Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

VIRGINIA. REGIMENT GENERAL
IMPRESSION THAT THE BOYS
WILL BE MUSTERED OUT WITH
IN THIRTY DAYS.
Corporal John H. Gillespy writes an
entertaining letter from Columns, Ga,
concerning the Second West Virginia
Regiment Of Volunteers, which is in
camp at that place. He says:
A week has almost passed in our new
camp and we have had few hours OF
dry weather. 1t rains here couple OF
days and then it takes a couple OF days
to dry the mud up and it starts to rain
again. On Thursday we had what is
known as brigade dress parade. The
three bands were all together as one
band and we marched out to brigade
headquarters and passed in Eeview be-
fore General Wiley.
About seventy-fve of the West Vir-
ginia regiment were in town on passes
yesterday. In order to get pass you
must get it at regimental headquarters,
signed by the regimental commander,
and then you take it to brigade head
quarters where you must be Inspected
to see that your clothes ere clean and
neat and that your shoes are shined
that you make a neat appearance.
Seventy-five of the West Virginia boys
went up there in a body and were in
spected yesterday morning and General
Wiley, who is in command of the brig
ade, said that this was the neatest
body of men he had seen since he had
been in the service. Several other Of
ficers made like remarks while We
were there.
| was one to go to town on pass
While there I inquired about the price
paid labor here and I find that $500
day of ten hours is the best wages paid
to bricklayers, while in Wheeling they
get s405 cents for nine hours. Negro
laborers who were wheeling brick and
mortar and "tending" the bricklayers,
get So cents day.
Carpenters get from $3.50 to $500 a
day. Common laborer get Is cents a
day for digging trench for water pipe
in the street. Farm laborers get 20
cents day and must board themselves
Cotton mills and foundries are the
chief industries here.
l had the pleasure of going through
a cotton mill and saw them making
cloth and cotton thread and | never
heard so much noise unless it was in a
nail cutting mill.
1 found many young children not
more than II years of age working
here never saw so many coiored
persons in all my life as are in the
town at Columbus.
The public buildings are the finest In
the town. They are the postofflce, re-
Gently completed, the Court House and
public school buildings.
VIM. T. Crawford has returned to the
regiment and has resumed his old po-
tition of Regimental Postmaster. He
was detailed as orderly to General
Brooke, and has been to Porto Rlca
with him. He was sick while there.
and has now just returned from fur
louglt Which time he spent at his home
in wheeling.
Many of the boys are making appfi-
cations for discharges. Some are be-
ing granted. =.
Many letters are written to Senator
! Elk1ns and other influential mep WITH
the. powers that be in Washington.
The officers Have each been issued a
Krag Jorgesen rife sc that they might
become familiar with it, and thus teach
J. their men.
Sunday morning we are to have an
.iusp ction of everything. Our ree1-
ment always had this inspection en-
Saturday. :.
Our camp here is being fixed UP as If
it was more than temporary camp.
X theirs and mess ROOMS are being
made of wood and many other build
4, ines are of wood.
IL, Of a9ah rpoir an tal hR9 0nl19r-
tiers and also brigade headquarters are
, large electric arc lights. They are
! needed to get through the mud when it
rains hard.
One place one of the boys went in the
mud about 10 inches.
The chapel tent has. been fixed ND
and the regular services will be held.
, The canteen has not as yet been set
up, and it could not be learned how
soon it would be- 1t would be a good
| thing for the regiment if there was
ne7er any n .oxi ating drinks sold to
/ the boys. This has been the founda-
ton of all the troubles the boys have
had
Many rumo~s are going the rounos
of camp that we would all be home
within 80 days, and our regiment had
received an order not TO issue any more
of the -Jorgessn rifles. Some CT
the officers want to bet large sums that
we would he mustered out within Sixty
Cays. and that we would be home by
January list. They offered odds of TO
/. and 8 to 3 1t is not known where
they got their information TO assure
them.
Many of the boys want to be mus
te ed out but others would like to go
to Cuba.
There was a shooting scrape in the
Third Kentucky regiment the other
day. One man had his finger shot off,
and he then took a gun and hit his as
sailant over the head with the stock,
seriously wounding lin. He is ex-
pected to live.
The general health of the boys is
good.
We have the reputation here of hav-
ing one of the best regiments in the
service We also have one of the best
bands in the volunteer service.
Overcoats at J. WHATSOEVER low
est prices, 1858 Market street, tailor.
y.