Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-20
CAMP POWERS.
Will Arrive, This Morning,
and Make All Happy.
Band and flriag Squad Go to Nevner. IA
Attsad Fsaesal.

his IL the DAY that has been lookes7
forward to with longing ever since the
pay rolls We're signed. It is pay day
what more need be said about It. i,
the reader rs acquainted with the
financial condition of the matoritv q,
the soldiers? They are happy beyond
description. for not only is the nav
coming. but to the LIST Regiment there
will be the Burroughs that viii follow
pay day. NTH
The paymaster has been exnected
for two or three days. ana the word
was passed along. Monday. that he
was to arrive on the morning train
Tuesday. SO that the paying of the
money would take place during the
day. The word passed from month
to mouth with startling rapidly, and
every man was as willing to talk about
pay day as he would be to sit down
to warm dinner.
The paymaster will arrive on the
$40 train, this morning, with his
pockets stuffed full Of money. In all
he must have about $4,000 for the
Maine troops that will rest. tonight.
In the pockets OF the officers and men
what does not elsewhere find a rest
ing place.
The boys will be taken out one COM
pany at time and marched to the
place where the payment will take
place. and the men will be paved in
the same manner as they were at the
time they were given their bounties
by the State. The payment OF the
batteries will take place in the same
manner as the 1st Regiment
The money will in a measure place
a restriction upon the camp that has
not been there in weeks. A chain
guard is reported to be thought of,
and will possibly be put on. A chain
guard is merely two lines of guards
one placed outside the ether, and the
sentries of one are supposed to walk
in an opposite direction from those of
the other.
Unless this precaution is taken, the
men who care little for money, might
be tempted to part with some of their
wealth, and make trouble for them
selves. The greater part Of the men
though will keep their money. as they
have plenty of good uses for it.
When l get my money" began the
sprivate who met his captain in the Y
m. c. A. tent, 4"
y We'll, really, haven't decided how
many I will let off when that time
comes" said Captain Kimball. break
ing into the conversation thus begun
by the private. Il will have to see the
major. and see how many he is to LEI
go from each battery before car
make any promises"
The captain is good natured ir
speaking OF the matter and the priva t
looks at him as though he thought h.
had a mind reader for captain.
Soon after the private leaves tht
tent, and a sergeant strolls along, en-
tering and seating himself in one of tn,
camp chairs.
when 1 get my money" began Cap
tain Kinball, addressing the sergeant
well, really. can't tell. you know
shall need few of YOU"
"A broad grin comes over the face o
the sergeant, as ne says. You said a
first just what 1 was about to say
You must be mind reader, captain"
ooh. it's easy to read the minds o
the men who visit me now. Ever!
mind has thought Of the two months
pay, another of a trip home. Ever.
man has an Interrogation point upor
his face who visits me now"
That is about the way the matters
stand in the batteries. lt is the sam'
! eHIOuSs lIOuN lIlC UdttoiloA ao Az 40 -
Captain Kimball's battery.
They have their minds all made up t.
stay, and they wish to get a chance t.
| visit home before they are ordere
away. They do not want the order t.
go to some warmer cline delayed
though, on account Of their desire to s
home, for all seem to have a fear o
being left deserted ON this camp
ground after the frost begins to ap
pear. 1t is breezy in one sense of tn
word on the plateau where the CAM
Is located, and with November win,
| blowing across the field, it would no
be place where one would go for ;
| picnic.
The furloughs are almost here for tht
men OF the regiment. 1t has beer
said that they would be all given
verbal furlougil as soon as the none,
arrived, SO the furloughs should be al
most here, and within a few days tht
| camp of the 1st Regiment will be {
place where only IS men and a few Off
GERS dwell