Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-11

orleans ana U men from tn6 resi- OF
Louisiana. When in the second call the
president asked for three companies of
artillery, Governor Foster, taught by
experience, called for two from New
state. Finally, the Louisiana naval mi
litia, 500 strong, ome altogether from
New Orleans. This makes a total of
2, 900 furnished by the city to the state
service, as against 700 by the rest Of
the state. AS the population stands as
one to five the city, it will be seen,
furnished in proportion 10 times as
many men as the country.
This includes. however, only the state
volunteers. The United States organ
lied in this district three volunteer reg
iments of immunes-the Second, Fifth
and Ninth. The Second was intended
for Louisiana, but more than half the
regiment came from New Orleans; the
| Ninth (colored) contains IL city COM
panies out OF IL; the Fifth (white) has
its headquarters at Columbus, Miss. 1t
was intended to include volunteers from
Alabama and Mississippi, but as it was
found impossible to get enough recruits
from these states recruiting offices were
opened in New Orleans. Entire compa-
MES have gone from here, as, for in
stance, Whitaker's and Underwood's,
to fill out the Alabama and Mississippi
| quota. These three regiments contain
2, 400 men from New Orleans.
Finding what an excellent field New
Orleans was for recruiting, the Eight
zenith and Twenty-t third United States
regular infantry and the Fifth cavalry
while here opened recruiting offices and
picked up 450 men without difficulty,
and now Mississippi, finding it impos-
sible to raise it's third regiment, has
| opened recruiting offices in New Or
leans and will fill its quota here. These
last recuits will bring the total of New
Orleans volunteers up to 8, 700 or 5, 900,
including the navy enlistments. This
may not seem large for Greater New
York, but it is actually ~ times the
quota that the city was called on to fur
nish and is equivalent to al enlistment
of from rs, 900 to n, 200 men in New
York city. If SO many men We're taken
out Of Manhattan just now, the city
could not but miss them, and New Or
leans is missing it's volunteers in many
ways.
The explanation Of the large number
of enlistments here, aside from any pa
triotic ardor, is the very strong love of
adventure, for which the city has al
ways been noted, and the fact that sum-
mer is a dull season here, when a large
proportion of the population has little
if any work. The disposition to regard
the war as likely to be a short one has
tempted hundreds of young men to ell.
list in the belief that it will be over and
they will be back at work in the fall,
when business is brisk. Moreover, the
climate Of Cuba and yellow fever have
less terror for the average New Orleans
man than for the resident of any other
city in the United States.
The withdrawal Of the large number
of young men is having a very marked
effect in many ways in New Orleans.
There is a great scarcity of young men.
Nor is the fact to be overlooked that it
has had its effect on the police news.
"The police force feels the effect of the
al very perceptibly," said the super
intendent Of the New Orleans police the
other day, and he pointed to the list of
arrests as proof Of it. The chief did not
mean to reflect in any way Oh the Loui-
siana soldiers, who probably include as
large a proportion of men of high social
rank as any war has seen called forth,
but only to point to the fact that the
withdrawal of some 6, 200 of the most
active young men of New Orleans had
made the city a great deal quieter and
arrests far fewer. "The arrests are far
fewer, continued the chief. "The Lou
isiana regiments took with them many
men who gave us a great deal Of trou-
BILE, and they will make good soldiers,
I have no doubt. The officers often refer
to So-and-so and wonder how he is get
ting on in camp and whether he likes
his new quarters better than the police
station. The army discipline will act as
a genuine reformatory for many of the
wild young fellows who have gone out
with the Louisiana troops. The train
ing, the military life, the strict obedi-
ence to orders, will make men out of
them. l, for one, will watch the career
and record of many a member of these
Louisiana regiments who is known to
us quite intimately, and I expect to see
them come back more orderly and law
abiding"
The police record proves the truth of
| Chief Casters statement. There has
been no police news in New Orleans of
any moment since the war began. There
are some who think this is due to the
fact that interest in the war has swal-
lowed up interest in everything else,
but the police say that if 5000 athletic
young men are taken out Of a city Of
900, 900 people it will be far more or
derby and quiet than heretofore. New
Orleans has never been better behaved
in it's two centuries of existence than
since this Spanish war began.-New
York Sun.
Major Went on Wisdom In-War.
Major Went Of the Tenth infantry
was busy lodging bullets during the
advance on San Juan. He saw a news