The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-25
SJINDAY.0 -fr,1 - April %, 1S9
4lmAN ARMY POST AFFAIR.


AS ii post Lcnten festivity, the Army
Post OF. Fort Mcpherson, near Atlanta.
is all that could be desired.
When South Carolina runs out Of earth
a,sakcs. it springs IA Tillman OF some
thing else. and likewise now that Atlanta
is exhausted Of cNpositions, Fort Nc
Pherson leaps to the rescue Not even
McKinleyism Gan make AtlaqYta. entirely
dull. 90 q .na- i%
The play that is on there now is 'the
conrt7martia1 Proceedings against. Gap
tain Romeyn, of Fort Mcpherson Let
as briefly state that Lieutenant Bam-
ford, lanasome sund TWENTY-FIVE, went
bicycling often With the wife5of i4iauten-
ant Michael o'Isiien. It was, moreover,
understood about !, the. garrison tna l'
Lieutenant Banfead was engaged to the
daughter Of C'apnsintRomeyn- Bamford
was cut by the Roneyns and others on
account of bis alleged filtration eote1n-
poraneous with his. alleged engagement all
He tienouacesl Captain Romeyn on the
parade grostnd. andliwa struck in the
face by him. Baiiiford now denies har-
ing been engaged to Capt. Ronieyn's
daughter. though he. admits having ask
ed her father for her hand in marriage
And now Captains Romeynis being court
MARTA led for his attack on Bamford.
Meantime Lieiitenant O'Brien rises TO
remark THAT Lieutenant Bamford's bicy-
cling with his wife &, was /. with his
sO'Briems) knowledge andnsconsent.
And there we are. fgsisite1i feiHnAs
,The whole military outfit, women and
men, of the garrison are being brought
forward on the stand. and to say that
the life at the Fort is microscopic these
days falls as far below the mark as to
say that the hustling chirps of English
sparrows remind one Of the calm chants
of chorister boys. s..-aI4 81 4 ss. usG
. The story in detail lis being told daily
and at length in the columns of our
esteemed contemporaries, the atlanta
Constitution and Journal, and. We. will
leave that material intact to be gebbled
,up lump-sum by some future or present
,army-post novelist We make no COM
ment upon the merits Of the different
contentious. but rather content ourselves
with the thought that our army cannot
hssye had the life entirely crushed out of
it, even Trough it is kept on a peace
footing. .4ls1 +as.s,yt4f F-
When these officers would have gladly
had their pelts peeled by the blazing
sun Of Pinar del Rio, the Junta icily
replied: Eve want more meat and
munitions Of war, not more men. Inc
was crowded thorough
fare and Uncle Sam could not well be
foaing around there without having his
coat-taila trod upon. General Miles
.aFsne. in his visit TO Greece, will do well
If he can get standing room in Reyeni
Pass. Pray, what were these army
,,os1 officers to do? The Indians have
become so tame that to shoot them
smacks Of hunting wild turkeys among
BARNARD gobblers and maginhg
they ere game.
The O'Briens went to a german at
the garrison. and the Romeyns would
not speak to them, all on account OF bad
f,oy Bamford. And what are they going
10 do now? Everybody in the Post has
taken sides. Because Bamford is gay
shall there he no more germans!
" our officers cannot fight other folks
cannot some system be devised by winch
4hny can take sides in army life and
kiIl off one another? Were not TINS
hatter Than. that the army post o1ncef
should. like Proteus, living duily sluS
.rardized at home wear out ms youth
with shapeless idlenessT
The glimpse furnished by TINS eplsoue
"a the American public OF army post NE
win give some the idea that even our
nrnsant army is too large if a little NM.
tarv community of officers is so hush Oh
indolence that grown UP men cah Ne
anendinr their time snarllng about VINO
docs or does not speak to them at ger
rrans good square days work lor
zach man at Fort Mcpherson every aay
would nessibly bring relief to the pupiic
and To the post. If the court martiai
find this too harsh punishment, couid
NOT an exception be made In favor OF
mcpherson by letting it's officers go as
volunteers to the Greeks? Maybe II they
wore chased about FIVE or ten miles down
the nauntain from Nezerosi Pass, u
would loosen up their digestion. Mean
While the wives and sweethearts, left be
hind. might be too busy reading OF I'M
fortunes of the absent ones to be Doth
erine about the bicycle rides Of Mrs
O'Rrien or the liasons of Bamford.