The record-union., 1894-05-07
BAREBR'S HINT TO SAN FRANCISCO.
His IndustriaIs Want That Money
That Was Voted.
Fit is Not Received They VIII be Apt
to Rerurn-Colonel Carpen-
ter's Show.

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Smiths Industrial legion marched in
from Snowflake Park early on Saturday
evening and held meeting on the Plaza,
which was quite largely attended.
Speeches were made by Colonel An
drews, Mrs. Smith, A. R. Andre and
Colonel Denning Smith. The latter said
the army was ready to move at any mo-
ment that arrangements could be made
for transportation.
Many of the men huddied together IN
the baseball grounds have been made
sick by the unsanitary condition OF the
place and they are desirous of getting
away.
Mrs. Smith, as Commander-in-Ch Chief,
and John Barker, as General, have writ
ten a letter to Mayor Ellert and Chief OF
Police Crowley of San Francisco de-
manding to know if the $1,000 appropri-
ated by the Supervisors of that city to-
ward the army's transportation expenses
is to be paid, or what has become OF It,
They also say that it is necessary for
them to leave this city, and if they cam
not go eastward they will have TO accept
the proposition made by a committee of
Sacramento citizens for transportation
back to San Francisco.
The S2, 600 referred to would, they say
materially help them in securing trans
portation in the opposite direction.
DI. Wilson of the Barker army has
been looking for his wife, the woman who
erstwhile marched side by side with
Mrs. General Smith at the head of the
army. Mrs. Wilson appears to have
wearied of the doctor, or camp lie with
the army, or both. At all events, she has
vanished from Snowflake Park, and the
doctor has been vainly endeavoring TO
diagnose her present surroundings.
The Brewers Union has given $40 rs to
the Industrials to help them out.
Tonight Colonel Van r. Carpenter 5
men at Suffers Fort will give variety
performance at the Metropolitan Theater,
from which they hope to obtain sufficient
funds to start them on their way toward
the Missouri River. Most of the men
have homes in the East, whence they
came last winter in search OF employ
mert, and they are anxious to return.
1t is Colonel Carpenters intention to
start tomorrow if enough money can be
raised to carry his men to some good
sized town where they can give another
performance, and the public should lib
orally assist them by the purchase of
tickets to their entertainment.
They have arranged an excellent pro-
gramne, and those who attend tonight
may reasonably count on receiving their
moneys worth OF fun.
CARD FROM COLONEL CARPENTER.
EDS. RECORD UNION: AS this will be
my last opportunity of expressing my
feelings, | take the liberty OF again ask
ing for some of your valuable space that
may again thank your readers and the
citizens of Sacramento for their kind
treatment given TO my men and myself.
In no other city in the Union could a
saYllapnd in my rNNcifinD - ha
treated With more mercy and with more
justice
Handicapped as / was, with a past
record so bad, | can hardly realize that so
many people would, with one accord, -
as it were. give man chance to prove
whether or not he intended to reform.
This treatment has been my salvation,
for promise the citizens, one and ALL
that l will never IN any way cause one to
think their confidence has been mis-
placed. l thank the church people for
their prayers; [ thank the press for allow
ing ME TO explain; l thank all for their
mercy. And, in behalf of my three COM
panies OF $50 men, thank all for feeding
and clothing US for the past twenty
days.
On Tuesday l will take my men out OF
Sacramento and travel as far as | can.
will then stop and give one or two enter
tainments, and start again, and should
we De favored WIFI SOOo fortune ana we
reach our homes and present ourselves a
petition for better times at Washington, it
will be with a lasting love for the big
hearted people of Sacramento.
A statement of receipts, expenditures
in fact, everything connected with my
command-wiu be given on Tuesday
morning; for, although many heads
sometimes complicates simple PROPOSE
tions, we feel that all should know just
how we have handled their donations.
On Monday our boys will eat big
dinner arranged by the ladies of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
at P. NJ, after which the three companies
will escort the show people as far as the
theater, and then return to camp and pre-
pare TO leave Tuesday morning.
Sixty-eight of the boys under my COM
mand signed the pledge to-day Sunday,
and if they are to be believed they will
keep it. So, again thanking you for your
kind and merciful treatment, I remain
yours, determined to do right.
V. r. CARPENTER,
Colonel of the Regiment.