Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-06
BIG DAY FOR SOLDIERS
Arrival of Fifty first Iowa Occasion
For Big Demonstration at
Council Bluffs.
Governor Shaw Welcomes the Boys
Back to the State One Sec
tion Late.
Wreck on Western Road Compels
Roundabout Course Troops in
Good Health.
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Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs, Nov. 6.-The first two
sections of the F'ifty-tirst Iowa regi-
ment arrived here at a. m. The third
section did not arrive until late this at
ternoon and was rendered separate
reception. The delay was owing to the
fact that a train carrying contingent
from the Forty-second United States
volunteer infantry en- route to the
Philippines was derailed near Echo
canon, near the Wyoming line, in Utah
The wreck was encountered Saturday,
compelling them to return to Ogden,
Utah, in order to take another route to
| Denver.
All day Sunday and all Sunday night
| the crowds kept pouring into the city.
The hotels Were unable to accommodate
fall the guests and private homes were
opened to many. 1t is estimated that
10000 people are in the city today.
Governor Shaw arrived here last.
night With the members of his staff and
1 is quartered at the Grand hotel The
members of the staff are: Brig. Gen.
James Rush Lincoln. Ames; Brig. Gen.
James Taggart Priestley. Des Moines;
Col. Thomas +. Cook, Algona; Col. II.
II. V. Garfield, Boone; Mai. William
Suffer Wyman, Ottumwa; aides-de-
camp, ]. X. p. Thompson, Rock Rap
ids; Edward G. Pratt. Dies NIoines;
Frank c. Let's, Marshalltown; William
Larrabee, Jr., Clermont: Frank p.
Clarkson, Des Moines; c.. G.. Saunders,
Council Bluffs: Edward r. Putnam.
Cedar Rapids: Sears McHenry, Deni-
SON. and A. b. Shaw, Des Moines.
The executive committee decided
not to allow the delay of section to in
terfere with the reception ceremonies
and they We're given a separate well
come on their arrival late this after
noon. on arrival of the first two sec
tons the regular program was carried
Iout. After the first greeting, the regi-
ment formed in parade and marched to
Rayliss park, where the exercises took
iplace. Congressman W. p. Hepburn
delivered the address of the day and
was followed by Governor l.. NJ. Shaw,
who delivered the address of welcome
He said:
Officers and Men of the Fifty-irst
Iowa Infantry Volunteers. Eighteen
months ago your departure from the
state that was even then proud of YOU
was witnessed with universal anxiety
and solicifude. Today your returning
footsteps make glad Iowa,s every Iowa,
heart. Your iourneyings have been
most carefully watched and the record
iof your noble conduct. both in camp
land on the firing line has ma5. the
state YOU left behind vet prouder TO call
you hers.
III is due 10 have. It said on this occa-
sion that no report concerning YOU has
brought either. shame 10 the homes
from which YOU went. or a bush to
Those who have followed vou with their
good wishes and their PRAYERS. The
.nress dispatet1e.s have All been Of the
most Favorable character and have
borne convincing proof that the one
fragment whose heroic mission was far
{fotyart4s tha sett{pp SIM liE,. ,,hA three
regiments from your state WHO. with
equal fiaeIfty. followed the same dag III
other directions had not forgotten
aithar tbeir manhood or fhel,. self re-
s,act on tha morning af.ei. your de-
partllre from san Francisco on your
outward trim The paners throughout the
4 colIntt.v contained the following. Hun
fdreas Of friends of the regiment gath
cred AT the Preside to say good-bye.
4 for these Iowans made many friends by
their sentlenanlv conduct while in
4 camp here. Drunkenness and riotous
conduct are strangers 10 these sturdy
/ 4awkeve veterans. such report
/ shall be sacred to the state. and the
truthf,llness thereof viii be of great
worth to YOU.
"But if must NOT be forgotten that.
4 Of the number who. in the spring time
of 1898. went from Camp Mckinley with
4 proud step. firm heart and lofty mien.
| some have gone To their reward and
/ there IS left TO us by the scant priyi-
lega of tear in their remembrance
and a word of sympathy for the be-
4 raavfd hearts ana Sad homes made so
bv tr4ir absence. The righteousness of
the end towards which they sfroye, the
4 i1Istica of the cause for which they
4 died and fine response to duty ever i'm
i peratiye constitute the only justifica-
4 ZION for the sad sacrifice.