Evening star., 1894-04-11
CONEYETES IN Low SPIRITS.
Coffee and Hard Tack Poor Food on
Which to Face Such Weather.

Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star.
CAMP MCCORMICK, UNIONTOWN. Pa.
April 11.-With the snow coming down in
regular blizzard fashion, and with a bitterly
cold wind blowing, the army of the COM
monweal prepared for an eight-mile tramp
over the mountains this morning The mon
growled and grumbled at the prospect The
army has lost a good many men since YES
terday The miserable weather together
with the prospect of rations of hardtack
and coffee, has scared them out. Only the
leaders seem hopeful, and even they an
pear TO have lost their accustomed good
spirits in a degree. The march today is
over the National pike, and four miles of
the eight TO be Travelled is up hill. Camp
Broynteld will be pitched at Clark Hill on
the arrival of the army at that place. The
leaders expect to make up the day lost YES
terday between here and Cumberland sixty
miles away.
The men are in a miserable condition
notwithstanding the rest of yesterday. Cof-
Zee ana bread, with a microscopic piece of
pork, are all that was served for breakfast
and the same was had for supper last night
The men say that they can never cross the
Blue Ridge on such a scanty fare In fact
the army is In bad way. The cheerful
spirits which have heretofore Character
lzed the men have entirely disappeared and
diseord and dissension hold full sway.
The army left here with nearly tWa hum
cred men. The commissarv wagons are
patrolling the town for provisions and
every kind of food is being taken, regardless
of orders that nothing but hardtack ana
coffee would be carried
The threatened mutiny has been ayerted
by the GOODNESS of the Unknown" who
promptly elected the leaders from the
camp.
Departure of the Boston CONTINGENT
BOSTON, April 11.-It is officially an
rounced that the New England contingent
Of Coxey's army will start from Faneuii
Hall April IL. and the officers will be Major
General NJ. ID. Fitzgerald, a professional
agitator, and Brigadier General Mccoy, an
unemployed boiler maker
Moreys n. Swift. the leader of the unem-
ployed, is to be superintendent 1t has been
suggested that q coal schooner be chartered
TO take the army to Washington and a
committee is at present investigating the
cost of such an excursion. This wing of the
army VIII be called the New England In
dustrfal Army.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April n.-Capt.
Jack Primrose and his company of forty
men, belonging to the army of UNEMPLOYED
who have reached Washington in advance
of CoXey's forces started on their trip from
this city month ago. They spent the win
ter here and lived upon the charity OF the
soup kitchen and relief society.
lndustrials Cheer Gov. White.
OGDEN, Utah, April 1l.-Gov. Waite of
Colorado wired the Industrial army that IL
could stop and pass through Colorado, but
Gov. White of Utah notified them that they
Will be for'ed to return west if they refused
to go of their own motion.
Kelly submitted the matter to his men.
who refused, with but one dissenting vote
Kelly's Tn2E said they knew what Il would
be to tramp through the mountains and
suffer hardships, IL they could not ride
They cheered Gov. Waite and Kelly, who
appears naturally conservative, and is a
good speaker. A number of men are sick
and suffering, and one man died. The lat
ter was idenufed by Marshal Brigham as
a recently discharged convict.
CHEYENNE, wyo., April 1l.-If the.west
wing OF the CoXey army comes here II will
De taken TO the stock yards, a mile east of
the town, and fed by the city
An effort will be made to have the army
move on within an hour after reaching here