The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-15

The 10Sth Boys Fed by Host of Pa
triOfic YounE Women.

the park were arranged thirteen tables,
short one for the colonel and his staff and
one long one for each of the twelve compa
MES. The tables We're in the shape of
half wheel, the short table forming the hub
and the company tables radiating from 1t
like the spokes of a wheel. Before the regi-
ment marched in the park the tables were
most tempting They were covered with
snowy cloths, decorated with baskets of
flowers, and flag paper napkins pinned be-
fore each seat futtered in the breeze. AT
the head of each table was a staff on
which was a large initial letter of red to
indicate which company was to occupy the
table. A pile of boxes was at one end of
each table Pretty girls in bright attire
stood ready. At the other and of each table
were other girls, with pitchers of coffee,
cream and sugar, ready to serve the SOL
diers. AS the regiment marched into the
park and began filing up along the tables
the ladies welcomed them with cheers,
which were taken up by the spectators in
the pavilion.
The companies had left their muskets and
marching equipment behind and brought
nothing with them but large tin coffee cups.
The band was stationed Immediately back
of the officers table. AS the musicians
played the STARS and Stripes Forever" ev-
cry soldier came to attention, removed his
broad brimmed hat and held it across his
breast There was not sound. The silence
was almost oppressive, and tears glistened
on more than one eye as the band played
on. After the music Chaplain Christensen
said a grace, the regiment still standing.
The feeling of the occasion was not broken
until the order to charge" came. Then the
men fell into their places at the table with
happy shouts, the women ran about laugh
ing and in as short time as il takes to serve
ordinary a hIln yry
soldiers were enjoying themselves as only
hungry men can when there is a good dim
ner before them.
The coffee had just the right aroma and
there was real cream for it, with plenty
OF loaf sugar. Scarcely were the boys seated
than they began fastening clusters of flow
ers in the lapels of their blue coats. 1t was
noisy meal. Cheers were given for the
ladies of the aid society, for Indianapolis,
for Colonel Smith, the Columbia Club, the
Marion Club. and everybody else that the
happy men could think Of The company
rivalry began to show itself in a good
natured way A man in one company seized
the staff on which was tackled the company
initial and fastened ii to another pole,
which he held in the air. Then a tall SER
geanr in another company stood on the
table, holding the initial of his company
al0ft. Not to be outdone, another company
sergeant got on the table and a second man
climbed on his neck. this time raising the
letter higher than any of the others had
been. While other companies were deyising
schemes for raising their company stand
ards higher, all were surprised by shot
from tower near by, on which a man was
waving his standard. But Company A sue
ceeded in finding the highest point to wave
its standard from, when one of the COM
pany climbed a telephone POLE After the
dinner was over the companies carried off
the company letters and placed them at the
head of the company streets. Those who
were there will long remember the oc-
casion. Everything moved off smoothly
under the generalship of Mrs. McCrea and
the ladies' who assisted her.
Mrs. McCrea ought, to be major gen
eral, she knows so well how to do things"
a man remarked who saw the clock-iike
precision with which the affair moved
There was plenty Of lunch. boxes with
chicken. grapes, rolls, pickles. ETC., and
when the last man left the camp over
hundred boxes were left behind.
At O'Clock at the same place box sup
Regiment, the One-hundred- and fifty ninth,
Mrs. kurfsS having general charge. The
officers table was presided over by Mrs
English. There was little delay in getting
the tables and ground cleared off after the
feast to the e-hundred-and- fifty-eighth
Regiment. so that the Observation-Disclosures
ty-ninth had to wait few minutes when il
marched down through the fair ground A.
one time Mrs. Kurfiss feared that there
We're not enough boxes for all, but it was
found that some of the tables had more than
enough. Any man that did not get box will
be remembered to-day.
TENTS SOON UP.
After dinner was served to the men of the
Observation-Disclosures Regiment, the
pOSS AAdICltSu To the CAMP ground allotted
to them just south of the camps of the
One-hundred- and-fifty-seventh and One
hundred-and-fifty- Regiments, where
they had previously stacked their guns,
ready TO pitch their tents. 1t was some time,
however, before the large wagons were
loaded with the camp equipments and the
men meantime lolled in the grass. 1t was
Leary 4 o'clock before the first batch of
tents was unloaded, but within half an
hour afterwards white city had sprung
up, TOUR men at tent working with great
fapIdity. Nothing showed more fully the
effective drill work the regiment did in the
South than the manner in which the
twelve hundred men went about their work
To the onlooker the field seemed to be in as
much CONFUSION as a bee gum, but the sol
diers knew their duties and before dark the
camp was in almost as good order If
they had been camping there for a month.
Colonl Smith and his staff established tenn
porary quarters on a knoll overlooking the
camp. Adjutant Powells regimental mail
lay on the 81 ound with a batch of docu-
ments. DR.. Charles Wright, sitting astride
charger. rode over the field delivering
orders There were hundreds of curious
spectators who had never seen army life
before, and many things that were myS-
terles to them before were cleared up. The
camp seems well chosen. The company
streets are wide and there is not that crowd
ing that was to certain extent unpleas-
ant 10 the men of the first regiment that
went into camp. After the tents were
pitched. details from each COMPANY brought
straw for the mems beds and by night the
boys were all comfortably housed. From
now on the regular camp routine will be
followed, except that the men will be
Iieved CT heavy drills and their duties will
be comparatively light for the few days
that they remain here before being fur
Laughed. Lieutenant Waterman, the United
states mastering officer. while urging that
the preliminaries to furloughing go through
as rapidly as possible. will not insist the
regiment being furloughed before the first
of next week. The companies do not seem
10 be in hurry to get away from Indianap-
oils, where they have been made so well
come.
Yesterday the sick from the regiment were
taken to the State Hospital at Camp Mount
from the sleeping cars they had occupied on
the way frem Knoxville. About sixty of
them were taken to- the hospital In am
balances and carriages that drove slowly
into the camp. Drs. Stewart and Schaeffer
were in charge of the hospital yesterday
with the usual number of nurses Surgeon
Major Charlton and Assistant Surgeons
Wright, of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fifty
eighth, helped install the patients DR.
Charlton detailed twelve men to assist the
local physicians The additions from the
MISUNDERSTANDING eighth made about
one hundred patients I'm the hospital last
from the observation-disclosures ifty-seventh
the Twenty-eighth Battery and the One
hundred -and-fifty-n Same of the men
are pretty sick but the doctors do not think
that their condition is alarming
Lieutenant Poland suffered an accident
tive duty for a few days. At the corner
Of Washington and Meridian streets his