The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-13
Fifth Regiment Does
Not Move for Sey-
eral Weeks.
Awaiting Arrival Of Recruits
some OF Our Boys Broke Down and
Cried because They Could Not
Pass Their Examination.

ISLAND LAKE, May II. 1898,
1t will be several weeks yet before tn,
Fighting Fifth" sees any actual service
that is, Judging from present condition.
and unless the war situation takes de
ciaedly serious turn within few days in
which case the work OF organizing the
regiment may be pushed a great deal
harder than IL is now, but il ia difficult 70
see where the work could be hurried very
much
The examining board has been working
as fast as possible and the Fifth will De
finished today or tomorrow sometime.
This will lift great load off the should
ers OF the men who are all anxious to
know where they stand and to plan for
the future. As soon as the work of ex-
aiming the men physically is finished
new men will be brought in from the
home stations OF the different companies
TO recruit them up To the full strength.
These men will all have to undergo pre-
liminary examination at home and also
be examined after their arrival and as
the greater number OF them will be raw
recruits they will have TO be drilled more
or less. However, the four new compan-
les which will come into the Fifth have
been drilling for some time past, with
the idea OF coming into the troops and
service OF the country, they will not need
afs arxiaa 70 IN
fairly good shape.
Any way it can be figured it will take
at least one week and perhaps two or
three more to get the regiment in such |
shape that it will be ready to move and |
get into the service With the First and |
Second it is different. There they have |
their full regiment, having taken in the
two battalions OF the Fourth and most |
OF the companies have filled in the gaps |
left by the examinations from their home |
stations and they are now ready to move. |
With the reorganiz ition of the regi- |
ments there also comes reorganization /
oil the companies. Under the new rules |
the companies are TO have but eighty |
one men, including the three officers.
There ere six sergeants, including the
post quartermaster sergeant, the same
as before. but there are now to be six
corporals, instead al eightas heretofore.
The men who are rejected in the exami-
nation will be given transportation home
with the privilege OF stopping on the way
ii it can be arranged. Many of the boys
figure that if they are knocked out on
the examination they will visit at De-
troit or some OF the towns hereabouts
for week or 40 before going back to
Calumet. Every train going out of here
takes big squad of rejected men and
they are all feel very blue because they
cannot go TO the front. DR.. Bobb, who
ls working on the examining board. says
the manner in which some of the mep
carry on when they are told they cannot
pass is pitifui. Some of the big brawny
fellows actually cry when told they will
not do and Others curse and swear about
e.
Word from Detroit concerning the Cal.
lmet b"ys in the h ospital is to the effect
that they are improving steadily. Pr-
yate Piowaty is doing especially fine and
,is case has taken favorable turn.
GUCK.