New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-05
THE FOURTH IN CAMP.
1T WAS CELEBRATED IN STRICTLY
MILITARY WAY.
AN ARTILLERY SALUTE FIRED AND NATIONAL

| AIRS Neutrality-suspicious. OF SQUADRON A.
State Camp. Peekslxi;l n. Y. July 4-Only in a mill
tarv way was the Fourth celebrated In camp Fire
| crackers and fireworks have long been on the list
of prohibited articles. and they are seldom hcari
within guard lines unless brought In and hred by
citizens But the state always provides for proper
celebration of the day.
To-day's observance according to regulations.
At II As the bataons. which had been having their
last drill before going home, were drawn up on the
color line, with the provisional battalion at right
angles with the left flank of the regiment In front
was tho 18th Regiment band. On the edge or the
parade ground and overlooking Annsville Creek
were four brass twelve-pound Napo!eons under COM
mand OF Sergeant J. G.. Jansen of the lst Battery.
Along the walk east of State headquarters all the
State officers stood in line at attention. In the
rear of the battery Colonel Henry Chauncey'
IT, commanding the troops During the hr'een MN
utes before noon the band played a series OF Nd
tional airs The brief concert was finished just De-
foro r. and Colonel Chauncey. turning and racing
the battery waited watch in hand. Promptly on
the hour the word given and answered at once
by a boom from the first gun. Then the salute pro-
ceeied gun following gun at intervals OF nine Sec
onds until for every State had been coute a on
struck up the Star Spanged Banner ana an .', :,
military men in camp not on DUTY sto1d %in and
the troops hurried to quarters 70 pepare foT d.nme
d saToT w thu the nil TT to & Tne
was very GIie for all the tnfan were found %"
train waiting and their horses once on board. the
troopers soon on their way to the cty. VI, or,-
the errs aS fS Se rs sseon Of the
They were Inspected by Surgeon General Marshal
O. Terry and afterward gave an exhibition OF IN, the
manual Of the litter and also ambulance drl
with the new ambulance and one with the iravcis'
ians for conveying their heavy bagga from place to
place In edition III, s 5hey showed ""a' '"eS
The niicnber OF visitors who came to camp on the
sssn rel Sgy ali day. o and at tn. s
ton for evening parade the rain came down marc.
tire parade excepting the passing in review ,,..
II was 2i5 O'Clock this afternoon when the lSt f,
pass1d tho long line OF the sth and the Pro-
vsional Battalion: who stood with presented arms J,
marched the I'd Provisional Battalion made up %, OF
companies from the state and comma n. by by
arate company OF Elmira A. the incoming com
mands marched past the troops about to vacatc
them. but matter OF fact, there are about
two hundred men less n G%mp an a9r n
coione william Leroy watson Is the comnand d,
idcutenant-Colonel Charles Luscombe, Major
eoFts cpc hned s' F FniaGe MalSr w
G. Roe rey!menta adjutant; Major John a. Ccch-
tain Henry r. De Forest assistant surgeons Chap
Ian 4. ]. F: Behrends is rot in camp: but ser
morning az II o'clock and Will be conducted by the
Ss Mission F N Mhh 1d mrs 2r Mc
are especially interested:
Colonel Edward Ten Brock chief clerk OF
-gensral was in camp t8,day' eItenpns
also a visitor here The officer Of the day TO-
morrow Will be Captain sydney Grant Of the 18Th;
%h,tnsy of ri the Id separate Company and Second
Lieutenant Thomas d. Croffut. Of the 18th
The sth Regiment reached It's armory. Ninety
fourth-st. and Park-ave., at p m. yesterday. The
special train took the command from Roa Hook
to One hundred and thirty eighthst. from which
point the men marched TO the armory by way Of
One hundred and I hirty th-st., Seventh-ave,
One hundr ed a nd twenteth-st, Fifthave Ninety
sixth-st. and Park-ave. A large crowd was wait
ing at the Harlem station. and when the men,
bronzed from the weeks exposure. stepped from
the train they were greeted with loud cheers Ev-
erybody seemed to be in cheering mood, and the
fine marching and soldierly appearance OF the men
were ample cause for the enthusiasm with which
Colonel Chaunceys men were received all along
At the armory another large crowd awaited the
OF the returning troops looked as though the sol.
diers returning from bloody campaign OF
ton. All tired and glad to be back but even
after Colonel Chauncey had addressed them od III
record they fingered until the Colonel and every
officer In the command had been cheered ana then
they left the armory for their homes, frm IN the
belief that a tour of camp duty was real pleas
ure. , ,,.
before the sth Regiment and came to New-fork
by the Hudson River Railroad to Sixty -sixth-st
armory, receiving much attention on the way from
the crowds on the street The exploding fireworks
troopers whose bronzed faces under their broad
hats showed that the week In camp nad nor pecm
Roc congratulated the men before the squadron
was dismissed.