The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-02
RECRUITS WANTED.
Capt. Jones Again Endeavoring to
Secure the Requisite Number Of Men
to Enlist His Company In the United
States Army.

States Army.
Under the second call for volun-
teers made by President Mckinley
| North CaroGna's quota Of the 900
troops wanted is 1861. These will
| be organized into two more regiments
perhaps, and in order to get into one
of them Capt. Jones, of the Vance
Guards, is now endeavoring to re-
cruit his company up to the required
number. Able bodied men between
| the ages of Is and As years who desire
| to enlist in the volunteer service of
the United States Army are requested
| to call On or communicate with him
| at once.
Capt. Jones and MANY of his officers
and men have felt little sore at not
being able to get into the Second
Regiment. But the fault was not
theirs. They did all they could to
| recruit the company to the full num-
Der called for but failed to do so.
Was it for want of patriotism or a
| lack of courage? We do not say it
was due to either of these causes but
the fact remains that in the entire
community enough men could not be
secured to entitle the company to
enter the regiment.
And the call was not to the State
Guard alone. 1t was as much the
| duty OF every other man who comes
| within the prescribed limits as to age
and physical ability to volunteer as
it was the organized militia; and
until the rest OF US step forward and
sign the roll we have no right to say
what anybody else should do whether
he be a member of the military COM
pany or not.
But Capt. Jones does not want
Henderson to be less patriotic zap
parently) than other towns of the
State. And while he knows it is no
more the duty of the Vance Guards to
volunteer than it is for any individ-
ual member of the community to do
so, he at the same time feels that it
is expected (and not unnaturally SOY
that they should he among the first
to respond to their country's call.
And this view is held by most of his
officers and men-as their action has
shown. That they have not done
more lies in the fact that they can
neither create men nor compel them
to enlist. Nor would they resort to
this latter expediency were it in their
power to do so.
This is the status of the case and
those OF Us who refuse to he'll them
out by volunteering ourselves have
oh 70
others not going to the front-nor
have we heard any such talk INDUCED
in.
While on this subject it would not
be out of place to subjoin the fol-
lowing extract from an exchange as
to the pay of soldiers under the law
as recently made by Congress:
Thirty-seven dollars per month is the
estimated amount OF money which the
Government will pay out for each private
This includes the cost of food, lodging,
clothing, medical attention and pay.
The monthly pay for different grades on
present war footing is as follows:
First Sergeant $4,000
Quartermaster-Sergeant 21.tO
Sergeants 21.GO
COrpOrals 1900
Musicians 1850
Artificers 1900
Wagoners 1880
Privates 1850
These men are supplied with uniforms
and all other necessary clothing, includ-
ing shirts, drawers, undershirts, stock
ings, shoes, hats, caps, blankets, etc,
and are we'll fed. When all this is con-
sldered the scale of pay amounts to
much more than it first seems. At q,
reasonable estimate of the cost OF the
articles furnished, together with thepay,
it will be found that in the lowest grade.
that OF private, the money value Of
what the volunteer receives is about $37
per month, ranging upward to that of
first sergeant, which is more than $50.
In addition to the above, the soldier
receives medical attention free of charge,
and whep sick there is no loss of pay
In case he is disabled physically while in
the service he is entitled to be pensioned-
The term OF service is for two years,
unless sooner discharged.