The evening times., 1898-09-24
TO MUSTER OUT TROOPS
General Randolph to Send New
York Soldiers Home.
FURL0UGH OF SIXTY DAYS
At the End of Two Months All the
New York Regiments Designated
VIII lie Relieved From Further
Service-RejOicinS Among the Vol
untecrs over the Order.

Brig. Gen. Wallace F. Randolph. who
was in command of the light artillery bri-
gade which was organized in the beginning
OF the war for service in Cuba. has been
assigned to New York from Camp Wikon
as mastering out officer for New York
volunteers.
Gen. Randolph is accompanied there by
his adjutant. Capt. c. L. G. Treat. and
Major ]. II. Calef. First Artillery; Major
Charles y. Coolidge, Seventh Infantry:
Capt. Brett, Second Cavalry; Capt Will
liam Lassiter, Sixteenth Infantry: Capt.
L. r. Hills, Fifth Artillery; Lieut. l..
5. Sorley, Sixteenth Infantry: Lieut.
George W. GatcheH, Fifth Artillery, and
Lieut.. O'Conuel and Second Lieut. p. r
Ward, Seventh Artillery. The officers will
visit those cities which contributed troops
According To orders from Washington.
all regiments which have seen foreign
service vii! be given sixty days furIough.
and the other reg -ments held in camp in
this country, VIII be given thirty days.
Before this furlough is given there is
much clerical work to be done. and il will
be continued through the furlough period
so that If possible everything will be ready
for a prompt muster out when the fur
Tough is over.
The labor of preparation for the mus
tering out of regiment is even greater
than that necessary for recruiting and
mastering in one.
Every man on the muster rolls has to
be accounted for, or if he cannot be ac-
counted for, all possible information re-
gardlnS him must be obtained. All arms,
accoutrements. stores. etc, all Govera-
ment property of whatever kind, must be
accounted for. or some ones pay account
suffers. II the soldier has lost any part
of his equipment it is charged against
him, unless it is shown 10 have been
lost in some eXigency of the service, and
then it IS accounted for as expended in
action
The men must also submit 10 a physi-
cal examination, which will be a benefit
to those who have suffered in the ser
vice and are entitled TO a pension. The
record will insure payment of claims,
and, on the other hand, the Government
will be protected against future fraudu-
lent pension claims
Gen Randolph said today in speaking
of the confusion of records of some of
the volunteer regiments, that the social
ed red tape was the one thing intended
TO preserve the interests of the enlisted
men, as we'll as to protect the Govern
ment from fraud. An instance of the
looseness of volunteer procedure is found
in the action of the colonel of a local
volunteer regiment, who marched his men
into the armory, and said: Its all over,
boys; the war is over. Sixty days fur
Tough. Go home. Come back in sixty
days. Be good"
Then captains and quartermasters,
colonel, and adjutant went off to the sea-
shore, and the mems friends took care of
them. The next day some of the men
wanted to go to their homes. out of town.
but they had no furlough to show that
they were entitled to transportation or
to communication ration money or to cloth
ing, nor had they captain to sign one
Some were in the city a week, living at
the Red Cross stations. until their cap
tains could be communicated with.