The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04

AS the men of the misunderstanding
seventh are experienced soldiers, yesterday
at the camp was quiet. although the camp
was active. The pay rolls are being pre-
pared and signed. These rolls will be sent
10 the Chicago army headquarters as soon
as they are finished. Tomorrow pay
master is expected to arrive at the camp
and IDEAL out the stuff the boys earned
during last month AS soon after the boys
are paid as possible the regiment will be
sent to its homes on a thirty days furlough
Colonel Studebaker said yesterday he had
hoped the regiment would get away
"wednesday. but he then thought it hardly
possible. During the furlough the soldiers
will be credited with 30 cents a day pay.
During the time the regiment is away from
camp guard of two or more men from
each company will be left at the camp to
watch over the tents and equipment. This
ssiard will be changed every week in order
that the service may fall as equally as pos
eible on the whole regiment To say that
the boys are anxious to see their homes
again is putting it very mildly
Early in the afternoon the camp was In
vaded by an army of smiling women, which
was reinforced as every street car drew into
the station at the entrance to the fair
grounds Some of the women were loaded
down with boxes, and following them came
wagons filled with boxes of delicacies which
had been prepared for the regiment. Some
OF these boxes were taken to st. PauPs
Church, but great many were collected at
points in different parts of the city. Alto
gether 1900 boxes of food were taken to
3 the camp. They were piled up in tent
next to the regimental headquarters, and
the women gathered there, eager for the
time of evening mess to come when they
could distribute the delicacies to the sol
diers. The soldiers themselves eyed the
boxes and smacked their lips in anticipa-
ton.
At o'clock in the afternoon dress parade
was held BY that time several hundred
people from the city were at the camp,
and they ranged around the drill ground.
The visitors were delighted with the pa
Tade, and the excellence of the drill was
all the more apparent to those who saw the
brigade and regimental formations at Camp
Mount when the Indiana troops were called
out When the regiment vas formed, and
while the spectators were applauding the
band began to play the "Star-Spangled Ban
ner" Some of the soldiers who were not
taking part in the parade removed their
hats and bent their heads. When the bands
played triumphantly at the brigade parades
at Camp Mount in the spring the thousands
wild cheering. Yesterday afternoon the Wis
3tors were silent and thought of the four
teen boys who gave UP their lives under
the burning sun and in the foul air of
Florida camps or on the trains which
brought the regiment home.
THE BOYS JUBILANT.
When the parade was over and the regi-
ment marched back to quarters, the women
distributed the boxes and baskets of food
10 the company headquarters. The boys
became jubilant and laughed gleefully at
the prospect of sinking their teeth in fried
chicken. pie and equally seductive grub"
They were soon satisfied, for the women
quickly dealt out the boxes. Months on
army rations gives a man the true notion
of the value of home delicacies, and the
way the soldiers devoured what the women
brought made the surgeons look on dubious
". The women were as much delighted as
the boys themselves, and received their eff
10sive and sincere gratitude with glistening
eyes. Laughing and talking among them
selves and to the soldiers, they spent the
supper hour at the camp with the best kind
of enjoyment, for they knew, and the boys
made them know. that they had done that
4vhfqh will he remembered until the soldiers