The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-12

the tide goes out it leaves a space of about
two hundred feet, which is as hard as an
asphalt pavement. Men and women on
horseback. bicycle riders and carriages
make use of the beach for a drive With
improvements Amelia beach would be one
of the finest on the Atlantic.
Private Ed Lenfesty, OF Company NJ,
Plymouth, killed a reptile about five feet
long, which some claim is a moccasin and
others say is king snake. Private John
Portz skinned and dried the hide and Pri-
yate Lenfesty will send 1t to his Northern
home as a memento of this scrub-brush
camp.
Second Lieut.. William Lankenaw, COM
mlssary 0r1cer OF the regiment, has drawn
thirteen days field rations. This is an ind-
cation that we will be here at least two
weeks yet.
While there are a number of sick in this
regiment, confined to their quarters doing
light duty. other regiments have double the
number of sick Yesterday the Sixty-ninth
New YORK sent forty men to the division
hospital, while Colonel Studebakers regi-
ment sent but three. The cause of so much
sickness in the various regiments in this
vicinity has not been explained Some state
that the men contracted a certain amount
OF malaria in the unhappy Port Tampa
city camp. while others believe the long
drills the men are compelled to make three
times week is the cause. The former rea-
son is in harmony with the opinion of the
majority of surgeons. The healthy camp
IN which the mon are now situated will soon
bring them back to their old vigor.
The soldiers are expecting to be paid off
IN Few days. and when 1t is done this
iture of about 100000. Colonel Stude-
bakers regiment will receive about. $4,000
shanties are rising like mushrooms in the
night as places for the distribution of
wares. Shooting galleries, restaurants,
lunch counters canteens lemonade and
limeade stands pawnShops and curiosity
shops are recent acquisitions, while gam
biers, knife games, news stands, pie Ven
derS, fruit dealers and host of other itin-
Grants have not failed to come from Tampa
following the soldiers as they would cir
Gus. The colored population is reaping har-
vest The men are busted with various kinds
of work, cooking, teaming and peddling. The
women have more washing than they can
do, and some of them have neglected this
work TO sell pies through the camp. The
trade has opened with such phenomenal
briskness that most of the servants have
quit their places and entered into gen
eral huckstering trade. This state of af-
fairs is serious one for housekeepers,
who now require the assistance of servants
more than ever
The names of the newly selected corpo-
rails from Company I, Waterloo, are as fol-
lows: l.. Karnell, Barney Coleman, Henry
Lehman, E. d. Martin, S. c. Carter l.. e.
Perry Corporal Charles Mcbride has been
promoted to- quartermaster sergeant of
Company l. Free Moore has been assigned
to the position of sergeant
The members of the regimentaf band
made an excursion to Old Fernandina this
morning; Chief Musician Oscar Yer We're
sights and that it is worth the while to
make the trip.
men of Colonel Studebaker's regiment, AMI
$4,000 was distributed among them Last
evening severe windstorm. followed by
drenching rain, visited the camp One large
hospital tent and two makeshifts, under
which the sick were confined, were blown
oyer, Chaplain Charles S. Medbury DR..
"A. e. Moses, of Angola, and Privates Ed
Longfeid and James Latta, of the hospital
corps, were on the scene and managed TO
Charley Carpenter and Lieut.. William S.
Mcleod, of Fort Wayne. Charles Kinney.
quartelmaster sergeant, and Hospital S.ew-
ard O. G. Schell were the first to arrive.
Quartermaster Hartman l. Hutson notified
the officers. and in a few minutes enough
men were on hand TO put up twenty tents.
The tents were put up in much frmer
condition. Fortunately. no one was hurt.
Yesterday afternoon the men of Colonel
Studebaker's regiment, including the two
other regiments of this brigade, were given
an eight-mie march. Only three rests were
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out or the ranks on account of the heat,
while other companies lost several men.
The weather was very warm and a breeze
was blowing which carried the dust and
sand into the faces of the men and made
the march quite uncomfortable on the way
personal direction of the marches and has
ordered them three times a week.
The sad news of the death of Second
Lieut.. William W: Kerr. of Company B.
Fort Wayne. at st. Petersburg, Fla, has
been received: few days before the One
Port fiv Regiment left
taken to St. Petersburg with the hope that
he might be able to regain mis- health. A
week ago word was received that he was
improving and all his friends were sanguine
that he would recover, but the news of his
death came like a thunderclap. The men
could hardly believe it. Lieutenant Kerr
was very courteous, affable and accommo-
dating officer and did not leave a stone I'M
turned to make the men of Company B as
comfortable as possible. He was very well
liked by all who knew him. His sickness
was contracted in the malaria infested Port
Tampa City camp. 1t is the opinion that
had the One-hundred-an d-fifty-seventh In
diana never been camped at that unfortu-
nate place it never would have lost a man.
Other regiments experienced the same
trouble.
Last night Sergeant Buel King Privates
Herbert Stansbury; Jay Wolf Clarence
man and John Green, of Company L. Ligo-
nier Ind, slept in the canvass duck ham
mock under the star-studded canopy of
Private George Hire of Company L, Lig-
onier, is reaping quite harvest as COM
pany barber. His shop is situated near the
top of the hill, under the shade of tree
looking affair but serves it's purpose
Sergt. E. f. Kiston, of Company L. is out
order was issued by Brig. Gen. Hall closing
all lemonade stands in the regiments, for
the reason that it has been the experience
health of the men, and that it is to their in
terest that they be closed. Most of the reg
iments in this vicinity, except the One-hun-
dred-and-fif ty-seventh, have a canteen. but
stand of Company l. has been boon to the
men and is missed very. much. All the
profits have gone to the mess fund, and the
income from this source, which has been
quite large, is now cut off. B. j. f.
ORDERED TO HUNTSVILLE.