The morning call., 1892-08-08
MEETING AT DIVISION HEADQUARTERS

diately contiguous 10 division headquarters.
where the correspondents are accommo-
dated. This young bugleT, who will never
de natural death il hearty curses can
assure bis doom, began practicing the re-
yeille at 4 o'clock A. NJ. and continued it
cheeTfully till $50, when man with a club
was sent round 10 demonstrate with him.
Soon after sunrise the six bands in camp
assem- oled at their stations aud as soon'as the
Teveiile had been sounded In earnest, the
hag raised and the national salute fired leach
band played national airs. Marching
Through Georgia" MY Country, tits of
Thee" Columbia" "The S,ar-spangled
Banner" were easily recognized, but when
one OF the bands from San Francisco played
ION, What a Difference in the Morning" it
awakened a number Of painful reflections
in those whose heads were in a condition to
reflect
Then commenced q grand turnout OF
street-cleaners. There were no pen itents
yet from tie gnardrOom, 90 volunteers were
sought ard easily found. All along the line
there went up curling clouds Of white smoke
from heaps of blazing grass and between
yesterdays dust and the damp grass the
pants of the workers were soon reduced to
a picturesque degree of mGddiness. Sloueh
: hats With soiled tunies and 0vereoats were
Ebe rule; netty, trim Eggre5 the rare eXeep-
ton. This work OF cleaning and tidying
UP the streets went on till nearly +. NJ,
and all the details set down in the division
orders prior to that hour were Cancelled to
enable the work 10 be accomplished.
AT A. NJ. the First Infantry, U. s. A,
arrived quite Unexpectedly from point on
Sequel Greek four miles from the Hotel
Redwood, where they hsd bivouacked the
previous night. They were met by an es-
cort of the First Artillery. The eight CON-
panies Of the "reglars" came in looking as
II they had been out in the Bad Lands of
Dakota for six months at least. They were
evidently no carpet soldiers, and the militia
boys regarded them with enyious eyes.
with steady. regular tramp Colonel Shaf-
terS boys came on. fit for another dozen
miles at least, and "Od I'ecos" himself the
noblest Roman Of them al, rode as sedately
as II on holiday parade. Very grim and
RriZLled were these solid soldiers. No razor
had touched their boards for six days, and
their uniforms would have driven fashion,
able army tailor into fit of a kind very
different from the professional acceptation
of the term. While Colonel Shutter went
to pay his respects to General Dmond the
men were escorted to the breakfast table,
where they commenced au onslaught that
kent the walters in perpetual motion. A
Caiedonian who was looking on while the
400 boys got away with the provisions SOL
emnly remarked that ii was "a maist grand
serious breakfast"
The arrival of the regular infantry CON-
pleted the division, and Major General
Dim0nd instructed the brigade and regi-
mental officers to assemble at division head
quarters at i p NJ TO listen to a few hints
by captain Barry, representing the War
Department, on The work to be carried out
during the week.
So far the only ''kick" has been at the
expense OF the Southern Pacific Railroad,
which had subjected the First Artillery of
Sacramento 10 series of yexaiiOus delays
all the way down. so that the men arrived
hours late and in very irritable frame of
mind.
The regular church call at 1880 was