The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-17
GEN. WADE HOLDS THE REINS
COMMANDS AT CAMP THOMAS
DURING BR0OKE'S ABSENCE

NosAoiS NScrGN heCclNeu ny Ohe VI
the Nebraska Regiments at
ChickaEnuEa Minnesota Men
Expect to Go to the Front With
Brooke - Grigsby's Cowboys
Waiting Orders to Move.
CAMP THOMAS, Chickamauga, July
16.-(Special.)-I the absence of Gen.
Brooke, who is in Washington, Gen.
Wade is in command, and the coinci-
dence is noted in the Minnesota camps,
where it is remembered that Gen. Wade
succeeded Gen. Brooke at ST. Paul in
command of the department of the Da-
kotas.
Before Gen. Brooke left he is reported
TO have said that when he started for
the front the first army corps would
go with him. This would include the
two Minnesota regiments now camped
here, and the report has set the men
on fire.
Gen. Sheridan was less communica-
tive today than he has been for weeks
past. The assistant adjutant general
IS a congenial spirit in the army, affa-
bic and easily approached. He gives
out information of general interest
without favor, and makes all who walk
under the flaps of his tent feel that
Trey are under a friendly shelter. To-
Gay, however, he assumed the func-
tions of a clam, so far as news was
concerned, although his cheerful outer
Qemeanor was maintained. Nothing
concerning the movement of Gen
Brooke leaked out of the general head
quarters.
The Grigsby cavalrymen are stirred
up over report that the entire cavalry
forces in the camp are to be moved to
the scene of action in the near future.
1t is said tonight the cavalrymen would
be among the first to move.
Company II, OF the Second Nebraska,
mas received twenty-four recruits from
Chadron. Among them is Joe Gillespia,
who comes to be the regimental black
smith. Gillespie is the man who won
the 1,00O-mile cowboy race from Chad
ron, Neb.. to Chicago, during the
Worlds fair, having made the journey
on a fast Western horse He was re-
ceived at Chicago by Buffalo Bill.
A sensation was sprung in the SEQ
ond Nebraska yesterday when an Or
der came from division headquarters
for the arrest Of Capt Fisher, of Com
pany H. On Monday Capt Evans. of
Company E, was ordered arrested in a
similar manner. Il was said at division
headquarters that the charges against
Capt. Fisher and Capt Evans were not
yet ready for publication. The regi-
AAiOiib cVCiiicu W pe DllIlU 10 the cause
OF the arrests, but there was an init
nation that Capt. Fisher Is charged
with lack of dignity
One of the most interesting and i'm
portant places in Chickamauga Is the
great bakery which supplies bread for
Gen. Brooke's army This bakery is
the largest of its kind in the world. Of
course there are hundreds of bakeries
all over the country that are larger,
but none of this size where bread is
baked exclusively. An enormous guam
tlty of flour is consumed in day Al
present over $4,000 loaves, or rations, as
they are termed, are turned out everv
twenty-five hours The bakery is oper-
ated night and day to meet the de-
mand. One force goes on at IL o'clock
noon and works until midnight, when
they are relieved by the second shift.
About 200 barrels of flour are used at
the bakery every twenty-four hours.
Much of the work is done by machin
cry, but the greater part of it Is done
by hand. Over 100 persons are en-
ployed at the bakery.
Maj. Walter F. Colladay. command
Ing the Third battalion, and Capt. c..
A. Parrish, of Company 3, both of the
Firth Illinois, have both been dischars-
ed from duty with one months paw.
The two officers had some trouble while
en- route to Chattanooga In May, and
1t was finally taken before a court
martial. The court martial decided
that both officers had been guilty of
improper conduct.