The Jersey City news., 1898-05-16
ARE UNEASY.
Anxiously Expecting Orders
at Camp Voorhees, to
Start Troops.
COY. VOORHEES, APPOINTS SURGEONS
Story About DR.. Adams APP
pointment---Capt. Alvin
H. Graft an Adjutant
Of the First Regi-
ment.
COY. VOORHEES, APPOINTS SURGEONS
ment.

SEA GIRT, May I6, 1S9S.--It is possible
that some orders will be received today
at Camp Voorhees, to start some OF the
troops southward The soldiers are grow
ing somewhat uneasy, and the order TO
move it is being anxiously awaited
On Saturday Governor VOORHEES, talked
with Quartermaster General Luddington,
u. S. A., over the telephone. in relation
to sending the supplies, medical and other
wise, which the State authorities had
asked for. General Luddington said that
the supplies would be forthcoming inn
mediately. Governor Voorhees, later
sent the following telegram to the Quar-
termaster General at Washington, ex-
planning that some Of the supplies for the
First Regiment had already been bought
by the State:-
Continuing telephone message OF this
afternoon our quartermaster general has
ordered following necessary articles OF
equipment. which are included in list for
warded by Captain Butler and are 70 pc
turned over to national authorities, viz
Four hundred palrSsbf shoes, at Sl.So per
pair; ], 600 regulation blue overshirts, az
ST. S012; 1000 underskirts and drawers ana
1,000 pairs of socks at Government prices.
These will complete necessary equipments
of one regiment now mustered IN ana
waiting.
cles can be furnished within two or three
days. We are deficient in above articles
for remaining two regiments, now mus
tered in We have ordered additl9nai df %. ooe
quality, which can at once be turned over
to the Government"
After consultation with General
Plume in regard to the manner IN Wnlch
the soldiers should draw their money,
Governor VOORHEES, decided upon form,
which the men will have to MI OUT m Or
der to secure their pay from the Slate-
From the time the men are mustered INTO
the Government service they are palu ac-
cording to the rates OF the regular army
and, according to the army reguiatiohs'
will receive their pay once month, uil-
less circumstances prevent II. II IS prop
able that when the soldiers get into. the
field circumstances will prevent thSni
from drawing their pay regularly; Ihe
pay of q private in the army is $l5 per
month. with 20 per cent. added by. the
State Of New Jersey, making it $l5.6o.
Lieutenant Colonel CiouS, Deputy
Judge Advocate General of the United
States Army, on duty at the headquarters
of the Department of the East, with Gen,
eral Merritt, has left Sea Girt: He SAID
that General Merritt might desire MN 10
go to the Philippines with him.
With the regular company music, con-
sisting Of a drum and 1fe, Private Joseph
Kastner of Company NJ, Second Regiment
of Dover, was drunllned out OF camp
SATURDAY. He was escorted to the rail-
road station and started for him home, IN
Dover, amid groans' peslues noo'S aa1
Three weeks ago Kastner enlisted in
Company NJ together with James van
Louvander and Stephen Mills. me men aesn
went to Sea Girt "juSt for fun, but lne
Weea ther knocked all the enthusiasm Tor
soldering out OF them in about a week.
Mills and Van Louvander hunkenD nrst,
and in order to have no "funkers,, in -, the
company when it was mustered in, cap
tain E. L. Petty had SUBSCRIPTION tax
en- up to send the men home Ihls was vas
1,xr z O CT
longer but when he learned that Com
pany N was to be mustered in Saturday
he weakened. -
The company, in charge of Sergeant
Charles Roder marched Kastner to the
station. the ''flunker' ten PAGES in front
Of the company. He was hooted all the
way, but kept step to the music and ga
not seem to mind it much
The men in Camp Voorhees, remained
under their tents this morning on account
of the threatening. weather. me water water
in the camp grounds spread over Wlqe
area. The regiments are stlll anxiouSly
waiting for the orders from the war De-
partment to move. Chaplain Charies n.
Jones, of the Second Regiment, who was
thrown from his horse last evening ano
rendered unconscious by the tai, was
found not to have been badly injured to-
day and in the course OF week Will pe
in active service again.
Governor VOORHEES, has announced the
appointment of surgeons for the three
| New Jersey regiments at Sea Girt, as
| tOllUWS--
First Regiment-Regiment surgeon
Henry w Alters; assistant surgeons, >
| Harbourne Baldwin, James X. EngHsh
Jr., and Horace w: Patterson. -
| Recond Observation-Disclosures surgeon
| Charles F. Adams; assistant surgeons
| Charles H. Bundell, William M. Brier
| and William S. Terriberry.
| Third Regiment-Regiments. surgeon
/ Clarence NJ. Slack; assistant surgeons
| John f. McWilliams Stephen K. keeft
| and Charles H. Schlichter.
| There is an interesting little story II
| connection with the appointment of Sur
| geon Adams of the Second Regiment
| The Evening Post says:-sDr. Adams Is
| the leading homeopathic physician O.
| Hackensack, where he gave up his prac
| tice in order to follow to camp, and tt
the seat of war, Company G of the Seconc
1 Regiment, of which he has been surgeon
| for number of years. When the Boarc
| of Examining Surgeons went to Sea Cir
| last week they at once manifested theil
| unwillngness to pass a homeopa thist
| While in the case of the other surgeon:
| the physical examination was merely
| nominal, that of DR.. Adams was made
| particularly stringent, but as he wa:
| stroke of the Brown University crew
| when he was in college, he had no diff
| Guilty in showing that he was up to the
| physical requirements. Then it was an
| nounced that the board had decided mo-
| to pass any surgeon of the homeopathic
i school When this was reported to Gov.
! ernor Voorhees, he declared at once thai
/ the appointment rested with him and ht
i placed DR.. Adams at the head of tbs
| surgical staff Of the Second Regiment
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