The evening times., 1898-06-02
CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY
Western Rough Riders Carry
the South by Storm.
WORK OF AsTOR'S BATTERY
Arms and Equipments Have Not
Been Provided for the Artiller-
fsts-They Have Now Settled Down
to Routine Drills In Their BrOad-
way barracks.

New Orleans. La. June 2.-The finest
set of soldiers and the toughest lot Of
Western horses ever seen in New Orle ias
were Colonel Woods rough r,d.rs They
came in shouting and whooping like an
avalanche from ,he Arizona plains. ard
they vent out over the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, cheering like Iaic
and Harvard at Springfield.
College men, border characters, New
York society men, Cberokees. Choctaws.
cowboys, COW pu-ioters and million lires
tramped side 6y side and seemed to relish
1t. The way tney came in and went out
was a revelation t. this city. which as
been watching the naneuvers and paroles
of the regulars since war was declared.
Lieutenant CCicnel Theodore Roosev. 1t
arrived in Algiers shortly after midnight
yesterday. ne he'll ell TO water and feed
the horses of 'he troop. His Pullman car
had been sent on ahead in charge of tie
porter. In fact, lie had spent very little
OF the trip between here and San Antonio
in the sleeper. He rides on the stock
trains and sleeps in the train and amid the
dirt with his men. This of course, has
made him very popular Every member
of the troop refers to him in the highest
terms of praise.
Climbing to the top of a stock car Lieu
tenant Colonel Roosevelt was switched
over the river aboard the Morgan ferry
at O'Clock in the morning. and at o.
clock the last section was taken out for
Tampa The men were rigged out in their
tough brown duck suits. Each carried
gun. SIX shooter. and wore a belt
hlled nth 100 rounds of steel cartridges
Col Theodore Roosevelt. Major A V.
Brodie, Major Hearsey. Major Dunn.
Lieut.. Hall. Adjt. and Lieut.. Schweitzer.
Quatermaster Major Surgeon Lamotte is
the chief of the medical staff His as
sistants are Lieuts. Church and Massie.
Capt. O'Neill is in Arizona. He has seen
some hard service on the frontiers. and
comes into the regiment with more prac-
tical military experience than many of
the other officers.
Private Simpson. one of the largest cat
tie kings in the West, and Private T. II.
Maverick. also large cattle king, are
Two of the wealthiest men in the troop.
One of the most famous members how
ever. is Lieut.. Goodrich. who was captain
of the Harvard crew of last season.
Most of the members of these troops are
from Arizona. and not a few of them
were school teachers. Among the latter
is Sergt. Grindell. who for some years
has been professor Of athletics in Tue
son, ard Lieut.. Patterson. professor of a
leading school in the State.
Second Lieut.. Halsayer Is another Har-
ward man. All these men went West to
join the regiment ard college bred men as
they are. they take pot luck with its most
ignorant member.
Among the wealthy members of Troop
Il are Robert Ferguson and John Taylor
of Buffalo. Mr.. Taylor is a lieutenant in
the troop. The New York city members
of the troop are all well known
Company has the honor of having
within its ranks a man who has held up
an entire passenger train himself The
same troop contains six Colorado and
Arizona sheriffs who think no more of
bullets than they would of a hailstorm
There are also twenty-six full-blooded
Indians in the troop. the Choctaw and
Cherokee tribes being dominant
The regiment numbers 1.03c riders. each
man having horse, with enough pack
animals to bring the number up to 1900
horses and mules all told.
At Camp Black.
Camp Black, Hempstead Plains. L. l.,
June 2.-General Order No. issued by
Cen Pennington a few DAYS ago to the
commanding officers of the three volun-
teer regiments encamred here. has led to
some dissatisfaction. In the First Regi-
ment the ranking captain has been a
captain in the National Guard only since
last April while another captain, who has
been in the Guards for twenty years. has
been outranked. This in part is the order
issued by Gen. Pennington:
decision has been rendered by the Secretary of
War that volunteer officers Of the grade rank
according to date Of muster into the United
States service. Where commissions of such off,
GERS bear same date relative rank is determined
by previous length of United States military
service under commission, and in absence of such
service by lot.
In the Twenty-second Regiment this or
der was carried into effect today The Of
1icers drew lots. The value of ranking as
seniors officers is apparent when 1t is un-
derstood the holder of that title is in line
for promotion.
Among the Twenty-second men no one
could claim seniority on account of pre-
Vious United States military service Ry
a coincidence the result of the drawing of
iots was that the various officers rank IN
the volunteer army as they ranked in the |
Guard. Major Hodgkins ranks !
as senior major and Majors Hart and Rus I
sell rank next. Among the captains the :
result was:
W. A. Turpin. Company NJ, senior; ]. |
r. Lilliendahl Company c. second and |
D. J. Murphy. Company A; Frank Isher-
WOOD Company H; Edwin w. Dayton. |
company G: Morgan NJ. Miles. Company i
r. X. o. Haubold, Company B; Samuel |
fahnestock. Company D; D. S. Hart, |
company X: F. l. Stott, Company I; F. |
:. Murphy. Company L, and G. H. Kemp,
company F. in the order named
In the Forty-seventh Regiment the Off
'ers agreed to let the ranking stand as It
vas in the National Guard This makes |
apt. Sullivan, of Company E. the rank
ng captain. Capt. Fish, of Company c,