The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-08

first to get their money. Immediateiy
after payment the men went to the fraiuss
very few of them stopping in the town at
all. There was absolutely no distuzbancq
in the town and the regiment was very
highly compimented on all sides for the
orderly manner in which 1t left Green-
vile.
There was a large crowd at the depot
when the first Jersey City section left
at nine o'clock. 1t was intended that this
section should carry Companies I, D and
c, but the railroads did not manage their
end of the moving with the same prompts
ness and exactness as did the regiment
and as result there were a number Of
these three companies left behind. It was
intended that the officers of each COM
pany should accompany It's section, but In
the anxiety of the railroad to get the
first section off they were all but one
Captain Ralph of Company D, left be-
hind to follow on the second section.
The second section left at ten o'clock
and carried Companies E, NJ and 3 and
such men as had been left behind from
the first section. A Pullman car was on
this train for the use of the officers.
Company had tourist sleeping car.
The trains were decorated with long
signs, with the regiments designation on
them, and generally followed with the
words, Mustered OUT Company C's
car had the side of the car labeled,
'springsted's Rough Riders" which MANS
has clung to it ever since it marched
into Sea Girt, last July
The remainder of the regiment follow-
ed in two sections, which left soon after
Colonel Gilmore came up with the Tren-
ton companies, his home being in that
city. Their departure was conducted in
the same orderly manner which distin-
guished that of the other two sections.
The companies all carried their CONS
pany mascots with them in the cars.
Some of them had been with the regi-
ment since its organization. Perhaps the
best known of these was Company Els
goat, "Shafter," which was one of the
features of the regiment at Sea Girt.
fShafter" received a full honorable dis
charge from the volunteer service, signed
in due form by Captain Randolph and
countersigned by Captain McGonegle, the
mastering officer.
Arrangements had been made to fully
provide for the feeding of the men, but
through the actions of the railroad people
much of the food was left behind as a re-
suit at each stop the trains made on e1ie
way north many of the men had to leave
the train to purchase food.
At small town in Northern South
Carolina, where the train stopped for coal
and water, a store keeper tried to charge
the men excessive prices for very poor
quality of food. The men took the pro-
visions and refused to pay more than
fair price for them. This was probably
the reason for the garbled accounts sent
out to the newspapers by the local cor
respondents, whose sympathfes were
naturally in all cases with the local
parties no matter how disgracefuI their
conduct. A mustered out soldier is re-
garded as lawful prey for almost any sort
of extortion and over charges by the
average southern storekeeper and it IS
surprising that there was not much
trouble in all of these cases.
The feeling of the men towards the rail-
road authorities, who promised to- get
them into Jersey City before .xo oriUckz
and who brought them here five or six
hours late, was not of the best, but they
refrained from taking it out of the rail-
road company's property, as nearly all
the other regiments have done.
There was not an Intoxicated Fourth
Regiment man to be seen in Greenville
on the day of their departure and at
nearly every stop on the way north
there We're many comments made on the
difference between the conduct of the
Fourth Regiment and such regiments as
the Fifth Massachusetts and the 291st and
2OSd New York Regiments on their mus
ter ont.
There was a large gathering at Trentou
and the two sections were loudly cheered
when they crossed the bridge at Trenton
and passed through the station. This re-
ception was repeated at nearly all the
large towns along the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.
When the trains reached the meadow
shops they were greeted with blasts from
the locomotive whistles. There wers
crowds also at Marion station and at th@
Boulevard and Baldwin avenue bridgess
They cheered long and heartily as ths
trains passed.
Plans for the distribution of the medalg,
which are now being prepared for the
volunteers, are indefinite. The reception
committee has this matter in charge.
The committee will make application for
the Armory for the event. If it is refused
Pholmann's S will be hired. The committee
does not fear that the request will be res
fused. There will be no banquet, because
of the lack of funds.
About 6f0 men are entitled to medals.
Every man who volunteered when the
regiment was organized will receive 4
medal.