The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-15
REGIMENT Of ENGINEERS.
Col. willard Young and Captain Dick
SON Ready TO Begin Work.

Col Willard Young whose visit to this
city was anticipated Yesterday in these COL
umns, arrived in town yesterday from Gin
cinnati to meet Captain B. +. Dickson, who
is to do the recruiting for the Indiana com
pany of engineers which will form a part
of the Second Regiment of Engineers au-
thorized by the government to serve under
Colonel Young. Captain Dickson is an ex-
perienced engineer from Evansville, and
was for years employed by the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad as chief engineer.
The recruiting officers for the engineer
company will be in the Statehouse, and the
recruits will be carefully selected for the
service. The preference will be given to
men having some experience as civil en-
gineers. Recruits from any portion of the
State are eligible, and it is not expected
that Captain Dickson will be many days
in completing his quota. He has already
received his commission as captain of the
company, and from among the large num-
Der of applications sent in to Governor
Mount two men have been selected as lieu
tenants for the Indiana company contin-
gent upon their being accepted by the board
of officers, which meets in Chicago to-mor-
row. This board is composed of Colonel
Willard Young and Major l.. Marshall of
the regular army, the latter being in charge
of the government improvement on the
great lakes. The lieutenantS selected for
the examination are Mr.. Maltsley, of Terre
Haute and Mr.. A. j. You, of Fort Wayne
The latter at present is a candidate for Con-
gress in that district.
The personnel of The regimental officers.
aside from Colonel Young, is made up of
regular army officers, either active or re-
tired. The lieutenant colonel is Captain
Burr, now at Tampa. Captain Langfitt now
al
battalion command as is Lieutenant John
ston, now probably on his way to Cuba. The
Henry Savage the well-known author, who
is to have command of the battalion of
which the Indiana company will form a
part. Major Savage is a graduate of West
Point, but has been out of the army for
some time. He has announced his purpose
of taking an active part in the recruiting
of his battalion and accordingly will visit
this city to assist Captain Dickson either
Saturday or Monday next.
Colonel Young reports that the applca-
tons for enlistment in the regiment
throughout the territory in which it will be
raised are about three for every vacancy.
The regiment is to be in no sense state
organization. but is being raised in all the
territory lying between OHIO and the Pacific
coast: There have been so far companies
St. Paul, Omaha, St Louis, Chicago,
Springfield O.. and Cincinnati, the latter
adopted by Colonel Young with view to
giving all of the extreme and Middle West a
chance TO furnish men fo: this regiment,
as this will probably be the last regiment
organized for this branch of the service.
So great has been the demand to enlist in
this regiment in other cities Colonel Young
has visited that it would have been posi-
BILE to raise the entire regiment in either
Chicago or San Francisco. 1t is expected
that the company will be quartered during
its stay in this city at the fair grounds ali
parties being agreed that the men may be
handled to better advantage there than in
the city. Just how long they will remain
here no one is able TO say. but it is probable
that all the companies will be rendezvoused
Florida, that is the most central point
and directly in the pathway to Florida 1t
is expected that the regiment will be organ
lied and on its way South in thirty DAYS.