The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-10
SECOND LIKES SAVANNAH.
BATTALION OF THE HISTORIC IN
PANTRY DOES NOT WANT TO GO.

the Subject-Re giment Has
Spent the Greater Part of Its En-
fstence Across the Mississippi, and
Fighting Indians, and the Officers
and Men Are Not Anxious to Leave
Civilization and Trolley Cars Ia,r-
standardization and Mules-The
BattaIIon's Retention Here Would
BE of Distinct Advantage to the
City.
The officers and men of the battalion OF
the Second Infantry, now doing provost
duty in Savannah, are not at all anxious
TO so to Cuba. They contemplate the
prospect of almost immediate departure
for the Pearl of the Antilles with no feel
ing of pleasurable emotion, and most of
them are quite agreed that the expert
ence they had there during last summer
will hold them for a while"
The order from the war department di-
reefs that the battalion prepare for de-
parture on the transport Crook, which is
expected 10 arrive here about the middle
of the present month and leave for Cuba
soon after that time. The battalion is
keen appreciation of the conveniences that
they will be forced TO leave Savannah, with
warm gratitude for the hospitality with
which 1t has been treated while here and
with distinct aversion to trying again
the discomforts of a tropical climate dur
ing the warm and rainy season.
Il am free to confess" said subaltern
officer of the regiment yesterday, that
don't want to so to Cuba, and when
say this l voice the sentiments of my
brother officers and of the men. If there
were any fighting to be done or any duty
to do that involved either the risk of dam
ger or the chance of promotion or distinc-
ton it would be a different matter, and
we would be as anxious to face the hard
ships Of the campaign as we were when
! the call to arms sounded at the outbreak
OF the spanish-American war and our reg
iment was ordered 10 the front"
But the situation now is very different
and to our minds there is absolutely no
reason why we should leave the,comforts
| OF civilization and spend the summer in
| an unhealthy country and among q half
| civilized people For the last twenty
/ years this regiment has been fighting In
dams on the frontiers and when 1t cross
! cd the Mississippi to take the transnor It
! for Cuba il was its first offense in "A long.
| long time. We have come recently into
the land of iced drings, good dinners and
trolley cars, and the pining for excite
ment and the hardships of a soldiers life
mas felt US. Our desire 10 go to Cuba
amounts only to the differential of a very
! little bit and
more than, content TO stay where we are
and allow the people of our newly acquired
/ possession TO fight their own battles and
look after their own interests 1t is bet
Ter to contend with 'sandhies in Savannah.
thah with the ravenous tarantuIa of the
Cuban coast-which is parable"
II reasons are necessary to accom-
| pAsh the reconsideration of the order di-
rectiug our departure" continued the Off
Ger, there is to be considered the large
quantity of quartermaster's commissarv
| ana medical stores that are now filling
the warehouses of Savannah. with the
| additional fact that the army hospital is
| likely to need, as it should receive am
pie military protection. So ought the
stores. We are In the race for this iob
/ and we rely upon the people of Savannah
TO aid US in the contest. In this connec-
! ton we proudly boast of the efficient
DRINKS on the public thoroughfares and
the buslness-like methods which we have
| applied in getting rid of Lhem when they
| had become a bowling nuisance to eyerv-
body who CHANGED to live in the neighbor.
hoods that they selected as the scene for
their midnight exploits. We have perform
ed other public services and we confidently
rely upon receiving public assistance in
| our laudable endeavor to escape the dis
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ner months and 10 exchange for them
the more attractive possibilities of render
ing existence pleasureable that are in
| herent in the atmosphere and Indigenous
| 10 the locality of Savannah"
But seriously, we don't want to go ia
Cuba at ali and we do want to stay n Sa-
vannsh whole lot. The particular locality
TO which We have been ordered, Cienfue.
fos, is particularly Objectionable am tod
that in the Spanish the name means Hun
dred Fires" and l am inclined to think
that this has reference 10 the hundred
fires of Tophet, which | am quite sure are
locatcd Immediately under, and moi q great
ways under, the foundations of The city. II
We can get out of going we shall be most
thankful, and if the people of Savannah
can secure q change OF order tina. viii re.
sui in this blessing we shall hold them
and their good deed in most grateful re.
me.ohrance.
1t is understood that the matter has beer
preached 10 the Mayor and to several al
The board of aldermen, and that they are
interesting themselves in the matter, ana
hope 10 get the order changed
The government stores now in Sayan.
nah are estimated to exceed s1.OO000o in
value. and they will either have 10 be
guarded here or removed 10 some Other
station. 1t Is to the advantage of The city
that they should remain, and for this
further reason 1t is to the interest of her
people to endeavor TO secure the retention
of the battalion of the Second. When &ht
stores so a profitable source of revenue
will so with them, and this should be
avoided if 1t be possible. AS the store.
viii follow the troops that are left fc
guard them, it would be wise 10 start al
the right end of the string and keep thai
part of the Second now here, still an6
for an Indefinite period in the city.
Little Katharine Cunningham Dead
Little Katharine, the 2-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. L. Cunningham