The San Francisco call., 1898-05-25
OREGON'S SOLDIERS
 FOLD THEIR TENTS.
Troops From the Webfoot State Strike Camp and March to the
 Waiting Transports.

strike Camp ana MarCn to the
 Waiting Transports.
 To the strains of the "Red, White and Blue" the regulars of the Four teenth United States Infantry marched away from the Presidio Reservation at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They were followed an hour later by the de- tachments from Batteries A and D of the heavy artillery, under command of Captain Geary, which took the Union street car line at the Presidio to the ferry. The Second Oregon Regiment was delayed some time by @ flag pre- sentation and did not leave the reser- vation for over an hour after the Four teenth.
 It was exactly o'clock when the clear, mellow note of the trumpet awoke the men of both camps, while the artillerymen who were Quartered in the barracks at the post were tumbled from their beds at the same time by the roll of the drum. Scarcely was there light enough to see the sol- diers at work in their camps when they were first reused, and in the dim and uncertain shadow of the fading night they looked like phantoms as they moved here and there getting every thing in readiness to leave. In the camp of the regulars there was no con- fusion. Every man knew what he had to do and how and when to do 1t, and the soldiers moved like we'll oiled piece of machinery. Silently the white tents were thrown and folded, the com pany property piled in orderly heaps at the ends of each street, the haVer- sacks and heavy marching order equip ments arranged and every detail att tended to with faultless system The Fourteenth was ready and prepared to march before the OregonianS had got their first tent down
 At 6:10 o'clock the first call was sounded, and ten minutes later the hoarse voices of the sergeants gave the commands to fall in, and the deter mined looking fighting machines stepped silently into line and answered Here" in no uncertain tone when their names were called. The company was inspected and the automatic opening and closing of the chambers of their deadly Krag-Jorgensen rifles was om- inouSly suggestive of the fatality Of war. Lieutenant Krauthoff acted as adjutant, and the five companies were formed in front of Major Robes head quarters and turned over to Captain Murphy.
 That white-haired veteran with the eye of a martinet scanned the notion less lines of blue, then,- drawing his sword, he gave the command right SQOulQer arms, ana then IOuTS forward march, and the battalion swung into column and the band at.its head making martial music they tramped away, while the soldiers of the Sixth Battalion and the Seventh Infan-. try lined the sides of their camps and cheered the Fourteenth to the echo.
 The march along Lombard was une- ventful save for the SaluteS blown by the whistles of the different factories, but at Van Ness there occurred a Imaginable incident. Several platoons of police were there by order of Chief Lees to escort the Oregon regiment and they mistook the Fourteenth for them. The lieutenant in charge of them wanted Captain Murphy to wait five minutes until the Chief should arrive, but the old campaigner had orders to be at his ship at a certain time and he was go- ing to get there, so he told the heuten- ant he could not. The police officer wanted to argue about it, but the sharp. quick command from Captain Murphy of forward, march, cut short his protests and the platoons had to step lively to get out of the way of the soldiers. After they had marched sev- eral blocks they discovered that they were not escorting the right regiment and they had to fall out of line and march back to Lombard street.
 The departure of the Oregon regi- ment was marked by the. presentation of stand of colors given to it by the ladies of Oregon. The flags were pre-