The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29
COXEY'S ARMY ONE OF BUNS
The Gang Will Reach BTightwOOd
Park This Afternoon.

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cient for so Large a Mob.
Gaithersburg, Md, April 2S.-The great
! question agitating the armies of the com
monweal is which shall get to Washing
ton first. There are three within striking
distance of the capital, and the first one
/ to set up its camp will be the one to rake
/ OH the gate receipts, The race this morn
ing was for possession of the fair grounds
! at Rockville. CoXey and Browne started
ahead of the army to Rockville 10, if pos
slole, oust Smiths army from the big
| grassy lnclosure, or get an equally good
| place outside After good breakfast
the army started for Rockville.
| THE ARRIVAL AT ROCKVILLE.
Rockville, Md, April 2S.-Coxey's army
| with flags flying aud bugle and band play
| ing moved into this village about 10
| O'Clock. They were met at the outskirts
/ by the Philadelphia contingent, which
/ escorted the CoXey people to the fair
! grounds, where all went into camp.
400 MEN IN THE MOB.
Washington, april %S.-1he Coxey
! party, now at Rockville, Md, eight miles
| from the district line, numbers about 400
men, including the Philadelphia contin-
! gent, which was awaiting the arrival of
/ CoXey's men at the Rockville fair
! grounds. Another party also occupied the
| fair grounds when COxey reached the place
! but they were chiefly castoffs from the
! CoXey band who had exercised their
| rights asAmerican citizens and determined
to come to Washington in spite of Coxey
! and Browne. The army is scheduled to
! reach the BrightwoOd driving park, lust
| inside the line of the District of Colum-
bia, but five miles from the outskirts of
| the city at O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
/ The park includes half-mile race track,
| is sinclosed by high fence and is admirably
adapted in this respect for Ooxey's pur-
| pose OF charging an admission fee and
| putting his party on exhibition. The
| people who own the park, also own the
| street railway line from the city to
| Brightwood. a heavy influx of travel
/ over the road viii set in, and that too ac-
counts for the readiness of the owners to
turn the park over to Coxey as a camping
! ground.
CROWD OF BUNS.
| The two Washington detectives, who
| joined the CoXey army at Cumberland
| have made their report to the chief of
! police. They say that the army is mostly
| composed of disreputable crowd of
'bums" and ''hobos, numbering 275.
! They say that about forty of
the men have labor union cards,
but the rest would not work if
they could get it, and those be-
| longing to labor unions were of a kind
that never stick to job longer
| than two weeks. One of the officers says
"The army is in badly disorganized
! state. All along the line they have been
! kicking, first at the food and then at
! their leaders Coxey and Browne ride
| fine horses eat good food, and have COM
| Portable beds, while the poor common
wealers must content themselves
with walking, eating hard tack and
! coffee and sleeping where best
they can. The men are so dirty, some of
/ them, that they are afraid of their
own reflection in a glass. Many of them
/ are covered with Vermin, and take them
all in all, they are the most forlorn set of
| men that ever walked through the Mary
land hills. At every stopping place these
unfortunates have been exhibited by
Browne and Coxey and the revenue de-
rived has been a considerable one. The
leaders have kept this money and have
not expended cent for the comfort of
their miserable followers"
ONE OF THE LIEUTENANTs IN TOWN.
Osmon, one of Coxey's lieutenants, ar
rived in town to-day to arrange with Red
stone, the local commonweal agent, for a
route to the capitol, and for the meeting
on the capitol steps. He and Redstone
saw several pOpulist members of congress.
Residents of what is known as the
county" that part of Washington out
side the city limits, are holding meetings
to devise means for protection while
the Coxey army is in the vicinity of
their homes, and it was decided to
ask the commissioners for police aid In so
doing Thomas Blagden, who resides
near Brightwood park, where Coxey pro-
poses to camp, has had an interview with
DR.. Hammitt, the health officer of the
district, in which he represented that the
water supply at the park was insufficient
for so large a crowd of men, and that the
conditions there were such that sickness
is likely to result.
DR.. Hammitt said to-day that he would
visit the camp Monday with number of
regular inspectors and private physicians
who have volunteered for service, to de-
eide whether the sanitary laws have been
violated. In the event that any conta-
gious disease appears in ca mp"
said DR.. Hammitt, cit will be neces-
sary to quarantine the entire crowd,
and to isolate any person or persons
afflicted with the disease"
TWO JAILED FOR BEGGING.
Leonard Van Harken, alias Windy
the commonweal bugler, and Tom Muir
ply, whom Coxey dismissed from the
army, were arraigned in the police court
to-day for begging on the streets, and
sent 10 inc WOrk0OuSe Tor thirty Gays.
This makes four COxeyites landed in the
workhouse thus far.
A sergeant of police was placed on duty
at the white houae to-day, making the
total force of police there now twenty
two. Fifteen policemen will be on duty
in and about the white house every night
and seven in the day, in addition to.
the Iushers and messengers, who are au-
thorized to act as police officers,
The local Coxeyites established new
headquarters to-day in large storehouse
at No. 80 ID street, a central locality,
where stores for the support of the army
will be received. Several barrels of pro-
visisions have been received.
Citizen Redstone says he has secured a
tent that will hold 800 people, and he
will send it to Brightwood park to be
used for the Coxey meetings. He says that
CoXey's circus tent. of which so much
has been said, will hold 1000 people.
The number of men that will
appear in the good-roads demonstra-
alton on Tuesday, If it is allowed to take
place, is purely problematical. Undoubt-
edly the Coxeyites will be joined by un-
employed men, but whether this rein
forcement will be great or small cannot
be stated The efforts of local Coxeyites
20 orgunize a bodyof marchers have appa-
rentiy been unsuccessful. Those who
have seen the Coxeyites are firm in their
belief that one look at them Will be
enough, and that no decent laboring man
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