The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25
MOBILE GONE WITH ! 500 MEN.
SECOND LOUISIANA AND PART OF
THE FIRST TEXAS ON BOARD,

BroughtOn street as They March
ed to the Wharf-How a Cowboy
Got a Baking Horse to Climb the
Gangway.
with 1000 men aboard, including four
battalions of the First Texas Regiment
the entire Second Louisiana, brigade head
quarters and band, the transport Mobile
sailed yesterday afternoon at $40 o'clock.
the vessel had time to get to sea, and IL
probably now ploughlng toward Havana.
The Mobile drew a little over twenty feet
aft aud went out speedily. Her departure
marks the completion Of successful
weeks business with the transports. which
nave been promptly loaded and pushed out
until the soldiers around town have been
perceptibly thinned out. Another week like
that will wind up the troops now in che
city.
Inc troops went to the wharf early yes
terday, and gave themselves ample time in
which to make preparations for the depar-
| ture. The Second Louisiana preceded the
Texas men, breaking camp about Il o'clock
and passing through the city an hour later.
Headed by the band the regiment marched
down Broughton street, where they were
watched and cheered by large crowds They
had had time to get aboard ship before the
other men followed. and in this way there
was no collision or Inconvenience of any
kind among them
At o'clock the remnant OF the Texas
regiment who did not get away on the
! Michigan Friday. passed through the city
TO the wharf. As they went down Brough-
ton street the band played, and the boys
| looked gallant as they trudged along with
! apparently heavy loads tied to them Like
the others, they were cheered along the
| way and on reaching jefferson street. a
| LOUD whoop went up for them. They
promptly returned II, and as the band was
| at its highest pitch in that locality. the
| noise was somewhat out of the ordinary.
IL was to be tough Christmas for those.
who have never suffered the fortunes ON
their first voyage. and their apparent IN
tention was to make the very best OF the
| situation.
When everything was aboard the tugs
| threw the lines over the big ship and
started out with her. Being one Of the
cleanest and most commodious vessels In
the transport service 1t Is likely the men
viii not be the worse Off for the trip after
they have reached the Island.
Col. Elmer Il. Wood was in command OF
| the Second Louisiana. He was asked by
IA representative of the Morning News
how he had liked his stay in Savannah
His answer was that the only regret they
| had in leaving for Cuba was that they
had TO leave Savannah. He end all OF
his officers and men, he said. have enjoy
ed their stay here and were very sorry
to part with the people who have made 1t
! so pleasant for them. Col. Wood said his
regiment left with S43 enlisted men and
forty-three officers. All the officers ex-
| ar.ff bra.a a.
John E. Poncet OF Company NJ Is on sick
leave at his home in New Orleans and
will Join his regiment later. Lieut.. Jo-
seph M. Fornaris. Company A, and Lieut.
e. Lange. Company G. are already in
Cuba. They left some time ago on
special detail aboard the steamer Comal
to distribute supplies among suffering Gu
bans.
A number OF the men are left behind In
the First Division hospital. Their stay
is enforced, the large majority of the
members of the regiment, the colonel said.
We're anxious TO go TO Cuba. One of them
said when the call for the regiment to fall
in TO march to the vessel was sounded that
they had been waiting eight months to
hear it,
There are many things Of interest to be
seen around the transports while loading.
one that particularly amused quite a
number of anxious observers the other
COW boy got a baking horse on the ship.
He solved the problem In a most unex-
pected and interesting manner.
Several government transfers, among
them one weighing about 200 pounds, were
endeavoring TO get the horse to go UP the
gangway. The animal steadfastly declin-
ed and the more IL was coaxed, IL seemed
to be the more frightened to go on the
ship. The officer inside experimenting
the loading was shouting for the men to
bring the horse ahead, while the men
patted rubbed and did all in their power
but TO no avail. Every time the horse
went as far as the gangway, then put his
nose to the floor and refused to move a
muscle The fat man led the animal down
the wharf hoping that the change would
absorb his attention so that when he was
again taken TO the gangway, he would
run In before thinking to hawk. But the
horse was not to be foiled
whats the matter here7" shouted the
COW boy as he ran up.
mo. won't go In. Can't do anything
with him." replied the teamsters
with this the son of the lasso turned
his back to the animal and pressing his
body closely to its hind legs. he grabbed
them with his hands and showed Tho
horse shot into the gangway like deer.
and went straight into the ship. The trick
worked so admirably that the other fell
lows wondered why they hadn't thought
of It.
That's the way to manage horses" said
the cowboy. Il was on the plains OF
Wyoming two years and one of the
things learned was how to make a horse
move forward. Being so close to the ami
, mails legs. IL could not and would not I'M
dertake to kick. There is not enough lev
erage for it to do any harm, and. besides,
horses will not kick when anything Is
against their legs. Provided the animal
has a blind bride, / would not be afraid
{ to go behind the widest one i'm America"
: LeisureIy TeieEraphy in France.
From the Washington Star