The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-30

teenth, is not waiting for headquar-
ters' engineers to supply them with
water, but with COmmendable enter
prise and ingenuity have begun to sink
artesian wells of their own. Yesterday
morning they drove an inch and u half
pipe eighteen feet through the soft
clay to bed rock and secured a copious
flow of water In the afternoon they
started another at n different point in
the camp and when It is in working
order they expect to have water to
waste.
Work on another six-inch artesian
well Is being prosecuted in the vicin-
ity of the Pennsylvania camp.
Adjutant Mates has not by any
means given up hopes Of organizing a
rcgmental band. The Hallstead band
or the majority of its members, as
stated in a previous dispatch, have
agreed to enlist in the Thirteenth as
body. Two strings are being worked
to get them accepted. One is to pre-
vail upon the war department to allow
them to join as Il sort Of fifth wheel;
the other is to take them in as sub
stitutos for the eighteen men from our
regiment who expect to be accepted on
the division hospital corps. Colonel
Coursen is very anxious to have regi-
mental band, as the drum corps is
showing no signs of expansion. At
present it has only nine members four
iifcrs, four drummers and base drum
mCr, and when it comes in contrast
with the First, New Jersey, or some
other crack command which may have
twice as many drummers as we have
musicians all told, it makes the Pride
of Pennsylvania" feel very puny-like
and cheap,
Surgeon Major Parkes rapid ad-
vanCcmcnt is a source of great pride
, to the whole regiment. To he made a
| brigade surgeon one day and the next
day be promoted to chief surgeon of
| the division hospital is certainly Il dis
tinction that any one might envy. il
| may mean DR.. Parke's enforcement
from the Thirteenth, as Colonel Girard,
the surgeon general of the corps STAFF,
evidences an inclination to keep Dr..
Harke with him permanently. In that
case Lieutenant w. T.. Keller, the
senior assistant surgeon, will succeed
| to the position of rcgimental surgeon
major, which he is temporarily filling;
Lieutenant George Blanchard will be-
/ come the ranking assistant surgeon
! and place will be made for some Of our
| young local physicians who may be in
/ clined to gold lace and swords and that
! kind Of thing.
The revolt of the hospital stewards
| is spreading and it promises to assume
SICh n tn
| General Girard to withdraw his odous
| proposition. The chief objection to the
! scheme is not SO much that it robs the
! stewards of their non-com dignity and
| deprives them of sword, but that it
| reduces their pay from $50 a month to
| $26, what other privatcs on the hospital
! corps receive. Most of the stewards
| are either physicians or graduates of
! colleges of pharmacy and as their SER
! vice is of a professional nature they
! feel they ought to be paid according
| ly. Or. George Merriam, the hospital
! steward of the Thirteenth, has made
| application for membership i'm the New
! York cavalry in anticipation Of the
/ possibility of Colonel Girard insisting
! upon reducing the stewards to privates.
For the Information of any of the wo-
! mon folks who may contemplate enlist
/ ing as nurses it might be stated that
/ the nay for a nurse is $3J = month,
! board, lodging and sportation. Ap-
| rl!cations should be addressed to Or.
Anita NeWComb McCcc, Po2 T. street.
\. w. Washington u. c. The fact
! that so many professional nurses are
| applying for places makes it quite un-
| likely that lay nurses will he accepted,
at least, for some time to come.
Each regiment is to he furnished with
a new dag by the United States. The
flags now possessed by the regiments
| have their state guard insignia inscrib-
ed thereon. "hc new ones will bear tho
name of the regiment and the state il
represents as "Thirtocnth Regiment
Inf. Pa. Vols" Many of the commands
have regimental Colors, hut the Thir.
tecnth is lacking in this respect.
\ budget of nine general orders pro.
mulgatCd yesterday Ivy the war de.
partment are being distributed today
10y Acting RWGadicr COursen TO the
regiments of his command. Most ol
them deal with matters of detail ol
routine not Of general interest, but onl
Of them Is of much Importance to the
Pennsylvania troops as it deals in di.
rect way with their pocket books. 1t is
an order, or rather an announcement
TO the effect that the United States vii
pay volunteers for the time hetWeer
their enrolment and muster. Time ui
enrolment is parcnthetiCally explained
to mean the day they volunteered, ant
time of muster the day they took n,
1,
mustered in on May II and all aione
expected that it would receive state
pay of $50 Il day for the sixteen prey,
ious days that it was in the field. Now
ii appears the United States assumed
payment for thcir services ten DAYS il
advance of the 18th, leaving the stat,
only six days to settle for At this rat,
instead of receiving S24, the boys would
receive only 80 from the state anc
would be called upon to accept pay rol
the rest of the time at the regular army
rate of Sl3 month plus 20 per cent
\ lengthy order regulating the issu
ing OF passes was sent out yesterday
from camps headquarters. Among il,
provisions is one t. TIE effect that re
questions for passes that are to cntcn,
beyond $50 O'clock p. H., must he ap,
proved at corps headquarters and tha
under no consideration will passes b,
granted to extend beyond midnight
This means that no one can stay out n
carp over night If necessity demands
that a man should absent himself owe
niSht he must secure what is virtually
4 fulough ana this. as may be be-
lieved, is no easy thing to secure.
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