Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-10-06

Dall cartridges, ln1S UNIFORM could DC
put on in a few moments.
At half-past five on the morning Of
the 18th the men thus equipped
came to Tompkin's square from all
points of the city. The inhabitants in
the neighborhood looked on with the
lazy interest that a military parade
awal5ens in the metropolis, but no one
knew or cared to inquire whether the
regiment had arrived en- masse by an
early train or had come in the night
before.
The troops had to wait till nine
o'clock for the platoon of mounted
police that was to precede them Gen.
Watcrson, the colonel commanding,
communicated with the sergeant of
the squad through his adiutant They
had been invited, he said, to visit Wall
street and the sub-trcasury, They
were then to march to Gen. Grants
tomb for battalion evolutions.
1t does not appear that any suspi-
cions up to this time were awakened
in the police, who regarded the con-
spicuous cartridge belts of the men as
a piece of western military nonsense,
and it was not within their line of duty
to question the visit of the officers to
the sub-treasury, If the sub-treasury
did not want their western visitors
they would shut the doors in their
faces.
1t was twenty minutes past nine
when the regiment preceded by the
police, and with the colonel and his
staff, dismounted, left the park and it
was ten o'clock when it wheeled into
Broadway at Eighth street, making a
solid and formidable appearance in its
homely uniforms and soldierly bear
ing.
Nothing occurred along the route of
consequence to interfere with it's prog
ress. The inhabitants looked upon it
as part of the constantly recurring
show of that highway; careless re-
marks were here and there made about
the cheap get-up, but the crowds eyed
it carelessly and went on their way.
1t was Just fifteen minutes of eleven
by the Trinity clock when the armed
force turned into Wall street and five
minutes later 1t had como to
a halt in front of the sub-trcasury
building. The regiment filled all the
space on the Wall street side and ex
tended around into Nassau and Broad
streets. The lines were quietly and
quickly but eiFectually formed and the
sub-treasury was, for the time being
cut off from interference
We have in Police Sergeant McGuire''
account and in Gen. Watcrson's report
sufficient data from which to form
some idea of the scene. The sergeant
says: 81 don't think ten minutes haC
passed when found the whole of the
broad steps leading up to the building
covered with soldiers, leaving only {
space of ten feet in the center, and tn,
colonel and his staff followed by an
other hundred men were marching VI
that alleyway into the building. On,
of the patrOlmen, who was as mucl
astonished as | was, asked me what tht
regiment was going to do in the build
ing, and | made some careless answer
There was a black crowd of peopl
down in Broad street looking on AM
most Of the office windows in tn
neighborhOod were crowded with pee
pie, but there was no excitement. Th
men on the steps looked as if the,
were drawn up for n show, but / calcu
lated that it would take the whole pc
lice force of the city to dislodge them
The first thing that gaye me twing
was that, after the troops went in
none of the people who were doin
; business inside came out, and the sol
diers wouldn't let anybody go up. In
/ spector Fairchild, who didn't like tn
, looks of things, turned his badge out
z took two men and insisted on going /
r TO see what was being done. w
waited over half an hour and they di
} not come back, but the company {
r troops that had gone in had come ou
} fallen into line, and another hundre
men had been marched in. Word wa
r then sent to the central office. Tha
, was about twelve o'clock. TWAS thre,
quarters of an hour before the supe
I intendent and another inspector a
:, rived They went at once into til
S building, where they were placed III
= der guard. We were then ordere
back, outside of the lines, by one
the captains"
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