New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-23
CAVALRYMEN START SOUTH.
TROOPS A AND G LEAVE CAMP BLACK
FOR THE FRONT.
1HIvMPHAL RIDE OF THE SOLDIERS FROM HEMP
STEAD THROUGH BROOKLYN AND NEW

STEAD THROUGH BROOKLYN AND NEW
YoRK-cHEERED BY THOUSANDS
ALONG THE LINE
The march OF Troops and from Camp |
Black at Hampstead, through Brooklyn. over |
Brooklyn Bridge and down Broadway to the |
Iiberty-st. ferry yesterday was the occasion for |
IN outburst Of popular enthusiasm such has |
not before greeted the passage Of any troops |
through New-York their way to the front. |
The news that the cavalrymen would break |
camp yesterday afternoon and start for Wash /
-.ston was widely known. and as result thou
sands upon thousands gathered at almost every |
point along the advertised route OF march to |
see the troopers ride past The long hours that |
PASSED had little effect upon the waiting thou
sands in Queens and Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The troopers expected to reach Brooklyn |
Ridge soon after {, o'clock. but it was nearly |
three hours after that time when the head Of |
the column reached the Brooklyn end of the
Bridge The crowds, however, held their places |
hour after hour, until they were rewarded by |
the appearance OF the soldiers.
The march from Camp Black to the ferry was !
10 one long cheer and one long stream of lutter- |
ing flags and handkerchiefs. Gray-haired men |
mined in the general enthusiasm. and so did |
aged women and boys and toddling children. |
some Of whom too young to understand |
wat II was all about. but who were none the |
less determined to have their share in 1t. what
ever il was. At several points along the march |
the ;hrongs were so dense that they overlooked |
the sidewalk into the streets, and the horses |
brushed them they passed. Every window |
showed its faces. Almost every house flung out
the Stars and Stripes. Thousands of pedestrians
bore small banners which they swung aloft as
they cheered the appearance Of the troopers
40. tive ~ q
would push through the crowd, dash among the
horses and seize and wiring the hand Of a rider
and then with "Goodby, old boy or Good
lpck old man" would vanish in the crowd
upon the sidewalk again. So great was the
crush and so strong was the desire to do the
troopers honor that the progress Of the horses
was greatly delayed by the pressing thousands
IN REGULATION FATIGUE UNIFORM
The troopers were not the gayly attred. be-
plumed and glittering figures that have so olten
adorned New-York streets when escorting some
famous guest of the Nation or the city Ihey
wore the regulation fatigue uniform "heh
they reached the outskirts OF Brooklyn thes
we're covered from head to foot with dust ana
the horses were fecked with lather. Every man
was in heavy marching order and, already
tanned by exposure to the weather looked IKE
an old campagner Business was written vi
every figure The march was hard one ana
several stops were made for BRIEF rest ana re-
freshment for man and beast
The farewell accorded the cavairynen at
Camp Black was not unlike that which the de-
parting regiments have seen, except that II was
moro cordial and impressive. Escorted by
SQUADRON AS band. the two troops commanded
by CAPTAIN Badgley, Of Troop A. LETT their tent
ing ground behind them little before III O'CLOCK
They marched by the camp headquarters where
thew passed in review before Major Genera! Koe'
his STAFF and number Of women visitors Gen
eral Roe who the organizer or squadron
takes a deep personal interest in the cavalry
organization. and the troopers rooe by lie
was nearly overcome with emotion With him
we're his wife and daughter. Mrs Badgley' Mrs'
Frederic r. Coudert and many others The
scere IN front OF General Roe's tent was I'M
nressive Several Of the women We're weeping
and mt few Of the men horses appeared
m he on the point Of surrender to their emo
tions One Of them was Captain Badgley' VINO
arectionately threw kiss 70 his VIE as De
passed by General Roe stood hareheaded "hlle
the troops passed
When Troop A reached the pole from "hich
the headquarters flag flies. the men. regaroleSs
OF military decorum. took off their mats anu
cheered wildly, renewing the demonstration as
thew went by General Roe. The troopers OF c.
&
and then saluted General Roe with drawn
sabres.
crowd Of ten thousand persons. the early
.-,,,a,s If the DAYS big throng. the cav
al-vnen ride by behind the band 10 the road
nav cheering necessarily long as there was
f. ,rooner in sight There was practically no
end m the greetings anywhere along the line
70 march from Hampstead 10 Brooklyn wheel
man nm their way 10 camp stopped TO watch the
cavalcade and the residents OF every town
olo,g The line turned out In mass. ~ "ou!d
sseno 70 see the riders. The line was through
Garden City. Floral Park Queens. Hollis and
Jamaica into Brooklyn
THE ARRIVAL IN BROOKLYN.
The people Of Brooklyn gave the troopers re-
ception such as no military organization mas
received there since the Civil War. Indeed the
whole march from the Eastern PARKWAY 10
.Flatbush-ave down Schermerhorn-st 10 CIh-
ton-st and through Liberty-st 10 the briose
was one great hurrah not unmiXed with tedis'
however The scenes OF yesterday VIII H'c
long In the memory OF Brooklyn
In Clinton-st. the spectators were palucu-
,ar,v noticeable as being from the fashionable
element on the Heights AS the afternoon
waned Il grew cold and clouds threatened rain.
but they drove none away. In fact the cro"o
grew larger and waited for nearly three hours
Flags were waving from every house and faces
were in every window. At one place picture
OF Admiral Dewey was fastened in conspicu-
Gus place out Of a. third-story window. Wheh
the cavalry at last swung into Cnton-st as II
by some preconcer,ed arrangement the cro"d
began 70 wave handkerchiefs and small nass
THE RIGHT OF LINE
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