The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19
FOR THE SIGNAL CORPS
LIEUT.. RUDD AND HIS RECRUITS
START FOR FRISCO


They Include a Score of Young Men
Who Will Serve In Gen. Merritt's
Command In the Philippines as
Soon as a Landing Is Made by
the VoIunteers-ManyM Make Sac
rffices.
Twenty young men. who have been
fitted by training to earn good deal
more money than they can possibly
get in the government service and
whose enlistment means a sacrifice,
left st. Paul yesterday to join Gen.
Merrltts command at San Francisco
and accompany the army of occupa-
ton to the Philippines. They went I'M
der command of Lieut. Rudd, signal
corps, U. S. A, and were recruited
here for service in the corps to which
Lieut.. Rudd belongs.
The squad formed the last of the re-
cruits asked for in this state for this
branch Of the service, and they have
been recruited within the last week or
two at Fort Smelling. The recruits
We're almost all telegraph operators,
the exception being a cook and a cou-
pie of lfnemen. They were chosen
with especial reference to a general
capacity for field work in telegraphy.
| and every man in the lot is equipped
to set UP field telegraph line Their
particular work in the army will con-
slst IN keeping open communication
between the various bodies Of troops
and headquarters, and they will be
divided up among the regiments in the
expedition.
Since they were recruited the men
have been CHARTERED at Smelling, but
they were not regularly mustered into
the service until yesterday, when
Lieut.. Rudd administered the oath at
about noon. A few minutes later the
uniforms they had been waiting for
arrived, and they were ordered into
them and taken directly down to the
union depot. There was no formality
about the departure, which was com
paratively hurried, and the men did
not attract much attention, except that
there was some speculation as to VIVA
the green and red facings of their
uniforms might indicate. They left for
the West on the Great Northern coast
train at 1:30 At the depot there was
a considerable crowd of the personal
friends of the recruits, for nearly all
OF them were well known in st. Paul.
and the boys were heartily cheered as
the train pulled out.
The names of the men, with their
recruited occupation and their ad-
| dresses, follow:
Fritz Bieber. Fort Smelling, utility clerk,
| operator. r
| H. G. Williams, New York, telegram oner.
| ator. 0po
Jonn w. burgess, Fairfield. Mich, telegraph
William J. Logan. Banner. ILL.,, telegraph
| operator.
o. P. Emerson, Rochester, MIMI, telegraph
| operator. 81
Ernest E. CooR, Kellogg. Mimi, telegraph
| operator.
Edward W. Sloan, Sioux City. telegraph
| operator.
| John R. Reed, Pembroke. N. Y, cook.
Charles J. Wadok, Kalispel Mont, oper-
ator. .--.-.;..-.
| Fred w. scheuer, st. Peter, operator.
| August S. Biedau, Watertown, Wis, line.
| man.
Leonard Gorsuch. Fayette, O., operator.
| Charles A. Stewart, Seaforth, Canada, clerk
| Mortimer w. Seller, Huntington, Canada
| operator.
| William L. Banning, St. Paul, clerk
| William F. Schoeneman, ST. Cloud, line
| man.
| Charles A. Lindholm, osceola, Wis, oper
| ator. -
Walker K. Neil. St. Paul, operator
Alfred H. Curtis, st. Paul. operator.
George S. Neil, st. Paul. operator.