The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-22
NO ORDERS AS YET
FOR THIRTEENTH
There Is a Possibility They Win Leave
Here Sunday Afternoon.
THE WAR SPIRIT IS SPREADING
IL Was Very Intense Yesterday and
Was shown in Many Ways.-Nnrious
Organizations Are Forming COM
panios with II Wow to Offering
Their Services TO the Government.
Colonel Coursen sin Believes the
Call win Not BE sudden.

on what The Tribune considers the
best of semi-authentiC Information, the
Thirteenth regiment will leave here for
Mount Gretna Sunday noon. Up to late
last night no orders to this effect had
been received by Colonel Coursen, but
on good authority the following facts
have been stated
Instructions from Harrisburg were
received last evening by Superintend-
ent Manville. of the Delaware and
Hudson company. to provide transpor-
tation out of here for the regiment sun
day at / p. m. Accompanying these in
structiOns was the comment that the
companies of the command would to-
morrow prepare to move, that the en-
tire regiment would be called together
before tomorrow night.
When the foregoing was relafd to
Colonel Coursen at his home on Wash
ington avenue last evening by a Tri-
hume reporter, Colonel Coursen said he
had received no orders He remarked,
however. that from other knowledge in
his possession as to the manner in
which the guard was to be mobilized,
he would not be surprised if The Tri-
bune's information was wholly correct.
Colonel Coursen said he had been
given to understand that the regiment
would not be ordered out on short
notice. as was the case in the Home-
stead and Lattimer disturbances. There
would be no occasion for such haste.
He expected his orders to provide for
a concentration of the Thirteenth on
the day following the receipt of such
orders and train departure on the third
day. Colonel Coursen spoke as though
this procedure had been officially de-
cided upOn and made known to him,
but he would not admit as much.
STORIES FIT TOGETHER.
Colonel Coursen's understanding cas-
| lily fits the belief in the receipt Of or
| ders for the Thirteenth today, the
| gathering of the companies here tomor-
| row and the departure of the regiment
! on Sunday.
All of yesterday the belief Of officers
and men that the call would speedily
come was evidenced in their final at
! tention to business and domestic mat
| ters. No individuals watched The Tri-
! bune's bulletins or scanned the news
! papers with more concern than did the
guardsmen. So far as known not a
company viii leave here one man short.
! End, Captain Corwin and Lieutenants
! Huff and Benjamin remained in quar-
ters until II o'clock on the chance that
orders might he received and delay
could be avoided by early notification.
This circumstance illustrates the alert
ness that permeates the whole of the
| Thirteenth
The drum corps for instance. is not
| lacking in this respect. Its tifers and
drummers went through an hour OF
| practice at the armury last evening
| They have been rehearsing frequently
for several weeks and are now pre-.
pared to put up as big front as any
part OF the command when the latter
makes it's departing parade down Lack,
awanna avenue.
Throughout the city the war spiri
overshadows everything else Selec
council caught the infection last nigh
and passed q resolution telling tn,
city's policemen they We're free to en-
list and would have their places on tn,
force reserved.
SONS OF VETERANS TO ACT.
A company from among the mem
hers Of Lieutenant Ezra Griffin camp
No. s, Sons of Veterans. will be organ
ized tonight to volunteer as soon as
call for troops is issued.
To record the organizations nov
forming or in prospect would be L
cover every section of the city and T.
involve numbers beyond the compre
hensiOn Of persons who do not have tn
opportunity to observe the manner il
which the crisis is viewed by all ClaSSe &