The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-04
REAL SOLDERING.
Second Day in Camp Voor-
hees One of Hardship
for Volunteers.
OVERcoATs IN GREAT DEMAND
Rasions Slow in Appearing
Each Regiment Will Have
Three Majors.
OYERcoATs IN GREAT DEMAND
Especial to .'rhe Jersey city News."l

at Sea Girt, was not by any means a
cheerful one. The morning broke cold
and gray. The heavy rain of the night
had made the night oggy, and the SKY
was overcast with heavy clouds. But for
the grass and the birds warbling in the
grove beyond the camp the day would be
more like November than May.
The storm came uDon the camp UNI
looked for. None of the p~rivates were
sufficiently supplied with blankets. Some
of the men bore off the covering of others
and these last in consequences spent q
very uncomfortable night. The men
whose lankets had been taken used mat
tresses for coverlets, and yesterday morn
ing it was amusing to see the tents Quilted
of their contents.
Reveiile was sounded at six O'clock.
Owing to disorder in the commissary de-
partment breakfast was not served until
fully two hours later. The camp regula-
tons have not yet been promulgated,
and will not be until the men are mus
tered in the United States service. So
says General Plume. Consequently, after
breakfast, with no camp routine to pur-
sue, there was nothing for the men to do,
but the First Regiment, in order to get
warm and Timber up its joints, had a
drill.
A few of the companies of the other
regiments also drilled in the company
streets. Colonel A. Judson Clark, of the
division staff, and Colonel Loutrel. of the
Quartermaster Generals department. ac-
companled by the regimental command
ants, inspected the tents at 10 o'clock.
They found the grass floor very wet in
many Instances.
r 49, -~o- x-1u@ allowed 70 h11oE
in the mess halls because their tents
were not fit for occupation. Regimental
post officers for the Second and Third
Regiments have been established. The
former is in charge of Chaplain Glaze
brock, the latter of Captain Jones, chap
lain of the Third. The First Regiment
has as yet no office established. owing to
psle@ absence of Captain Keller, the chap
lain. Five mails will come into camp
daily and six go gut.
General Sewell yesterday notified Gov
ernor VOORHEES, tia under the new army
reorganization bill, three majors will be
allotted to each regiment. Under the
original bill only two majors were men
toned. This will relieve Colonels Camp
bell and Hine. of the First and Second
Regiments, respectively. of the necessity
of discriminating against any one of the
three MAJORS in each of their commands,
and will give Colonel Lee, of the Third,
the recommending of a third major. 1t
is generally agreed thai the third major
OF the Third Regiment will be Captain
Landon of Go. A, of Burlington. Cap
tain Landon is the military instructor of
the B~ordentown Military Institute. The
three majors of the First Regiment are
Majors H. w. Freeman, Charles B.
Champlin and Frank Hayes, all of New
ark. Those of the Second Regiment are
Francis D. Jackson of Hoboken, Angus
tus Van Greson of Paterson and John
Engel of Hackensack. The other two
majors are:-Julius Smaller of Elizabeth
and William H. De Hart of New Bruns-
wick.
Governor Voorhees, yesterday sent the
following telegram to the Grand Council
of the Royal Arcanum, in session at Sum
init in response to a telegram of greet
ing sent TO the camp
81 have much pleasure in acknowledge
ing your kilograms containing your greet
ings to the New Jersey volunteers now in
camp, and have transmitted the same to
Major General Plume, commanding the
post. 1t will be- a great incentive to our
soldier boys o know that the good peo-
pie of New Jersey remember them and
appreciate the patriotic impulse which
takes them from their peaceful vocations
to endure the dangers and privations of
military duty.
FOSTER NJ. VOORHEES,
Captain William C. Butler of the reg
ular army, who is to muster the men in
to the United States service, with Sur
geon Goras, arrived at the camp yester-
day afternoon and the physical examina-
tons will begin today. The work of
transferring the men to the Federal ser
vice will then begin in earnest. It is the
intention to first swear in the regimental
surgeons, who will then assist in the
medical examination of the men prepara-
tory to their enlistment.
Stoves, CRATES b~roilers, boilers, frying
pans and all the other accessories Of a
kitchen outfit were distributed yester-
day. Fires were built under the CRATES,
and in many companies a blaze was kept
up all night. Each company was sup
piled yesterday with ground coffee, nice
juicy steaks. milk, sugar, lard, butter,
bread and potatoes. There was enough
in each lot for eighty men.
Company cooks had been detailed by
the captains, and no time was lost in get
ting the breakfast started. The soldiers
gathered around the fires. which were
built in front of the company streets,
and watched the preparations with great
interest
The commissary department is located
in the northern end of the quartermas-
ter's building, between the camp and the
railroad tracks. Colonel Cyrus Loutrell,
aide to Quartermaster General Donnelly,
is acting commissary. Through his de-
partment the rations will be distributed
to the companies quartermasters squad
each day.
Camp Voorhees, is not a midsummer
camp. Overcoats are in constant use,
but the fresh sea air is doing wonde for
the men. "A good, brisk early wash
makes a man bright and sharp, and then
there Is always an axe handy and plenty
OF wood to be chopped, so that aSman can
scare up a good appetite.
cup and knife and fork, were drawn UP
in line in the company streets and the ra-
lions were distributed by a detail.
1t required 1000 pounds of beef steak
to fill the order. AT noon the bill of
fare was friend ham, boiled potatoes,
coffee and bread, and roast beef was
given out, with the usual adjuncts, for
supper.
The Commissary Department distribute
ed 1850 pounds of ham for Dime and
the same amount of roast beef for sup
per, making a total of $500 pounds of
meat for the day.
Thursday is corn beef n cabbage
day, and on Friday the guardsmen Will
she treated to their first meal OF fresh
fish. The Commissary Department is in
charge of Quartermaster General DON
nelly. who has for his aids Colonies Lou
trel. FELTON,, Farley and Olcott.
There are eighteen assistants in this