New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-04

THE EIGHTH REGIMENT OFF TO CAMP.
RETURN OF TIE BRoNZRD 18th AND 32D-pIs-
COMFORTS OF THE DAY,

RETURN OF TIE BRoNZED 18th AND 32D-pIs.
COMFORTS OF THE DAY.
1t was a hot day on the streets yesterday, but the
stuffy armory of the Sth Regiment was like Nchu.
chadnezzars furnace heated seven times hotter
when the boys gathered for their Journey to camp.
Colonel George T.. scott, whose name has occurred
so frequently in the Sh3ler trials because of his
endeayors TO Get the new armory site at Nnetleth-
81. for his regiment. looked about the old quarter
at Twenty-seventh-st. and lnth-ave. with evident
disgust and equally evident longing for the time
when his faithful followers shou occupy then
new quarters LIeutenant-Cooncl L. A. Sch,lhng,
Adimtaut j. o. Johnston. Quartermaster George
J.. Wentworth, Commissary y. Mlllgan. Surgeon
Charles +. Bruce. the eleven officers oil the
line with 367 enlisted men reported for duty.
Promptly at II O'Clock the line of march was taken
up from the foot of West Twenty -hrst-st., where
the steamer Henry Z. Bishop was waiting 10 re-
ccive them. Half an hour later the bawsers were
east of and ne transport headed up the river for
PeekslIll. The usual number of admlring wives
and sweeihearts Were on the wharf 10 wave their
handkerchiets and give the boys i'll blue all sorts of
good advice and wishes
The sail up the river was without incident The
only casualties reported were one helmet lost over
board aud three holes punched IN the steamer 9
awnings by the bayOnets of as many tall sous of
Mars. When the Roa Hook landing was reached the
companies were marshalled by their officers
} Company. Captain Thomas N. Young;
j Company, Captain George ~ Gustow; Com
pany Captain l.. Austin Oohout; Company,
Lleu'enant + N: Ienlz g Company, Andrew a. A.,
march over the dusty road TO camp was m Isl try
ing one. The SIMS rays beat down on the dusty
causcway that leads through the marsh to the
camp with overpowcring fervor. When the long
upgrade to the plateau where the CITY OF tents is
stuata d. was climbed. the l IN and 32i regiments
were drawn up IN battle array, waiting 20 receive
their successors in camp life. he overworked
q ID of the Albany 10th Battalion came down TO
receive the newcomers and put little vlgOr into
their pcrsprng bodies with the strains OF alleged
marshal music. Headed by the band. the Sth
marched III review before the departing regiments.
disappeared down one of the tent-lned streets and
took up ats week of camp life.
Then the homeward- bound regiments marched
down the hi side, across the marsh and on 70 the
waiting steamer. just rs they reached the tracks
of the Hudson Rlver road "a train OF dozen ears
pulled up and Colonel BloomeI with 800 men of the
74th Regiment from Buffalo disembarked and they
nuch-iisvelled road 10 camp. The lrtle steamer
Bishop. with the two regiments OF 373 men each
aboard. resembled crowded cattle boat for dis
comfort. There We're soldiers everywhere and in
every stage of undrcss and heat prostratlOn, They
were brown as berries from their weeks exposure
aud acres of skin were pe2ling from their parade
scared featurs The man who sold PIES
and fourJii-rate beverages at war prices
with bualness. The men we're piled about his
counter deep. All the way down to New York
at the water cooler and the distributors Of
Tcs1mentai lemonade were worked to death. "lve
been at this sort of thing eleven years" sad
Adjutant Van Der Clute OF the 32i ,Reel-
IN my life. That review on the broihng
parade ground and march down the dusty road
To- ded with knapsacks aud ali was the toughest eX-
perencc ever had"
A landing az f,roosne ST. and the East River was
made at p. IN. and Colonel stewart led the gal
lant 1 tn up GTaud-st to the aTmory amid an ad-
mving throng OF the mhabituntS OF that region.
Then the steamer went over TO DvlsiVn-St., Will
iamsburg. where several Grand Army posts were
waiting 10 escort Colonel Fnkelmeier aud the 23d
to the armoTy In Stag2-st.