The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
COMPANY ID FINDS ST. PAUL WILL
ING TO HONOR THE Or
GANIZAFION
IN SPITE OF Hts DEFEAT.
CAPT BEAN EXPL AIMS HOW THE
COMPANY NAsE TREATED
IN aFEXAS.
VERY MUCH LAKE A, BRACE GAME.
Gross Unfairness sShovvn to the
Northern Visitsrs+-NO Chance on
Earth to- Win. ri;

If appearances yesterday go for any
thing, 1t is scarcely possible to say
what the members Of Capt. Ed Beams
gallant command, Company d, would
have had done to them, had they re-
turned with the first honors in the IN
terstate drill, as 1t was first reported
they would. Somehow the notion got
about, that the D boys had got up
against a brace game, and even the
conservative ones who hesitate TO take
this view owing to the danger OF pelng
thought lacking in craftsmanship oulu
not help admitting that the whole
thing appeared odd to say the least.
The result of this was that the 81.
Paul people believed that Beans com
mand had done all that was expected
of it, and had been beaten in some
questionable manner. Just how may
never be exactly related: Long perore
the Great Western train reached 81.
Paul a military escort, including
band was at the union depot to meet
the returning warriors. 1t was O'CLOCK
when the train pulled in, and headed
by battalion, consisting OF. a part OF
Battery A. in command OF Lieut..
Rooch, the members and veterans or
Company D, commanded: by Lieut. Har-
dy, of Company H, and. Company Z, IN
charge Of Lieut., Bunker. Preceolns
them UP the street We're NUMBER OF
mounted policemen, headed by Lieut..
Bundy, and twosepretty little misses,
daughters of Lieuts Metz and Merrill,
who carried baskets of flowers Capt.
N c. Robinson, OF Company G, was In
command of the battalion.
When the train pulled in the mem
bers of the travelling company answer
ed the cheers Of the assembled crowd
with salute, and after getting their
arms started for;the tarmery. with the
escort In the lead Up Sibley to sixth,
up Sixth to: ST. Peters to Ninth, to tx
change, and intos the armory by col
umns of fours, went the returning
guardsmen, heartily cheered from the
moment they steppedIoff the car to the
minute they sat down to the banquet
in the ar1nory. AT the armory a pan
quet was spread by the wives and SIS
ters of the members, 1.-THE Sons OF Vet
Grams and the Ladies' Aid Society OF.
the Sons of Veterans J. -
Once in the arnory, speeches We're
made by MayorEDoran, Capt Bean.
/ Maj Clark, of Saltwater; Capt Corri-y
son, Of I company; Lieut.. Mccoy, who
conducted the inspections, and an hour
/ or so was put in discussing the edibles.
Glad to- again see their friends and
| relatives there was that still about the
| travellers. which betokened the. fact that
| they did not get fair trea tment in the
| South. Possibly Capt Bean has put 1t
| I'M; the most ,eonapFehensiveosh ape, as
| follows: D.. -
1--WE arrived in San Antonio, July II,
at 1 %. M, and found no one at the
station to meet US. We found the
| drill grounds the best way We could.
1 want to say right here, If our hosts
had all been as kind and generous as
our sponsor, Miss Berg, we would have
| no complaints to make. We pitched our
| camp amid patch of mesquite, which
| is similar, Ito the sage brush Of the
| Northern prairies. There were but
eight tents for the forty-eight men, and
| there should have been at least twelve
tents. The same night we participated
| in the grand review. We wore our Or
| binary fatigue uniforms, and next day
were the subjects of special order
| directing us, to wear the Texas fatigue
! of white hats and trousers.
THAT was the first thing against US.
! Fortunately we had the necessary uni
| forms with US. On Monday the Thurs
ton Rifles drilled and we saw the cap
| tain and first lieutenant of the Morton
| Cadets watching the drill through field
| glasses One Of the rules of the drill
was that no officer or private should
witness the drill of a competing COM
| pany. I promptly entered q protest
with the drill association and testimony
| was taken The case against the &C
| cused was clear and convincing.
| I'm fact no testimony was necessary
as the accused admitted the charges.
| But the hearing was continued AMI
| dragged along, evidently to gain time.
The court of inquiry terminated at l.
o'clock, but it was only by persistent
effort that I could get the testimony
before the drill association by 2:30 Sun
day, twenty-six and one-half hours az
| forwards We wanted an immediate
| answer.
1.-THE duties we were compelled to
| perform were the same as those Of the
| Texas troops. In fact we. were made
| to do all kinds of work, and were pur-
posely used as medium to draw
crowds and swell the gate receipts. We
were made to give exhibition drills fire.
quently, and were received with South
| ern GOODNESS. The Thurseton Rifles,
| Company D.. Nicely Zouaves and Nor
ton Cadets practically did all the ex-
| hibition work
Virtually, the camp of instruction
| closed Saturday night, but we were not
| allowed to leave the camp Until {
o'clock Sunday, being held there on
Sunday to give fancy drills, but we re-
fused.
LAS regards the result of the drill
contest, we have no fault to find with
| the judges. We lay the blame wholly
on the drill association. The judges
were appointed but forty-eight hours
| before the contest opened, the regular
| Judges having refused to serve for some
unknown reason. Under the rules, the
| competing companies were allowed to
use the manual of 1884, or the new
one, adapted to the new Krag-Jorgen-
| sen magazine rifle. Now, in the pro-
gramme handed to company D to drill
| from, were the movements stack arms
| with bayonets Also carry arms on the
march. which the senior judge insisted
| should be executed. The movements
were unfamiliar to U.s. The stack arms
with bayonets' Livery foolishly tried to
| teach the men the movements in the
| two or three minutes remaining before
! the contest, and.this: to certain ex-
| tent ratified the men and resulted in in
| diyidual errors. sWhat I should have
| dcne would have been to wholly ig-
mere the movement, as it is untactical
| under the manual which we used. An
| other unfair andI; suspicious thing was
! that the programmes of drill were not
similar. and / quote as authority Lieut.
Van Lew. of the Second u S. Infantry
who received the information direct
from one of thei judges.
| "There was a deplorable lack of har-
mony between the drill association and
|