The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-18
COyEY Is NOW
An ADMIRAL
The COmmOnwGal Navy An9at Oh The Raging
"GanaWl -
TWO Boats CARRY THE SOLDIERS
%ith Flags Flying and Each Horn in
the Band Playing a Different Tune
They Embark on a Fleet Of Two
Goats and Sail Away from Cumber-
and-Erowre Wakes Scriptural
Over the Free Lunch.

u MGtkIANl, Allsr AuAAl A's
~ OXEY'S army has ut last changed
u Its title and become CoXey' 5
n navy. The change was made
W this morning when the Common
veal struck camp ut the Cumberland
Base Ball park, and marched with
standards aloft aud each piece of the
band playing different tune down 10
the canal wharf. where two boats OF
Mertsus Sons Lumber company lay in
wait The start WIS made about 80,
the commissary aud camp wagons
grOauiug uuder the remnants Of the uu.
expected free lunch of Sunday and
Monday, which Browne, with his usual
aptness at Scripture quoting, said:
Game like the mama in the wilder
ness where when Of the fragments
Moses took up twelve baskets full
The march down the dusty pike and
through Cumberland was made be-
tween lines of spectators who occas-
.onally broke into good natured cbaff,
and finally gave a general cheer for
Admiral Coxey, as he mounted the
quarter deck OF his new craft and
glided off down the canal, like new
Columbus, looking for fresh worlds Of
peace and plenty for his followers
Mayor Hopewell Hebb was among
the spectators Of the embarkation, "a
was also Sheriff King with his posse Of
special deputies, who were sworn in to
protect the town last Saturday, but
vino have had nothing to DO but draw
their pay.
Chief Marshal Browne, in his gen
eral orders issued last night, said I'VE
have crossed the Alps of our journey,
where the ice and snow smo:e our
legion. not with the cold hand of death,
thanks to unceasiug care, and we are
now in the sunny Italy Of Maryland,
My Maryland, and the Prodigal Son
WAS not made more welcome than we
nave been since we crossed the line,
but the good people of Cumber-
land, particularly, have made our
sojourn in Camp Victory aud
Thackeray a feaIS OF joy and flow Of
soul, and we richly earned it, and as
American citizens they bestowed it on
US in that spirit. As an evidence of
the little influence the majority of
newspapers now have, advising the
people to shun US our camp has bsen
graced each day with the handsome
faces Of the pr0vsrbislly beautiful
Maryland ladies'. They have placed
their seal of commendation upon us
and we cannot fail.
BILLED AS FREIGHT.
The emDarkation OF the Common.
veal army was lively affair Under
the Instructions of the general mana
ger, the whole of the army was billed
"a freight" twenty-six tons in all, at
80 cents per ton, which was SO. 12 more
than If Coxey had been handling coal
instead of men. horses and camp lum.
Der. The cost of the trip, including toll
paid the Canal company, was $S5. the
additional amount for provisions was
very little, for the liberal contributions
received here were enough for almos t
half the boat trip.
These provisions, by the way, though
given with very good grace, were the
price paid the Commonweal com
mandsr for keeping his men outside OF
town. And from this sort Of practical
blackmail he is likely to bs we'll sup
ported during the remainder of his trip,
for the towns en- route have found it
cheaper to pay the Commonwealers to
stay outside than it ia to let them
come in and find" themselves.
The barges in which the trip was TO
be made were the ordinary coal carriers
that bad been swept out and filled with
hay. The ten tons Of horses were led
up a gangway, and, seated on their
launches, gently slid into the barge
apportioned them, while the 1874 tons OF
Z men picked up the remaining p tons Of
inanimate freight and dumped it into
the other barge, subsequently drop
ping themselves in on top of it,
The start was made just before noon,
three mules on the towpath ploddin9
along at a lively gait, the skipper
smoking his old clay pipe with one foot
cooked up on the after cabin and the
members Of the commonweal swarm
ing like ants over every part of the
deck.
The first camp announced in Browne I
general order last night was in honol
OF the citizens Of this place. CamI
Cumberland, to be pitched at HancoCk
on Thursday. Friday night it Is OK.
peeted to make Williamsport, whert
Camp California, a tribute to Frye
followers, will be located; after tina
the army takes the road once more ant
marches to Hagerstown.
DEFEATED CANDIDATE TO TAKE THE ROAD
CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 17.-Colone
John II. Grover, the defeated PeopIe's
party candidate for mayor of Cincin.
natl. last night addressed letter tc
the editor of local papers announcing
that he would soon leave for Washing
ton with 5000 unemployed to demand
work or rations. He declares he will
not march the men. but will 20 b,
train, which he figures will cost $40,
000