The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-19
GOSSIP OF THE CAMP.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Camp Alger, Va, July 1S.-Private
Greenberg, of Company A, who was
stricken down with hysteria on the
practice march will likely be discharg-
ed. He was examined yesterday by a
commission composed of Major Focht.
acting surgeon of the Third brigade;
Major Alters, of the consulting board
of the First division hospital, and Sur
geon Major Keller, of the Thirteenth.
Their report has not been made pub
lie, but 1t is understood it recommends
his discharge.
No word has as yet come of the
whereabouts Of Private Kirkendall of
Company b, who so mysteriously dis
appeared one week ago yesterday. The
matter has been reported to corrs
headquarters and it is proposed to
have the government take up the
search for him. With this purpose in
view Adjutant Mates is preparing a
statement of the case and a minute
description of the missing soldier. He
is thirty years of age, five feet. nine
and one-half inches in height. weighs
about l40 pounds, is of light complex
ion, with blue eyes and brown hair
and is of a quiet disposition. His
mother has written from his home in
Hoadleys anXiously inquiring If any
news of his whereabouts has been
CLEANED. No one in his company be-
lieves that he has deserted, but II he
is not back by tomorrow night he will
be published as deserter. 1t is fear
ed he has wandered aimleesly away
during a temporary alteration of the
mind or that he was foully dealt with.
The fact that he carried $500 on his
person heightens this latter belief.
One Colonel Nourse, of Kentucky,
who recently felt call to preach, and
who is inhicting himself on the SOL
dierS as an army evangelist conducted
yesterdays church" for the Thir-
teenth and proceeded to popularize
himself by making invidious compari-
sons between the American soldier and
those of England, Ireland Germany
and other countries, by making un-
called for, not to say uncharitable
illusions to the colored race and by
showing conclusively how the Catholic
church and all that is reprehensible in
Spain are about one and the same
thing. Captain Gilman, of Company
d, who served five years in the British
army, said after the meeting, when
the men of the Thirteenth were fun
ing over the mouthinss OF the so-called
evangelist, that but for the character
of the meeting he would have denounc-
ed the fellow openly as an ass and a
liar, when he told that the English
and German armies are composed al
most entirely of the scum of the big
cities. 1t is needless to say that the
illusions to the colored race were not
relished by the men of the Thirteenth,
who have been reading of the noble
work of the Tenth infantry at Santi-
ago, and watching the work of the
Ninth Ohio, a neighboring battalion
composed entirely of colored men. COM
manded by a colored graduate of West
Point and being easily the best drilled
and best disciplined body of troops
in Camp Alger Such of the Kellys
and Burkes and Sheas as attended the
services We're, of course, highly edited
by the preachers references to their
cousin "Mulvaney" and their spiritual
mother, the Catholic church. Through
out the whole regiment yesterday
there was the deepest Indignation eX-
pressed at the thoushtless fellows re-
marks.
Chief Musician Thomas H. Miles left
for home today to secure If possible
| four or five good musicians for the
regiment band. He is authorized to
offer extra inducements for good men.
During his six days stay he can be
| seen afternoons and evenings at
| Bauer's band headquarters.
An order was issued today closing all
| the suffers shacks on the parade
ground in front of the Pennsylvania
lines. A crowd of Thirteenth men
| raided one of the stands and the pro-
| prietor struck one of the soldiers over
the head with a pick handle. A gen.
eral onslaught was threatened on the
luckless sutler, but the provost hurried
| a squad down from the New Jersey
| camp and quelled the disturbance. The
guard was kept about the stand until
| the sutler moved himself and his be-
| longings away.
Orderly Hubert F. Clarke today sue
ceeded to the position of hospital stew
ard, made vacant by the promotion OF
| Lieutenant George c. Merriman. Lieu
tenant Merriman was yesterday re-
leased from the nominal confines Aent