Evening star., 1898-09-08
Illinois Mems Troubles.

NEW YORK, September S.-The 1st Reg
iment, Illinois Volunteers, 967 men, reached
Long Island CITY at 4:40 am, today, hav-
ing left Montauk Point at S:35 last sven-
ing. 1t Is not yet known at what time the
IT tgin1ents will start west from Jersey City
there being difficulty in obtaining for the
soldier the accommodations desired. Col.
henry l.. Turner Is quoted in an interview
printed in the Evening World as saying
that his men shall go home in Pullman
cars whatever may be the cost. TO the
interviewing reporter Col. Turner furnished
a copy Of the following telegram, wac n,
he said, he had dispatched to the Lehigh
Valley railway otilcIais through his SUI
periors
When my regiment leaves Jersey City
1t Will leave as a regiment. / will not
countenance any partiality. Every man
must have a bed. l will keep my troops
in Jersey Crty until 1 am assaerd that the
sccomnioda tions for comfortable journey
are adequate
Col. Turner added that he had receive d
a dispatch from the Chicago relief commit
tee telling him to take Pullman cars at
any cost, and that IL the government would
not pay the charges the committee would.
Col Turner told The Star reporter that
little after noon yesterday, while his reg
iment was waiting at the Montauk Point
station. he was informed by the supern-
tendent OF the Long Island railway that no
train for New York could be had until
morning Il said" the coloners nara tive
goes on, that / wanted to go that night.
L he superintendent shrugged his shoulders
and replied that it was impossible
Il thea telegraphed to the main office of
the railroad at Long Island City that L
anted those cars got ready for my regi-
ment; that If they were not ready in an
hour l would send two companies to take
them. And l meant it,.
Their Train sidetracked.
According to Col. Turner's statement
ia cf
brought the regiment from Montauk Point,
and which section carried the sick, was
sidetracked for an hour and forty-fivs
minutes at Amagansett, only eight mil Ias
from Montauk Point.
There are 246 men of the 1st Illinois on
the sick list.
The six men who we're in a state of col
lapse on their arrival at Long Island City
were: Stephen Hajak, private, Company F,
suHsrlnS from malaria; w. A. Levine, pri-
vate, Company d, typhoid malaria; H. H.
Drake, private, Company l. malaral fever;
Frederick Martinson private, Company /,
pneumonia, developed last night; Arthur
c. kight, private, Company I, malaral
fever, and Charles McAuHme, Company H
typhoid fever.
Rights mother was at the station to re-
ceive him, having come on here recently
with committee from Chicago.
A committee representing thu citizens of
Chicago has been here looking after the
needs of the men Of the 1st. They have
thus far expended $1,000 Much assist
aDce, which was given without charge was
rendered by the Red Cross stations
The 1st Illinois Volunteers were taken
across to Communipaw on ferry boats, and
there embarked upon trains of the Lehigh
Valley railroad The hospital train, carry
ing 2o6 sick men, pulled out, westward
| bound, at 1:15 pm. The Lehigh Valley
connects at Suspension Bridge Niagara
| Falls, with the Grand Trunk railway.
Naval Reseryes nenart
NEW YORK, September s-Ffve hun
| dred members of the Illinois naval reserves,
| taken off forty-two different vessels on
| which they served during the war with
| Spain, left the Pennsylvania railroad depot
| In Jersey City this morning for Chicago.
tomorrow afternoon.
| The men, who had been assembling on
| the receiving ship Vermont for several
days, were transferred to Jersey City to-
| charge of Lieutenant Commander j. NJ.
| Hawley and Chief Engineer Harrie Web
| ster The first section of the train pulled
| out of the depot at 1920 o'clock, and the
second left soon afterward. in charge of
Boatswain Francis E. Larkin, who was
| on the Maine when she was blown up in
| Havana harbor.
| About sixty of the reserves came off the
| Oregon and almost as many came off the
| Yale. Almost without exception they saw
| fighting and many of them were in sew
| eral engagements. Each man carried with
| him today a clothes bag and a hammock
| The reserves were paid off last night, each
! man receiving about S25.
There are still 800 members of the Illinois
/ Naval Reserves on various ships in the
navy. They are distributed the Cincin-
natl. Newark, Terror, Amphitrite and Milan