The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-13
THIRTEENTH IS
AT LATTIMER
Camped Within a Short Distance Of the
Scene Of Fridays Conflict.
THE JOURNEY FROM SCRANTON
After Bear Creek Was Passed the
Ammunition Was Opened and Twenty
Rounds Served Out to Each Man.
sharpshooters Placed on the Engine
byOrder of General IGobin--CoIonel
II. A. Coursen Now in Charge OF
the Regiment.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.

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Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE Thir-
| teenth regiment arrived at Lattimer,
| three miles north of this place, at
| o'clock yesterday afternoon, after
| long and tedious ride. The officers of
| the regiment were greeted by Mr..
| Drake, who is superintendent of Calvin
| Pardees Lattimer colliery. He showed
| the available camp grounds of the
| vicinity and, after few moments con-
sultation between Lieutenant Colonel
| Mates, Major Stillwell, Major Whit
ney and Major w. S. Millar, who was
| directed by General Goblin to see the
| Thirteenth in camp and then report to
| him, a site on a gently sloping hill
side, overlooking the greater part of
| the hamlet of Lattimer, was decided
| upon. Close to the ground, where. the
| headquarters tents are pitched, is a
small grove, used for picnic purposes
| by thA people of the vicinity, and there
| Is also an artesian well 400 feet deep
| which furnishes an inexhaustable sup
| pie of excellent water 1t was this well
| that decided the officers in favor of the
| camp ground, although that is not its
| only recommendation.
| Directly below the camp are the Lat
| timer breakers. and surrounding them
| en- all sides the deep cavities, result
| ing from the extensive coal strippings
| carried on there. The camp decided
| upon the officers returned to the cars,
gave the word Of command for the
| men to disembark, and headed by the
regimental drum corps the regiment
| picked its way over the uneven ground
until their temporary home was
reached. There was no canvass on the
ground and it was feared none could
| be obtained until today, so the boys
| began to arrange the camp ground
| with view to spending the night in
| the open air. Late in the afternoon a
moderate supply of canvass was receiv-
| ed and soon village of tents made its
appearance, and the boys ate supper
| with a relish in a white walled city of
| their own creation.
THE TRIP TO HAZLETON.
AS told exclusively in The Tribune
| Saturday the orders to move the regi-
| ment at once were received by Lieu
| tenant Colonel Mates at LIS Saturday
| morning. The progress of the work of
| getting the boys together and arrang-
| ing for q train up to $3.50 in the morn
| ing were also described. Owing to the
| difficulty of apprising the men in the
| suburbs of the call the regiment was
| not prepared to leave the armory un-
| til a. m. A few minutes before that
| hour Company Z, of Honesdale, Cap
| tain George f. Smith, commanding,
| with thirty-nine men in line, arrived
| at the armory, having Major George
H. Whitney and Battalion Adjutant
! w. A. Wood with them. The Honesdale
| soldiers received the call to arms at
| 230, and little over two hours later
were on a special Erie and Wyoming
| train flying toward this city. Before
| leaving Honesdale two new members
were enlisted, put into uniforms and
are here in camp.
| While the officers We're getting the
men together Commissary General f.
| H. Ripple, who had been ordered to
| Hazleton by Governor Hastings, was
| arranging for feeding the brigade after
| it reached camp. Quartermaster w. j.
| Tracy was engaged in work of SINH
lar nature. He set Caterer Hanley to
work making sandwiches and coffee,
| and tharks to his thoughtfulnesS the
boys were not hungry on the trip. Many
of the guardsmen left home without
| breakfast and the rations supplied by
| the quartermaster in the train were
very much relished. Two freight cars
attached to the train that took the
soldiers down contained the first
installment of provisions for the bri-
gade. These cars were in charge of
Commissary Sergeant w. T. Simpson.
ON THE ROAD.
A few minutes after seven the regi-
| ment marched to the Delaware and
Hudson station on Lackawanna ave-
nue.. Even at that early hour large
crowds lined the streets and there was
good sized crowd at the station to
see the regiment depart. At 730 Lieu
tenant Colonel Mates gave the word
to start and the train of ten passenger
coaches and two freight cars pulled out
of that station. The acting colonel be-
fore he left telegraphed to Colonel H.
A. Coursen at Cottage City, Mass, no.
tifyng him that the regiment was
| about to move. Messages were also
sent to Captain McCausland of Com
pany G, Montrose, urging him to assem-
BILE his men and get them to Hazleton
as quickly as possible. The first order
| Lieutenant Colonel Mates made was to
appoint Captain e. ID. Fellows officer
of the day. He posted guards at the
door Of each car and kept the men,
bers of each company in the car assign
| ed to them.
At Duryea the train was transferred
10 the Lehigh Valley cut off and the
toilsome ascent of the mountain to
| FairView begun. There was q short
stop at Avoca and another at the top of
the mountain, after which the train
proceeded over the Lehigh Valley S
main line to Penn Haven Junction. Af-
ter passing Bear Creek, Lieutenant
Colonel Mates gave the order to pass
the ammunition and Quarter Master
Reese Watkins and several assistants
began to open the heavy wooden boxes
which contained the regiments emer-
sency supply of nine thousand cart
ridges. Each man was supplied with
twenty rounds and the officers proceed
ed to examine and load their revolvers.
From the appearance of the interior of
the cars at this time the onlooker might
infer that serious trouble was expect
ed.
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