The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-07
rwENTY-srx WANT TO GO To CUBA.
second GeorGfa's Mastering Omcer
Has Begun His work.

An official test of the situation dscoy-
cred the fact yesterday afternoon that
twenty-slx enlisted men Of the First Bat
talon Of the Second Georgia Regiment are
DESTROYS OF remaining in the regiment, pro-
vlded il is retained. There bay be few
more who viii add their names to the list
of those who signed paper at Camp
Brown TO signify their desire to stay In.
All the men were not at the camp when
the opportunity was presented to sign
either 10 stay in the regiment or to get out,
Most of these were seen last night or will
be this morning, so that the mastering Of
fcer, Capt. p. +. Trippe OF the Tenth
Cavalry, win be able 10 receive conclu-
siVe information at a meeting of the Off
GERS of the battalion at 1870 o'clock this
morning.
Capt. Trippe and his wife and child ar
rived yesterday and are stopping al the
DE Solo The captain went out to the
camp soon after luncheon, aud at once be-
gan ascertalning exactly what officers and
men are DESTROYS Of remaining with the
regiment.
The companies were assembled after two
papers for each of them had been made
out at the captains tents. The lines were
marched up TO the tents and the officers
and men were allowed to sign whichever
they preferred. one was a statement of the
desire 10 be discharged and the other a
statement Of the desire to remain In the
Second Georgia. Company NJ, Capt. w. G.
Austin, had the largest number of men to
sign the paper 80 stay in. There were nine
teen men, besides the officers, Capt. Aus
tin, First Lieutenant l.. X, Keuan and
Second Lieutenant r. NJ. Screven. The
men We're Sergeant Homer r. Johns Ser
geant John +. McDermott, Sergeant Rob
ert Hunter, Corporal n. F.. HarreI, Pri-
Yates Oscar S. Benton, A. Brumwasser, j.
p. Bowen, J. w. Burton, G. A. Cosens,
William D. Cobb. oscar Dickinson. Dud-
ley Garrison, Mack H. Hawkins. Charles
l. Harrell, G. S. Matheson, c. A. Holland,
Samuel Pearlman, Martin c. Potter and
John II. Skinner.
In Company l. there were First Leuten-
ant II. Newell West and Second Leuten-
ant Henry Blum, JT., who manifested a de-
sire to remain with the regiment. Three
enlisted men also want TO stay. They were
Privates william Il. Arnold, Charles H.
Richardson and James r. Woodland.
None of the officers Of Company b want
to stay in. There are three men who de-
sire TO do so. They are Quartermaster Ser
eeant II. II. Fitzpatrick, Corp r. A. Far
ris and Private Wallace J. Willie On a
HOH Adhttl IiAudS uOt Il man VI tlli5 tOHi-
pany signifled a wish to stick in the regi-
ment, Mature consideration Of the matter
caused the three to arrive at a different
conclusion.
One will remain Of Company X. This is
Sergeant Arthur Shaaff Second Lieut.. Sui
Ivan Bond VIII not remain. He did not
wish to put Col Brown 20 any inconven-
Ience so he wired him Saturday that he
had changed his plan and would not re-
main. This he did on account of having al
ready, as did the other officers who wished
10 remain in the regiment telegraphed the
colonel to the contrary. There was thus
no officer of Company x who expressed
a desire to remain.
Lieut. Col. William Garrard will not re-
main In the regiment. Capt, Trippe will
telegraph the number of men who wish
20 stay In the regiment to the war de-
partment this morning. Later he will
send the names of all who want to remain
in. He may hear from the department
in a short while that, owing to the few
men of this battalion and other compa-
MES who desire to remain In the regiment
the plan for It's retention has been chang
cd and that he may proceed with its mus
tSrng out Such, several officers and men
who were heard to express themselves
upon the question, say, will be the result
Of the effort to have the command retain
ed
All the members Of the battalion will
have to report at the camp this afternoon
at $50 o'clock. II may be that those who
have positions In the city will not have "a
report daily after to-day. Capt Trippe
who will be in charge Of affairs until the
men are discharged. seems disposed 10 al
low them all the liberties consistent witt
the proper conduct Of the work for which
he is here
Ii is not known just how long il will
be before the men will be discharged oil
mustered out, provided the war depart
4 ment decides on this latter course. 1t /;
/ thought however, that NOS more than five
/ or six days should be necessary for all the
work. This consists in the making out o.
| muster-out rolls, five copies for each com
! pany. the turning in of al company prop
/ erty and in the inspections of the cap
| tains' accounts 20 see if they are all cor
rect, and the examination of the men b,
a surgeon This all involves considerable
work
Commenting upon the result of the test
an officer said: THE men don't want e
get out OF the army because they dom
like army life. 1t is not so much that a
because they want to get into something
that will pay them better, If Il were
=, question of fighting, ! have no doubt tina
every man i'm the battalion would stick b.
it, There was prospect of some of
when the men went into the army. Whe
they'sa all chance of seeing actual ser
vice and being under fire was lost the
began TO think about getting out. 1t Is n
reflection on the service that they prefe
10 return to civil pursuits.
"Therell be no lighting to speak @
when they get to Cuba, that is IL the reg
iment is reorganized according to the pres
ent plan and is sent TO the island. II Wi
be a nice trip for the men who stay j
though, aud 1 guess this has influence
some of those who will stay in the reg
ment"
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