The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-22
REGULARS GO THROUGH.
Four Troops Of the Third Cav
airy Come Over the West
Shore Road.

A detachment of $50 men, comprising
Troops c, E. F and G, of the Third U. s.
Cavalry, passed through this city last
night via the West Shore and Central
Railroads. on the way from. Fort Ethaa
Allen, near Burlington, VT, to Chioa.
mauga. The cavalrymen were in fight.
ing trim and fulv equipped for innediats
! and active service. The train was in tive
sections, one of eighteen stock cars be.
ing devoted mainly to horses. For soms
reason this section was delayed, necessi-
tating stop by the soldiers at the Wssi
Shore depot. Weeha vixen, which they
reached at 2:S0. The horses did not reach
Weehawken until aftel ten O'Clock, Ths
detachment WIS expected at the Wes5
Shore freight depot in this city at thi
head of Seventh street at $3.50 p. NJ. ysss
terday, and until that time bhe Nswari
avenue bridge and the yards in the vi.
cinity were crowded With patriotic peo-
pie anxious to cheer the regulars on thei
way to the front. The crowds on I
bridge kept changing. Pedestrians wol-
stop for an hour or so and then pass on
as though weary of the wait, but thedf
places were Immediately filled Toward
night the crowds about the bridge and in
the yards below numbered thousands. On
400, of the Central road, with coal bump
ers heaped ready to relieve the West
Shore engines, and pull the fighting
horsemen over the Centraps tracks to
Philadelphia were the trains were to be
shifted to the tracks of the Baltimora
& Ohio Railroad. A proninent figure
among those on the bridge for a while
late in the afternoon was Monsignor Se-
ton, whose patriotism was manifest.
Meanwhile things looked like real war
times at the West Shore depot at Wee
hawken. The section cont aiming the
four troops which was drawn up in ths
station, was made up of eight passenger
coaches, four baggage cars and one Futt-
man coach, the ia5ts1- iiesE{{ e & a
officers. No one was allowed on the train
but through the windows of the coaches
one caught glimpses of glistening scab-
bards, carbines and other equipments or
derly arranged about the bundle racks.
The men were allowed the freedom of the
station, and stood in groups talking over
the latest war news supplied by the after
noon extras, or promenaded by twos or
in squads about the big station platform.
Here and there were groups of handsome,
dashing looking fellows, enjoying mo-
mentary flush of victory at having won
| in a skirnish the acknowledged admira-
tion of bevies of patriotic women among
the passengers who dalliad to enjoy the
novelty of the scene. Every one ce1n-
mented upon the magnificent appearance
of the men-ane, able bodied men, without
a pound of superfiuous flesh but with the
shoulders and loins of trained athletes.
They wore the regulation cavalry uniform
minus overeoats and spurs. Each carried
in his belt one hundred rounds of cart
ridges, with steel projectiles two and
half inches long. and thirty-five thousand
rounds of ammunition were stored in the
baggage wagons. The men were also
equipped with Colts army revolvers OF
thirty-eight calibre, which they more In
pouches attached to the belts. The ex-
posed polished butts and points OF the
carbine cartridges in the belts formed
two parellel girders about the waists OF
the men that glistened in the electric
light at night like live serperlts
At various points along the route ths
detachment received an ovation. At Bur-
lington and other points the local militia
and Grand Army veterans with bands met
and cheered them at the stations The
detachment was in command of Colonel
S. B. Young. AT seven o'clock the Third
Cavalry band, which accompanied the
detachment, gave a concert at the depst.
Z troop is especially proud of its mas
cot, a fierce looking white bull terrion
named "Jim,'' who shared the admiration
bestowed ON the troop
The stock train was reported due a few
moments past ten o'clock, when a bugier
sounded the assembly call. This train
preceded the section carrying the men
when they pulled out from the Weehaw-
ken depot. Each section stopped only
long enough in this city to change en-
gines. But the boys in blue were given
rousing reception by the crowds which
had fiocked to the yard Every ons
cheered as the trains moved on and above
the din was heard the schreeching stoo-
cato whistle of the small boy
An old and Well Tried Remedy
Mrs lvinsiow's Soothing Syrup for
children teething should always be used
for children while teething. 1t softens