San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-10
TO REPRESENT THEIR CITY
The Beiknap Rifles Leave on the
Long Journey To Omaha-The
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Long Journey To Omaha-The
Flag = The Names OF
Those Who Wen.
! Yesterday afternoon, at O'Clock,
the International and Great Northern
north bound train carried as part oil
its cargo. the Bslknap Rifles, the
pride of San Antonio
| They left the armory at $40 O'Clock,
and headed by the San Antonio Band
in their beautiful white uniforms and
| helmets, they marched up Houston
street to Alamo plaza, across this to
Commerce street, down Commerce to
East, out East into Houston again,
and to the depot.
Success to you. boys !" were words
heard on all sides, on the line of
| march. At the depot they were
met by an immense throng, in which
the ladies largely predominated.
Just rs the company stopped in front
of the platform, Rev. Mr.. Lyons, of
the First Pres byterian church,
stepped forward, holding in his hand
beautiful flag. He said, In present.
Ing 1t to Captain Green: Captain, /
take pleasure in presenting to you, OH
behalf of the ladies, this beautiful
flag. May it lie your banner of sue
cess" Captain Green, in his old
time jovial manner took the flag and
said: Ladies, we thank you very
much for this beautiful present, and
we hope we shall not disappoint you
while gone" They then gave Il 9
ladies the company's cheer: Hip,
l. k,.ro y h,prroh tfnor
Belknap. Maverick. Texas, one, two,
three zip, boom, ah!" The band
was also cheered for their compliment
in escorting them to the depot.
The flag Is beauty and no mis-. |
take. It IL by s feet and ID
made of red, white and blue
elk, gilt edge, on that part |
nearest the staff on both sides;
on q blue background lie white
embroidered Texas star and the name
of the company in letters of gold.
There is also q jointed flag pole that
goes with 1t. All this cost $50, money
raised by the ingenuity and fair
hands of of San Antonio's best and
sweetest young ladies. They deserve
great praise for their thoughtful
ness. If they hadn't gone to work
and secured this beautiful emblem of
esteem the company would nave been
entirely without one. The young Ia
ties who performed this noble work
are: Misses BERTHE Mcfarland, Inez
Olmsted, Katie Dashiell. Annie Ma.
pier, Nita Mcfarland and Addie Nc
Farland.
The flag came just in time. 1t ar
rived here from New Orleans at
i:05. Geo. AIlensworth was at the
depot with his buggy and caotured
the precious article as soon as the
train stopped. Putting his horse to
the highest speed he got to the other
depot q while before the company. 1t
is said that the reason George used so
much exertion in getting that flag
there on time, was because a certain
member of the committee said if he
did, she would love him for month.
George evidently thought it was
worth working for, and to use a
phrase, I'VE see where he
was right about it,"
The car, Potosi, provided by the
Pullman company for the benefit of
the boys, is q zen section coach. with
very nice furnishing OF the latest
MAKE, IuEuls DluR ali tll0 huOWn COiA-
forts to railway travellers
The following list gives the names
of the toys who went yesterday.
Captain r. B. Green, Lieutenant
Charles Baker, Sergents Flnlay, |
Watts, Jonas, Norton. Richardson;
Privates F. Smith, G. III. Smith, G.
H. Smith, Max Becker, A Storms, ].
McElroy, S. Wallcker, Robt. Hick- |
man, M Lowday, F. Harden, Ben
Bee, II. Baker. Will Alexander, e.
Hernandez. F. James, q. Bacon, G.
King N. Y. Baskin, w. Prescott,
John TugwelI, A. 3. Dascom, Henry
Dukes, w. II. Webb. Carlos Bee,
Victor Ashford, j Walsh, H. B.
Weir, Mic Tengg. Jr., John Osman,
]. 8. Darnel, Joe TruaX, E. Blum and
George Gilleland.
Lieutenant John Green and Privates
B. McAdoo, Ed. G. Jonas. Ed Bee and
probably one or two others will leave
Saturday. Messrs. Jess Fry, Ed. An
kerson, Aaron PAncoast and one or
two others went with the boys. Dan
Garrett, the Belknap cook, was taken
along, and the boys will have good
eating. The team will be received
when they arrive at Omaha. 1t Is
expected that some of the old team
men will join them there. The uni
forms were finished in time and
everything is in readiness for the
fray.