Evening journal., 1898-05-03
DELAWARE RECRUITS
Armed Men to the Number of
500 at Camp Tunnel Now.
COLLEGE CADETS ARE BNLIsTIEG

TWO MEN FROM EACH COMPANY
SENT OUT TO ASSIST IN RE-
CRUITING FOR THEIR COMPAN-
les.
Camp Tunnel, Middletown, May g.
Camp Ebe w. Tunnel now has over
400 men awaiting the call Oflthe regi-
meRt to the front Something over 100
men arrived yesterday OF this num-
Der about forty were from Wilmington,
twenty-three from Newark including
number Of Delaware College students,
and the remainder were from other
parts Of the state. Captain W. Il. Lank,
Of Company b, Of Milford, arrived yes
terday afternoon with eighteen men
and went into service. These men went
home few days ago when they were
asked to volunteer, but changed their
minds and came back Captain William
Osborne Of Laurel, whose company
went home a few days ago, refusing to
volunteer, also arrived in camp yester-
day with fourteen men.
In order to get recruits more rapidly
and to get men who would be accept
able to the company, the commanding
J officers yesterday afternoon detailed
NOUllulcNlOHtu
to go to their homes and get recruits
for their own companies. The details
! left yesterday afternoon. They were
| ordered to recruit men and return by
| Wednesday evening with the men il
possible.
There was some talk Of mastering in
the companies as soon as each is filled.
but the regimental officers objected to
this and the matter was laid before
Governor Tunnel and the board OF Off
| GERS. 1t was held that as soon as a
company was mustered in it became a
portion OF the army, and could be or
dered to do detached duty anywhere
This would separate the regiment and
there would be no use for regimental
officers. The officers held that the
regiment should not be mustered into
service until the whole was complete,
so that the officers might be mustered
in with the men. The governor and the
board OF officers took the same view Of
the matter, and decided not to allow
the regiment to be mustered into ser
vice until the whole regiment is ready.
Lieutenant W. II. Gordon, the United
States mastering officer, said that he
did not know when he would begin the
mastering. His duty, he said, was tO
muster in the men presented by the
state and until the state presents the
men he can take no action. The sol
diers were given several hours drill
yesterday and the rife ranges were alsc
put into service.
Surgeon Wyeth, the United States
Army officer who was detailed from
Baltimore to make the physical exami
, nations Of the Delaware men, began hi.
work to-day. He has two communi
\ eating rooms at McIntyre's Nationa
| Hotel, which is near the depot, and tn,
! men go there and are examined one a
! a time. While this work will be per
i, Termed with all possible haste, It will
not be slighted in any way, and ever.
man who is permitted to enlist in th'
government service can rest assureS
that he is physically sound.
There is every reason to believe tina
! | at least 95 per cent. Of the men nov
= here and all who follow will pass ex
animation, so that this feature will
: make no perceptible reduction in thl
ranks. Surgeon Wyeth, who visitet
the camp ground on Saturday after
n noon and made a critical examination
Of the camp and men, expressed him
self afterward as being highly please,
and gratified with the condition o
things.
In some unaccountable manner
false report has been in circulation
concerning the quarters Of the Officers
, It has been reported that the officer
u 1 OF the regiment have been stopping a
:, hotel in MiddletOwn, while the mel
have remained at nights on the cam,
I, | ground. There is no foundation what
ever for such a story. Every one of tn
: regimental officers, from Colonel
: Pusey Wickersham on down, have bee
3 In camp at all times, except for an hou
J. or so at times, when called away ol
business, and all OF them have slsp
levery night in their tents on the fiel
with the men. And it might be well t
say that the quarters Of the officers, a
l. the opening of the camp particularly
8 were not as comfortable, as a rule, a
J. those in which the non-commissione
v officers and privates were quartered A
. a matter Of fact, the officers have no
II | Jared as we'll as the men.
5, The men are much pleased with tn
8 rifle ranges, and the prospects 70
. proper rife practice. Colonel Postles
q inspector OF rifle practice, was assist
/ ed in erecting and proving the range
by Lewis Allen, engineer Of the Della
ware railroad, and a corps of men. M
/ Allen has had experience in laying on
ranges at Sea Girt, N. j.. and his as
l. sistance was very valuable, making tn
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