Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-04
Maine in the War.

Edward f. Webb. a Portland boy is
among the volunteers from New York
city.
Hal Roberts and viii Gerrish of Vinal-
haven, have enlisted in the United States
navy.
Ellis Prince of Thomaston. has been
promoted to be nrst engineer on govern
ment steamship Southery.
William f. Glover OF Cam len. " no re-
Gently received an appointment in the |.
5. navy, has joined the L. S. S. Fern.
Lieut.. Albert Il. Donworth. formerly Of
MachiaS. has been placed on detached
service in the ordnance department at
Fort Mcpherson. Ga.
Henry w. league of Manset. who en-
listed from Dartmouth college in the New
Hampshire volunteers. is now with Co.
E. of the first regiment in camp at Chick
amauga.
Out of over 800 applicants. Harry l..
Rogers, nephew of Mrs. w. Is. Smith of
Stonington, has been appointed paYmaS-
ter in the regular army. with rank of
major at a salary of $1,000 per year
Corporal Hayes of Co. c. Hyde Light
Guards. Bath, formerly employed in the
machine shop at tne Iron Works, has en-
listed on the L. S. repair ship Vulcan.
He has position as chief machinist.
Charles r. White of Jonesboro. has a
son. Charles r.. Jr.. doing service on the
receiving ship Wabash He is but is
years Ol tSt anu y tl ne HAS iilthtlN al
tanned six feet in height and weighs III
pounds.
Mrs. Grace Sprague Pillsbury. whose
husband, Capt. Pilsbury, is in command
of one of the Unitel States transports
bound for Manila, is now in Rockland
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Sprague.
A fife and drum corps will be organized
in Biddeford and will be recruited into
the Stone Light Infantry. The promoters
are Will Goodwin and Harry. Smith. The
corps will consist of two flies, two pic
calos. two snare drums and a base drum.
1t is expected that within another
month, Battery r, of the L. S. artillery,
which is now stationed at the Portland
Head Notifications will be on its way 10
Cuba or the Philippine Islands. Orders
to that effect are expected by the men
to arrive shortly, and circumstances seem
TO be tending that way.
Josiah Pierce. Jr.. son of Sir Josiah
Pierce, who was knighted by the Car
of Russia, and a nephew Of Mr.. Lewis
Pierce of Portland, has been appointed
major of engineers of the volunteer
army Mr.. Pierce was born in Portland
and lived there many years. and is now
an engineer in Washington. d. c. His
father is a resident of London. Eng.
A. H. Houghton of class 81 of L. of NJ.
has been named by the secretary of the
navy as assistant engineer, with the rank
of ensign, and will enter upon his duties
at once. Mr.. Houghton is native of
Fort Fairfield. and since his graduation
has been teaching in the South, and re-
Gently has been general manager of a
manufacturing plant, at Terre Haute, In
diana.
Capt. +. V. Lyman of Seal Harbor. who
has been following the briny deep since
boyhood, has just been appointed second
lieutenant in Uncle Sans navy, and as
signed on board of the L. s. auxiliary
cruiser Pedro Kew Nest Cam
Lyman at the outbreak of hostilitieS Of
fered his services through the bureau of
navigation, and recently passed a very
satisfactory examination before the cx-
amning board a the Charlestown navy
yard. He is well acquainted with Capt.
Sigsbee, late of the battleship Maine. aAd
Capt. Dyer, and other naval officers with
whom he has sailed. Capt. Lyman was
formerly skipper of the three-maSted
schooner s. V. Jordan and late command
er of the ship William &. Davis He has
sailed all over the world. While follow
ing the sea he was attached to the t. S.
meteorological bureau.
CAPTAIN Hiene R. Stiles of the Medical
was stationed at Fort Preble. Portland.
has been assigned to duty on the hospi-
tai train. This train will be under the
immediate charge of Major Richards.
who was stationed at Fort Mcpherson,
Atlanta, Ga. The train will be the first
of the war. and will eclipse anything Of
the kind ever run and will consist of two
tourist dining cars, ten tourist sleeping
cars ana one baggage car. 1t will be
used as Il stationary hospital for any
sick soldiers and marines and when
deemed advisable it will transport them
to some hospital further North thus be-
ing converted into moving hospital. 1t
will be kept in service during the war
and the war committee of the national
society ID. A. r. will supply the train
with such delicacies as the general gov
eminent does not generally supply.