Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-17
You Can Come Here
CUT OFF THE COMMIssARY.
Gen. Frye's Terrible Punishment OF
Some Diasntisficd Follower.

Gen" Frye, who is in command of the
so-called Industrial camp at Rosslyn, taught
the followers of Calvin and a few others
a lesson in discipline yesterday, which will
pass down into history as the very quintes-
sence OF strategy. intended to bring mutin-
Gus spirits up with a short haul. In other
armies a disregard of the authority of those
In command is treated with q file Of soldiers
and a pine coffin. In Frye's army such an
offense Is punished with infinitely more
severity. The offenders are cut off from
their customary dalliance with the COM
missary department. When the condition
of the industrials Is taken into considera-
ton such punishment makes the horrors
of the inQuisition seem tame In COMPARE
son. That is what ''Gen." Frye did yester-
day, anyhow. As Carl Browne placed in
his pocket all the money collected from the
curious and the sympathetic on the long
march Of the Commonweal of Christ from
Massillon to this city, including the heavy
sum secured at the Brightwood Driving
Park on the first Sunday Of the aggrega-
tion's arrival here. Gen" Frye has been
doing the same thing with the funds taken
In at Rosslyn. The Galvtnites claimed yes
terday that the doughty general was
devoting the money thus collected to his
own private uses. prominent among which
were railroad junkets to various portions
Of Virginia. and they demanded an account
Ing. The Napoleon Of the No-home Legion
grew extremely wrathy at this evidence of
lack OF confidence in his honesty Of pur-
pose and other estimable qualities and
threw his deadly shaft. He ordered the
Galvtnites to avaunt and after they had
avaunted he issued an edict that none of
the malcontents was to have SO much as
one modest and retiring army bean when
the commissary was thrown open for the
digestive edihcation of the ''industrials."
There may be trouble in the camp in case
this order Is not rescinded, as the Calvin
ties are hungry all the time anyhow and
in case their appetites are rot assuaged in
some degree at regular intervals. they de-
clare their intention Of taking forcibly
what they claim belongs to them right
fully.
The commissary. however, scarcely con-
tains provisions sufficient to repay the mu-
tmeers for a raid. The numerical strength
of the camp increases daily, but the sup
plies are dwindling, and many Of the men
60 out daily on begging expeditions through
the surrounding country and up to Fort
Myer. About fifty recruits reached the
place yesterday, over n score of them COM
ing from the Coxey camp near Highlands,
which seems to be pursued by Ill luck
Yesterday evening a severe storm of wind
and rain swept over it, knocking the frail
shelters of the men to pieces and drench-
ing the occupants. The cornmonweaIers are
angry at their apparent desertion by COxey.
Browne and Oklahoma Sam, and Jesse CoXey
telegraphed his father yesterday that the
men were very much disconnected at his
continued absence. CoXey has been out in
st. Paul, and perusal of exchanges from
that neighborhood shows that he has been
making speeches to big crowds at various
picnics and other gatherings, and has been
taking up substantial collections from his
auditors, as well selling his pictures and
autographs for dollar apiece. The COM
monwealers have seen none Of this money,
however, or provisions purchased with it.
There was the usual speechmaking at
Rosslyn last night, at which Frye Grated
and Gen" Kelly and his glee club sang
songs.
Mamie G. Cook has field suit for divorce
from George w. Cook. The facts in the case
are withheld from publication.