New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-03
FROM THE FROM
Correspondence Anent New Tim Boys Who are
Now at chickamauga.

~ AnS SoLlp lpanY a correspondent OF the
st. Paul Globe sends his paper the fol-
lowing:
Ihe boys are eagerly waiting for or
ders to move out of camp, if it is no fur
ther than to Newport News. They think
the park is all right for a two weeks
outing, but when it goes beyond this i:
gets stale. The boys have had lots OF
drill, and all have worked hard. They
have sweated their heads off at dress
parades, walked ten miles in light march
| ing order for division reviews ii, the heat
OF the day and have got all the way from
one to seven days police duty for not
having their rifles cleaned at inspection.
They have just about got all the stumps
out OF the company street and think it
is time to grub somewhere else. Their
preference is Porto Rico with Spaniards
for stumps. The life here is certainly
getting tiresome and monotonous. OIL
course, if Capt. Steinhauser had ANYTHING
to say about it, we know we would have
been over there and have had Spain coz.
quered long ago, at least we think 80. for
we have seen the captain fencing with
some imaginary object and it was Span
lard in all probability. Anyway there is
one consolation; we know the officers of
Company A don't like the "Dons'' a lit
tie bit by the way they drill us at compa-
ny drills. But then, Capt. Steinhauser
has always had the hest company in the
Twelfth, and when it was il the Second
regiment of the national guar1s it had
few equals in the state and H.. 5 speriors.
Tie company was the first mustered in
to the state service, first in 1866 as the
governors guards, later, into the regu-
lar state militia. From Company A
came Col. Boblete1, Regimental Adiu-
tant Vogel, Battalion Adjutant Koch,
Sergeant Majcr Ed. Bobleter, Chief
TrumpeterBoo the senior captain, Capt.
Steinherssr, senior lieutenants, Busch
ers and Mueller, and the senior first SER
geant 0 f the regiment, Sergeant
Fritsche. The company took part in
railway strike at Tracy, in '79, at which
time Col. Bobleter was captain. What
company in any of the regiments from
fair Minnesota has better record than
thisa We fail to know of any if there
should be.
Sergeant Joern has been permanently
detailed to take charge of the police
work
Capt. Steinhauser has been granted a
seven days. leave of absence from camp
at Chickamauga. He will spend it with
relatives at Newport, Kentucky.
| The company mess is improving every
day and the boys all feel better because
they eat from table instead Of sitting
on the ground. Sergeant Bobleter says
Immediately before going home he is go.
ing to start a kindergarten to train the
boys back into table manners. .
1t. Buschers was officer Of the guard
on Wednesday.
Cook Eibner has been placed upon the
retired list. He will now drill with the
boys, while Private Boesch looks after
the kitchen. s.
Corporal McKittrick was chief Of po-
lice Thursday. III.
While ON food duty at Lytle, Corpo-
raj Herian thought he would like to have
people know he wasn't loW-down, sec
ond class private in the rear rank and
last set of fours. So as soon as he was
loft duty he made double-quick for the
first military tailor, took off his uniform
and hied himself off behind dry goods
box and waited till his stripes and chew
rons We're seWed on. He didn't wait
long, before the tailor completed the
job, and Corporal Herian stood up with
his uniform on as proud as a little six
year-old boy with a new pair Of red top
boots with brass tips on the toes. He
was standing in front of a mirror admir-
| ing those .sstripes" when the tailor told
him the bill would be 1925. Well, as
the corporal told US, the floor couldn't
have let him through any TOO soon. The
worst Of it was, the same job would have
cost him 70 cents if he had waited till
he returned to ou1 regiment. When he |
returned to the comp my camp he wasn't
half 50 independent and proud as be-
fore.
The Chattanooga Times credits the
Twelfth Minnesota with being the crack
regiment at the park.
81. Alber, Koch Of Company A has
been granted 4 ten days leave of alb
sence IN which TO visit Lookout Noun