The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-09
LOCATION OF NORTH CAROLINA
CAMP NOT TO BE MOVED.
Third Pa day--ArrivaI of Ordnance Stores--1ar Heels flag
Handsomest in Seventh Army Corps--Study'ng
Spanish Dry Cool Weather is Better
Than Medicine.
Especial War Correspondence.)

Ond LOUISIANA was the nrSl To arrive.
Other regiments will follow. one each
day. in the following orGer: Second
Alabama, Second Texas. Division head
| quarters. First Texas. First Louisiana.
First Alabama. The train to move each
regiment is run in three sections.
The six regiments are to be cncamped
in the eastern part Of the city. close to
the banks of the river. Within the next
ten days the military population Of Jack
Sonyille will be increased to about TWEEN
ty-tiye thousand men. consisting of nine
teen regiments. The troops from Miami
constitute the First division of the
Seventh Army corps and these regiments
Will be the first representation Of that
division that nave been seen in this city.
The Second division includes I'll the
troops in camp 1T Springfield, and the
Third division. not yet completed, en-
braces the four regiments at Panama.
The Secretary of War directs that
sick and wounded soldiers sent to hos
pitfalls shall. when able 10 travel, be
granted hy the surgeon in charge Of hos
pitfalls. one months f~urIougn and rams
portation to so 10 their homes.
Governor l.. W. Shaw. Of Iowa. ac-
companied by Adjutant General VI. II.
1bNtfS ana toIbntl II. Y. 1 f:ilt. OF LES
Moincs, arrived in the city yesterday
evening on Il visit to the Fiftieth and
I Forty-ninth Iowa regiments. The Iowa
boys gave the distinguished visitors 4
royal welcome when they visited the boys
III camp. The party left Des Moines
i'll Il special car for Jacksonville last
Sunday evening.
Many Of the men and officers in camp
are studying Spanish so that when they
get to Cuba they can hold sweet con
verse" with the dary-eyed senoritas.
All of these students of Spanish are not
unmarried men either.
+ Three days Of dry. cool weather have
much improved the health of the soldiers
in camp here. Responses to the sick
call have become lighter and the fever
cases in the hospital show Improvement.
Eut there is no telling whcn the rains
will set in again or the thermometer
climb up dangerously near the 100 degree
mark. Yesterday only nine men were
reported sick in quarters in the North
Carolina regiment and none were sent
to the hospital.
Some o patients have been sent to
the recently-established convalescent hos
pital ut Pablo Beach. Among them were
/ seven NorthCarolinians. This hospital
is III charge Of Dir. Clarke. of the Forty
ninth Iowa regiment, and Or. Charles $.
Jordan. of the First North Carolina.
In addition to the patients now in
the division hospital and in the GONZALES
cent hospital at Pablo. there are thirty
soldiers receiving treatment at st. Luke's
hospital. this city.
The names of the soldiers from this
regiment now in the hospital i'll with
fever have already been published. In
the p~cst-house North Carolina has twelve
= Il tia,tE ci~ b,rn ,,no.l,, ,,,l - l,..,
humps. Five of the measles cases are
from one company-Concord. They are
j. l.. I.ippard. j. |. Bar@cr. John Pool.
Charles Eddins and James Tucker. The
other measles patient is Dennis Williams.
of the Wayncsvillc company.
In the humps ward the Concord com
pany has two mcn-Swink and IIarvill:
the Hornets Nest Rifles. two-Whitc and
Goforth; Goldsboro. one-Tunock, and
ltalclgh one-\ccdham Wilson. None
of these cases are SprlouS-mOSt Of
them are conyaleSccnt.
: Typhoid fever claimed its twentieth
victim yesterday. when Thomas Helick-
son, Company &. First Wisconsin regi-
ment. died. He was buried this after
noon III the government plot. Evergreen
cemetery. The re@imental chaplain con
Quoted the ceremony and 4 detail from
the dead mans company acted as pail
hearers.
Private Headen. Of the Raleigh com
pany, who has been critically i'll with
typhoid fever. is better. He was in the
division hospital ~tWcnty-four hours he
fore he WAS ever given n dose of medi-
cine.
Captain Ralldridgc. of Chicago. has
fecn appointed quartcrmastcr of the
First brigade of the Second division I'M
der General Burt's staff and entered
upon the duties Of his new position Mon
day. Captain B%alldridge succeeds Cap
tain c. Il. Gatherings, who died at Pablo
fast week.
Lieutenant Van Ness. of the Queen
City Guards. has gone to his home in
Charlotte. He has ten days leave OF
absence.
Sergeant John Howard. of Company
+. Second North Carolina troops. will b.
promoted to second lieutenant Of the
company if the choice of his comrades
in arms has any weight. There IS Il VA
cancy caused by the resignation of First
Lieutenant Jennings and :, vote has beer
taken at the suggestion of Colonel
Rur@Wyn as to whom the men wanted.
Sergeant Howard was unanimously cho-
sen and his name Will, no couDt, be sent
to the Governor rs the mpan candi
date.
Quartcrmastor Sergeant w. G. Hud-
gins. Of the Raleigh company. has beer
appointed steward of the canteen. This
increases his pay So Il month. He will
have supervision Of the stock and do the
purchasing.
During the month of July the con
sumption Of beer in the regiment has
fallen off nearly 30 per cent. as com-
pared with that of June. The June beer
account was $3.50: for July if is only
5 81 900. The consumption of tobacco Wa
+ also less than fer the month previous
On the other hand. the receipts from tn,
sale Of soda water. pies. cakes. peanuts
and the like are much greater. The tota
t receipts from Ill sales during the montl
t Of July are 80 per cent. less than dur
: ing June.
Another noticeable feature is the goo,