The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-20

Day at Camp Rnmsey-Another
Issue of Rations Made-Heat Has
Its Effect on the Men,
Col. j. c. Shandrew, commanding the
Fifteenth regiment, Minnesota voluna
tetfs, at Camp Ramsey, sent a t i gram
to washington yesterd y, notifying the
war departing Mt that his command hal
been mustered INFO the service of the
United States. This was supplemented
later in the Cay by a te.eglam sent by
Lieut.. Donaldson to AoJt. Gen. Corbin.
With the four men enlisted yesterday
there are fortY-siX officers and 1880
enlisted men.
Rations for six days were Issued to
each company yesterday. The COM
paEy qualtermaSte,s were busy storing
them away in the conHnssary tents.
The quartermaSter serSeantS of each
company have made splendid records
IN handling their stores. No company
has been short of food The trouble
they nave to guard against is not TO
oVerissue to the cooks. They must is
sue just enough and no more than is
needed to give each man his allow
ance, or they Will be short at the end
of the five days and some will so hun
,gIy. They timed themselves nicely
AoA liit past hNe udyS. 1HGfe was not
complaint from any company.
Lieut. Donaldson and his assis sants,
Whitney and Swanson. We're busy al
yeste DAY comp2 Ing mu. ter oil : e.
VIII probably finish today. Something
definite ought to be known today, as
to the destination of the rsg ment.
Companies \ and B did guard duty
yesterday. y dstail of twenty privates
was drawn from each of the two Gem
panies. Capt. Finehout was officer of
the Gay, Lieut.. BarrOWs officer of the
guard; Lieut.. Mitchell, junior officer of
the guard; Kelly, of Company B, SER
geant of the guard: Van Hagan, of
Company y, junior sergeant of the
guard. and Sergeant Fisher, of Com
pany Is; COrporals jefferson ard Pond,
OF Company 4, AID B-ardt,of Company
i.
Capt Edwin was officer OF the day
last night. Lieut.. B cokstaver, officer of
TIE guard; Lieut.. Vincent, ju .ior officer
of the guard; Clark, sergeant of the
guard; Smith, junior sergeant of the
guard, and Sergeant Mcnamara.
HEAT HAD ITS EFFECT.
Forty-five answered sick call yester-
day. Only eight of them were serious
enough to warrant hospital attention.
They remained there last night. None
of them exhibited alarming symptoms.
The extreme heat of Monday affected
a number, but they were all of them
in good shape yesterday
There were All letters and twenty
pounds Of papers delivered to the Fiji
teenth yesterday.
Every company did the regular num-
Der of hours of good hard drill YES
terday. Mai. Hand took hold of Com
pany l during the afternoon drill. He
put them through company movements
in rapid order for an hour. The boys
did splendidly. There is marked i'm
provement among all the companies.
The uneasiress and nervousness mas
apparently left the men. They seem
to have settled down and made up their
minds to learn something about tao
ties before they buckle into Blanco
Several of them expected to be mixing
up with Spain this week when they
came to Ramsey.
Maj. Gotham yesterday purchased
the Kentucky thoroughbred saddle
horse Doc of Lieut.. Edwards. He is a
magnificent horse and is Well broken
fc- military work
SOME APPOINTMENTS MADE.
Lieut.. Clark Elliott was appointed
ordnance officer; Lieut.. R. c. Dewey.
regimental engineer and W. T. Coe,
acting commissary of the Fifteenth
regiment, yesterday by Col Shandrew.
Dog tents and ponchos came yes
terday and will be issued soon as pos
sible to the men. Several companies
received their allowance of underwear
and socks, two suits of underwear and
two pair of socks. The men are in
structed that one suit and one pair of
socks must be clean at all times.
The boys will be allowed to ride free
TO and from Camp Ramsey hereafter.
William NJ Regain took the matter m
with Vice President Goodrich. of the
Twin City Rapid Transit, and the re-
suit was an order to conductors to car
~ the wearers of the volunteer uni
form free
Lieut.. Griggs, of Company L, is act