The sun., 1895-01-22

tho Twenty third Regiment; the sixty
ninth Battalion headquarters is at Ridgewood,
the Seventy -irst's headquarters is at Bergen
and Albany streets. at the Bergen street car
house; the First Battery is at the scene Of Major
Cochran's furious charges. at the Alabama and
Jamaica avenue car house. and Troop A is at the
Tompkins avenue railroad depot.
From these central points the commands were
ut once scattered over wide territory. They
were sent out by battalions in some cases and in
others by single companies. with orders for each
to guard some special district property.
Where the purpose was to do patrol duty along
the line of some OF the tied up roads the duty
performed in a military rather than police
manner. Instead Of single men patrollng the
streets the work was done by squads, who
marched over the ground every little while,
proddng along those who showed a disposition
to loiter. and preventing any large gatherings Of
men anywhere in the covered districts.
THE FoRTY-sEvESTH SHORT OF FOOD.
There has been lot of grumbling among the
men Of tho Brooklyn regiments about their food
and sometimes the lack of IL, and there was
more yesterday but it seemed that only in one
case was there a real shortage yesterday That
was in the OF the Forty seventh Regiment.
Their commissary had figured little too close.
and had then neglected to draw his Sun
went hungry. The New York men had no fault
TO find with the commissary arrangements.
These are in charge Of Major Theodore II. Bah
cock of Gen. McLeer's staff. As fast the
commissaries reported TO him with their requi-
stions for supplies these were checked and ap-
proved and the commissares were told where
they could get the food and wagons so carry it.
oiajor Babcock has made arrangements with
a number of largo grocers to supply all that is
had also hired a lot of covered trucks to serve
as supply wagons No cooked food is furnished,
however, except such comes in cans. The
men outpost duty supplied from their
regimental headquarters. and have TO depend
mostly upon hot coffee to warm them internally.
They will sleep upon bare floors, except where
they can get hay or straw, but last night Major
McNulty. the Brigade Quartermaster, was dis
tributing cots for the use of officers and sick
men.
CAPT. LEIGH's SIGNAL WORK.
No arrangements have yet been made for the
distributing of mail or kilograms TO the men OF
either brigade, and this was causing n good deal
of annoyance yesterday to the Post Office and
telegraph companies. Probably the mos, per-
feet work that has been done by any
branch OF the Second Brigade headqu quar-
ters staff has been that OF Capt Leigh
Of the Signal Corps. Tho wig-waggng
with flags by day and lanterns bv
night was only sdeshow to the real work that
Capt. Leigh has done. Had he depended upon
that there would have been no means yesterday
OF communication except by messengers. As 1t
was not only was every one OF the older head.
quarters connected with brigade headquarters
by telegraph or telephone, but similar connec-
tions were made with each of the new COM
msnds rs fasr as they reached their stations.
Lincmcn were kept busy making connections.
and operators were supplied either from the
signal corps men of the two brigades or by
drafts from the other ranks. But this was by
no means all of Capt Leighs work. Before
night he had got all the telegraph and telephone
systems in Brcoklyn so that every elevated rail-
road station police station, and many other
places were connected. and II was believed that
an outbreak could not take place anywhere
without its being reported at once, and the
nearest troops ordered TO the scene.
NINETY PER CENT. OF THE BRIGADE OUT.
Col stephen II. Olin. Assistant Adjutant-
General, estimated that ninety per cent. OF the
entire command turned out, Notwithstanding
that Sunday night is the worst night in the
week To find the men and get them together.
Col. Olin said yesterday morning that all of the
brigade except the Ninth Regiment and the
guards for the armories had been sent to Brook
lyn. Gen. Fitzgerald went over 10 Brooklyn
early in the morning, but only TO inform himself
OF the situation there and consult with Gen.
McLeer He will only take command II for any
reason he is requested to do So
Unless Gen. Fitzgerald does take command,
the headquarters OF the First Brigade will re-
main at the Seventy first Regiment armoTy.
The fog yesterday morning having rendered IL
impossible to use the wg-waG signals, corps of
men were busy under Major Cochrane equip
ping the headquarters at Thirty-fourth street
and Park avenue with telegraph and telephone
wires. While the work was going on Ordcrlies
we're passing between the armOry and the Park
Avenue Hotel and that usually quiet neighbor-
hood was the scene OF some liveness and ex-
element,
rHE sEvrIGH, $50 STRONG.
Al o'clock yesterday morning the tired men
0f tho Seventh Regiment were refreshed with
breakfast, nnd very good ono the commissary
department had provided hot coffee, corned
href hash, fried eggs, and bread. This was
served To nearly 900 men, and To each was also