The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-13

Chaplain Stahl, who is so deserved
ly popular with the boys, has recently
been trying to get them to attend div
Ire services in the Young Mems Chris
tiah association tent on Sunday morn
ings. Saturday night he issued a short
note, In his own handwriting, to the
members of each company. 1t was
read at roll call and was as follows:
My Dear Bows: 'I desire TO make a
personal appeal to every member of your
company to help me in my work among
you by promptly falling into line on sun
day mornings upon the sounding CT
church CALI and going to the Young
Mems Christian association tent near by
Tor our short weekly services.
Faithfully your chaplain.
N. +. Stahl.
SERVICES WELL ATTENDED,.
In consequence Of this invitation SER
Vices were well attended this morning.
though many of the boys, taking ad-
vantage of this day of rest, of the
fresh, invigorating breezes, and the
facility of obtaining passes which al
ways obtains in camp on the Sabbath,
went outside the lines.
The teamsters here have STRUCK"
and have left the government in a
predicament. For some days the trouble
had been brewing. and every moment
1t became more and more apparent that
they could not be held in check very
long. The teamsters claimed that they
were receiving less pay here for the
same amount of work than was paid
to the teamsters who were employed
at camp Alger, Va, and threatened
that If their request for an advance in
wages was not acceded to they would
quit. They did quit, and Saturday
morning only twelve out of nearly one
hundred and fifty men returned to
duty. AS result, the wagoners from
each company had to take charge, and
are trying to do their best with the
most refractory combination known in
the history of the world-a double team
of government mules bred in Kentucky.
II the weather keeps on at it's present
pace, the people of Scranton and of
the other cities of Pennsylvania will
have to remember their boys in camp
with blankets, woolen mittens. and fur
caps instead of with ice. No heavy
underclothng or extra blankets have
been ordered, though they are certain
ly needed. AS stated in a former let
ter, all have been notified that they
S''e''i a. ShNt put III IL
three months clothing, but they are
not told what kind of clothing they
should order-heavy or light. If the
weather continues to grow colder at
the rate at which the thermometer has
been dropping during the past week,
especially from 6 o'clock in the even
ing till seven in the morning. and the
men are not furnished with heavier
a
be filling the hospitals in a very short
time.
CLOTHING NOT WARM.
The clothing which they now have
would suffice for warmer climate, but
are already insufficient for comfort
mere. The men are already beginning
to suffer; they go to bed and rise in
the morning with teeth playing a spir-
ited tattoo In consequence of the cold,
and frequently have to get up long be-
fore reveille is sounded to warm them
selves at the kitchen fires. They wish
that they had been located here in
June, July and August and that they
were now in Virginia, which would now
be much mere comfortable than when
they were there. Heavy fogs which
rise from the Susquehanna river and
the Sweet Arrow creek, and overspread
even these uplands, add to the sharp
effect of the cold and keep the sun from
Frightening up the camp till seven and
half-past seven o'clock in the morning.
1t must not be supposed from this
that the boys do not appreciate the
kindness, thouChtfulness and the gen.
erosity of those at home who remem-
ber them with donations of ice. Quite
the contrary. 1t shows how near and
dear they actually are to those at home.
Besides this consideration, the days are
usually quite warm, and every pound
of ice received is put to good use, either
for the members of the different COM
panies. or in the hospital. If the peo-
pie of Scranton could see with what
evidences of thankfulness their good
ness and bounty are received, they
would feel that their efforts to help the
boys are not without some recompense.
The names OF Colonel Ripple, Mr..
George Hallstead, and OF the people of
Scranton in general are not mentioned
here without respect and without praise
and they are mentioned often.
saw several members of the Eigh-
GLAD TO LEAVE.
teenth and OF the Twelfth regiments
yesterday afternoon. and they express
ed not only sympathy for the Eighth
and the Thirteenth, but their own
great delight over the prospect of 60
ing home at last. After the departure
of the Twelfth. the Third brigade will
have to be reconstructed, and the First
Maryland is selected as the regiment
to FIJI up the gap. The Marylanders,
by no means, object to this idea,
and have already begun to express
their pleasure at the thought of hav-
ing the Eighth and the Thirteenth as
ncighbCrs, and are daily visitors TO
the camps of these two regiments. The
Fifteenth is the last of the Pennsyl-
Vania troops to arrive here; other reg
iments are expected soon.
The Third battalion of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, stationed here for some
time, has received orders to break
camp and to be in New York city on
Wednesday, in order to sail for Porto
Rico, where ii will join the other two
battaiions, which under command of
Colonel Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City.
Pa, took part in the Porto Rican cam
paign under General Brooke Lieuten-
ant Colonel Rickart is In charge Of the
Third battalion. This regiment will
do garrison duty in the new possess
sions of the United States. They will
start tomorrow night or early Tuesday
morning.
The Eighth Pennsylvania has at last
been paid. There are several absen-
tees.
Edward l. Kelly of the hoSnitaI