The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-11
A DAY AT CAMP
DANIEL H. HASTINGS
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our boys are going too far away to
receive any well meant but embarras-
sing visitations from their fair friends
accustomed to napkins and other super
! fluities.
The Thirteenth will be as comfort
able as the circumstances will allow.
| Four Of our bows slept on nice mat
tresses during the deluge articles
| which they had borrowed" from a va
/ cant cottage somewhere in tine vicinity.
| Nobody could blame them for borrow
ing cottage and all Two enterprisinE
soldiers from our regiment found q bon
/ anZa in the shape of a fair-siZed oil
| stove, blankets, cooking utensils and
other conveniences on saturday. They
each took an armful and started but
were obliged to leave some Of the stores
for second trip. When they returned
! for these they were dismayed to find
a guard posted over the cottage. With
commendable nerve they proceeded to
/ tell about certain property belonging
to them and when the guard insisted
| upon a description, ii was accurately
! given even to the details of the exact
location. The guard was convinced of
| the justice of their claims and accom-
! modatingly turned In and assisted them
in borrowing the things. forgot to
mention that despite the storm, our
ambulance is intact, glittering with it's
new paint, and labeled n. G.. l., Thir-
teenth regiment.
The governors headquarters are
| built much after the fashion of a very
small and unpretentous country barn.
| with the one useless adornment of
wooden shutters; the entire structure
Enft, %, t.,f ttgf hON Nyn
looked like the palace of the king to
the watery tent dwellers on Sunday
Governor Hastings and other digni-
taries, including the elegant Colonel
Morrell, of Philadelphia, were muster
ing in a company of the Fourth regi-
ment Monday and as the men passed
up singly in front of the towering
J figure of Soldier Dan" they looked
serious enough to impress bystanders
that they realized the situation, even
if the present parade ground was
platform devoted to the frivoltes of
dancing in times OF peace.
Among the others who stepped for
and received their commissions were
boys who seemed scarcely sixteen and
in whose young faces was a look that
to see. In the group gazing down
over the railing was acting Adjutant
w. S. Millar, who is a very busy man
these days, and whose appearance
would indicate that no red mud or rain
had ever dared to sully the immacu-
lateness of his uniform.
The first man to have a furlough
from the Thirteenth is Private +. c.
Rooms, who has been detailed as Cen
eral Snowden'S orderly recently and
who came home Monday night to ar
range business matters and say good
bye to his family before going with
the troops He must be back with his
regiment on Wednesday.
| 1t is generally understood that within
! a very few days our troops will go
south. Monday on the train that
brought the visiting Scrantonans
came a detail of a lieutenant and four
men who were sent on hasty orders to
ChiCkamauga. They were from the
Fourth regiment and were inestimately
proud of the distinction and also that
theirs was the first regiment and the
first company to be mustered into the
regular army from the n. G.. p. This
is another indication that our troops
will go to Chickamauga instead of
washington
lhere was great demand TOT gum
Inc curing the past rev days ana on
sunday new resuldtlon went INTO ei-
tect tnat no private could receive
dose Oh 'he uruS from tnc surgeon WITH
out Deihs accompanied py an olllcer'
Accordingly ollcerS were IN great de-
mana on that long cold' ureary day'
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