The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-12

TROOPERS CAMP IN ARMORY.
Delay in Preparing Montauk
Halts Rough Riders in
Jersey City.
CITIZENS GIVE THE MEN AN OVATION
Governor Says Soldiers Can
Have Anything in New
Jersey.
CITIZENS GIVE THE MEN AN OVATION

| Portions of Troops A, D. and K of
| the Rough Riders, First United States
| Volunteer Cavalry, are quartered upon
Jersey City pending the completion Of ar
! rangements for receiving the troops at
| Camp Wykoff. Montauk Point. There
| are nearly $50 cavalrymen and about
| twenty fnfantrymen in Jersey City and
more are coming in by almost every train
| from the South. Sick and wounded sol
| diers and detachments that are en- route
| for Montauk to recuperate all stop at
Jersey City All that arrive estoday will
be held over by order of General Young.
The order for the stopping of the troops
was unexpected and took the troops by
surprise. 1t came yesterday afternoon.
A detachment of thirty-five men, under
command of Second Lieutenant Hal
sayre, had been put aboard transport,
in the cars in which they had come from
the South, and were starting for Bay
Ridge when the order came. The cars
were taken from the floats and were
drawn back into the yard at the foot of
Third street
The cars containing the horses were
also returned to the railroad yard. The.
men remained there until nearly nine
o'clock last night. In the meantime
| ninety-five more men had arrived, in
charge of Captain McGulnness and Lieu
tenant Weinge. Fifteen men of Captain
Bruce's command, which passed through
early in the morning, who were left be-
hind joined themselves to Lieutenant
Sayre's command The men remained iii
the railroad yard until late in the even
ing. Some Of them We're given leave of
absence and scattered about the city.
Shortly before nine o'clock the officers
in command received orders from the
Depot Quartermaster in New York to put
the horses in the Pennsylvania Railroad
stock yards and take the men to the
Armory of the Fourth Regiment, Ma
tional Guard, at Church street and Ber-
gen avenue, where accommodations
would be provided for them which would
be better than they could get in the
railroad yard. The men, who had been
living in the cars since Monday, were
glad when they heard the order The
news that the railroad coaches were to
be abandoned was especially grateful to
the five sick men who were in the bag
gage car. They were not taken to the
Armory but We're removed in ambulances
to the City Hospital The sick are:-
Richard Richard, "a years old, Troop G.
Charles Ives, 26 years old, Troop D.
Edward Craig, % years old, teamster
Charles Jeyer, % years old. Volunteer
Cavalry
Edward whitehead, % years old, team
ster.
William H Wood 80 years, of Troop c,
who was deputy sheriff in New Mexico
when he enlisted.
Nothing serious is thought to be the
matter with any of the men, although it
may develop that some OF them have
typhoid fever. The change of climate
and the cool weather of the last few
days has affected some Of the men. The
sick will be well cared for in the City
Hospital Warden George o. Osborne has
made every provision for their comfort.
While they are there they will be at
tended by the best physicians in the city.
Everything possible will be done to make
them easy and bring about their speedy
recovery.
The horses were removed to the stock
yards late last evening. The men fell
into line at about nine o'clock and march
ed from the railroad yards to the Ar
mory. The distance is over two miles.
They received an ovation along the en-
tire road. Hundreds of persons marched
with them through the streets and cheer
ed them continuously. Late as the hour
was people turned out on the steps of
the houses and along the streets to see
the Rough Riders pass. The men march
ed to the Hill by way of the Mercer
street viaduct. At the Armory another
ovation was given them. When the cav
alryrnen arrived Assistant Armorer Wal
ter MCGOWAN turned the Armory over to
the officers He had received double or
ders to do so. His first orders were re-
ceived from Brigadier General Wanser
of the National Guard early in the even
Ing Later in the evening Colonel Smith,
who is in command of the Fourth Regi-
ment Volunteers of New Jersey, at Sea
Girt sent him instructions to the same
effect Each of the troopers had brought
his blanket with him. also his arms. The
provisions were left in the cars. The Of
ficers in charge did not know last night
how long they would have to stay in
Jersey City They thought the order was
just for one night. Therefore they did
not think it necessary to take the pro-
visions to the Armory. The men were
given permission to bunk wherever they
chose on the floor. Most of them spread
their blankets In the boxes around the
wall. which were occupied a few weeks
ago by the leaders of Jersey City soci-
ETY.. who gathered to hear Victor Her
bert's band and to help swell the fund
for the provisioning of the United States
hospital ship Soiace. The men used their
coats for pillows. They were soon sound
asleep.
The officers slept in the room of the