Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-07-06
CAMP MOUNT.
AFFAIRS WHERE OUR BOYS
ARE CAMPING AWAIT
ING MUSTER.
Macy of the Companies Are Short Of
Eisn-Our Company Is a Source OF
Envy Because Of Its KNOWLEDGE Of
lsotios and Its Efficiency at OfIII.

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Affairs are going on smoothly at
Cau1p Mount. Our boys are having it
ing the rudiments of drill. Their
drums are source of envy to the
other companies, while their knowl-
edge of drill turns the others green
with envy.
With the coming of Colonel Durbin
a new order of things went into effect
at Camp Mount, and yesterday the
affairs of the camp went on smoothly.
Colonel Durbin held meeting of all
the commissioned officers in the after
noon, and instructed them that until
further orders squad drills would be
the order ef drill; also that the guards
shoald require passes from those only
who were at all suspicious or who
wete enlisted men trying to leave the
barracks. But it would be better for
visitors to secure passes and save an
notance.
An order posted in the different
company quarters instructs command
AlNto prohibit all unnecessary noise,
bid tsS;nG and acts Of personal violence.
Il
shketinT fhcse who are consider
|E7 fresh by the soldiers.
|* Dne of the difficulties confronting
[GX /. Durbin is the lack of men in the
KEious companies. When the call
his issued Governor Mount clearly
spe ecified that no company should re-
pott with less than LOG men. Com
paAies might bring 100 men with
them. Notwithstanding these in
structions several companies have
come to camp without their full quota.
Madison sent only SO men; New Castle
81 men; Michigan City 81 men. Off
GERS of these companies are at home
now recruiting to the limit, but the
delay caused by the surgeons having
to wait In the examination of the men
may postpone the mastering several
days. The surgeons are examining
the companies, but as yet no company
is ready to be mustered. The def
cheney in camp of the companies has
been caused by desertion of the men
after arriving in Indianapolis. Several
left after the companies were in camp
giving divers excuses for their action
1t is the same old story of the white
feather brigade who wanted a free
ride to Indianapolis.
GOVERNOR MOUNT DIsPLEAsED.
Governor Mount, who has learned
of this condition among some of the
companies, is much displeased over
the failure of the captains to report
| with full companies, and has intimateG
| that If the companies have to be filled
4 <r h. iax hxa
recruits ia select one of the commits
stoned officers, while one of the pres
ent officers would be reduced to the
ranks. This hint is causing great ac'
tivity on the part of those officers
whose companies are deficient IN mum
bers.
| In the Rushville company fourteen
men were rejected out of 100, the Mt
| Vernon company lost eight men out o.
10. Jeffersonville, so far, has los
ten men out of nInety-seven men ex
amined. The company consisted o
leo men when it came to camp, 5u
lost nine men by desertion.
/ The examinations now going on ar,
much more rigid than those In th,
other Indiana regiments at CAM
Mount. Men are REG Tired to run, rea,
signs at all distances and submit I,
various methods or aseertaining thei
fitness for the service, and the leas
physical defect will bring the rejection
of the candidate for Uncle Sam
army. No company will be mustere'
in until one battalion has been ex
amined. The equipment is ready {
be given to the soldiers as soon as III
examinations have been completed
The boys are all anxious TO be mus
tered In and wish to wear their ne'
uniforms.
Oar boys viii probably come up 70
Examination some time today. Ii
noticeable that while the Indianapoli
papers are very open with their crit
cism of many of the companies, not
bemearing word has been publishe
, concerning our fellows.