The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-20
CAUSE APPREHENSION.

CAUSE APPREHENSION.
Two cases have developed recently
which are causing some trouble and
apprehension-that of Private Frank
Keith, Of A, and also that of Sergeant
Eugene Smith, of L. Private Keith is
at division hospital and Sergeant Smith
has been removed to Philadelphia.
Both are typhoid patients Private
Keith is in such a bad condition that
his parents were sent for yesterday.
They are now at his bedside. The
physicians at the hospital entertain
little, if any, hope of his recovery. The
case Of Sergeant Smith is less serious,
but he is a very sick man.
otherwise the boys are in good health,
and taking excellent care of them
selves.
From time immemorial there has ex-
listed among the Pennsylvania regi-
ments, both in the guard and in the
volunteer army a rtain custom which
the boys considered as good as it was
ancient. 1t was that under which men,
after they had gotten off their two
hour tour of guard duty, were permit
ted to leave the vicinity of the guard
house for the two succeeding hours,
not in accordance with strict military
regulations, but it had grown into q
custom which was known to and re-
Vered by every man who ever served
III the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
1t exists no longer. Its death-knel
was rung when the several regiments
of the First division received the fol-
lowing apparently harmless, but mean
ing, rote from Major General Young:
Any regiment which has had the prac-
tice of eXcusing reliefs from the guard
house for two hours after coming off
post will revoke such order at once.
tSigned) +. s. Strong,
Assistant Adjutant General.
This simply means that the men on
guard may leave the guard house only
| for their meals.
Word has been received that at a
recent meeting of the board of medical
officers at Washington, d. c., a rec
ommendation was made that all COM
panies be supplied with Maignon and
Pasteur filters; and that one officer in
each regiment or battalion be detailed
to instruct at least one man in each
company in their use.
Lieutenant Murphy, of G, who had a
slight touch of malarial fever and was
laid up in bed for a week. is now able
to get around and feels nearly as well
as ever.
There are twenty prisoners now In
the regimental guard house, undergo
| ing sentences of varying degrees fol
running away from camp. This is the
| largest number of prisoners that the
regiment has ever had at one time
The sick furlOugh men are beginning
to return by degrees. They all will be
! back in a short time.
/ Captain Robling, of C, is officer OF
the day; Lieutenant Decker of f, Off.
Ger of the guard; James Lovelace, ol
| II, sergeant of the guard; George Klee.
man, of A; Bennett Sparks. of L, and
| Richard Bourke, Of c, corporals.
Private Norris Thomas, of c, mount.
ed orderly at division headquarters, has
| returned from a seven days furlough
Following is the bill of fare which
Corporal Gaines, acting quartermastel
| of b Company, prepared for Sunday
dinner: Roast beef and gravy, swee
| potatoes. cabbage, stewed tomatoes
! bread. coffee.
Private Alex. Mitchell. of L Com
|
! Carbondale, where he spent a week oI
! furlough. He is suffering from rheu
matism in the feet.
GRANTED AN EXTENSION.
First Sergeant Davis and Private lie
Roy Benjamin, of d Company, returned
last night from furlough. Private Ben
| jamin was granted an extension on ac
| count of sickness.
Private Harry Angle, of c, says that
to use Shakespearean phraseology, a
dinner it is ham sans bones" but a
supper it is bones sans ham,"
Corporal Bennett Sparks, of f. VIII
was suddenly called home a week ag
by the death of his mother-in-law, tn
late Mrs. KOrb, of Honesdale, returned
to camp last night.
Privates Percy Johnson, Thoma
Watkins and Daniel Matthias, of F, re
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