The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-04
GOSSIP OF THE CAMP.
From a Staff Correspondent.

From a STAFF Correspondent.
Camp Alger. June BIN anticipation
of the order to recruit the regiment TO
the newly prescribed standard, head
quarters has been at work for the past
two days formulating it's plans and
figuring at where the needed men are
to come from. Colonel Coursen says
he understands from the local arti-
cles in The Tribune that the four addi-
tional companies can be secured with
out much trouble. EX-Captain FIRE.
mont Stokes, ex-Lieutenant John
Lewis, of the West Side, John Moir,
Victor Burschell, of Dunmore and the
Sons of Veterans, he is informed have
companies ready to volunteer and an
Xious to become part of the home regi-
ment. Other places throughout Lack
awanna and adjacent counties, accord
ing to the newspaper reports also have
companies ready to fall into line at
the first call.
To secure the 224 men necessary to
fill out the present eight companies
will also be quite easily accomplished
the colonel thinks. The war depart
ment's order directs that the recruit
ing squad from each regiment shall
consist of three officers, a nOn-Com
and four privates. One of the officers
will be a surgeon. \ central rendez-
vous will be established in Scranton,
where volunteers will be examined.
and as fast as a squad of dozen or
so are accepted they will be sent on to
the camp in charge of the most COM
petent one of their number Upon ar
riving here they will be assigned to
the commands they are elected to
| join or if that company happens to
be full, then they will be given their
| choice Of joining some other COM
pany.
Many new officers will result from
| this enlargement of the regiment. Fist
| Of all, there are four raptaincies ant
| eight lieutenanCieS in the line of the
new battalion, and if it is understood
| here Alright there will be a third lieu
| tenant for each company when the
| membership reaches the new quota O
| lO6, which would open up places fol
| twelve more lieutenants. A battalion
major and adjutant will also have tC
be chosen and possibly another assis
| tant surgeon as the regulations con
| template a surgeon for each battalion
|
| tenants for the new companies will
| in all probability be made as they
were at Mt. Gretna.
The governor will nominate the off
GERS who present themselves as tenn
| porary commanders Of the Compan!
and with the approval of the colonel t,
whose regiment the command is as
signed will give them commissions.
is said here that Major w. s. MALTA
| will be asked to accept the position
of major of the Third battalion Colo
mel Coursen said today that Major
| Millar would be highly acceptable t
| him and that he was confident thu
regiment would be glad to have its olt
adjutant back again.
All the plans of Chief Surgeon Girar,
| have undergone another change Suf
flee it to say, until such time as some
| thing definite and final has been de
| cided upon that the scheme of making
regular army men Of the surgeons AM
hospital men has been abandoned. The,
| are to remain attached to their TCGi
| ments as volunteers with the perqui
sites Of regular army men, mouuter
ordcrlies and the like and will b. as
| signed to division work just us off
GERS Of the guard or sentries are
There were so many objections to con
tend with in pCrfecting the fOrme
plans that the chief surgeon gave ther
up in despair.
The Washington Brewing compan
is building a large depot on tn
grounds, right in the heart of tn
camp. We will see war in earnes
when the belliCOse prohibitionists q
Fairfax see a procession of beer waG
Ons arriving at the depot every morn
ing.
There has not been a Pennsylvania
in the division hospital as yet. and
has been established now nearly
week. The only sickness in the Thin