The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-12

soldier boys ARC seen PLAYING with he
babies and talking and joking with tho
girli and thUlr mothers. In front oil Il
miners house fully n hundred soldiers
and othorA assembled, nnd all wero en-
tertalned by music played on accorde-
one, harmonic1s and other instruments
,by tho atriiorI. A Hungarian pl'sod
lhround tho hat aud every soldier
Clipped IN.
1t Is a hard mattor 10 got provisions
In that section. Many merchants GU
tho Ohio side aud cych In Wheeling do
not caro- to soil to the militia For this
reason u special train waa sont to
Columbus for ratious and arrived yes.
tcrday. Checks arc given IN payment
Tor supplies when purchased or doliv'
cred. lintionS were short OIL Saturday,
but there Is now plenty for all OF the
soldiers.
The militiamcn nrc less timid about
visiting Bridgeport aud other towns
than thoy were ut fret, and thcy do not
attract as much attention as they did.
PERSONNEL or THE TEoors
Almost every occupation in tho state
Ia represented In the three regiments ut
Wheeling crook. There gro bankers,
n%ttornoys, merchants, clerks, uusieiHns,
newspaper mon, larIhcrs, b%ookkoopcrs,
machlnists, brickIuyers, carpenters. pot
ters, w~aponinakerJ, hurnossmukers,
blacesmiths, coal miners, laborors, rail-
readers. etc. Ono OF tho officers wanted
a stonographcr 10 do some work for tho
sheriff and found an excellent n who
is n private in tho Fourteen tn. Tho
Sixteenth Infantry. OF Toledo. Is madO
up largely Of maclinists.
Tho ago5 Of the field officers range
from thirty upwards aud somO OF tho
company oiicerl arc only twOnty-one.
Some privates arc only eighteen whi!O
othcrs arc fifty, and they arc all shapes
and siSes, generally good looking, some
exceptionally no.
Liout. Col. Darrah, Of the Fourteenth
Infantry, was in the regular army until
!wo years ngo when no located in COL
umbus. In tho three regiments are u
number OF men who were in regular
service.
Willard Brice, 4 bright twelvo.year-
old IRON XIncsvillc, accompanied tho
company from that city. lle is not
afraid oil anything, in fact, as one soldier
put it. ''he is as brave Nv any soldier in
camp" lilo was interested in n certain
place and an officer said, what is tho
attraction" He answered Il am spot
ting u spy" lie says he is 4 corporal.
His father is chief clerk Of tho DIlti-
more & Ohio at Zanesville.
The field and company officers are
well pleascd with the discipline aud
general good behavior Of the soldiers.
There has been very little drinking,
and not u drunken man has been seen.
No d~eyiltry has been heard OF.
Guard duty is hard aud the boys get
tired OF it.
Sheriff ". NJ. Scott visited tho camp
yesterday md found everything quiet.
Major Hopkins is tho Oldest officer in
point Of service in the Ohio National
Guard. For fourteen years he had
command. as captain. of the Toledo
battery. and is tho author of "Gatling
Gun yactics-"
Colonel Bryan, OF tho Second, 10 one
OF the most jovial mon in camp.
The Toledo cadets, IL OF the finest.
organizations in the United States, ut.
tracted much attention. They nro the
best drilled company in Ohio, and are
mostly clerks in Toledo. 1t is tho only
detsched company in the state, and ia
at present attached to the Sixteenth in
service. The Toledo cadets il an old
organization, numbering about eighty
men, and not n part OF 4 military acad-
envy in Toledo, as stated in n Wheeling
paper. nor do they belong to a chi!dren's
home.
There are 200 tents and every one OF
these is pressed into service.
Some OF the soldiers sleep in tho open
mir around tho camD fre9, and others
do not sleep at all.
Colonel Colt is a manufacturer, COL
onel Bunker u lawyer, Colonel Brush a
physician aud surgeon, Colonel Rodgers
ia city editor Of the Columbus Dispatch.
Colonel Hamilton, OF the Seventeenth,
at Mineral Siding. is q clerk in the adj
%iutant generals office. Colonel Corbin,
also at Mineral Siding, Is . hardware
dealer at Evansville. Major Dick, OF
Akron, who is on duty, was formerly
chairman Of tho Ohio Republican com
mlttue.
A LARGE AVAILABLE FORCE.
Fully $500 soldiers arc now in Bel
mont and Guernsey counties. mostly in
the former. Tho Second, Fourteenth
aud Sixteenth are nearly all at Wheel
ing Greek. The Fourteenth numbers
523 men, tho Sixteenth AS, the Second
AT, tue Eighth COL. tho Seventeenth
354, artillery 1872. Two cannons arc Mt
Mineral Siding. Neither OF tho two
troops ~ofcavalry are on duty. Six hun
dred United States regulars at Column
bus arc ready for service at a moments
notice. Two companies are at Flushing,
Captain Cunningham commanding;
two At Maynard. Major King command.
ing, and two at Barton, Major kantz.
mau commanding. The Eighth infan-
try, Colonel Gygcr commanding. is at
McClain's, cut on the Baltimore & Ohio,
with detacliments at Glencoe tunnel.
Tho Seventeenth infantry and battery
C, light artillery. Captain Corbin COM
manding, is at Mineral Siding with de.
tach ments at the bridge and water tank.
Colonel Colt is commanding tho Four
tenth infantry, Colonel Bunker the
Sixteenth and Colonel Kcurt tho Soc.
ond. Col. E. G. Brush, OF the First ar
tillery, and Adjutant Charles T. Atwcll
arc on staff duty with General Howe.
Col. j. I. Rogers, OF the governors staff,
is also doing staff duty.
The Napoleon company OF thirty
members was ready inside OF forty
minutes after orders came, and in two
hours and forty minutes had its country