Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-22
T0BREAKCAMP.
The Fourteenth Regiment, At
ter Duty Without Pay,
COMING HOME BY ORDERS.
There is Over $4,000 Due to the
" Soldiers Down to Date, and
THEY MAY FOREGO STATE CAMP.
Only $500, 900 Appropriated for the Entire
National Guard.
COMING HOME BY ORDERS.
THEY MAY FOREGO STATE CAMP
ENCAMPMENT JULY 2O-27, AT GRETNA

ENCAMPMENT JULY 2O-27, AT GRETNA
The Fourteenth Regiments days of active
service at Johnstown are numbered. Gen
eral Beaver says that so soon as the pending
strike among the laborers at Johnstown is
ended the Fourteenth Regiment will be al
lowed to strike its tents-or, rather, Cover
prospect very pleasant to the boys in blue,
who have done arduous duty since being
called out by Governor Beaver on June T.
The information that the militia would be
disbanded reached Pittsburg through Assist
ant Postmaster Colonel 7. ]. Hudson, of this
city, who is one of the Governors staff, and
who was made acquainted with the Governors
plans by the Executive himself. tits quite prob
able that the regiment would have been ordered
home several days since if it had not been for
the labor trouble in Johnstown and as the
dispatches or yesterday seem to indicate that
no more trouble is apprehended, the marching
orders may be expected within "A hours, and
the men will undoubtedly allow no grass to
grow under their feet when the welcome
Break camp" is heard from the officers.
RECORD OF THE REGIMENT.
active duty at Johnstown since June 4, when it
was hastily gotten together, and left Pittsburg
in drizzling rain, prepared to accept any and
all hardships in the line of duty, and with the
full consciousness that there would be no play
work either for officers or men. An average of
400 men and 80 officers have since been on ac-
tive duty, and the nature of the task of watch
ing over Johnstown's ruined property and dis
heartened survivors has been clearly indicated
IN the graphic news from Johnstown published
daily in THE DISPATCH. The food supplied
the regiment has not been of the richest and
most palatable, although the commissariat has
been as carefully managed as experience and
the quality of food obtainable could dictate,
and the sleeping accommodations have been
decidedly on the rough-and-ready order; but
there has been no repining or grumbling.
The guard mount was very arduous during
the first week succeeding the arrival of the
troops in Johnstown. as the regiment had to
form a military Gordon around the entire
ruined district, which no one was allowed
to penetrate without passes issued by the
Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, and viseed by
General Hastings. With the relaxation of
charge of affairs, the regiment has had some-
what lighter work, mainly in the line of special
police duty Even this has become no longer
necessary, and the regiment will be with
drawn.
A large amount of actual relief work and
manual labor has been cheerfully done by the
regiment, and its course has been such as to
merit the encomiums of the citizens and rress
of the entire Commonwealth. The citizen SOL
diery has demonstrated. from the highest Off
Ger to the men in the ranks, that there is no
martinetism or kidglove nonsense about its
service of the State.
PAY OF THE REGIMENT.
1t has been widely asserted that there would
be some official friction IN the payment of the
Fourteenth Regiment for its services at Johns
town. 1t was even claimed that the Governor
would try to saddle the payment Of the soldiery
upon the relief funds either of this city or Phil.
adelphia. 1t is learned, however, from a local
authority on n. G. P. matters that there will be
no trouble whatever about the remuneration
of the regiment. The legislative appropria-
tion of $780, 900 for the pay of State troops that
was made last winter, is available for the pres
ent purpose. 1t is possible that the Fourteenth
Regiment will be compelled to forego its annual
camp on account of the heavy inroad made
upon the gross sum by the amount which will
be necessary for the pay of the regiment The
amount apportioned to the Second Brigade for
the annual camp will be seriously depleted by
this unlooked-for necessity This, however is a
matter which will be settled after the regiment
returns home.
The details of the payment for the services
rendered at Johnstown are very interesting.
The per diem of each private soldier is 81 so
and sustenance. II is limited that the vigorous
kick made by the military against pay ing labor
ers s. day, while their guards were only re-
ceiving 81 so, led to General Hastings reduc-
ton of the laborers' pay when he took charge
soldiery and laborers has, therefore, been iden-
tlcal.
BILLS THE STATE MUST FOOT.
There have been about 400 privates on duty
at Jchnstown. Their pay of 81 SO and the com.
missary expense of 20 cents day on an average
amounted to $3.50 per diem. The pay of the 50
officers and their sustenance cost on an average
S. so per diem, making total of SIS. The
total expenses Of the regimentamo there
fore, to 1885 day, which sum multiplied by
the number of DAYS on service, brings the grand
total up to the vicinity of SlS,000 This esti.
ditional day of service. That there is nothing
excessive in these figures, may be seen by the
statement that the average weeks camp costs
the States $6500.
The men have not received cent as vet, nor
will they until the warrants are made out and
sent to the State Treasury through the usual
channels. The money will then be forwarded
to Colonel Z. d. Parchment of the regiment
who will act as the disDursing officer, assisted
by the Paymaster.
DATES OF BRIGADE ENCAMPMENTs.
Lieutenant George Sheppard, of the City
Clerks Office, who is in command of Battery
during Captain Z. A. Hunts absence in Europe,
received yesterday several general orders from
Assistant Adjutant General Charles Miller,
with headquarters at Franklin, Pa, giving
the dates of the three brigade encampments.
The First Brigade will camp from August to
IL, inclusive; the Second Brigade from July 20
to q, inclusive, and the Third Brigade from
July l3 to 20. A general encampment of cav
airy and artillery will be held at time and
place to be designated In the future.
Officers of Battery B express the opinion that
Mt Gretna will be their camping place. Notice
was also gwen that the meeting of the Second
Brigade Examining Board, to have been held
at the Monongahela House, Pittsburg, on June
19, was indefinitely postponed. The general
orders gave no indication as to the particIpa-
ton of the Fourteenth Regiment in the annual
camp. That matter will probably be settled
later.
A Suit for Salary.
7 Captain W. a. Moore, whose election to the
Office of Superintendent of the City Water
Works, of McKeesport, was followed by the