The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
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certain ABUSE OF the privilege. IHuer
advice of Major General Graham the
provost marshal enforced this order
strictly.
The Second battalion of the Thir-
teenth has been ordered to report for
fatigue duty tomorrow morning at
corps headquarters near Middletown.
1t is not known how long it will have
to do duty there, but 1t is expected
that it will be kept some time work.
ing around the depot.
The report of the Philadelphia papers
this morning purporting to give the
official lists of the regiments to be re-
tained and stating that the Thirteenth
would probably be one of those regi-
ments, is not regarded here as au-
thoritative. General Goblin is not in
camp and neither Acting Brigadier
General Hoffman nor Colonel Coursen
gives 1t credence. All is still in doubt.
Lieutenant Dodge, of Company r., of
Honesdale, was removed to a hospital
in Harrisburg this evening. He is suf-
fering from fever.
Captain S. S. Derman, of Company
A, condemned the company's issue of
bread today and ordered it to be thrown
out as unfit for them. Private Thomas
Coyse, of A, was removed this after
noon to division hospital Private
Fred. Luther, of the Thirteenth, in
leaving for a thirty day furlough to-
day, was ordered to report at Fort
McHenry, Baltimore, on his return.
This seems significant, but no one
quite knows what it means.
ESTABLISHING ROUTINE.
Camp life here is beginning to as
sumo the rppu1or routine form The
first few days spent in new camp are
always hard and disagreeable; the sup
ply Of food is insufficient; water is very
much needed; the men are almost over
tasked to exhaustion with details for
this and for that; and, to- add to their
troubles, the trip from place to place,
and the sudden change in diet, in drink
ing water and in the air upset them
for a short time. This has been the
case with the troops now here. These
are only the first impressions, which
will undoubtedly correct themselves in
a very short time.
Taken all in ALL or considered from
any particular standpoint, this place is
far superior, as a camping ground, to
any locality which the men of the Sec
ond Army corps have yet seen. The
climate is healthful: the air is pure
and fresh; the water is good, and bath
ing facilities are near at hand; and the
surrounding country and the nearby
cities and prosperous town ought to be
able to furnish camp with even more
than the necessities of life. The coun-
try abounds in all kinds of vegetables
and fruits. which are sold quite rea-
sonahly. Permits have not yet been
regularly issued, and, besides this the
st
commissary is once enabled to issue
the full supply of meat, potatoes, bread,
coffee and sugar, and when the milk
men and fruit sellers are authorized to
enter the grounds and the boys have
some money with which to buy occa-
sionally what they consider delicacies
1t is safe to predict that Camp Meade
will become popular with every soldier
here. 1t will be found that the men of
this corps who, coming from every kind
of climate, braved the rigors and the
starvation of the first few weeks at
Camp Alger without a word of COM
plant, will feel thankful and happy for
the change to Middletown.
GOBLIN RAISES A STORM.
General Goblin arrived late Friday
night from Dunn Loring and had not
been around very long this morning
till the conditions of the commissary de-
partment came TO his ears. The serious
complaints made by the Twelfth, the
bitter feeling in the Eighth, General
Gobn's own regiment, where the men
in one company, on account of sheer
starvation, circulated a petition, signed
by all the men, stating their griev-
ances and asking to not be retained in
IA h.
OF Company f. of the Thirteenth, which
company went in a body to Colonel
Coursen, asking for more food. all
seemed to have been made known in
some way to General Goblin and upon
arriving at brigade headquarters and
finding no brigade commissary in oper-
alton he demanded an explanation and
wanted to know why the men are not
receiving better treatment. The gem
eral was highly indignant and did not
fail to express himself in strong Ian
guage which could not easily have been
misunderstood. Before leaving, he gave
the commissary officials and the bri-
gade staff to understand that such a
state of affairs would be expected to
be brought to an end forthwith.
AS a result, things have been some-
what on the move ever since.
Division headquarters have been
opened at a farm house not far from
the Eighth and the Thirteenth.
EXPRESSED THEIR THANKS.
The members of Company A, of the
Thirteenth, at a formal meeting for
the purpose of expressing their graft
tude to the Pension Office Ladies' Re-
lief association" for their kindness in
feeding the entire regiment at Wash
ington last Wednesday evening, adopt
ed letter of thanks which was sent
TO the ladies of the pension Office.
Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, Penn
sylvania Volunteer Infantry, Third Brig
ade, First Division, Second Army
Corps. Camp Meade, Mddletown, Pa,
Sept 2. 1898. ....,
Mrs Mary b. Saunders, Chairman Pen
sion Office, ladies' Relief Association.
Dear Madam: On behalf of the men,
bers of Company A, Thirteenth Pennsyl-
vania volunteer Infantry. we hereby de-
sire to express our deep sense of gratitude
for the very elegant and substantial
lunch which you served us on Wednesday
evening, August 81, 1888, on our journey
from Camp Alger, Va, to Camp Meade,
Pa. We realize that a formal vote of
thanks from Us cannot adequately repay
your time, trouble sacrifices, and expense
in our behalf, but us soldiers we are hap
py to discharge 50 much of the obliga-
tion as we can in this way.
What hardships, what fatigue, what
privation and what perils the soldier will
not cheerfuly continue to bear so long
as he knows that back of him, at home
and all along the line all over our broad