The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-26
NO LABOR FOR SURGEONS
VOLUNTEER CAMP AT SMELLING
IN PERFECT HEALTH
Today the Isolated Camp Will BE
Abandoned and the Battalion VIII
Take a Place Beside It's Com
rades-Sick Call Yesterday Was
LiSht-NO Serious Cases Were
Developed.


-Four cases that were labeled as sus-
picious were all the typhoid fever that
Camp Ramsey could muster yesterday.
Surgeon Major Dennis was afraid that
yesterdays sick roll would be a large
one, but such was not the case In fact
only about thirty men responded and
their ailments were very slight. In the
quarantine battalion not a man showed
any sign of fever, and all day DR.. Fry
sat alone in the hospital tent waiting
Tor chance to earn his salary.
Ihe men are much more contented
at Smelling than they were at the fair
grounds. Yesterday notice was posted
on the company bulletins to the effect
that while passes off of the reserva-
tlon would be very limited in number
and only granted in case of urgent
necessity, the men will have the lib
erty of the reservation, excepting only
the post buildings. by the verbal per-
mission of the company commanders.
Without permission they must stay in
side the sentry lines, which form a
square just outside the camp
Yesterday a few men were run in
the guard house for disgraceful con-
duct about the post, and particularly
about the post exchange, where a can
teen is located. Some threats were
made by the regular army officers
that, If such proceedings continued,
complaint will be made to the head
quarters of the Fifteenth. and the men
Kept from going down to the lower
post. If anything of that nature hap
pens, the men can blame themselves
for it. There has been lots of kicking
among the troops because they were
held IN so closely al old Camp Ram
sey, and now again a few unruly ones
may take away the privileges of ALL
one thing that makes the boys un-
ruly is the spread of the feeling that
the Fifteenth will be mustered out very
soon There is no question but that
large majority of the regiment would
be in favor of going home, If they had
their choice. During the last two days,
amid the excitement of moving and the
novelty Of their surroundings, the SEN
timent has not been so loudly express
ed, but it remains, although smolder-
ing. Some companies are almost
unanimously IN favor of remaining in
the service. AS a rule they are the
ones that come from the cities, and
which have had the least sickness. Of
course, as a rule, the commissioned
officers are anxious to remain, but very
many OF the priVateS and non-comS
have left good paying positions, which
they can have when they return home,
while now they are receiving from
1880 to $40 a month, and the feeling
Is that they should not be called upon
son duty in an unhealthy climate,
when they enlisted only for the war
The officers, it is said, are preparing
plan for the retention of one bat
TALON each from the Twelfth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth, the companies to
be self-selected, and then consolidated
into one regiment. 1t is felt that, if
such plan could be carried out, that
1t would be very satisfactory all
around.
Maj. Hands battalion has spent its
last night in Camp Isolation. Today
the companies will join their respective
battalionS at the main camp. The
quarantined companies are very much
pleased with their location and hoped
the rest of the regiment would be
moved over to where they are, but the
fates decree otherwise. The old rifle
range gives a greater opportunity for
drilling, and was selected for the camp
on that account.
Maj. Hand and his men have en-
joyed their seclusion at Fort Smelling
The whole battalion breakfasted on
frogs legs yesterday morning, and one
OF Capt. Leonard's brave boys caught
fine walled eyed pike that weighed
five pounds nine ounces. After the K
man got into camp with the fish one
of Capt. Gilmores band came up and
apologized for not bringing the pike in
for Company Ms mess. He said he
had bought it for 25 cents, and a minute
later the K man offered to double his
money, SO he took the cash and parted
with the fish, "Aunty'' Leonard in
vited all the officers in to help devour
It.
The afternoon Of the detached bat
TALON was spent in an extended order
drill. All the companies put together
form Just one full company. Lieut.
Bookstaver, one Of old Company DIS
drillmasters, put the men through their
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In the evening the men and officers
gathered around a great campfire
which the major had had constructed
in front of the headquarters tent. The
experienced ones told tales, and the
boys sang the old familiar war songs.
Bathing occupied considerable time
yesterday. Maj. Hand went in for a
swim with his men. Lieut.. Pattee took
all the prisoners from the main camp
down for a wash. A good bathing
place has been found at the junction
of the Minnesota and Mississippi riv-
ers, where the bottom is sandy.
Corporals Raphael A. Claus and Scott
r. Reaney, both of Company B, were