El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-15
Teachers College.

go. Her soldiers and her sailors have
come home again after more than four
months of adventure and peril in south
ern seas. The city gave them a won
derful welcome.
OF the Illinois men who went to the
war three regiments, two of infantry
aud one CT cavalry, and the Naval
Reserves were recruited chiefly from
Chicago. The First infantry, as
part of the state national guard, has
long been the pride and pet of Chica-
goans. To belong to it has been an
honor; to hold a commission in it, q
distinction. 1t has filled somewhat the
same position here that the Seventh
regiment used to hold in the esteem
of New Workers. Its members have
been intelligent and eminently respec-
table young business men, clerks, law
wealth or distinguished So
cisl position, for the most
part, but OF the best and most substan
tial section of the so-cAlled middle
class" The First has fine armory
at Michigan Avenue and Sixteenth
street, near the lake front. When it
was mustered into the United States
volunteer army about May /, it num-
bered about 1900 men, three bsttslions
of four companies each, recruited to
maximum strength, and hospital
corps. In discipline, soldierly be airing,
and excellence of drill it has always
maintained q high standard. When
Gov. Tanner designated the First as
one of the regiments to be mustered
into government service everybody
and the city credit. And they have.
After a short sojourn at the state camp
in Springfield they were ordered to
Florida: and about the middle of June
were sent 70 Cuba to reinforce Gen.
Skaters army. They disembsrked at
Siboney and reached Santiago in time
to witness the fighting of July l and
2. During the bsttle, however, they
lay in the trenches. where they had
been for eleven days, and were not
called on for actual fighting. After
the fall of Santiago they remained in
camp for five weeks. The Cuban fever
began to spread, and the
men became greatly exhausted
by it and by the enervating climate
and unsuitable food provided. Before
the regiment had been in camp three
weeks Col. Turner, always watchful of
the welfare Of. his men, began to urge
their removal, since the campaign was
over and there was no need of their re-
N aiming. The First was not so badly
off as some of the other regiments for
whose sake the famous "round robin"
was sent in by Col. Roosevelt and 9TH
ers; but it suffered much hardship
Finally the order for removal was Sc
cured and the regiment sailed for Mon
tauk Point, arriving there about Sept.
l. During the brief stay at Camp
strength from the sea-breezes, and the
good attention which the efforts of
their tireless colonel secured for them.
Many members of the regiment were
furloughed and sent to their homes;
some were too sick to be moved from
hospitals at Santiago and Montauk:
aud about seventy had died. So that
when the order came for return to
Chicago there were but 9O2 officers and
men all told to be moved. OF these
2l6 we're sick, though not many of
them seriously so. The train, which
left Montauk in four sections
Wednesday night Sept. Z, car
ried In the first section, equipped
as a hospital train, the sick, with
every convenience for their ease, sur
medicines. The other three sections
brought the CSC we'll soldiers aud Of
icers. At every town where the
train stopped great crowds assembled
to cheer the men and feed them. The
sick were protected from we'll meant
fairly overwhelmed with their well
come all along the route. A large re-
eel tion com mittee of ladies AMI gentle
NEE boarded the train at La Porte,
Ind, early Saturday morning with
lunches for the soldiers. The four
sections reached Chicago between $40
and 10 a. m. Sept. 10.
THE GLAD HAND FOR EVERYBODY.
The "whole town" was on hand to
see them, speaking iguratively. The
line of march lay from the Lake
Shore station in Van Buren, street
north to Jackson Boulevard, past the
Board OF Trade, Western Union, Mo-
nadnock and other great office build
ing to Michigan avenue and thence
south to their armory. The whole
route was crowded, packed, jsmmed
with humanity. Sidewalks were COM
pletely blocked with dense throngs,
cross streets were filed for block
away, Office windows were all occupied.
At the Board of Trade
hundreds of commission men and their
clerks stood on the narrow lodges I'M
der the windows and improvised amuse-
ments for the waiting crowd. Some
had megaphones, and made facetious
to their neighbors across the