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Updated: May 18, 2025
A vacancy occurred about this time in the Quartermaster's Department, and the appointment was eagerly sought for by many Lieutenants of the army. President Cleveland saw fit to give the appointment to Lieutenant Summerhayes, making him a Captain and Quartermaster, and then, another vacancy occurring shortly after, he appointed Lieutenant John McEwen Hyde to be also a Captain and Quartermaster.
Old friends were coming and going all the time, and it seemed so good to us to be living in a place where this was possible. Captain Summerhayes was constructing officer and had a busy life, with all the various sorts of building to be done there. David's Island was then an Artillery Post, and there were several batteries stationed there. At one time, General Henry C. Cook was in command.
The Wilkins' tent was near ours, and I said to them, rather peevishly: "Isn't this dust something awful?" Miss Wilkins looked up with her sweet smile and gentle manner and replied: "Why, yes, Mrs. Summerhayes, it is pretty bad, but you must not worry about such a little thing as dust." "How can I help it?"
I well remember how the sun shone that day, and, as we strolled up from the boat with them, Frau Haase stopped, looked at the blue sky, the lovely clouds, the green slopes of the Island and said: "Mein Gott! Frau Summerhayes, was ist das fur ein Paradies! Warum haben Sie uns nicht gesagt, Sie wohnten im Paradies!"
I made haste to present Captain Summerhayes with the shoulder-straps of his new rank, when he joined me in New York. The orders for Santa Fe reached us in mid-summer at Nantucket. I welcomed the change, for our children were getting older, and we were ourselves approaching the age when comfort means more to one than it heretofore has.
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