The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-07
HAPPY REUNION.
Sergt. Place Visits His
Brother in Wor-
ceSter.

Henry Place, 1853 Pleasant street, re-
ceived visitors yesterday, who, al
though coming unannounced, received
a royal welcome. The reception was
doubly felicitous because G. M. G..
Place, brother Of the host, and SER
geant in the Fifteenth Minnesota vol
unteer regiment, was one of them. The
brothers had not met for seven years
and the reunion yesterday was joy
GUS one. Samuel Jones, hospital stew
ard, stationed until his discharge, Mar
q, at Savannah, Ga, hospital, accom-
panied Sergt. Place as an old campmate
Sergt. Place is of the hardy western
type of frontiersman and towers feet
2 inches in the air. He received his
discharge from the service March q,
and will re-enlist. The Minnesota regi-
ment was not ordered to the front. but
as sergeant of provost guard Sergt. Place
saw service of the most humiliating
sort when it became his duty to order
the Imprisonment of 81 men from his
own regiment for mutiny.
In speaking of his war experience,
Sergt Place said; 1T makes me smile
to hear people questioning the fighting
ability of the Minnesota regiment be-
cause we We're left behind. The mu-
tiny in my regiment was caused by the
shooting of one of our soldiers in Au-
gusta by citizen.
Il won't say a word about embalmed
beef except that some of the meat serV-
ed to the regiment would have been
better had it been embalmed. 1 am not
sure whether it was or not, but l ain
positive it was bad tasting enough to
be-"
Hospital Steward Jones has been in
the hospital service seven years, six of
which We're spent in the English army,
being a native of that country In re-
gard to the proposed reorganization of
the hospital department of the United
States army, Steward Jones said: 1T
was very evident to me, after service
in the British army, that the hospital
corps in this country needs organiza-
ton on a systematic basis. You must
not think 1 am not a staunch supporter
of the stars and stripes. but my state
ments are honest opinions gained from
personal observation.
while l was at Chickamauga, the
lack of proper accommodations was
apparent. AT first, sick soldiers were
placed near a swamp, and 1t is no
wonder deaths were many. Later the
hospital department was more system
atically organized and better location
secured. In this country l noticed that
when regiments are ordered to camp,
they arrive there and find themselves
first on the ground. In England, the
hospital department is always well
housed, and in smooth running order
by the time troops arrive.
THE duties of a soldier in this coun
try are comparatively light when COM
pared to those required of a British
soldier. Army life in this country is
of the story book style when compared
to the life of a British soldier. In time
of peace or war. it matters little, the
does not act his natural self because
of the tyranny of the officers. 1 be-
lieve that the life of an American SOL
der is such as to best fit him for hard
fighting.
I'm England the men are on their tip
toes all the time, and when need comes
for hard service, they are easily IA
tigued. The pay is much better in this
country, and l am proud of the fact
that l have served the United States,
not because of the pecuniary reward
but it is my adopted country and 1t
comes first in my love"
Sergt. Place will return to the west
in a few days, and expects to be To-
Gated in or near Chicago, as he has
saved his "pile" and is ready to start
in some business. IF this country ever
has another war, and I am not too old,
I'll fight again, but never unless 1t is
foe worthy of our steel" Steward
Jones will leave Worcester Monday for
Boston, where he will re-enlist in the
hospital corps.