The evening times., 1898-06-10

twenty-five men who wen, last night were
required.
All the members of the squadron who
had been left in the city were anxious to
go this time. SO lots had to be drawn. The
names of those who drew the successful
numbers and started last night. are Pri-
Yates Crowell. Wallace. Chapman. Heat
on. Stillman. Troescher. Perry, Stevens,
Lannon. Pearce, Mckinley Coyne. Gran
mis-, Drake. Benjamin. Slidell. Hudson.
Barclay. Mills. Cushman. Pierson and Ly-
on.
The luggage left the Armory in two
large vans at o'clock. and later the men.
carrying only their arms. started in Madi-
son Avenue cars. They went to the Penn
sylvania ferry. at West Twenty-third
Street. and took special car on the mid
night train peal.
DIR. Peters Fears Not.
New York. June 10.-Madison c. Pc
ters, chaplain of the Ninth Regiment.
has. in the opinion of some officers of
to a court-martial for his comments re-
garding the treatment of soldiers In
camp. He has criticised the governor OF
, the State. who is commander-in-chiefo of
the State forces. and other superior Off
GERS.
In his sermon last Sunday Chaplain
Peters interested the congregation of the
Bloomingdale Reformed Church with a
long statement of delinquencfes on the
part of the authorities in handling the
troops at Camp Townsend and Camp
Black especially in the matter of keep
ing back the mems pay. DIR. Peters re-
ferred to the fact that the men had not
been paid although n fnillion-dollar ap-
preparation had passed the legislature,
and cited numerous instances where the
wives and mothers of men who are now
at the front had to come TO him to keep
off starvation or save eviction from their
homes. The chaplain did not hesitate to
charge all this to official incompetence or
neglect.
DR.. Peters was seen at his home yes
terday and said: "Court-martial me? Let
me see: they won't shoot me, will they"
Well, they can go ahead with a court
martial If they choose. In everything I
have said standing up for the rights of
the soldiers ! take back nothing, and
the officials cannot muzzle me. 1 know
of what went on in camp at Peekskill.
because 1 was there and saw the things
of which I speak. The governor and his
adjutant general know nothing, or prac-
ticaliy nothing. because he was with the
soldiers less time than he took to eat his
luncheon.
when the wives and children of the
defenders of the flag are suffering the
pangs of hunger through no fault of the
men. but through official neglect or in
competence or something worse, then it
is time to throw military dignity to the
winds If it prevents the truth from being
known.
Let them bring me before a court
martial and there will be other facts
brought out that will put the blame where
it belongs. If the governor will make out
an itemized statement of the expenditures
of the million dollar appropriation will
investigate each item of it, and if find
it has been properly expended I will make
an apology from my pulpit"
The AstOr Battery.
New York, June 1O.-Col. John Jacob
Astor's mountain battery had its first
taste of campaigning yesterday morning.
when the command marched from its
temporary armory at No. 522 Broadway to
sixty-acre field owned by Col Aastor,
just north of Morris Park race track.
Here they pitched their tents and settled
down to await orders from Washington
to proceed to the front. Drills will i'm
prove the time of waiting.
The sun beat down numerically, and
half dozen men fell along the roadside
during the march of about eighteen miles,
Three were seized with commissions and
had to be carried into a brewery, where
they soon recovered. Many had to admit
their inability to carry their knapsacks,
which weighed about thirty pounds
apiece. and threw them into the supply
wagons which accompanied the battery.
The horses felt the strain. too, with
their ever-increasing load, and when
within two miles of the site of the camp
they showed such unmistakable signs of
breaking down that the animals-drawing
the last two guns were detached and sent
to help those pulling the wagons, while
the guns themselves were hauled the
rest of the way by the men.
When they reached their destination
the men, tired and footsore, almost with
out exception, took of their shoes and
and ran to little rill which
skirts the field. and sitting In rows along
Its banks let the cold water flow over
their burning and blistered feet.
1t was in struggling detachments that
The battery arrived. When the wagon. |
came up there followed an hour and a |
half Of hard work in getting the tents
pitched and the camp in order. There |
are eight conical tents and three wall |
tents for the officers, and when thev
we're all I'm place Capt. Peyton C. March |
the men on the neat way
n which they had done the work. He
,aid no regiment of veterans could have
lone 1t any better. The distance by dt- |
-ect roads Is hardly more than fifteen |
niles. but several times the diaerent sec
Ions went OF in wrong directions. and
% Travelled much more than was neces-
AIRY. Capt. March said that all things /
OnSfdered the mon had STOOD tho loDr, |
march very well, indeed
The commissions suffered by the three
'rivates were due. II was said, to their
lavine drank Iced mfIk. Which was ssrv-
d to them en- route and which the more
fudent slipped slowly. An soon recovef-
d. and nade their way 10 tAs eanp I