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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
LETTER FROM AN ENGINEER.
c. R. French Writes Interestingly of
Porto Rico to A. G. Baird

A. G. Baird, of Dunmore, has re-
ceived a letter from c. r. French, who
is with the First regiment of United
States Volunteer Engineers at Ponce,
Porto Rico. After referring to the fact
that he Is in excellent health, he says
We have been in two camps here in the
low country, and they were both too wet
so we moved TO our present camp OH Il
low hill, and are nicely located. We have
mountains in the rear, but looking for
ward We look over the city of Ponce, and
then over two miles of level country to
the ocean. The view is very beautiful,
with all the tropical scenery and the is
lands showing in the distance.
The military authorities are using us
well at present. We get good water to
drink, and plenty to eat. such as the food
is, and they try to make us comfortable.
The country is very pretty, but most of
the men here want to get out of 1t. There
is too much malaria and fever for COM
fort. One wakes up tired in the morning.
Even in going out for pleasure a fellow
gets too tired to do anything but rest.
In the regiment we have orders not to
work on bright days between the hours
of IL a. m. and p. m. The people who
belong to the island are mostly niggers.
They can live on almost nothing. They
suck little sugar cane and eat a triil-
ing bit Of cocoanut and that constitutes
meal. A little shanty about big enoueh h
for a good-sized chicken coop does for a
house, and a little clothes goes a long
way with them.
The rich people are entirely different.
They are very polite and hospitable and
they live nicely, but they are very scarce.
We have run across some of them in
working about Ponce. Everything is dear
In price but wine, cigars and fruit. One
cent of our money buys two oranges or
bananas, or two nickle cigars, or a glass
of fairly good wine, 1917 cents buys a
quart of good wine. The less fruit one
eats here the better II is for him for the
first couple of months.
l have had the good luck TO get n tran
sit to handle. There are only two tran
sits and one level in the regiment, and
| they have been in active use ever since
they came. There is tent fun of Keuf.
| fel Esser's goods here. There are dozens
of hand levels and prismatic and pocket
| compasses, drawing instruments, etc.
Tomorrow l expect to go out on sur
| vey of a road about thirty miles bach
| into the country. We will probably boart
along the road or camp out nights. We
| start at I in the morning and get back rC
| camp about g, and rest about during the
| hot part of the day, and thus avoid al
| the military drilling, etc. By tomorrow
| night We will be out too far to come bach
here TO camp. The chief of our party i.
| a college graduate who has been all oVel
| North and South America to make sur
| veys. / believe he came down here t
invest capital for parties up North
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
Show Days
For Fall FurS

Originality Newness Tasteulness, Exclusiveness"these
the chief factors in fur choosing To these added
nexpensveness simply through the everyday operation of
methods The assortment is already approach
ing completion We think it is the best brought
Scranton. It's pleasure show new Furs. You
welcome in and try them without thought
of buying You'll see shapes that will please you
and come back for it later when you re ready
The Showing InCludes=--
Coarettes of Electric Seal Electric Seal and Persian
Lamb combination with plain and fancy Innings, Chin
chilla and Electric Seal Combination Mink, MoufHon
Martin and Astrachan with large storm collars Electric
Seal Collaette with large collar long tabs and tails
of Martini Blue Fox Straight Scarf Krimmer and Gray
Fox Coarees Electric Seal and Grebe with tabs Prices
start at S.. SO.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19

army as a whole, or by the average
soldier. However, it may be said that
the average enlisted man during the
present war did not travel less than
200 miles. If it be supposed that the
journey taken by the average enlisted
man was 200 miles, it will appear that
the total number of miles traVersed
was 55, 100000. This total represents
more than half the distance from the
earth to the sun, and a paid ticket on
that basis would entitle an individual
soldier to 1l5 round trips to the moon.
The war department says it costs
Is cents a day to maintain a soldier
This. of course, means simply the reg
ular rations. Transportation of pro-
visions means an extra expense and so
it is reckoned that a fighting man re-
ouires % cents a day for his mainten-
ance. Now, at this rate. the govern
ment is obliged to pay $6O,f9O day
for food for the 277,0O0 men enlisted.
Each man is entitled to an allowance
OF twenty ounces of fresh meat a day,
which means a total of 346,250 pounds
for the entire army. OF flour the al
lowancc is eighteen ounces, amounting
TO 1859 barrels a day for the whole
army. Reckoning these things on the
same basis. the army as at present
constituted requires 1,731 barrels of
potatoes daily. and for the same per-
iod 27,7O0 pounds of coffee, 41,550 pounds
of sugar, 11,279 pounds of salt. 5,e39
pounds of soap, 4,32a pounds of candles,
G92 pounds of pepper, and A hogsheads
of vinegar.
During the war the loss to the Span
iards by ships destroyed has been
s24, SOC, 900. The cost of the war to the
United States may reach billion dol
lars
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
INVALID SOLDIERS.

Charles Horn, son of Attorney George
S. Horn, of Monroe avenue. is still very
i'll. 1t is now thought that he has typh Did
fever In a mild form. Beside this he is
lust recovering from the effects of an
operation for appendicitis. The young
man is a member of Company ID, Thir-
teenth regiment
Charles Hamilton, formerly an attache
of the Academy of Music. but now a
member of Company b, Of the Thirteenth h
regiment, is home on an invalid's furlough
of thirty days. He Is recovering from a
severe attack of malarlal fever. which
reduced his weight fifty-two pounds and
left him very feeble.
Clarence W. Carey, of this city, an en-
listed man in Company b, Thirteenth reg
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
GOSSIP OF THE CAMP.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Sept.
B.-The Fifteenth Pennsylvania, which
Is suffering quite seriously from the in
roads of malarial fever, is becoming
restless under the present conditions,
and two whole companies of that COM
mand have already petitioned the gen.
eral government to discharge them in
a body. 1t is feared that the other
companies will follow in the footsteps
of these two. The victims of sickness
and disease and the men who have inn
portant interests at home seem to form
a large part of the regiment and to
direct the tenor of the general feeling
on this question. Most of them want
to go home, but their chances at pres
ent are very slim.
tour through camp with a casual
talk with the soldiery of the different
states reveal over a dozen solutions for
the questions of retention and of mus
tering out the troops. All volunteered
for two years, but nine in every ten
had in view only the actual continuance
of the war. They felt that, having been
sufficiently generous, self-sacrificing
and patriotic themselves to give their
services in time of need, the govern
ment would recognize this by discharg-
ing them when the purpose of their en-
listment has been accomplished. They
consider that that day has come, and
firmly believe that a reopening of the
war is an impossibility. They wanted
TO fight, but dread two years of garri-
son duty.
One of the principal reasons which
Major General Graham had in giving
ten per cent. Of the men furloughs for
seven days was TO do away with the
spirit of unrest which now pervades
camp. While they take advantage OF
the privilege, 1t is hard to say in how
far 1t will quiet them.
Several designations Of commissioned
officers have recently been handed in
at corps headquarters. Among thos,
who resigned We're Colonel Wickershar
and Lieutenant Colonel Stevenson, OF
the First Delaware; Colonel Dudley
corps Judge advocate, and Captain Mel.
lis, of the commissary department
First brigade, Second division.
The Second battalion of the Thir,
teenth still continues to do genera
fatigue duty in and around the mair
commissary building at the tracks o
the Pennsylvania railroad. Ever!
morning details of twenty-five meI
from each company are busily engaged
in the work Of unloading lumber, fire
wood, and the supplies. In the after
noon their places are filled by other de
tails. Outside of this the men ar,
happy, and have nothing but words o
high praise for the treatment accorded
them by Major " ood. While they ar
on duty their work is hard and heavy
but when they are off, they enjoy tn,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
privilege of going and coming as they
please.


please.
Company G has several wags in IT,,
and a few evenings ago they put their
ideas into operation. They caught a
stray mule and with a liberal supply
Of chalk drew all over him the chew
rons of a on-commissioned officer.
Then they released him and sent him
up the company street, and through the
battalion, in the meantime admiring
their handiwork. The incident caused
laughter in which the good-tempered,
unsuspecting mule took no part.
Your correspondent saw Private Will
liam Franz, of b, at First division hos
pital this morning. He was eating his
breakfast, using the top Of a water
barrel for a table, and seemed quite
well. He stated that he felt all right,
but that four doctors had agreed after
examination that he was suffering from
appendicitis. 1t may be that the mall
ady is in its first stages, but Private
Franz at the present writing could
hardly be considerede a sick man.
Mrs. T. II. Miles, wife of Chief Mu-
clan Miles, and baby, are visitors in
camp.
Corporal Krebs and Privates Giles
pie and Surdam, of ID, have gone home
on weeks furlough.
Sergeant Clarence Lathrop and Cor
poral Jacob Koch, of company c, were
in Harrisburg on Friday and on invi-
tation of some friends attended the
Butchers picnic at West End park.
Private David Felman, Of C, has been
discharged from the regimental hospi-
tai and received a four days furlough.
Privates Harry and Joseph Griner.
of D. have returned from their home
in Moosic, where they spent a week
on furlough.
During the past week the English
language has been enriched by the ac-
quisition of two new and significant
words-"furloughm and fur
lophobia." or the men in camp, only
about five are afflicted with the latter,
but 1895 are suffering from serious
attacks of the former.
Musician McCreary, of D, has return
ed from home, where he was spending
a few days on furlough.
Privatcs Meyers and Mitchell, of A,
are spending the day in Harrisburg
Corporals Conrad, Russ and Tole-
mie, of A, have a dress suit case in
their tent, and the other boys in the
company are trying to figure out what
it means.
For the past week the drum corps
has consisted of one snare drum, one
fife. one bass drum
Wednesday night Sergeant Davis
and Privates Adams and Thompson. of
d; Sergeant Shaver, of F. and Pri-
vate Moser Of b. were in Middletown.
the guests Of Columbia commandery,
No. 1872, Ancient and Illustrious Order
knights of Malta. They were given a
very pleasant time and invited to call
frequently. A week from next Thurs
day night this same society will have
special session" in Middletown for
the benefit of all members of the order
belonging to this corps, and a good
time is assured the visiting soldiers.
Heavy underwear and blankets were
issued to the boys Thursday night.
Richard j. Bourke.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19

iment, Scranton, was in town yesterday.
iie is on provost duty and is on his way
to cities to the northward to apprehend
men who have over-stayed their leave.
He is son of the late Elias Carey and
has thus far escaped all fever epidemics.
He likes military life and expects to be
sent to Cuba or the Fhilippines.-Wilk
Barre Record,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
RECEPTION FOR THE NINTH.
Wilkes-B Barre Regiment Returns To-
day from the South.

big reception will be given the
Ninth regiment, of Wilkes Barre, this
afternoon,o on Its return from Lexington,
KY A march has been arranged from
the depot to the armory and dinner
there.
separate reception will be given
at Pittston to the two companies of
the Ninth, G and II, of that city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19

that each human system is in itself an
electric battery the head being one of the
electrodes, the feet the other Their proof
was discovered from experiments which
the Academy of Sciences was allowed 10
make on the body of man VINO was gull
lotined This was taken the instant II
fell and placed upon a pivot free to move
as 1t might. The head part, after little
Vacillation, turned To the north, and the
BODY then remained stationary. IL was
turned halfway round by one of the pro-
fessors, and again the head end of the
trunk moved slowly to the cardinal point
due north. the same results being repeat
ed until the final arrestation of organic
mOVpmpnt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
After the Fever
Little Girl Was Weak and Could
Not Eat Hoods sarsaparIIIa
Gave Her Appetite and Strength
Eczema Disa ppearipo


Eczema Disappearing.
"My little girl was sick for several
months with typhoid fever, and after she
got over 1t she was weak and did not eat.
My husband got her o bottle of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, saying 1t would make her
eat and give her strength and 1t did.
She had taken it only short time when
she was well and strong. Everyone who
secs her is surprised at her improvement
because she was SO weak and thin, but now
Is fat and healthy. am giving her
Hoods Sarsaparills now for eczema and
the trouble Is fast disappearing. My hus-
band has taken it for rheumatism and il
has done him good" MRS. CLINTON b.
COPE, Buckingham Valley, Pennsylvania.
Hoods ssssau ns,i;;,
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 81; six for g.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
ARMY THIRST.

An ordinary canteen holds two
quarts. With all these receptacles fill
ed, the present army of 277 900 men
carries 3,64i hogsheads of water. This
in fact is about equivalent to the daily
requirement of water for the troops.
The quantity would last one man more
than seven hundred and sixty years.
Each man has tin cup that holds a
pint anG a half. II all of them were
filed they would contain 2,733 hogs
heads. But soldiers are thirsty people.
and their belt capacity is wonderful.
Forty-nine inches long, by the way,
is the average cartridge belt, and 277,
900 of them put end to end would
stretch PA miles.
One of the most interesting questions
in relation to the fighting problem is
that of transportation. 1t is impossi-
BILE to ascertain, even approximately
how many miles were traversed by the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
U. S. CONSUL
CURED OF
ECZE wi q
CuTi'CluRA

had an attack of Eczema, and ordered
box of oxide Of zinc ointment. The first
which seemed unquenchable. The druggist
had used a rancid cerate and | was poisoned
A local physician did not help matters, and
everything either failed to help, or made IL
worse, l was becoming desperate, when L
thought OF CUTIOURA REMEDIES, and dis
patched my servant for a cake of CUTICUEA
SOAP and a box of CUTICURA (ointment),
The first application relieved ne and in three
ddUS Tds neH.
PULASKI +. HYATT, United States Consul.
Dec. 10, 1897. Santiago dc Cuba.
Sold throughout the world PorTEn ID. q. CoRP, Sole
Props, Boston. How TO Cure the Worst keEemA," Tree
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
HEADS TO THE NORTH.

From the Boston Traveller
The superstition that human beings
should sleep with their heads to the noIlh
Is believed by the French to have for It's
foundation a scientific fact. They afhrm
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-30
Getting Up.

The Duke of Wellington slept on an
iron camp bedstead IL inches wide and
argued that when a man wants to turn
over it is time to turn out" Edward
Everett Hale quotes this remark of the
duke in the "Ten Times One Record
and takes issue with him. 'The prin-
ciple is we'll enough" says DR.. Hale,
"but think the detail is wrong. Sleep
is far too important to be made uncom-
Portable" DR.. Hale goes on to tell Of
various ingenious devices for automat-
ically waking sleeper. A friend Of his
fixed his alarm SO that at the foreordain-
ed moment the bedclothes were dragged
from the bed. The same gentleman
found another contrivance which work
ed better. "The alarm struck q match,
which Lighted the lamp which boiled
the water for Rossiter's shaving. II
Rossiter staid in bed too long, the wa
ter boiled over upon his razor and clean
shirt and tho prayer book his mother
gave him and Coleridgo's autograph and
his open pocketbook and all the other
precious things ho could put in basin
underneath when he went to bed; 80 he
had to get up before that moment
came"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-30
A Hunter Shot.

Malone, N, T., Aug. 30.-Ernest Col
son Of Topper lake, % years old, was
shot and instantly killed on the Waw-
beck road three miles from Topper
lake. Colson was watching for deer in
company with Ziba Westcott, and the
latter seeing two men approaching call
ed Colson's attention to them. AS Col
son turned to look toward them he was
shot. He took few steps and saying.
'Those fellows have shot me" fell life
less to the ground. Coroner Morehouse
will conduct an investiga ton. 1t Is be-
lieved that the shooting was accidental
Camp Merriam Without Orders.
San Francisco, Aug. 3O.-No orders for
the mastering out of troops at Camp
Merriam have been received by Cen
eral Miller nor any intimation of an in
tention of the war department to do so
in the near future. The heavy artillery
probably will be retained in the service
1t is the prevailing opinion at the head
quarters that no action will be taken
for a week or two.
The dispute regarding the appoint
ment of officers in the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment has been settled. Colonei
Funston has received telegram from
Adiutant General Corbin to the erect
that Governor Leedy had full power 10
appoint whomsoever he pleased as oh'-
GERS Of his regiment.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-30
"A Generous Admiss,on,

The London Graphic tells the follow.
ing story about Hans Richter in an arti-
Gle on conductors:
DR.. Richter's popularity with his
men is easily Ineligible, for while
nothing escapes his argus eyed vigilance
he always recognizes and acknowledges
good work. A few years ago, while he
was conducting-from memory. as usual
ono of Brahms oyertures at St.
James hall, ga strange thing happen
ed" as Mr.. Haggard used to say. Band
and conductor lost touch for several
bars, and when the piece was ended DR..
Richter signaled to the orchestra to play
the overture again from the beginning.
This time everything went without q
hitch, and at the CLOSE Dr. Richter
turned round, and addressing the audi
ence said, Ladies' and gentlemen. the
mistake was mine, not the orchestra 8 :
a generous admission which provoked =
salvo Of applause.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-30
GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY.


Twelve Prisoners Escape at Goshen, N.
Outrage Oh tic Jailer.
Goshen, N. Y, Aug. 30.-Twelve pris-
oners have escaped from Jail here. Two
men, James w. Crum of Scranton and
Louis A. Blackman of Port Jervis, saw
ed their way out of their cell during the
night and then hid in the toilet room
Then a man asked for a drink of water,
and Constable Halstead went into the
corridor with a cup, when Crum and
Blackman jumped on him, knocking him
down. Blackman pounded his head on
the concrete floor while Crum choked
him almost into Inconsistencies. Then
they took his keys from him and opened
the doors of all the cells, and II men in
all lined up in the corridor.
After the jailer had been placed in a
cell, bruised and bleeding, and locked
up Crum opened the outer door with
the keys, and all filed out into the jail
yard, climbed the plank placed against
the roof of the stone breaking sheds and
escaped. Two did not want to go, but
Crum, with the keepers pistol in hand,
drove them ahead for a mile into tho
country.
One old man, Thomas Ward left the
party there to go alone. He went to
his daughters house and gave the
alarm. She notified the police, who hur-
ried to the jail and found the jailer
locked in and badly hurt, and then
awakened the sheriff, who lives in thi
courthouse, in front of the Jail.
The prisoners who escaped were: Jo-
seph Monahan, indicted for burglary,
captured at Bridgeport, Conn.,, month
ago; Lewis Strong, colored, assault
case; George e. Johnson, burglary, Mid
dletown: George Livingston, horse thief,
captured in New York a week ago;
George Colston, Hungarian. assault
Tuxedo; Joseph McCarty, burglar, Mid
dletown; James w. Crum, bicycle thief,
Scranton; Lewis A. Blackman, burglary
Port Jervis; George Pitney, burglary
Woodbury.; Daniel Kennedy burglary
Middletown, captured at Bridgeport
Conn.,, last month: Thomas Ward
Goshen, assault; Nelson Johnson, coll
ored, burglary.
Ward was captured in his sens hay
NOV. two miles from the jail. johnson
gave himself up as soon as he coulo
escape from the others, who had Ovid
ed into two parties, half going toward
Chester apd the others toward Por'
Jervis.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-30

Major Tom Williams some time age
told me the story Of ono Of Colonel 9Th
Wright's adventures in South Carolina
in the closing months of the war.
1t seems that General Fitzpatrick, the
Federal cavalry commander, had cap
tured a number OF Confederates, and
Wright was anxious to rescue them. He
called for volunteers to go with him
into the enemy's camp at night and
picked out the men he needed from
those who responded.
The Federal troopers were snoozing
quietly in their camp and on both sides
of the road leading to 1t, and their pris-
oners dozed by a fire near the center.
Just how they got there would be
hard to explain, but shortly after mid
night Glib Wright, at the head of few
men, rode at a gentle pace into the camp
The drowsy Federals took them for q
party Of their own men returning from
a scout, and paid no attention to them.
Everything was working smoothly until
one of the prisoners caught a glimpse Of
the newcomers. The fellow lost his head
and ruined the whole business He leap
ed to his feet and looked into the faces
of the advancing Confederates
"Horray, boys!" he shouted in his
delirious delight. Hang me, If there
amt old Glib Wright and his crowd.
burned If the whole Confederate army
amt right behind him!'
The prisoners all rushed forward with
the regular rebel yell, and the sleeping
Federals suddenly became very wide
awake. From every side they showered
bullets on their visitors and Wright
and his men had almost q miraculous
deliverance Several were killed and
wounded, but the leader and the ma.
jority Of the party managed to get
away.-Atlanta Constitution.