The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-30

the war broke out he was seized with the patriotic fervor then prevailing
 and desiring to enter the army he be- came member of the First regiment of Engineers, receiving a commission as first lieutenant and adjutant in the command. His regiment, Colonel Grif- fing commander, went into camp at Peekskill, and later was ordered to Porto Rico. Lieutenant Beach died at Ponce, Porto Rico, of typhoid fever. The letters concerning his illness ar- rived by Wednesdays mail and were from officers of the regiment and 8
 nurse at the army hospital at Ponce.
 In the evening came a dispatch that
 his condition was critical and yester- day afternoons cablegram dispelled the
 last lingering hope in the case.
 Lieutenant Beach was son of the
 guished lawyer and beloved citizen. He
 leaves two brothers, John K. Beach, the
 patent lawyer, and Francis c. Beach, captain of Battery c, heavy artillery, c. ", now of the Third regiment infan- try, and one sister, Miss Rebecca D.
 Beach. Lieut.. Beach was thirty three years old. He was graduated from
 Yale in the class of 1887 and from the Law school id 1889.
 While in college and in later years
 he took great interest in lawn tennis
 and became one of the distinguished
 tennis players of the country. He had
 an ardent love for military life and
 became a member of the New Haven
 Grays enlisting in that company in
 June f. 1891. He was promoted to be
 first lieutenant and paymaster of the
 Second regiment January 25, 1892, and was made battalion adjutant July 15, 1893. He was also for a considerable
 period secretary of the Second Regi"
 ment Officers association.
 The deceased, it may be added, was one of the most popular and best liked officers at Mantle at the several en- campments of the Second regiment. He was always ready with a kind greeting
 and pleasant word for all. At the re- organization of the Sarsfield Guard about year ago Lieutenant Beach rem dered valuable voluntary service to
 Captain Wells in assisting in the work
 of reorganization.
 When the war with Spain broke out MT Beach was among those very active and efficient in endeavoring to have the
 Second regiment, c. N. G., ordered out ard was in Washington for some time on that mission. This movement fail- | ing, MT. Beach then sought service and was appointed a second lieutenant in 1 the Second United States Engineers and soon afterward was commissioned a 1 first lieutenant and was selected by Col onel Griffing as his adjutant. The regi- ment left for Porto Rico on the 9th of August. A number of letters, all in a bright, hopeful vein, from Lieutenant
 Beach were received by the family here
 after he reached Porto Rico. None had | been received for the ten days prior to Wednesday of this week, ow- | ing to some interruption in the mail | service Then a batch of letters came through altogether, including letters from Colonel Griffing and other officers of the command conveying the sad an- | nouncement of MT. Beach's dangerous | illness.
 Application has been made by the | family to the military authorities for 1 the transfer of the remains to this city. l The following press dispatch from Washington was received yesterday af- | ternoon:
 Captain Francis G. Beach, who has been transferred to the Third regiment, now at Camp Meade, Penn, was in town yesterday, visiting his family, pre-
 paratory to reporting at Camp Meade and was about to leave for camp yes terday when the sad news came of his brothers death. He left for New York i in the afternoon expecting to return in l the evening.
 1 Washington, Sept. 29.-The war de- l partment has been informed in a cable | from Ponce of the death from typhoid | fever of Lieutenant Redmond V. Beach
 First regiment, U. S. V. engineers. He
 was appointed from Connecticut. | Last evenings Waterbury American | says of the late MT. Beach: "Lieuten- | ant Beach is well known in Waterbury i where he visited frequently largely ir connection with his militia duties, as he | was adjutant of the first battalion of | the Second regiment, commanded by Major Dickinson, and to which the Wa | terbury companies belonged. He was | a citizen of New Haven and a brother l of Captain Beach, late of battery c and now of the Third regiment, c. V. l His unexpected death will be a great | shock to his many friends here"