The San Francisco call., 1896-10-26
THE TRIP FROM FLORIDA
Journey Described by a Soldier
of the Third Artll-
lery.
Plenty to Eat on the Way-All the
Strangers Are Delighted With
California.

The Third Artillery, U. s. A., Colonel
e. G. cambridge, is now settlin, down 20
the pleasant yet active duty of garrlsoning
the posts in San Francisco harbor. The
change from Florida and Louisiana to Call
ifornia is generally accepted as agreeable.
The Third is an excellent regiment. The
officers and enlisted men are American
soldiers of high grade of intelligence,
and the regiment bids fair to win high
place here in popular favor.
The soldiers of the Fifth Artillery re-
GREETED to leave this station. They ex-
pressed the opinion freely that in no other
city of the United States was soldier
more highly respected and more cour-
teously treated than in San Francisco.
Yesterday forenoon Battery / and de-
tachments of Batteries H and L of the
Third Artillery arrived here. Battery |,
Captain III. C. Danes and Lieutenant G. w.
Foster, went TO Angel Island. Battery III
went to the Presidio. The troops arriving
yesterday consisted of three officers and
seventy enlisted men.
An interesting description of the jour-
ney by rail from Florida to San Francisco
has been written by Private Winn of
Battery G. The battery left Pensacola
October 16. coming over the L. E. N. rail-
road and Southern Pacific, through
Mobile, New Orleans. Houston, San An
tonic, Ell Paso, Yuma. Los Angeles. Oak
land, and thence by steamer Mcdowell to
the Presidio of San Francisco.
The account says: From orange groves
of Florida to the orange groves of Califer-
MIA we experienced continual change of
climate and scenery. Between Mobile
and New Orleans we were within a few
miles of the Gulf of Mexico and, much to
our regret, missed the view. The country
is very low and marshy, much of the road
being trestle. New Orleans, eight feet
below sea level, is the greatest shipping
point for cotton in the world. Here you
will see sternwheel steamers packed to
the piiot-house with cotton landing at
levees and transferring cotton to ocean
steamers bound for foreign countries.
CAT New Orleans We were transferred to
the Southern Pacific Railroad and fur
nished with tourist sleepers, which added
to our comfort and enjoyment. At San
Antonio we were greeted by several hum
dred of the boys from Fort Sam Houston,
where cavalry, light artillery and infantry
are stationed. Light Battery f will join
US shortly at San Francisco"
The trip across the desert of Arizona is
described in the narrative of the journey,
and record is also given of the arrival in
Southern California and the delightful
run across mountains and through en-
chanting valleys to San Francisco. In
closing the narrator says:
1--WE left Pensacola, Fla, at IL :15 P. NJ
October 16, and arrived in San Francisco
October % at P. NJ We had a pleasant
trip all through-plenty to eat and an
abundance of fruit. Ali are healthy and
happy and delighted with the change.
Good order and military discipline were
preserved. We are pleased with Califor-
MIA and glad to be here"
The enlisted men of the Fifth Artillery
who elected to remain in San Francisco
have been assigned to the various bat
teries of the Third Artillery.
First Lieutenant Robert III. Noble, First
Infantry, has been directed to join the
company at Benicia, to which he has been
transferred.