Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-09-13
MOST ANY DAY NOW.
The Sixth Regiment is Expected
to Arrive in New
York.
LONG VOYAGE FROM PORTO RICO.

ing Heroes Holds a Meeting-The Barbe-
cue Proposition-To Give just Honor
to Whom Honor is Justly Due-Letter
From Porto Rico.
The 9th NAV arrived in New York
most any day now. The Illinois boys
who have won so much distinction
during the war are due from their
long voyage from Porto Rico today or
tomorrow. Then it will not be long
until they are home again. Whether
they will come direct TO Rock Island
or 90 to Springfield first remains an
open question with chances at the
present moment that Camp Lincoln
will see them first. This plan, how
ever, is subject to alteration, and we
NAV have them here before we know
it,
Committee on Arrangements.
The committee designated by former
members of Company A to arrange a
suitable reception for the returning
heroes held another meeting yester-
day afternoon at The ARGUS office.
Mayor Medill was present and sub
mitted a communication from the
committee in Milan planning for a
company barbecue on Vandruff's ISL
and, or other convenient locality. The
unanimous expression of the commit
tee was that while Rock Island should
be included in any such demonstra-
ton, the original plans contemplated
here, as heretofore outlined, should be
carried out. After the home demon
stration arrangements NAV be made
to 90 into the county affair. This the
Co. rfc, -,
concerned, will determine at an
other meeting tomorrow night. Mean
while a committee which the chair
was, upon motion of Walter johnson,
authorized to appoint, will look into
the matter and ascertain Moline's SEN
timents on the subject.
Motions were adopted providing for
additional committees, a general COM
mittee, reception committee, etc,
and it was decided in the main event
in honor of the soldiers to include the
Naval Reserves living in Rock Island.
The plans are that on the arrival
home of the boys they be met at the
depot and escorted to Market Square,
where Mayor Medill will greet them
briefly, and they will then 90 to their
armory and be dismissed, in order
that they NAV 90 to their homes. A
few days later it is proposed to give
them q banquet at the Harper, the
honored guests on which occasion are
to be limited to the company going to
the front, and those who, while en-
listing, were rejected through no fault
of their own, and the home members
of the Naval Reserves. The banquet
is to be preceded by a public recep-
ton at some convenient hall.
According to Springfield advices
Camp Lincoln is being prepared for
the reception of the 9th regiment.
Lieut.. Krug, the mastering out officer
who has just completed the formality
of sending the companies of the 9Th
to their respective cities on the
30-days' furlough, has been notified
that 1.-The 9th regiment, now on its
way home from Porto Rico, will be
mustered out here, while the 1st and
9TH will be mustered out in Chi
cago. The men of the 9TH will return
here Oct. IL, and will remain in camp
five days, during which time they
will have to submit to a medical ex-
animation. They will then be paid
in full and will disband Oct 16. -
Ahead or the Regiment.
Private William Durling, of Com
pany A, writing to his folks from
Ponce under date of Aug. rs, and tell
ing of the march from Adjuntas says:
I'VE are about 20 miles ahead of the
main body. There are eight of US in
a squad-Jack Cassin, Jack Glass,
Bud Elder, Ed Wagner, Henry Lamp,
Ralph Kepford, Carl Schmacht and
myself. We left the regiment at
Utuado and made the march in two
days. 1t was to take three days, but
we got swift and forged ahead. Now
we are our own bosses for once in
four months. At noon the Goth we
came to a creek, and were sitting un-
der the roof of a sugar mill cooking
our supper, when a cloud burst in
the mountains, sweeping houses and
barns away, and drowning stock. |
Four soldiers had a narrow escape.
The house they occupied was swept
away, and one man lost his gun and |
blanket roll. The creek dropped to |
normal size inside of two hours.
Last night we were marching along |
the road, and we heard the notes
of a piano. We stopped in front of |
the house and listened. When the |
man came out to see what we wanted, |
we told him about our march, and he |
said we could sleep in one of his
houses. We accepted. He and his
wife cooked supper for US. In the
they gave us coffee. Then |
we came on to this place, and are now
waiting for the regiment
DIR. c. Z. Whiteside, assistant sur
geon of the 9th regiment. who has
for several weeks been in Philadel-
phia hospital, suffering from typhoid
fever, is on the improve, and will |
soon be able to come home.
Cheap Excursion to Ohio
Thursday, Sept Is, the r. l. Il p.
will sell tickets to Cincinnati, Louis