The record-union., 1898-10-12
AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME
COMPANY F COMES MARCHING
HOME AGAIN.
Sacramento Pours Ont It's inou-
sands to Welcome It's Soioaef
Boys.

Company T. Sixth Regiment or call
fornia Volunteers. which before the
war was Company E, Second infantry
N G. G. is home again, and the re-
ception rendered to ths boys on their
homecoming eoualed the demonsra-
ton given them by Sacramento's CIT
izens when they started to the front.
For fully an hour before the S:lo local
arrived last evening, men and women
and children began pouring into the
railroad depot and surrounding
grounds, and before the train arrived,
carrying the soldier boys, fully 5000
jcstling, perspiring, jolly, good-natured
people had assembled to welcome back
the boys who at the first breath or
danger offered their all for defense or
flag and country.
1t was the flower of the city WEo
were to arrive and the fathers and
mothers and sisters and brothers ana
friends of each soldier were on hand
to add their voices to tke great shout
of thanksgiving that arose and swept
through the great crowd for the safe
return of the c1ty's soldier boys.
There was no doubt about the well
come extended to our boys, and had
Pacific and help beat the Dons at Ma
Mia, their return welcome could have
been no warmer Every man and
every woman In that vast crowd
seemed to understand that they had
done their whole duty fully as faith
fully as had those who crossed the
ocean, and that they would have made
a record had they been placed at The
front nobody doubted.
The veterans of the Grand Army OF
the Republic did much to make the re-
ception tha success it was, and under
the direction of Colonel George M.
Mott. succeeded in arousing the inter-
est of all with whom they came in con-
tact The civil war veterans turned
out forty strong, and marched under
the old flag both to and from the depot.
And Colonel Guthrie mustered the
home militia to welcome back their
brothers in arms Captain Zittinger
led his company, G., the Signal Corps
of the Third Brigade was also in line,
and the few remaining troopers of
Troop c, Cavalry, also turned out, and
leading everything marched the Second
Infantry Band, and the Capital City
Drum Corps.
L
on Seventh street, and from that point
the band played music that caused the
blood to run quicker and the eye to
fiaSh-muSic which a few months ago
helped to set the land on fire and to
call the youth of the land from their
peaceful vocations TO fight the battles
of the republic Rally Round the
Flag, Boys" The Star-Spangled Ban
ssrT-a- nd
other kindred melodies, sacred, all, be-
cause in other wars they had warmed
the cookies in the hearts Of the citizen
soldiery.
All the way to the depot the old war
songs rang out awakening the echoes
of the old town, and the soldiers CT
thirty-five years ago and the soldiers
of to-day kept step and touched elbows.
And then the train rolled in and the
great crowd surged forward and added
its shouts to the rattle and roar of the
drums and the blare from the instru-
ments of the band, and the soldier boys
were at home.
And such a homecoming; There
were brawny men with hard hands and
warm hearts, and women, Old and
Young. many shedding tears from sheer
Joy; mothers holding their great big
soldier boys in arms that never tire
and feasting upon their faces with
ewes from which the love-light never
fades; and young women who didn'
cry. but who were inclined to gigsle,
and who wanted to hug their own
bows. but who thought better OF II and
concluded to wait till the reception was
over: all were there, and all We're su-
premeIy happy, if appearances counted
for anything.
And then the band played and the
boys fell in" and the crowd surSed
started, disintegrated and the march
to the armory at Sixth and L streets
was taken up, and the crowd cheered
and laughed and jostled and said more
kindly words to the returned soldier
boys.
But the band changed its tune. The
Star Spangled Banner" and Rally
Round the Flag were good melodies
to march out by, but something more