Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

forenoon and left for the camp about noon.
Company 4, of MonoGgahela City, with 65
men, IL charge of Captain Westcoat, was
lie first company of the Tenth to arrive.
Captain James E Barnett's company, of
Washington, and the Waynesburg company
came in soon after 10 o'clock, and the sta
tion presented lively appearance, with
uniformed men fitting in every direction.
TEE GOVERNOR COMING TODAY.
Adjutant General McClelland will be
present at the encampment a part of the
time only, as his attention is also required
a. the other brigade encampments. Gov
ernor Pattison will arrive in Pittsburg this
morning and visit the encampment for sew
eral days. During the Governors stay the
annual inspection will take place, as will
also the dress parades, for which events the
men have made great preparations, hoping
10 make finer record on inspection and
finer appearance on dress parade than at any
previous encampment. The grand dress
parade on "Wednesday will be witnessed by
thousands of people from this city and
other points who take pride in the n. G. P.
Battery B started at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning for the camp grounds As the
distance is not more than Is miles, Cap
tain Hunt thought it would be
novelty for the artillery men to drive
there. The good people of Wilkins
burg were startled at break of day to
see body of armed soldiers and horses
dragging the heavy guns pass through their
peaceful streets. Visions of war and bloody
raids sitted before their excited imagina-
lions, but it was nothing more dangerous
than the civilian battery on its line of
march 10 the grove. The gunners
steered for she Tarentum pike, and they
reached the camp ground before the heat of
the day commenced. Captain Lew Brown,
who is a lieutenant in the Battery, was in
his element and he said he enjoyed the
horseback ride across the country very
much. So did all the boys, for that matter
SOCIAL FEATURES OF THE CAMP.
One of the features of this encampment
viii be the social life. Many of the officers
are accompanied by their wives, and ar
rangements have been made to care for
them. Surgeon Wiley, of the Eighteenth
Regiment, thinks Arnold's Grove
will be pleasant place for
she ladies during the camp, and
be has taken his whole household
with him. Mrs. Wiley and Miss Carrie
Wiley, the handsome sister of the doctor,
will stop at the hotel in Kensington. They
eypect TO have good time, and Will GER
Young fellows among the officers have al
ready blown in their salary for the ten days
and more beside to provide their tables with
6ainties for the visitors and friends they
expect If ali 90 whom the bows have in
v1red thev viii have their hands full enter
tanning them.
HOW FAST a CROWD GATHERS.
An instance Of the rapidity with which
large crowd is collected when half dozen
or so have gathered TO form a nucleus was
afforded on South Twenty-seventh street
Yesterday. Three member of the Eighteenth
Regiment were passing along that street,
and accoutred as they were in full uniform
with bayonet and knapsack, they were OBJ
iec;S of interest and speculation to
a small knot of awe-struck denizens
Of that peaceful neighborhood 1t
was Just al the noon hour, and
the mills We're pouring out hundreds of
worlmen. Many of these were attracted by
the crowd about the soldiers and stopped.
In less than FIVE minutes the "Soldiers
Three" were surrounded by a mob of 1000
men and bows those on the outside eager TO
see what was going on, and unable TO do so,
because they couldn't get near the center
and Jhose il the center trying to get away. |
The men of war stood the ordeal bravelY, |
and wher the crowd a. last dispersed they |
marched away with that same old majestic |
Ireai
Last evening small squads of the militia
could be seen passing through the Union |
depot and going to the city. People |
wondered why the boys came back. They |
were armed with guns and bayonets, and it |
w-s apparent they We're not on pleasure |
bent. Later they returned 10 the station, |
1U1 their number was increased. They |
were the policemen sent out to capture the |
srragglers and deser5ers.
ESCORTED TO TIE TRAINS.
Some Of the boys, having been tempted
BY BacchGS had fallen by the wayside, and
tEev We're promptly escorted by their fel- |
lows to rhe irain. Every uniformed man on \
the streets last evening had TO give an ac-
counting or he was told TO fall in line. At |
one time 13 deserters from the Fourteenth |
Regiment we're under guard on the depot |
platform. Their guns were stacked, and \
thev were lying down with a soldier watch |
ing them
The Bows from the oil country in the !
Fifteenth Regiment came down the Ale |
ghenv Valley read early in the morning. |
and soon had their tents pitched. Colonel
Willis J. Hulings their commander, was
with them. Most of the regim2tts had to
pass through Pittsburg TO reach the grove.
Captain Chester, of the United States
army ana Specl2i Of1lcer OF tie Govern |
ment. was in the city Yesterday morning,
on his way TO inspect the y. G. P. at camp
henSingJon. He is a member CT the LOYAL
Legion. having been a commissioned officer
Tor two years during the late war. Speak
ing OF the camp Ut Devon he said ii was
very satisfactory. He thinks the Pennsvl-
vania regiments have improved wonder
1llly since 1ne riots. Regardingthe nation
alization Of all the militia be believes it
viii never come to pass.
AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
Passengers arriS ing over the Valley road i
al l o'clock Yesterday were much amused al
an accident which happened an officer near
tie camp. Be was riding bay horse along
The road near the railway line, and appaS-
entity bent cn showing the passengers what
3 line fellow and good horseman ne was.
BUs the bay SHE'D at the train and wheel
ing suddenly, threw his rider over his head
into rhe field wnere he was living when
the train and its laughing passengers had
whlried out Of sight.