The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-09
An 1MPRoYIsED CAMP.
Military and Veterans Pass Night ON
the Railroad Docks.

Military and Veterans Pass q Night ON
the Railroad Docks.
Thirty-five hundred men from different
portions of New Jersey and other States
bivouacked in the sheds and cars at the
terminus of the Pennsylvania Railroad on
Friday night. The three sheds are each
several hundred feet in length. At the
western ends of the sheds were numbers of
parlor and other cars. Grand Army men
and militia commenced to arrive soon after
dusk, and they continued pouring in until
after midnight. AS they arrived, they
marched to the nearest unused quarters,
and at once proceeded to make themselves
at home. The troops were not alone, as
throngs of men, women and children were
there, and had to stop there for the night,
hotel accommodations having come to an
end. During the twenty-four hours ending
at noon yesterday, fifteen extra trains were
run over the Pennsylvania Railroad, COM
ing from all points. Each train had an
average of ten cars, and it is estimated that
at least &c. 200 people took advantage of the
facilities offered them OF those who ar
rived in Jersey City, at least ten per cent,
beside Grand Army men and soldiers. STOP
ped here, either with friends or by them
selves, as best they might. The Pennsyl-
taAiH will a1y Ahu uihQ6 cACclloub OT6RhI-
atoms, consequently at no one time was
there any great overcrowding.
Notwithstanding the fact that the human
freight discharged from the cars were here
on most solemn errand, it might naturally
be expected that veterans could not meet
without old-time greetings. As result,
there was considerable audible conversa-
ton, lots of smoke, and more or less fun.
About o'clock yesterday morning num-
Der of veterans from the vicinity Of Trenton
INDUCED in bath in the river. As they
clambered up the stringpiece of the pier
they were astonished to fad their clothing
gone. 1t was rot until daylight that the
garments were found slowed neatly away
in one of the cars. It was alleged that a
company of militia from Pennsylvania had
hidden the clothing.
Delegations from the southern part of
the State. from Pennsylvania and Mary
land were expected after midnight, but the
latter, the officers of the Fifth Regiment
of Baltimore, did not arrive until daylight.
They were fine, soldierly body of men,
under command Of Lieut. Col Gather, and
are composed of ex-Confederates and
Unionists. AS they marched down past
the doors they were loudly cheered.
During the night woman with two
cnlureH, Ieh asleep on the steps OUTSIDE OF
the station. As the tramp of the Maryland
men sounded, one of the little ones follow
ed the men, and was picked up at the
sheds, a couple hundred yards away from
her mother, half hour later. While the
child was amusing herself with guns and
canes, the mother, with wild, staring eyes,
tore through the ranks of men, and caught
up the little one and positively refused to
allow her to be made the child of any regi-
ment. When the mother got away with
the babe, the latter had enough cash to pay
fer room in first class hotel for week
As early as noon yesterday the train des-
patcher of the Pennsylvania Railroad was
busy making preparations for returning
the immense throng of sightseeIs to their
homes. Beside the regular scheduled
trains, specials were arranged to be sent
out as often as the occasion required.