Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-18

NEW YORK. Aug. 1s.-The thirteenth regiment
OF BROOKLYN. Col Austin. left their armory at
Flatbush avenue shortly before IL O'Clock en-
route, via the West Shore. for the scene of the
strike. They mustered between 400 and 500
men. The twenty-third regiment and the four
teenth are in readiness for the march.
PEN SKETCH OF THE SCENE.
The Night in Camp-Soldiers Who Hsd q
Rough Time.
BUFFALO, Aug. ls-Unless absence from
home be excepted there are no elements Of sum-
mer vacation in the work Of the militia about
the strike district at East Buffalo. Yesterday
there were hardships seldom experienced by
troops in open war. The meals were vide
apart, and, as the ambulance record proves. the
heat and other trials prostrated some. Some had
contracted colds sleeping without shelter upon
the rocks in the remote lower yards where poor
Elsaeer was shot through accident yesterday.
And even 70 the ruggedest the location and sur
roundings Of military headquarters at william
street station is trying in the extreme Let us
see If readers at distance may be able to see
the picture.
Imagine mammoth Y, with the opening Of
its forks looking up toward the city five miles
away, and with it's stem trailing OF to eastward.
The right-hand fork is the main line tracks Of
the Erie, over which all passenger trains Of the
Erie and Lehigh Valley roads leave and enter
the city. The left-hand fork is the Lehich and
Erie entrance to the fast freight yards, where
part Of the trouble is. The stem Of the Y is
the Erie main line eastward.
WHERE STRIKERS Roosr.
Over this figure at the junction of the stem
and the two forks is a high trestle bridge Of
iron, said to have cost sIO0, 900, and belonging
to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
which conceded the demands OF its switchmen.
Upon this high trestle the strikers have roasted
by day and watched the yards and hooted the
troops, and at night in the darkness of such an
elevation they have used the trestle as a vantage
spot for more earnest attentions than goes with
jeers and hooting. A mile away on the right
are the New York Central tracks. Straight out
Of the city and along the outer edge Of the right
fork of the William street leads down and
crosses the Erie and Lehigh tracks at the juno
ton OF the forks and the stem. William street
is spanned too at that point by the iron trestle
of the D., L. and W. r. X. Close down IN the
acute angle Of the figure is the William street
lead-colored hut Of one story has been
possessed by Gen. Porter C. Bowie, COM
manding the troops, as his headquarters. The
station building rambles rearward enough to
give the general q room which he calls his
office, where he sits at square baize-covered
table and receives reports and issues orders,
and as he stands or sits the visitor sees in Gen.
Doyle q very tall, soldierly appearing man,
with brown eyes, firm bronzed features and
gray hair, brushed over the dome Of the gem
erals head to help conceal it's own thinness
Slow Of speech is Gen. Doyle in repose, and of
impressive dignity, though not stilted
THE AMBULANCE CORPS.
Next the commanders little den il the head
quarters Of the ambulance corps, and display
Of drugs and instruments and surgeons always
in attendance. This fact is evidenced 70 ont
sid hv he at NJ fha nbr,l,
nailed to q staff that is stuck in the soil beside
the headquarters building. And the futter of
the white flag with its scarlet maltese cross u q
trife significant to those who know it's meaning
and reflect upon the possibilities Of the situs-
ton. n little cubby hole opening from the
surgeons quarters is fixed . telephone that is
constantly in use. Opening, too, from the
doctors apartment il q passage to little We
rands platform. In ope angle Of this platform
Is an oaken barrel with . wooden cover that ID
lifted with elect. In this barrel Is ice water,
and constantly, while there are no applications
for its contents, private sits upon the barrels
cover and holds it down firmly.
Why?
Because II ID feared poison may be thrown
into the water. Indeed. there was last night
and that the close watching Of il was . result
This rumor could not be verified. but the pri-
vate sits this morning just - hard upon the
wooden cover.
AN ExrKNPoRrzKD PoLIcE HKApouARrKRa
Near by in . box car 10 the police head
quarters for the strike district, where 6erRt.
Lynch waits in readiness with Q score Of men
for action. A ditch lies along the edes of
William street and is crossed by al the trscks.
The ditch 10 an open sewer, and besides other
refuse, IL carries with its sluggish tide the
drainage from . fat rendering establishment
that smells horribly 10 heaven from Close by the
stem Of the Y, . little below the junction OF The
forks directly acroa the tracks from where The
men were Yesterday camped in the glare Of the
sun. Directly In line with the fat rendering
abomination b the establishment where Ire
garbaGe Of Buffalo h destroyed Dwellsrs
thereabcuts say the garbage NH d odorlsss.
but they speak relatively. The fat boilery ont,
sneils al smells, even that of the open sewer 70
which 1t contributes, and the garbses min NIB
sides - to tts o6ensiveness by comparison.
Out in . held abreast headquarters is . eoodly
sent under which officers and such msn q
could found shelter yesterday and there vos 4
smal officers tent abreast the fat boiIerv. Ms
vas the only shelter for men Oh duty. Who vere
chiefly huddled along the sides Of . ditch shst
the Y.
The rations yesterday were canned bssf.
canned beans and bread without butssr. Some
a duty foraged for snd found pc q ths Polack
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