The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-10
COMPANY d PROUD.
Keeping Up Its soIdierIy Reputation
in the West.

Keeping Up Its SoIdier1y Reputation
in the West.
staff Correspondence The St Paul Globe
| CAMP MERRITT, San Francisco,
Cal, June 4.-The reputation enjoyed
| teenth Minnesota volunteers, for gen
eral excellence is N re than maintainsd
by the company as now con- tituted in
the field Capt. Charles E. Metz has
worked indefatigably to trirg the COM
pany TO The front as a military org3ni :
| Zatjon, and Re has been ably seconded
| BE- laeutS. Melville E. Merrill and H
| w TtuTCor5e. The M n have S old-
| ed spfenddiy to their officers efforts
and the company now has no sup er.ot
| in the entire camp. .v...
This is the more remarkable When it
is recalled that 66 per cent Of the com
pany is composed of recruits, many Of
whom never handled a gun before they
enlisted a t the armCry in s.. Paul at
the time the president issued his first
call for troops. But the man are all of
good timber an1 th:y have taken pride
in Company D, and have worked to-
gether with a determination to add
laurels to its r pu alton.
The company is enc of tie NEST con-
genial in the regiment. The bes, Of
g>:Gd felC wship preva Is among ali the
men, ard there is no friction Of any
scrt i'll the, company.
Plide il TIE company means pr .Cni1
pl de, aLd the b-ys cf Company D CDR
Duct themselves as soldiers and gentlz-
mer. 1t seldom happens that Capt.
Metz has to reIroVe a man for breach
of discipline or good order, aEd5on no
occasion has Col. Reeve had cause to
find fault with the boys. He has in
deed shown marked preference FOR
('Qn1nGnV
nc arly all dstan5d FIR duty at his tent
| have been members of Company D.
Maj Fitzgerald, the chief of the
medical corps, carefully inspects every
tint in TIE r g mental camp every aft
ernoen, and he has as yet made no
complaint about any tent in Company
D street. On the contrary, he has fire.
ouently conlplimented the men on the
neatress ard cleanlire.s of their t=nts.
One r suit f his IS that few Ct Com
pany DIS man have been sick since hey
came to Camp Merritt, while other
| &C mranies have had a number Ct men
in hospital None of Company DIS mel
| have been S ous y III
Even on the train whar so many of
! the Thirteenth We're i'll as corse
querca Of dr.nFi 6 a'ka;i water, C3m
pany D had very few cases of sick
ress. Capt. Metz cautioned them
| against drinking the water and they
| obeyed him, and trey rave been careful
| to observe orders intended for their
h alth sir ee h y arrived at Camp Mel
rift.
A report was published in the Pioneer
| Press a few days ago to the effect that
! the guard house of the Thirteenth reg
iment was always full of prisoners and
/ that the regiment was the most un-
| ruly and disOrderly in camp. That re-
| port was a libel on the regiment, and
! Col. Reeve when he read it was very
angry, and denounced the sender of
the dispatch as a fabricator. All the
! officers were indignant, and the men
| would have tossed the writer of the
story in a blanket had his identity
| been revealed.
The Thirteenth regiment is known
/ throughout the city as enc Of the most
peaceful and gentlen anly in the camp,
and the guard house records will show
| that few arrests have been made.
| But of the few who have been so un-
| fortunate as to be sent to the guard
house, only one has belonged to Com
pany D. His offense was trivial, and
! he was released with repTimand.
! The boys of Company d are all in
| good spirits. They are well fed and
| are not overworked, and are perfectly
| contented. Their welfare in the ration
| line is looked after by Quartermaster
! Sergeant Charles A. utner, who is care
full that they get sufficient food, and
! Artificer Conrad H. Rowe, VINO is an
expert cook, gives the boys the best
of meals No man in the company has
as yet complained that he had not
| enough 20 eat or that the food was
| poorly prepared. This is one of the
most important details in a company,
and a good cook is certain of popular
! ty; while a poor one is as certain of
! being disliked. The men are always
| hungry when they get up in the morn
| ing and after drills, and a hearty din
ner is considered good compensation
! for their physical eXertions. One of the
| companies, upon returning from a long
| drill lone noon, found only hash and
! coffee awaiting them, and the men i'm
mediately held an indignation meet
ing, reduced the cock to the ranks and
elected new one. The ex-coek now
| carries a gun, and the men are happy
No such fate will ever overtake Artif-
Ger Rowe.
Musician A. J. Capser takes offense
if he is not addressed as the Drummer
! Boy of the Philippines. He bestowed
that title upon himself, and is very
proud of it, Bugler c. A. Henry is
thinking up one for himself When he
hits upon an appropriate title he will
blow it around the world.
The five sergeants, A. J. Kahlert, J.
H. Kich, L. H. Lawton, c. A. Bach
and G. c. Jackson, are as popular as
ever with the company. They are
all excellent officers and enjoy the full
confidence of their superiors.
The corporals, J. G. Poehler, c. E.
French, A. w. Henschel, L. C. Miss
G. M. Middents, J. N. Parker, C. S
Downs, o. Sobotka, E. E. Schooley, J.
c. Bennett, H. E. Heller and w. A
Proctor, are still wearing their stripes
They have not met with any such mis-
fortune as two cerporals in other COM
panies who were reduced because one
night they attempted to run the guard