Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-26

Wheeling Young Men Are Anxious
to Get to the Front, and There
Were a Large Number Of Enlist
ments : The Register Bulletins
Eagerly Scanned = Other Notes
Concerning the Situation and De-
velopments.
There was no abatement in the gen.
eral interest which has been NANTES
ted in this city ever since the day when
hostilities between this country and
Spain was first suggested. Yesterday
this interest VS. manifested most plain
ly in the form of eagerness for news
concerning the departure Of Wheeling
members of the National Guard All
the friends of Wheeling boys who have
enlisted were anxious for news concern
ing plans for their departure, and the
newspaper offices were beseiged for in
formation.
The disposition to enlist is growing
among the young men, and at the pres
ent rate of increase, threatens to assume
the proportions Of a contagiOn. Both
the Moundsyille and Wheeling compan-
les have already secured more than
their full quota of men, and it IS alto
gether likely that another company
could be formed in Wheeling within
a week Last night number of young
men who have suddenly caught the war
spirit, were heard to express regret that
they had not joined the Wheeling or
Moundsyille companies before they Sc
heiv TY,iI of
At the Register bulletin boards there
was repetition of the scenes which
have been daily enacted during the past
week. There was manifested not only
there, but throughout the city, an in
tense anxiety to learn the latest devel-
opments in the situation When the
bulletin announcing the action of Con-
gress in its declaration of war was re-
ceived at the Register office, large
American flag was run UP on the flag
staff at the top of the building, and a
number of patriotic citizens sent up a
cheer.
The declaration of war was generally
regarded in Wheeling as the proper
thing to do under the circumstances,
and it was therefore hailed with salts
manifested, however, in the bulletin
announcing that the President had
called upon Governors of States for
troops. This is the feature which
strikes home.
RESERVE COMPANY SUGGESTED.
1t has been suggested that the officers
and privates of the old Wheeling bat
talon, First regiment West Virginia
National Guard call the boys" togeth-
er to form a reserve organization. Here
is a roster of the officers as they existed
in May, 1873:
Adjutant-C. W. Franzheim
Golf Guards-Captain, w. T. Otto;
First Lieutenant, H. p Mayer; Sec
ond Lieutenant, Samuel Funk; Orderly
Sergeant, ALI. Graham: Second Ser
geant Thomas Young; Third Sergeant,
r. w King; Fourth Sergeant, James
Ferguson; Fifth Sergeant T. Salada
First Corporal, David Parish; Second
Corporal, Robert Ferguson; Third Cor
poral, John A. Ebert; Fourth Corporal,
John Froz; Fifth Corporal, f. W. Ray
mcnd; Sixth Corporal, Ed Norton;
Seventh Corporal, Robert Mckinley;
Eighth Corporal, William Heller.
Matthews Light Guards-Captain. J.
B. Lukens; First Lieutenant, Newt.
Lynch; Second Lieutenant, James
Todd; Third Lieutenant, John L. Dick
ey; Orderly Sergeant, James Travis;
Second Sergeant, Charles Bailey; Third
Sergeant, J. Ratcliff; Fourth Sergeant,
James Sprucebanks; Fifth Sergeant,
John Moreland First Corporal, Jake
Hornbrook; Second Corporal, C. A.
Reed; Third Corporal, j. p. Glass
Fourth Corporal, G. w. Lutz; Fifth
Corporal, Samuel Hersey; Sixth Cor
poral, Dave Evans; Seventh Corporal
James l.. Dickey.
Schmulbach Guards-Captain, Viii
liam Miller; First Lieutenant, Richard
Robertson: Second Lieutenant,
Cramer; Orderly Sergeant, W. G.
Beans; Second Sergeant, Charles Ste
vens; Third Sergeant, d. Snyder;
Fourth Sergeant, c. w. Stoetzer: Fifth
Sergeant, o. Newland; First Corporal
Jonas Butterfield; Second Corporal
John Wagner: Third Corporal James
A. Clark; Fourth Corporal Henry
Cook
There are about two hundred men in
all in the three companies perhaps g
little over
A PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION.
At 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Cathedral high school cadets assembled
in the school yard and sang the Star
Spangled Banner and Columbia, 2
preparatory to the raising of their
large United States flag over the
school building AS the flag was
waited to the breeze a mighty chorus
of voices made the very welkin ring.
The fiag is one Of the largest in the
city, being p by II feet The cadets
are also in possession of a magnificent
regimental flag, the gift of the young
lady students of Mont de Chantal
Academy Right Rev. Bishop Dono-
hue and the clergy of the Cathedral
were enthusiastic spectators yesterday
afternoon.
WILL BE A CAVALRY COLONEL.
Justice w. w. Rodgers was in the
cavalry service in the late war, and is
anxious to get whack at the Spanish.
He stated last night that he has re-
ceived notice from Governor Atkinson
that he will give Col Rodgers a com
mission as colonel of the First West
Virginia regiment of cavalry as soon
as there is a call from the President.
ELECTED OFFICERS.