The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-18
tion will likely be settled when WASH
ington is reached.

In the Thirteenth there are a few
vacancies and it is the wish of Colonel
Coursen that they be filled before he
formally presents his command for
acceptance in the second army corps
to which 1t has been attached There
are any number of applications for
places and if the desired permission
Is granted there will be little time
lost in filling the gaps. Emmet Nc
Dermott, of Company II. who was the
regimental headquarters bugler and
who was rejected because of his tall
ure to secure his parents consent to his
way of thinking and they are now as
anxious to have their boy enlist as
they formerly were to have him sent
home. Colonel Coursen and, in fact the
whole regiment, want him back as
there is no one in the drum corps at
present who can quite fill his place,
and if permission to recruit comes, he
will be possibly the first man to be
taken in
The drum corps are just now in a
rather depleted condition, there being
but six members all told for the eight
companies, while the regulations provide
| that there shall be two for each COM
| pany or sixteen in all. The newly ap-
|
| +. Very, Of Company q, is making
| strong efforts to organize a full corps,
| and feels confident that before the regi-
ment has been long established at its
southern camp he will have "A corps
that will be II credit to the regiment.
No time is being lost in preparing
| for the regiments departure. While
| the work of looking after equipment
| nd
| Quartermaster II. h. Cox, Adjutant l..
| Il. Mates has been busy arranging the
| details of the journey and this morn
| ing completed the makeup of the
trains and the drafting of the general
orders for the government of the troops
| en- route.
The train will move In three sections.
The first section will consist of thir-
| teen cars, a Pullman sleeper and twelve
| coaches. In the sleeper will be Colo
mel COursen, Major Stillwell, Regimen
| tai Adjutant Mates. Quartermaster
Cox, Surgeon Parke, Battalion Adju-
tant Gunster and the line officers Of the
first battalion, which is composed of
| Companies \. B, c, and d. One of the
| coaches will be occupied by the nom
| commissioned staff and drum corps
and the other eleven coaches by the
| enlisted men Of Companies A. b, G, and
| ID. Under the regular army reGula-
tiOnS the companies Will be under COM
mand of their respective first SER
geants while travelling, with the rail-
road officer who accompanies having
general supervision.
The second section will be made up
of one sleeper and eleven coaches. Lieu
tenant Colonel Mates will be in charge
and with him will be Major Wood,
Chaplain Stahl, Assistant Surgeons
Keller and Blanchard. Battalion Adju-
tant Coursen and the line officers Of
the second battalion. The coaches will
be occupied by Companies +, +, G. and
II, comprising the second battalion.
A horse car, a canvass car, a ration
car and three baggage cars will make
| up the third section. The trains will
travel at safe intervals on express time
and it is expected they will make the
one hundred and sixty mile journey in
less than seven hours.
a telegram came this morning to Pri-
| vate Samuel Martin, of Company f.
announcing shat his father. Fred. S.
Martin, of Honesdale, was dangerously
i'll and urging him to come home al
once. While he was working to secure
a furlough another telegram came stat
ing that his father was dead
Companies G and j. today received
six large packages of amber novelties
. from ex-Sheriff Robinson. Ther'n be q
hot time in the old town tonight.
QuartermaSter Cox in addition to hi:
many other duties is busted with the
preparations for sending back to Scran.
ton all the camp equipment and com
pany property that is not to be taker
: into the field. Stoves and their hxinEs
which have been supplanted by tn,
portable "buzZacotts," crockerywart
: and table tools" officers extra ten
trappings and about everything elsr
not included i'm United States army reg
ulations will be sent home.
Bread baking will not be commenced
until the regiment goes into camp a
| Washington. From tomorrow. wheI
the issue of soft bread ceases, until tn,
regiment departs from here hard tacl
will be the only subsistence in the way
: of staff OF life"
Captain f. d. Fellows, of Compan!
+. is officer of the day. Lieutenant w
f. Dodge, of Company f, commando
p of the guard, and Private Harry Smith
of Company ID, hearqudrters' orderly.
Company ID has had twenty -sevel
oTderlies thus far.
Albert Foster, one of Company F.
! ! rejected men, is back i'm camp on
visit.
Captain Smith, Of Company f.
, | proud, ana deservingly SO, OF his re
} | cruits. They are anxious and quick q
l | learn and are making rapid stride
5 | along the road 10 perfection in militar!
tactics. Then, too, there isn't a fine
looking body of men in the regiment.
Many of the officers with a view L
a business-like future, make daily Wis
n it's to the rifle range to perfect them
e selves in pistol shooting.
s Colonel e. II. Ripple, state commits
= sary general. is still here working o.
the tedious task of settling between tn
= Federal government and the state tn
s share each must stand in the cost o
Y feeding the sOldieTS. What makes tn
s task all the more difficult is the fac
n that the state, at the governments re
+ quests, continued to furnish subsist
h ence for the volunteers for some tim
= after they had been mustered in.
: The United States has issued no med
: icines as yet and no authority can b
a given by the local officers for repler
I ishing depleted hospital stock In con
II sequence several regiments are work
r ing to disadvantage in this respeC