The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-10
CAMP ON THE QUI WYE.
TOday's Sham Rattle Has the FIJI
tcenth In Fever of Excitement
Nearly Ready to Go East.

Nearly Ready to Go East.
Camp Ramsey will be revived for a few
hours today and the fair grounds will be
the scene of the Fifteenth's first sham bat
tle at 1880 the greater part Of the regi-
ment will be put aboard the cars and trans
ferred to the ''old camp ground" Col.
Leonhauser has determined not to accent the
invitation or the management CIV
ing the boys the freedom of the pace dur
ing the morning. Just after pay day it might
and Edwin, and probably Col. Leonhauser,
Will be on the grounds with the troops, while
Lieut. Col. Gotzian will have the honor of
keeping the camp where it is until the rest
return. The men who go into the battle will
have ten rounds Of bank cartridges to burn
and, as no plans are laid to take the hos
pital corps along, they will have to be care
full not to burn the men in front of them.
This evening Companies A and l will go
over to Minneapolis to take part in the festi-
val of fire.
The excursions today however, are as
nothing compared with the task Of moving
the Fifteenth from Smelling to Middleton,
yesterday and with his Clerks is hard at
work arranging the details. The men will
use on their arrival at Camp Meade. Bids
for the transportation of the regiment are
being considered. 1t is estimated that there
will be forty-two officers, who require first
class passage and palace sleeping car accom-
modations; $40 enlisted men, to go second
class and in tourist cars, three men to
6eCLlonI Twelve horses ana their iced, and
l5O, 900 pounds excess baggage. The quarter
masters department alone will have some
5000 pounds in it's outfit.
Inc medical stores will be packed today.
Enough will be left open, however to fit UP
q travelling hospital to accompany each bat
TALON surgeon and steward will go with
be carefully guarded
Seventy-five Sibley tents have been trans
ferred from the Third infantry to the FIJI
tenth Minnesota, and they will be carried
along. The tents are constructed on q novel
plan. They have a stove in the center and
the pole that supports the tent also serves
Yesterday was pay day for the Fifteenth
and in spite Of army red tape the entire
regiment was paid before p. m. Col. Corey
and Maj. Cummings did duty as paymasters
and lavishly distributed 1000 during their
short stay.
There was only one new case that was sus-
pected of being typhoid fever during the day.
and but four men occupied the hospital The
surgeons hope that none of the typhoid will
accompany them to Middletown, and the signs
are more favorable than ever. Four men
were taken to the post hospital as suspects on
Thursday and yesterday three of them were
returned, because their cases had not devel-
oped into anything serious. The sanitary
condition of the camp is closely watched and
the men are learning the benefits Of cleanli-
ness and seem now to take q pride in having
a neat, well-kept street.
Lieut.. Coe is making all arrangements for
the boys who are still In the HOSPITALS to
get their thirty-day furlough and Transports
ton to their homes at their discharge. When
the leave Of absence is up they will report at
Fort Smelling and from there be sent to Join
the regiment.
The number of men discharged from the
hospitals increases every day with gratifying
steadiness. Yesterday nearly fifty men were
given sick leave for thirty days and trans
portation to their homes. They were: An
drew O. Booth, Company A, to Brecken-
ridge Anton Tygeson. Company D, to Ray
ton; Martin Rinde. Company NJ, to Madelia;
George B. Deller, Company E, to Beardslee
John N. Ryman, Company E. to Beardslee
Corporal John T. Deadly, Company E, to
Graceyille; Corporal John NJ. Rowland, Com
Company NJ, to Cottonwood; Olaf e. Ludgard,
Company L, to Houghton; Charles Peterson
Company M, to New York Mills; Harry Burr
mester, Company H, to Mankato; Ewing
Briggs, Company A. to W0rthington; William
A. Patterson, Company H, to Worthington;
Austin l.: Kindred. Company H, to Corning,
To-. Ole Evenson, Company l, to East Grand
Forks; William Boeger Company F, to East
Grand Forks; Anton M. Oeson, Company F,
to Fosston; Frank E. orion, Company F, to
Company F, to East Grand Forks; John Wa
couta, the bandmaster, Prairie du Chen
Wis; Will J. Nimocks, Company F, to Port
age, Wis; Loves H. HurZig, Company H, to
Dundee; Edward Loosen, Company l, to
Monticello
Three cheers for Lieut.. Dewey" And
Company gave them with will when the
popular lieutenant with the famous name
walked Unexpectedly into camp last evening.
Dewey has been at Litchf1eld to get the
schools started. His leave did not expire
until the end of the month, but news Of a
move was too much and so the football
player surprised the boys just as they were
forming for battalion parade. 1t must be
would never return to them, and his appear
ance was an agreeable disappointment