Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-06-20
HOW. IT WAS.
Lieutenant Eaton Tells How
Morgantown Happened
to Get Left.

Why he was not Sent Here-The Men
Should Have Gone to Fairmont.
However They May Get Into the
Other Departments - The statement
Made by Eaton he Should Have
Told Us How Things We're Going.
The Wen Here Feel That They Have
Been Given the Go-by-The Recruits
Have Been Sent TO Camp Under a
Non tom, atom Has Returned to
Camp-He was Very Much Pleased
With the Kind of Hen He Get.
Lieutenant Eaton, who has been at
Fairmont for some time getting re-
cruits for the first regiment now at
Chickamauga, came in on Saturday
afternoon. He had raised all the
men that he had wanted and had sent
them to camp under non commits
stoned officer. When he was told
how the people here looked at the
go-by that they had received he gave
US the following statement of his
part OF the affair:
Acting under general order No.
81, current series, headquarters of the
army, ! proceeded to Fairmont TO
open my recruiting station. My in
structions gave me no opportunity TO
open elsewhere than Fairmont. Later
permission was telegraphed to go to
Martinsburg, but there being more
recruits at Fairmont than ! needed
| thought it best not to incur the ex-
pense and loss OF time incident to a
change Of station. | was also anxious
to get my recruits to camp as soon as
possible and let them get the benefit
of every drill that they could, so when
the order to move came we would be
the better prepared to execute it.
/ sent circulars, letters and telephone
messages in great numbers around TO
the people of surrounding towns say
ing / could enlist only at Fairmont,
and that [ could not pay any trans
portation expenses to the place of en-
listment. Morgantown people can
only blame themselves If they are not
enlisted. | did not at any time make
any definite promise to recruit here,
but on the other hand told quite a
number that they would have to come
to Fairmontif they expected to enlist.
| have informed the recruiting Of
ticer at Wheeling that there are
number at this place, and perhaps he
will have room for them in bis quota. .
No one blames Eaton in the slight.
est, except if he had told us how
things were going a number would
have paid their way up to Fairmont
in order to join. But the assertion
was made without qualification that
he would be back here and would
open station here and there seemed
to be no reason to doubt it at all.
When he saw that in the paper he
should have told US better by phone.
However, that is past and Morgan
town has been left out in the cold
The matter Of Joining the other quo
tas may amount to something and
then again it may not. Lieutenant
G. w. Conner has been sent to Wheel
ing and he has not yet gotten men
enough. He may want some Of the
men from here and then again he may
get them closer to Wheeling. There
are said to be forty applicants at New
Cumberland. If this be true the
men here who want into the army
can content themselves with the re-
Election that they cannot get in no
matter how much they want to.
Lieutenant Eaton has returned to
camp, leaving on Monday morning.
He is very sorry that he has no more
Morgantown men with him than he
has but thinks that the men that he
has obtained are the finest lot that
have been sent to camp yet.
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