Evening star., 1896-12-26
IN ACTIVE SERVICE
Experience of the Colorado Soldier Bows
Near Leadville.
Doing Guard Duty at the Scene of the
Strike of the Miners-The
Camp Routine.

Written for The Evening Star.
There is one portion Of our country where
the opening of the New Year Is suggestive
of anything but the peace and good will
natural to the holiday season. Just outside
the city Of Leadville in the mountains of
Colorado are encamped some 900 sol
diers, and the whole community round
about is under martial law. Almost every
day the citizens are ordered indoors, while
detachments Of infantry and cavalry are
escorting non-union miners from the de-
pot to their work. The fight is between
the state and the big army of the Miners
Union at this great camp. A good part of
the soldiers are mere boys out of the stores
and business offices of Denver and other
cities. The military camp occupies the ball
ground near Leadville. The seats were
removed from the grand stand which was
boarded up and now serves as mess hall.
Adjoining 1t are two temporary structures
in which the cooking is done. Just in
front of the mess hall are the quarters Of
Col H. B. Mccoy of the I'd Infantry, who
is in command of the camp and Of Col A.
w. Hogle, brigade commander.
Alongside the quarters are four tents
which serve as the camp hospital The
soldier boys have laid out little city here
in this inclosure which is all their own
1t has streets. alleys and avenues, along
which the tents are erected, all properly
named-most of them bearing the names Of
your hair grow" is wise counsel for the
soldier but here in Camp McIntire the BOYS
nave had struggle to keep warm, and
they don't have to let their hair grow, be-
cause their little city has a .ozy tent
where two men are constantly kept busy
trimming whiskers and hair. Their custom
ers sit in huge chairs the timbers of which
were probably raised at a bee and which
have been comfortably upholstered with
bedding.
There Is cigar and tobacco store in
another of the tents, and those who have
the gum and candy habitsnUa also be
accommodated there .ns n
The 1st Regiment is encanlped on the
north side Of the inclos,lre in the double
row of tents, there being twenty tents in
each row on either side of Sewall avenue
Ihere are about $50 men occupying these
forty tents. II a.
Center of the Camp.
Adjoining the 1st Regiment and on the
north end of the inclosure are the quarter
master and commissary departments, which
occupy twelve tents. Next door, as it
were, to these departments, are two large
tents which accommodate the field and
staff Directly opposite the 1st Regiment,
and separated from it by wide space
known as Mclntire avenue. are the mems
quarters of the I'd Regiments consisting of
two double rows of tents twenty in each
row, as before. This central part of the in
closure is the most pepulous district Of
the little military city, there being six hun
dred and fifty men in both regiments of in
fantry. Adjoining the I'd Regiment on the
north end of the inclosure are four tents,
used as guard houses, and on the two cor
ners of the north end are the cavalry and
battery stables.
Two permanent outside camps have been
established near by, one Of sixty-four men
at the Little Johnny, called Fort Heinie
anu there are hfty-s1x men in Camp Moses