The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-24

feeling, that spring fever, listless and
languid, which fortunately prevents
them from over-exertion, and at the
same time cures coughs and colds
more effectively than any medicine.
STATE OF THERMOMETER.
At $3.50 in the afternoon. with a fresh
breeze blowing. it was SO degrees in
the shade, % degrees in the sun, ana
when the thermometer was placed on
the sand the mercury went up to 81 de-
grees. Under these circumstances. and
with Thanksgiving only five days off,
a remembrance of our climate in the
north at this time of year appears more
like dream than a reality.
Church services were held, for the
first time in the new camp, in Com
pany G's mess tent Sunday morning at
10 o'clock. Chaplain Stahl offiCated.
and had reason to express his appreci-
alton Of the large audience which was
present. Every company sent its quota,
and all eagerly took part in the SER
vices. a number of the Catholic mem
bcrs Of the regiment took advantage of
the opportunity offered, and went to
Augusta, where they attended mass in
st. patriCk's church.
In pursuance Of an order from the
division commander, calling upon the
brigade commanders to change the
hours for the routine of camp life,
Colonel Hoffman, who is temporarily in
charge Of the Third brigade, last night
issued an important circular whose
contents gave the greatest pleasure to
the boys. 1t was communicated to
reEimental headquarters and thence to
the company commanders, who had it
read to their men. 1t was favurably
commented on, and certainly is the
most popular order which has been
published in long time.
THE NEW SCHEDULE.
According to its provisions. the fol-
lowing schedule of hours for the differ
ent duties of camp has been adopted:
First call for rcVeille, $50 a. m; rev.
ellie, 6.45; assembly for roll call, $50:
mess, = general police of camp, 7.30;
sick call. 730; guard mount 8: drill
school of the soldier, $50; recall from
drill, Il; mess II M; drill. school Of
the battalion. p. m; recall from drill,
3.30; dress parade 4; mess, 5: tattoo,
81 call to quarters, 915; taps. $50. on
days when there is no dress parade,
first call for retreat will be blown at
4.45 y. m, and retreat roll call will be
held at y. m, and check roll call at
taps.
This order calls for three changes of
special Importance. The first is hav-
ing guard mount in the morning at .,
instead of at s o'clock; the second is
putting the morning roll call back from
twenty minutes past six to ten min
utes before seven. This means half an
hour of extra sleep-whiCh will. of
course. be Appreciated but the most
decided Improvement of all consists in
having regular roll call at retreat and
check roll call at taps. As it has
been in the past, the men had to wait
around camp from supper time till Q
O'Clock, without anything to do, or any
place to so to divert themselves, and
without lights in their tents to read,
as it grew dark at o'clock in the
afternoon. Many, on that account, be-
came restless, disgusted and ended by
running away for few days AS ii is
to be hereafter. the boysNwill have to
answer roll call at ) y. m., and then
may go to bed if they so desire always
making sure to be in their quarters at
half-past nine in order to be accounted
for as present at the check roll call.
This latter idea is copied after the
practice which is followed in the regu-
lar army, and is a deSarvedly popular
innovation.
STRICT REGULATION.
Hereafter no enlisted man will he
allowed to leave the limits of camp
without a pass. signed by his company,
and approved by his regimental. COM
manders. Otherwise Re is sure to be
picked up by the provost guard which
Is striCter than usual
First Lieutenant w. w. Inglis. of ID
Company, who left the regiment at
Dunn Loring to go west on an extended
tour for the good of his health, on the
certificate of physician as to his
physical inability, has been granted a
further leave of absence of one month.
Many of the quartermaster sergeants
| and of the company clerks, as we'll as
the members of the commissary staff.
sent some of their papers and other
valuables on a slow freight the day the
regiment left Pennsylvania. They have
not vet received them, and one of the
victims of the slow frelght's speed to-
day calculated that the boxes would
not be here before the next general
flood.
Corporal William Dunkerley and Pri-
Yates Howard Davis, Alex. Major and
Frank W. Banks, of c, returned from
an extended sick furlcugh, reporting 10
their company before the Thirteenth
left Camp Meade.
Prtvates Thomas Blair, Thomas Da-
Wis and David c. Williams. of f, have
returned from their homes in Scranton.
| where they spent few days on fur
! lough
\ NEW HOTEL.
Company II has an Hotel de Po-
| lock" whose inmates are Corporal
| Fred. Bellersheim and Private Zang,
| Hines, ktmble, Baker and Helm. They
| had very warm house warming" last
| night.
Privates Whipple. Robert Harmony
| and Henry Ives of d. have Joined their
| company-the former after few days
| absence on furlOugh, the two latter
| after extended sick furloughs.
| Privates John Hill and Charles Nc
| Mullen, of Il Company, have returned
/ to camp from their homes, where they
| spent some time on sick furlough.
Quartermaster Sergeant George Cul-
Ver who was taken sick at Dunn Lor-
ing, and granted a sick furlough, and
/ Corporal Austin Petry, Musician Jones
and Privates Harry c. Moore and VIII
| Young, Of A Company. have returned
! to camp.
Company Clerk John II. Coakley, Of
| IL, has returned from four days fur.