The times., 1898-06-04


| Rubber-neckin' for a fight.
Camp Alger is a picturesque place after
supper. The troops, relieved from all
| duties for a few hours, lounge around and
realize how actually lonely they are
| among all these volunteers. Some
| stroll quietly about the long, deserted
camp streets: some lie thoughtfully or
| carelessly around the big parade ground,
| while the more noisy among them gather
in the street leading to the camp and joke
among themselves or banter the passing
| crowd. Here and there a group of voices
obtains all the harmony in the old songs
OF home. while others fight the coming
| battles and eagerly discuss probabilities
| The officers quarters are bright and
inviting. and here and there a band
| makes the hours dreamy.
The heavy rain last night after taps
flooded a number of tents and otherwise
made the air blue along the company
| streets.
The hospital corps from each regiment.
for duty at the division or general hos
| pital, were selected today, and will re-
port to Col Girard. About sixteen men
| have been taken from each regiment.
Another case of measles has been dis
covered in the Eighth Ohio. The patient
| will be removed to the division hospital
! tonight.
Company I. of the Eighth Ohio, and
! company from the Sixth Massachusetts
| have been sent to Dunn Loring on guard
duty.
a teamster in the employ of the quar-
| termaster's department was seriously
| hurt by kick from Il mule last night.
| He was removed TO the division hospital.
The Milliners, q military society Of
| Bucyrus. Ohio, has presented the boys
| OF Company A, Eighth Ohio, with fifty
pounds of tobacco. half a gross Of pipes.
and 500 stogies. The boys are now
smoking up
The Third Tennessee is still without
| uniforms. Some of the men are without
any equipment and the other boys tell
| funny stories OF the Tennessee regiment
doing sentry duty with stick OF an um-
| brella for q rifle
Corporal Davis of Company F, Eighth
Pennsylvania, was granted furlough to-
day until Monday. His brother has been
| fatally injured by the premature discharge
OF a rifle and Mr.. Davis was granted leave
10 be with him in his last moments.
| Adjutant A. W. Maynes, of the Eighth
Ohio, went into Washington today to
make arrangements about receiving the
Ohio State pay for his regiment.
The Lemon Squad" of the Eighth Ohio
Balizet Black and Graham, of Company
/, yesterday made fine rustic chair.
which they presented to Captain Fisher,
of their company.
Father tom" Sherman. OF the Fourth
Missouri. held confession yesterday, and It
was largely attended. He also held COM
mun;on al 10 o'clock this morning. and
will preach to the Catholic members of
the corps on Sunday.
Mrs. Kuhns, wife OF Quartermaster
Kuhns of the Eighth Ohio. is visiting her
husband this week.
| Visitors are plentiful at the camp and
drills continue all day long.
Four privates in the Eighth Ohio were
subjected to novel form Of punishment
for missing roll call today. They were
forced TO drill all day with their knap-
sacks loaded down with stones They
doubtless Will be tired boys when night
comes to relieve them of their loads.
| Yesterday was moving day at Camp AL
ger. AT least one of the regiments found
ii so. Early in the morning the Sixth
| Illinois broke camp and for five hours a
steady stream of troops laden down with
| tents, tent poles, bedding, cooking uten-
| sis and other camp equipments crossed
the road into the space below the Eighth
Ohio and piled mountains where level
plain had been. BY night a tent town had
| disappeared from the parade grounds and
a white city had sprung up across the
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| to leave the parade grounds clear for in
spection purposes.
| The Sixth Pennsylvania has received
| instructions to move farther into the
woods and will begin tomorrow. The
Fourth Missouri has also received orders
TO decamp from the splendid location
| which ii now occupies and get into the
woods. The men are very sore over this
order, as they realize they are better off
where they now are.
| Vaccination was the order of the day
with other regiments. The scratching was
finished in the Pennsylvania regiments
| and the Sixth Massachusetts boys had an
inning. Within a few days the whole
| corps Will have been vaccinated and i'm
| muned from smallpox.
It has practically been decided to bri-
| gade the regiments according to the Sc
| niority of the colonels' commissions. This
| would change the present brigades and
| mix finely drilled regiments with recruits
State Auditor Gilbert of Ohio was in
| camp yesterday and the Ohio boys will
receive their State pay today.
Surgeon Wilmington yesterday morn
| ing condemned the fresh meat supplied
| by the Government to the Fourth Mis-
| souri, Regiment. DR.. Wilmington had re-
| ceived many complaints and yesterday
| morning appointed board of inspection
| consisting of Major Stringfellow of the
| First Battalion and Major Hendricks of
| the Second Battalion, to examine the
meat before it left the wagons This was
| done and but little examination was need
| ed, as the wagons smelled like glue fac,
| tories. The meat was simply rotten and
| was seized by the inspecting board and
| buried. The meat was supplied by con-
| tract and came from Chicago. The men
| Of the Fourth Missouri had to exist on
| salt meat, but prefer this to over-ripe
| fresh meat"
| The Second Diyision hospitaI will be &c
| tablished today. Tt will be placed near
| the One Hundred and Fffty-ninth Indiana
| in healthy location.
Surgeon II. D. Kneedler, of the Fourth
Missouri is giving his hospital corps a
| thorough training and will soon have as
| efficient a staff as any in the Second
| Army Corps.
Six men are In the Fourth Missouri hos
pital at present. Mrs. Dalton, of Wash
| ington visited tbs hospital yesterday and
will supply anything needed by the pa
| tents.
| A small epidemic of pink eye" has ap-
peared among the troops. Pink eye" is
| an Inflammation of the eyelids and is
| contagious. The hospital corps of each
| of the regiments are doing great work and
| have stopped the disease from spreading
| further.
Col. Logan, State quartermaster of
Pennsylvania; Col. Potter, assistant State
| qLartermaster; Major Singer, Lieut. Rich
| ardson, and Mr.. Keith visited the Eighth
| Pennsylvania yesterday and were enter
| tanned by Col. Hoffman.
| DR.. Da Costa, jr.. of Philadelphia, re-
ported for duty as assistant surgeon of
he Ejrhtb pappsyivapia