The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-10

Again Scranton's Thirteenth regiment
has left for camp. They left the city
last evening in long train of Lehigh
Valley cars from the Delaware and
Hudson depot for Mt. Gretna and 1t
was probably not until after daybreak
this morning that their journey was
finished.
The departure was attended with the
same tinge of excitement, crowds and
adieus that have accompanied the
leave -takings in past years. AT the
depot the soldiers were outnumbered
three to one by the hundreds of friends
and relatives who gathered to cheer the
bluecoated fellows away.
During its absence the regiment viii
be officered as follows;
Regimental Staff-Colonel II. A. Cour-
sen commanding; Lieutenant Colonel c.
G. Mates, Major George II. Whitney
commanding First battalion: Major Il.
w, StillwelI commanding Second battal-
ion; Surgeon Major w. G.. Fulton, Regi-
mental Adjutant L. F. Mates, Lieuten-
ant Walter Woods, adjutant First battal-
ion; Lieutenant II. M. Stratton, adjutant
Second battalion Quartermaster w. j.
Tracey. Lieutenant II. b. Cox, inspector
rifle practice, and Assistant Surgeons c
r. Parke and w. F.. Keller.
Non-Commissione Staff Sergeant
Majors Albert Davis and William
pierce, Quartermaster Sergeant Reese
Watkins, Commissary Sergeant II. b. An
drews. Hospital Steward J. f. Baumeis-
ter, Principal Musician r. d. Richards.
Line Officers-Company A, Captain
James o. Dimmick, Lieutanants s. 8. Der
man and E. NJ. Gee; Company B, Cap
tain j. W. Kambeck, Lieutenants John
Sample and Elmer f. Burr; Company c,
Captain Frank Robling, Jr, Lieutenants
w. A. Raub and Wallace Moir; Company
d, Captain Thomas f. Gilman, Lieuten'
ants l.. r. Reel and w. W. lngls; Com
pany E, Captain George Smith Lieuten-
ants John Kuhbach and w. l., Dodge;
Company f, Captain E. ID. Fellows.
Leutenants Harry Decker and David
Davis; Company G. Captair r. j. Nc
Causland, Lieutenants j. Harrington
and Mark Crisman; Company II, Captain
S. w. Corvin, Lieutenants John Huff and
J w. Benjamin,
MARCH TO THE STATION.
A few minutes after o'clock the
central city companies, A, B, c and ID,
left the armory by Colonel Courseu,
a part of his staff and the drum corps
of 10 pieces. The march was through
Linden to Washington, to Spruce, to
Wyoming to Lackawanna to the station
where Companies +, of Honesdale; f.
of the West Side; G, of Montrose, and
H. of the North End were in waiting.
While large crowds lined the streets
the throng at the station was of such
proportions that the hundreds there
taxed the standing space along the
platform and stretched itself along the
train, less than half of which was
alongside the platform. The majority
there were of the gentler sex and
young, and that many of them were
sweethearts was suggested by the ma
ture of the adieus.
The regimental train was made up of
eleven cars. The one next the engine
contained the horses; following was a
combination car containing the baggage
and musicians. and next were nine pas
| senger coaches. one for each company
and one, a "headquarter car" in the
center of the train and containing
Colonel Coursen and his staff. They
were Lehigh Valley cars and were
drawn by a Delaware and Hudson en-
gine as far as Avoca-
Each company contained it's full COM
plement of men. the advance detail
considered, and will be recorded at
Mondays inspection as 100 per cent.
present. Distributed beneath the seats
and baggage from one end of the train
to the other were fifteen or more boot
blacks, strikers and camp bummers,
nearly all of whom will enter camp
with the regiment this morning.
Colonel Coursen granted brief in
terview to a Tribune reporter and said:
HE WASN'T ANXIOUS.
eyes, I am perfectly satisfied with
the condition of the regiment in every
way. 1t is we'll officered and I think
our rank and file is composed of an
unusually intelligent lot of young men
its a command l am proud of. un-
derstand our inspection will take place
on Monday That's a handicap as we
Will have little or no opportunity for
battalion drill before that time, but I
guess we will pass through the mill
all right; I'm not anxious about it,
anyhow"
AT $40 O'clock the train left the sta
ton amid veritable din of cheers and
screaming good-byes.