The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-24
DRILLED UNDER CLOUDS
New Jersey Volunteers at
Sea Girt Find the
Rain Very Wet.
THIRD REGIMENT 10 LEAVE TODAY
Colonel Lee Thinks His Men
Will Soon Go south--Gen-
eral Plume's Movements.
THIRD REGIMENT 10 LEAVE TODAY
Especial to tsThe Jersey city Newell

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CAMP VOORHEES,, Sea Girt, May %,
1S9S.-The New Jersey Volunteers went
through their early morning drills today
beneath a cloudy sky and at noon they
were driven to their tents to escape a
transform. The shower converted the
company streets into muddy thorough
grumbling at their hard lot in being com
PEELED to endure the continual moist
weather put up by Jupiter PIuvius.
Unless some unforeseen hitch occurs,
the Third Regiment win break camp
tomorrow. Colonel Benjamin P. Lee
has received orders from General Royal
T.. Frank, commanding the Department
OF the East. to proceed in person at once
to Pompton Lake, Passaic county, N. T.,
with one battalion of his command. to
relieve tho Second Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, now guarding the Governments
powder depot at that place. Two bat
talions of the Third Regiment, COM
manded by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin
r. Holmes, and Majors De Hart and
Landon, are to report at Fort Hancock,
Sandy Hook, for garrison duty.
The Third is fully equipped and can be
moved on an hours notice. The officers
and men do not disguise the fact that
they are disappointed with the order
dividing the regiment, and also the as
signments made by General Frank. The
troops hoped that they would be ordered
out of the State AID were very anxious
to b. sent to Cuba or the Philippines.
Colonel Lee. however, realizes that his
assignment TO Pompton Lake means
hard work for himself and the battalion
under his command. and inclines to the
belief that the assignment is only tenn
porary. In a week or two, he believes,
the Third will be united and sent either
to Chickamauga or Tampa.
The First Battalion of the Third Regi-
ment will go to Pompton Lake, under
command of Colonel Lee, who will es-
tablish the headquarters of his regiment
there. His STAFF viii him.
This battalion is made up of Companies
B, F, L and L. The officers are.-
Major, Julius C. Shailcr: adjutant,
Lieutenant Louis c. LAUGH; surgeon,
Lieutenant John F. McyEiliams; Com
pany 3, Captain Charles Morris and
Lieutenants William 3. Cobb and Cy-
renus G. Bennett; Company F, Captain
Cyrus w. Squier ard Lieutenants WILL
lam II. Cloke and Cornelius f. Jewell.
Company l.. Captain Lorenzo d. Dyer
and Lieutenants Winfield S. Price and
Henry J. House; Company l, Captain
Peter Vrederburgh and Lieutenants
Joseph A. Yard and James E. Soden.
the Second and Third BattaIiors will
proceed to Sandy Hook, d command
of Lieutenant Colonel Holmes. The Sec
ond Battalion is made up of Companies
D, K, G and E.. These are the oficers=
Major, William H. De Hart, adjutant, F..
Wallis Armstrong; surgeon. Stephen J..
Keefe; Company D. Captain Joseph Kay
and Lieutenants Robert w. Watson and
Henry landau; Company K, Captain
Joseph f. Cline and Lieutenants Frank
Stowell and Alva A. Thorn; Company C,
Captain Frederick A. Biclel and Lieuten-
ants Louis J. Park and Charles C. Davis;
Company E, Captain Denis +. Collins ard
Licutenants Charles A. Fries and Tim
othy f. McCarty.
The Third Battalion, made up of Com
panies A, G, H and NJ, is differed as
follows:-Major, Thomas D. Landon: ad-
jutant. William B.. Martin; surgeon Chas.
H. S~chlichter; Company A. Captain Jer-
ONE r. Muddell and Lieqrtenants John H.
Ryno and George E. White; Company G,
Captain Herman o. Bauer and Lieuten-
ants Richard S. White and Simeon P.
Dey; Company H, Captain John e.
Wehrly and L~ieutenants irving Weaver
and Harry L. Deftz; Company NJ, Cap
tain A. Mather, Jr., and Lieutenants
James E. Mather and William S. fash.
Major General PluIpe and staff We're to
leave Camp VOORHEES, today but the receipt
of orders for the moving of the Third
Regiment induced the General to postpone
his departure, when Colonies Lee and
Hine will honor him with a review of
their commands before the Third leaves
camp.
The review will be held in the morn
ing. 1t is still the prevailing belief among
the military authorities here that Gem
era1 Plume will be appointed a Brigadier
General by President Mckinley, notwith-
standing the contrary reports from Wash
i1gton.
1t is also generally believed here that
the Second Regiment. Colonel Hine, will
be held in reserve at Camp VOORHEES, un-
til the question of the Invasion of CUBA
is definitely settled by the War Depart
ment.
1lcutSldit SOiUHCl btEIdlilill Il. f1OlfTl6S
of the Third Regiment was the field officer
of the day. The regimental officers were
Second Regiment-Oficer of the day,
Captain James Parker of Company G.:
officer of the guard. First Lieutenant
Frank l.. Stoke of Company Al; Junior
officer of the guard. Second Lieutenant
William A. Lord of Company H.
Third Regiment-Ohicer of the day, Cap
tain Frederick 4. Bickel OF Company c,
officer OF the guard. Lieutenant j. Henry
RYno of Company D..
This was the menu served the volun-
teers by the Comfnissary Department to-
daX:-Breakfast, sirloin steak n pota-
toes, dinner. corRed beet and cabbage:
supper, beef stew and potatoes.
Captain Jerome r. Muddell, of Company
A. Third Regiment. of Asbury Park,
marched his command through the rain
to that city this morning. The return
trip, a distance of over seven miles, was
made in a little over an hour. The Citizens
of Founder Bradley's town accorded
their soldier boys a royal welcome and
treated them to soda water and cigars.
Governor Voorhees, has reconsidered his
determination to go to Trenton tomorrow.
The anticipated departure of the Third
Regiment induced him to change his plan.
He will remain here and review the regi-
merit as it leaves Camp VOORHEES, for
Pompton lake and Sandy Hook.
Colonel Lee today instructed the line
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