The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
MAYCETAW
PAYMAsTER FOR THE 18TH REGI-
MENT TO ARRIVE THURSDAY.
Governor viii Not Permit Regimental
Surgeons to Take Charge
of the Hospitals
SETTLING ACCOUNTS A TASK
LONG CONFERENCE OF COMPANY Of
FICERS OVER THIS.
Extensive Preparations Set on Foot
for Receiving 9th Indiana Bat
terry When 1t Comes.
SETTLING ACCOUNTS A TASK
LONG CONFERENCE OF COMPANY OF.
FICERs OVER THIS.

IL was busy day at Camp Mount yester-
day. In the morning the Twenty eighth
Battery boys worked like beavers to get
their tents pitched and their camp in some
thing like order before the influx of visitors
Lieutnant Waterman, before noon, held an
important conference with all officers in
Colonel Studebakers headquarters, relative
to the methods of furloughing, and, later,
mastering out the volunteers. At present 1t
looks as if the regiment would go home on a
thirty days furlough about next Friday.
There were 229 on the sick calls yesterday
including those already in hospital and six
new cases. Jealousy and clash Of author
ity are developing over the command of the
camp hospital. 1t is a state institution,
under command of the chief surgeon on the
Governors staff. When the regiment went
into camp the regimental surgeons were
absent on account of Illness and the local
physicians took hold of everything without
stopping to think about army red-tape or
official etiquette. There was no intention
to ignore the regimental officials, but some
of the latter are now talking about taking
charge of the hospital and supervising it..
This will not be allowed, the Governor says.
The hospital is for all Indiana sick soldiers,
not those of the One-hundred-and fifty
tanned under the present management.
Patients from the Twenty-eighth Battery
are also in the hospital.
While the regiment is home on furlough
the camp will be guarded by fifty enlisted
men who volunteered for that service under
command of Major Fitzgerald, the first Of
ficer to volunteer and two lieutenants. The
company officers are busy Strengthening out
f10f afex
out, and are finding difficult job in this
The men are growing rather impatient
Now that they are to leave the service they
want to have it over with, judging from
expressions heard.
THE PAYMASTER THURSDAY.
Whether the Observation-Disclosures
enth Regiment will get started for home
next Friday will depend some what on the
arrival of the paymaster with the pay due
the regiment, and also somewhat on the
captains of the various companies account
ing for the equipment and ordnance that
have been issued to them since the regi-
ment left the 1. N. G.. FOR the govern
ment's service. Lieutenant Waterman, the
mastering officer who represents the War
Department in furloughing and mastering
out the regiment, received telegram from
terday, indicating that the paymaster would
arrive Thursday morning Already the pay
rolls have been made out and signed SO
that 1t is not believed it will take long to
pay off, If this is accomplished in a day,
the regiment should be on its way home for
the furlough Friday. Not all the men can
go. 1t was determined camp guard of one
captain and one first and one second lieu
rryit1
left behind to guard the camp Volunteers
have been called for for this service Yes
terday no captain nor lieutenants volun-
teered for this service. Major Edwin H.
Fitzgerald, of the second battalion, volun-
teered, so no captain will now be needed
If no lieutenants volunteer lots will be
drawn to see to whom this task will fall
Enlisted men in Company /, Waterloo, and
Company b, Fort Wayne, who volunteered
to do guard duty at the camp during the
furlough period, were as follows: Company
l, Carry Corn, Richard Shade, John Pull
Yer and Victor Gee; Company B Corporal
William Vollmer Privates J. e. Anderson,
Frank Bailey, Fritz Haoke, Edward Snyder
and Fred S. Wickliffe
PAY OWN TRANSPORTATION.
1t has not been decided just what will be
uOAiO Win lAlS Sdnp SQQlpIl6ul. It Is PROD
able, however, that the tents will be struck,
with the exception of enough for the men on
guard duty, and packed away with all other
equipments, save those which the men take
with them. 1t was practically decided yes
terday that the men shall take their guns
and heavy marching equipage. with the ex-
ception of the tents. While on furlough the
men will continue to draw their regular
pay, in addition to which they will be al
lowed twenty-five cents a day for subsist-
ence. They will continue, also, to draw the
clothing allowance of thirty-one cents
day. The subsistence money will be paid
to them on the first pay day after their re-
turn for final muster out. Each man going
home on a furlough must pay for his own
transportation. Arrangements have been
made by which the railroads will furnish
transportation for one cent a mile. Some
officers and men are now away on furlough.
These will not be required to report until
the end of the thirty days, present furloughs
being extended until the date when all must
return. Every volunteer who is not here for
final muster out at the end of the furlough,
will be treated as a deserter, unless there
is some valid excuse for absence. A regi-
mental board will be appointed to collect
the transportation money from the enlisted
men after the paymaster has arrived and