The age-herald., 1898-10-29
Large Number of Men Found Who Are
 Disabled.
PUGH'S STATEMENT
Men Now Living Life eofLuxurious Ease Standing Guard With Iron Pipe Packing Up and Shipping Out
 Old Equipments.

anu dllcl AlOiidSy u VIII bC e1h oA eoAa-S0NASN of more or less pleasant memories only. It has been in existence for exactly six months, and during that time has made a record, although it didn't have an op- portunity to fight, of which all Alabama is proud.
 The men have all stood their physical ex- animation, and there is nothing left to do except to be mustered out and receive their pay.
 "The First Alabama is a remarkably fine regiment said Major Pugh, who is the surgeon in charge of the physical examina- ton which has just been made of the off, cers and men of that regiment. "I don't mean to say that my regiment, the Second Alabama, is not equal to it, for l think it is. 1 have seen the two Alabama regi- ments making the heavy marches in Jack the men of the Carolinas, Virginia, and many of the northern regiments dropped out by the score.
 "On its muster-out the First has passed good physical examination, and l under stand that the Second has done the samei l don't expect that there are over ten or fifteen men in the whole regiment out at Camp Falkner who are entitled to pensions at this time, from injuries received during the Spanish war. l don't mean to say that none of them have disabilities, for l should judge that one out of every ten has some slight trouble, temporary or permanent Iat l,o, To ba on the muster roll.
 "A majority of these cases of disability are the result of diarrhoea and other com paints of that kind, from which nearly all of them will recover A great many Of the, men are weak from recent sickness, some of them having just gotten up from typhoid fever. All of them have to be put down; as disabled Some of the men might get pensions for temporary dis ability. but there are only d few who are now entitled to permanent pgns.ons.le. You know a soldier must have been made in capable of doing manual labor before he can obtain a pension, and the amount of it depends his inability to work
 pr. Pugh says that Company K, the Birmingham Rifles is about the best com pany. physically, in the regiment and that Company M the Pratt .City-Talladega company, has more disabled men than any other.
 The physical examination of all the men has been completed except a few who are now in the hospital. Those who are un- able to be examined and mustered out at the time their companies are, will be left in the hospital in the charge of gov ernment surgeons and they will be discharged directly by the war depart ment.
 Begin Paying Tomorrow. The paymasters who are to settle Uncle | Sam's account with his Alabama soldier | boys tomorrow and Monday, are hard at work in the government building, going over each company report to see that there l are no errors in them. They have ail- | nouneed that they will be ready to com mence paying off tomorrow afternoon | probably, and if they do, four or five com- 1 panies will be discharged tomorrow night l The remainder of the regiment will be paid 1 off Monday. Each company is given it's l discharge before the men their pay; other 1 wise they could never be gotten back to l camp to receive their discharges. From l the present outlook, only a few of the | officers will receive the money due them | when their men do Every officer who has l signed for anything during the war must | get a complete release from a number of | the departments in Washington before he | can draw his final pay. This will per- | haps be several weeks off.
 | As has been stated, each of the men will | receive about $lo, in most cases over that 1 amount Besides their pay for September | and October they will draw about $50 Of | their clothing allowance, which they have | not used up, making in all about five l months salary which will be turned loose | in Birmingham tomorrow and Monday, | Some of the men will leave immediately | for their homes and Birmingham will not | get the benefit of their money, but there | are others who will stop in Birmingham
 for a while to spend their money for citi- I zens clothing "and other things so that, l on the whole, Birmingham will get a nice l little slice out of the $10O 900, more or less, | which the regiment will receive.
 | A great deal of credit is due to Colonel l Higdon Representative Underwood and l others, through wAose influence the regi-
 ment was brought to Birmingham to be I mustered out instead of Mobile.
 A Life of Ease.
 The men in Camp Falkner are now living
 life of luxurious ease for the first time
 in over six months They have nothing to l do all day, most of them, except to eat
 and watch the visitors who come out to l look at the camp before it becomes a thing
 of ---e past. Eating, they say, is delight | ful pastime these days, since they have | st ed their own cooking and are being l feu oy Paul Giardoni.
 They have plenty of coffee, barbecued
 beef, mutton and pork, vegetables fish
 salads and delicacies which have hereto
 fore been almost unknown.
 guard is still kept on for forms sake
 the sentinels being armed with piece of
 iron ppe about four feet long instead of l a rifle Their arms are not quite as
 formidable looking but they are very ef- | fective in stopping any soldier or citizen
 who has no business crossing the line. l Packing Up.
 | All of the ordnance has been packed and
 it is being shipped to the Rock Island l H., arsenal. All of the tents which are | not in use will be packed up today and
 shipped to the arsenal. Lieutenant Var
 Deusen will take charge of all the camp 1 equipments which are left, and as fast | as the companies leave, they will be | packed up and shipped off.
 An opportunity is being offered every | man who is mustere6 out to join tht l United Sestss regular army. but from al