The herald., 1898-06-10
TO BACK UP DEWEY
THE SOLDIERS WELCOMED AND
SPEEDED LAST NIGHT
THREE TRAINS or THEM
GIVEN A GOOD SAMPLE OF OUR
HOSPITALITY
TRAVELLED IN PULLMAN CARS
Major Bulbs Command of Men En-
Route to Join the Philippine
Expedition

There were not many people at the River
station last night when the soldiers trains
commenced to come ill., but they made up in
noise and hearty welcome for lack of num-
bers. Until late in the evening there was
little information to be had as to when
the trains would come, but at o'clock ii
was learned that the first section'would be
in at 10, the second at 1915, and the third
at midnight. The war board" consisting
on this occasion OF John r. Newberry and
Secretary Zeehandelaar, had to hustle, Is
they had been led to believe that the hour
of arrival would be nearly IL, but they
started up their fires in the range of the
depot hotel and opened their hampers of
sandwiches, and by the time two big loco
motives had hauled Major Bulbs cars up
to the depot the boiling coffee could be
smelled all around the railway yards,
while the sandwiches were so large and so
many that they obscured the view of any
man who undertook to eat one.
The troops comprised siS recruits for the
Eighteenth and Twenty-third regiments of
infantry, U. s. A., portions of which had
gone ahead through here some ten days
ago. The men were recruits from almost
every section of the country and were as
soldierly hearty-loolxing fellows as could
be found in amy veteran regiment. They
enlisted in different cities and had been sent
to Atlanta, where they were given their
choice of joining regiments for service in
Cuba or the Philippines, and they selected
The non-yellow fever country with unanim-
ity. The officers in command are all ex-
perienced, and were detailed for the pur-
pose of taking charge of these men and
licking them into shape as fast as possible.
These are Major J. w. Bubb, in command;
Capt Sanborn of the Twenty-third, Capt.
Royce of the Seventeenth regiment of in
fantry, and Lieuts Steele, Conrad and Kill
bourn. Major Bubb is of the Fourth in
fantry, the regiment which has the record
OF having been commanded in turn by both
Grant and Sherman, besides many others of
the great captains developed in the last
war.
| The major believes in treating his men
to the best to be had, for they all, officers
and men alike, travelled in Pullmans, waited
| on by lordly porters and brass-buttoned
| conductors. The major said that he had
heard of the poor accommodation given to
some of the commands in transit, and he
| had kicked at the start until he had been
given the best troop train he had ever seen
| or heard of in the thirty-seven years he has
been in the service.
| All along the line the men had been treat
| ed as if they owned the country At Hl
| Paso where the last command complained
of being badly treated and insulted, the
people could not do enough, and one en-.
| thusiastc man who owned a brewery had
| opened the place to the soldiers free, and
| the result was that, while the officers were
attending to the transportation business
the supply of beer in the cellars was ex-
hausted and the command was ready to
fight the whole Spanish army. There was
no trouble, though, and the men behaved
themselves, under the circumstances, witt
the most praiseworthy austerity.
There were only about 200 people at the
depot to welcome the soldiers and of these
apparently 400 were the prettiest girls II
the city, and most of them had bouquets
which they thrust upon the admiring men
with smiles and words of admiration a
their pluck and devotion in wishing to figh
for their country. There were many
quickly made acquaintance, and the ex
change of cards and addresses indicated
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