Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-22
NEWS FROM NEARBY CITIES,
The Inspection Of the Ninth at
Long Beach.
How 1t Feels to Be Tossed Up Rudely
in q Blanket.
Ths National Guard at Long Beach In
spsctsd by Notsbles Santa
Monica Happenings-The
Crowd at Redondo.

and settled in the town for the day, and
a number of them stayed over night.
Both the Southern Pacific and Terminal
roads ran extra trains, and large crowds
came on each one. The Terminal ran
five trains each way.
The beach was thronged throughout
the day. The water was unusually
warm, and the visitors took advantage
of it. About every hotel here was
crowded.
The attraction was the inspection and
review Of the Ninth regiment by Adju-
tant @. G. Allen and General johnson
and staff. The men had been looking
forward to this event ever since the
opening OF the encampment, and every
thing looked as bright as a new pin. Gen
eral Allen and General johnson and his
staff, together with Captain Barry of the
regular army, arrived on the Southern
Pacific morning train, and were met at
the station and escorted to Colonel
Spileman's quarters. But the main
crowd did not arrive until the coming of
the Terminal train. The first two cars
carried the new Redlands guard.
AT the station the people fled out,
and the guard was formed by the side OF
the train. 1t was under the command
Of Lieutenant Prescott, and numbered
fifty men and twenty-five musicians.
Capt. J. Wallace F. Diss and Lieutenant
Drake met them at the train, and the
former took command. A detachment
from the Ninth regiment also met the
visiting company, and both sides gave
three cheers for the other then, headed
by the band, they marched to the camp.
After reaching the grounds, Captain
Diss put his company through mum.
Der of movements, which they executed
very we'll They have not been mus
tered in by the state as yet, and have
no guns or side arms. They visited the
the officers and men, and to experience
Diss and Lieutenant Drake, who have
been the guests of the regiment, will
remain during the encampment.
Colonel Spileman had large number
of guests at lunch today. There were
General Allen, General johnson, Colonel
Bentley, Major Barrett, Maj. Geo. 81.
Bonebrake, Major Drifel, Chaplain
Heron, Major MCGEE, Quartermaster
Rice, Ben Johnson, Captain Barry, Mrs.
Allen, Mrs. Butler, Miss Custer, Cap
tain Diss, Lieutenant Drake, and two
newspaper men.
While waiting in Colonel Spileman's
tent for dinner, MAJOR Bonebrake and
General johnson became slightly rem
iniscent of the days of the war. They
both related how the new recruits, each
armed with pistol and knife, would
come into camp, and how the old men
would guy them and call them fresh
fish. The major next related how
q man of his company had
come one day and asked permission to
20 gather persimmons, 'ssnd," added
the Major. Il never saw that man again
until long after the war;"
General johnson then contributed the
following story: Il was sent home for
recruiting service, but being young /
spanked around with the girls and did
not do any work. so that when returned
to camp took but one new recruit with
me, and for the next month the colonel
made me drill my lone offering for three
hours each day."
A number of war stories were swap
ped between the two gentlemen and
were enjoyed by all present.
The matter of the state establishing
armories for the MALTA was also dis
cussed and all were in favor of it. Cen
eral Allen said that two were needed in
San Francisco, one in Oakland, one in
Sacramento, one in Los Angeles and one
in San Diego.
After dinner the various companies
were assembled and inspected by
Brigade Inspector Driffel, General
Allen, General johnson and sew
eral other gentlemen. The inspection
was not SO severe as usual, only one
company being inspected at time, and
as soon as it was finished, they were
dismissed. Major Driffel said that it
was fair inspection. General Allen
stated that the fault was not with the
men, but with the uniforms and guns.
One cause of reprimand, however, was
Hoiled gloves.
During the inspection, an event hap
pened that many people thought very
funny, but in which the HERALD man
could not quite see the point. In the
opera of Fatinitza, there is q song some-
thing like this ga reporter, reporter,
what ia that? Let's hang him, let's
hang him." Evidently the men of the
Ninth didn't know what q reporter
looked like, so they caught the most
modest, unasauming member of the
craft in the town, and proceeded to
take look at him, and they saw him
in conditions and shapes that would
have put contortionist to shame.
They tossed him in blanket. BY some
hook or crook the reporter was hood
winked into leaving the shadow OF Col.
spileman's protecting wing and taken
Into side street, Just to take look
over the camp" said his laxative and
agreeable guide. Having gone a short
distance the victim noticed crowd Of
soldiers carrying large piece of canvas
down to the parade ground. He was
then met by another crowd Of uniformed
innocent5 and asked il he had found
any new jokes? "Oh, yes, some, said
the reporter, s'if you have any for me,
just let them fy.'. "All right" they
yelled, ''come down to the end of the
street." and he was then seized and
carried to where the canvas was. In
vain did the victim protest and threaten,
but within two minutes one man had
taken his glasses and another his hat
and into the blanket ne was pitched.
Then was experienced that indescrib-
able sensation of flying through space.
Up, up he went, until finally the air
became rarifed, and he could readily
distinguish the canals on Mars, and see
the boats, drawn by couple OF mules,
driven by man in blue suit OF
clothes; and then he didn't have time
to think, but struck the blanket, Twice