The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-06
TENTED CAMP In TORRENTS
SOLDIERS HAD A HARD TINE
at CAMP RAMSEY

Some of the Tents Were Uninhabita-
BILE, and Many of the Boys Who
Could Get Home Were Glad to
Get Passes for the Night--Some
of the Others Found Shelter in
the Higher Tents,
What singing was done at Camp
Ramsey last night was mostly snatches
from. Suwanee River" and Life On the
Ocean Wave" with an occasional dis
NAL bass solo, rendering "A Hundred
FathcmS Deep" AS it was with the
Ancient Mariner there was water,
water everywhere, with only a small
per cent of ii for drinking purposes.
The early rain of the morning was
only the prelude on the piano to the
owe t re ly the enti o. che-tra. Eve.y-
thTag was Hooded. Some of the boys
got out and dug sink holes during the
storm, but they might as we'll have
saved themselves the trouble, as they
hIled UP quickly and then helped to
form the grand puddle of their vicinity.
The companies tented nearest Smelling
avenue seemed to get the worst of it,
as the water from all over the camp
seemed to seek its level in their direc-
ton. During the lull in the storm,
about 6 O'Clock, Mai. Hand, Maj. Den
MS and Lieuts. Mower and Fry,
were out on q tour of inspection. Under
their direction trenches were dug and
the water drawn off TO a large extent.
Many OF the tents were uninhabitable.
The occupants of such went boarding
around for the night. The difficulties
under which the boys labored were
finally adjusted and they were made
comparatively comforta BILE.
Drill was dispensed with yesterday.
and the men were given sighting and
maj king practice. This will be of great
assistance TO them when they take I'D
range shooting. Another new move.
which Lieut.. Col. Leonhauser had the
men at yesterday, was estimating dis
lance. A line was measured off and
marked at intervals Then a man Step
PED to the starting point and estimated
the distance from where he stood to the
markers. He whispered his estimate to
the captain and stood aside. Another
man guessed, Whispered and Joined the
hrst, and so on, through the company.
Then the estimates were made known
and the true distance announced This
practice Will be of value to the boys in
regulating their sights.
About fifty answered sick call yesterday
morning but out of the fifty only two were
SICK enough to merit reten ton in the hos
pltal. There are no serious cases of ILL
ness in the Fifteenth. There are several
cases of ephemeral fever. The patients tenn
perature goes up pretty high for day or So
but 1t is easily subdued and causes no un-
easlness. The bulk of the sick men re-
quire nothing more than a dose of Jamaica
ginger and Pill to straighten them out
Rev. R. W. c. Curtis, of the Westminster
Presbyterian church of Minneapolis called
at the hospital yesterday and rendered pa
Hic off
gladly accepted.
Lieut.. Grggs will act as adjutant during
Lieut.. Catlin's absence
Company E, returned yesterday from Browns
valley, where he has been for couple of
filled the position of quartermaster very &C
ceptably to the company.
Mrs. Capt. Crossfield furnished Company
h with homemade doughnuts and cake for
supper last night, for which the boys were
very grateful.
Browns Valley has raised $3.50 for Com
pany E. Wheaton has been heard from in
a substantial manner, but the Graceville
boys OF Company E say they feel Inundated
because their end of the company fund is
short Several of them requested The
G b e to call the attention of the folks
pack home to the situation, feeling confident
that it Is an oversight.
Corporal BordwelI, Company E. is so pop-
nIar with the girls, and buZZes around So
A,lny that they don't all get well enough
acquainted with him to learn his name. Ii
have things thus. Every little while a nice
basket of perishable food is left at his tent
Ior corporal Broadway, Bodkin, Bonwell, or
some other old name, and as no one of that
name is on the muster roll Dave puts the
grub where it will do him the most good
Sergeant Steward did good job of provost
guard duty yesterday Private Lord, of
Company NJ, who was doing sentence at the
guars house, escaped and had reached the
a,ighted from car. Steward promptly gather
- him in on the assumption that he was
away without leave and turned him ever
to the officer of the guard. Later in the
Day Lord vamoosed again. Lieut.. Col Leon
hauser suggested that Sergeant Steward be
sent after the runaway. Steward went to
Minneapolis and located his man at home
The folks didn't seem glad to see him. but
the sergeant went in, anyway and found
his man preparing for trip. He was minus
his uniform and was arraying himself III
citizens clothing. The sergeant's appearance
stopped all plans and Private Lord snoozed
in the guard house last night, guarded by
a soldier with a bayonet fixed upon his gun.
Lord will be tried today.
Company X are going to have their street
covered with a layer Of sard. 1t will make a
great improvement in the looks of the street
and will save them great deal of trouble
from rain.
Stanley Koontz. of Company F, gets very
hostile at roll call at times.
Corporal Johnson, of Company F, was sigh
ing fer his sea boots and oilskin yesterday
Norwood told him that sea poets would do a
man no good who had lost his sea legs Then
they had il up and down the 70 castle
Miss Kohistad, of Minneapolis, made a COL
lection of memory buttons along F street yes
terlay.
King Oscar would be proud of Company F
If ne knew the roster. Eight of them are
Olscns.
Allie Rontzahn, of Company F, was wish
Ing for one of mothers pies yesterday. Every
time he thought of them the water ran-off
the tent.
Harry D. Aver, of Company C, is permanent
orderly TO Mai. Hand.
ovey Shippy, of Company G, nearly knocked