permit congress
to meet without previous assurances from
the executive would be at most but a gam-
ble, but it is contended that any other
course is difficult on account of the laws
governing the resignation of the president.
Many Deputies on Hand.
There is no doubt that congress is ex-
pected to meet tomorow in preliminary
session. Most of the deputies elected in
the recent balloting are in the capital, and
up to a late hour tonight no indication
had come from the palace that the date for
the convening of the legislative body had
been prepared.
Mr. O’Shaughnessy has preserved a con-
sistent silence regarding all developments
of the situation. There is in all Mexico no
man more carefully watched by personal
ffiends as well’ as by government agents
than Mr. O’Shaughnessy, to see that he
does not leave town and thus confirm by
act the ever-present rumor that he has
been recalled.
About the Successor.
A question which has been put to Mr.
O’Shaughnesy innumerable times by rep-
resentatives of the government who have
called on him since Mr. Lind passed out of
the difficulty, is regarding the identity of
the man who could be named to succeed
Huerta.
Pedro Lascurain has been suggested as
the logical successor to the presidency, as
he was secretary of foreign affairs at the
time President Madero and Vice President
Pino Suarez were eliminated. Lascurain
then became president of the republic and
held the position for forty-seven minutes,
resigning in favor of Huerta, whom he had ।
appointed to the head of the department of
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resignation to the penitentiary.
And Maintain His Dignity.
Advisers of Huerta, who are sending an
emissary to treat with Mr. O’Shaughnessy,
insist that this last demand of the United
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States is an unreasonable one; if the new
congress is permitted to meet then there
will be a body to which Huerta can send
his resignation in due form and maintain
his dignity. It has been suggested that in
order to assure the United States that the
new congress will be an inocuous institu-
tion, a document might be prepared setting
0 thirty million English that bable of
England’s- Might,
Behold there are twenty heroes, who
lack their food to-night;
Our children’s children are lisping to
honor the charge they made,
But we leave to the streets and the
workhouse the last of the Light Brigade.
apparel and, in many cases, these are sold ! Houston and Victoria, and were also operat-
below cost, so that looking at it from any J ing trains Nos. 9 and 10 on the Texas and
absence, and settled down to the life of a
country gentleman. He spent a good deal
of time, however, until about six or sev-
en years ago, in London, and was a familiar
figure—always smartly mounted—in Rot-
ten Row and at the principal clubs. At one
time he was considered the best-dressed
man in London. His estate had the repu-
tation of being the best managed in all’
England, with tenants always eager to, add
to this reputation.
For several years Sir George was Mas-
ter of the York and Ainsty Hounds. It
was while following these hounds on Feb.
5, 1869, that he had . a remarkable escape
from drowning, which, coupled with his
Balaklava adventure, gained for him the
reputation of possessing a charmed life.
The hunting party was crossing the flood-
ed Ure at Bewby Ferry on the private chain
ferry boat of the Vynerf amily, when the
boat capsized, and several members of the
hunt lost their lives. Sir George was haul-
ed out of the swollen stream in an exhaust-
ed condition.
The Balaklva veteran has been succeed-
ed by his brother, Capt. Henry Herbert
Wombwell, who is eight years his junior, for
the fourth Baronet’s two sons both found
soldiers’ graves, one at Meerut and the other
in South Africa.
Some years ago Sir George Wombwell
published portions of the diary he kept
during his Crimean campaign. The famous
charge according to him, was neither a mis-
take of tactics nor of strategy, and the dis-
aster that met the brigade was due to the
fact that the Russians had been reinforced
—a circumstance unknown at headquarters,
where the order for the attack was issued.
The Russians, it seems, under Gen. Lip-
randi, in attempting to raise the siege of
Sebastopol, invested by the allied English,
French and Turkish troops, advanced along
the Vorontsov ridge—two parallel lines of
hills with a valley between and closed by a
single high hill—on the top of which the
They sent a check to the felon that
sprang from an Irish bog,
They healder the spavined cabh orse,
they housed the homeless dog;
And they sent, (you may call me a
liar,) when rebel and beast were paid,
A check for enough to live on to the last
of the Light Brigade.
The quality of the American’s verse, long
since supplanted and forgotten, may be
judged from the following closing stanza:
For now Russia’s allied forces,
Swarming hordes of Cossack horses,
Trampling o’er the reeking corpses,
Drive the thinned assailants back
Drive the feeble remnant back
O’er their late heroic track!
Vain, alas! now rent and sundered,
Vain your struggles, brave Two Hundred!
Thrice your number lie asleep
angle it is not fair transaction.
The principal point, however, brought
out by the laying of these charges is that
it is a precautionary measure against the
soldier himself, for if he were not re-
strained he would very frequently sell
things not only necessary but absolutely
essential to his usefulness and do this at
a price to make a pawnbroker blush, then
when payday comes all his month’s work
has gone for nothing and the most he is
able to draw is a few cents. There are
never lacking civilians who are only too
ready and willing to take advantage of
some soldier’s hard luck and give him
pennies for goods worth dollars.
Besides these excellent reasons there is
still another one which in itself vindicates
the action taken by the military authori-
ties.. Briefly it is against the laws of the
State of Texas to do so and Were this the
only argument it should be sufficient to
keep civilians from buying or wearing ap-
parel belonging to the soldiers. It is to
be hoped there will be no further recur-
rance of this trouble and there will not
if the citizens do as they should.
by the Government is very regrettable,
the more especially since so far there has
been no friction of any kind between Uncle
Sam’s men and the civilian population.
Even this misunderstanding could hardly
be called friction and it will, of course, be
smoothed over without any difficulty.
As far as the right and wrong of the
charges are concerned there can be little
doubt in the mind of any unprejudiced
person but that the army is right. There
is no personal animosity to be laid at the
doors of those bringing this matter into
court. It is, on the contrary, their only
method of protecting themselves and the
men given into their charge for it appears
to be an utter impossibility to detect and
punish the soldier who is guilty of de-
frauding the Government by selling cloth-
ing and weapons which do not rightfully
belong to him. The weapons and accout-
rements certainly are not his and the cloth-
ing only in a measure for the Government
makes no profit on what it sells as wearing
The recent charge laid against forty-five
citizens of this city in connection with
the wearing apparel issued to the soldiers 1
It so happened that Capt. Morris, who
had been wounded by sabre and lance in the
head, was brought a prisoner to the place
where I was, and in spite of his frightful
condition he was still able to give me a
word of timely counsel.
“Look out,” he said, "and catch a horse.”
At that moment two or three loose horses
came up. I darted forward between the
Russian Lancers who had captured me,
seized and mounted one of these riderless
chargers, and galloped forward to meet the
Fourth Light Dragoons, which I then saw
New Orleans between New Orleans and El
Paso.
At the headquarters of the strikers, the
vice presidents of the brotherhoods were
in receipt of information to the effect that
only four trains had been operated on the
lines involved since the strike was made
effective. Their information was received
from representatives of the orders from out-
side points where trains were operated and
from the local terminals.
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expectation of some exprgsion of fespect
ansgrattude, to call on Teonxson, then in
his eightieth year, to seef hewuld not do
semething for them. a-El—2..,,
The poet Laureate heard their stor and
wrote a short sequel to'“The Ch^e df the
Light Brigade,” which had as a result the
reviving of the fund by a Liberal Party
' charity. It.seems, however, that this char-
ity had other uses for its money—an Irish
Nationalist came in for some of it and the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals came in for more. The last of the
Light Brigade got what was left. It was
then that Kipling penned the following :
There were thirty million English that
talked of England’s Might;
There were twenty broken troopers
that lacked a bed for the night;
They had neither food nor money, they
had neither service nor trade,
They were only shiftless soldiers, the
last of the Light Brigade.
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They felt that Life was fleeting; they
knew that Art was long,
That though they were dying of famine
they lived in deathless song;
They asked for a little money to keep
the wolf from the door, _
And the thirty million English sent
twenty pounds and four!
Balaklava. His family is of great antiqui- Turks had mounted twelve guns.
mounting a stray horse as to be able to join B. Meek, to write the first one, which an-
the Fourth Light Dragoons when they came tedated the Poet Laureate’s famous ballad.
(Continued from page 1.)
of the vice presidents and general com-
mitteemen of the orders at their rooms and
on the outside, some of them visiting other
places of the city in comunicating with rep-
resentatives /of the brotherhoods. J. A.
Farquharson, vice president of the train-
men, spent most of the day in Galveston.
At the general offices of the company
the executive and operative officers and
their clerical assistants were working strenu-
ously throughout the day and till late
hours at night, endeavoring to get mat-
ters lined up for the operation of trains,
and looking after those that were operated
after the strike was inaugurated.
President Scott said the company was
operating passenger trains between Dallas
and Beaumont, Houston and Galveston,
peal to Huerta and there is reason to
doubt whether he is- entirely acept able to
the constitutionalists.
Some Possibilities. 02
It is known that Manuel Garza Ald'ape,
the minister of interior, who came from
Torreon, has been discussed as the successor
of Huerta, but because he is a member fo
Huerta’s cabinet, he probably will not be
considered. The appointment of Miguel
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Weak and wounded you retire
From that hurricane of fire,—
But no soldiers firmer, braver
Ever trod the field of fame
Than the Knights of Balaklava,—
Honor to each hero’s name!
Yet their country long shall mourn
For her ranks so rashly shorn,—
So gallantly but madly shorn
In that fierce and fatal charge
On the battle’s bloody marge.
retiring. I succeeded in joining the regi-
ment, and with it returned to our lines.
It was the French General Bosquet who
said of the charge, “Magnificent, but not
war.” And this opinion is shared by most
military experts. At the same time the
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