The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-17
SEVEN TO MUSTER OUT TROOPS.
Regular Officers Proceeding VIII,
Their Work.


There are now seven officers of the regu-
lar service in the city on mastering duty.
Some Of them have already attended to
the muster out OF the Sixth Immunes, and
others are at work on the Third Con-
necucut, which will be mustered out next
Monday.
Capt. Morton Of the Sixth Infantry is
officer in charge of the muster out Of
troops at Savannah. Lieut.. Col. Rowan
who was discharged from the volunteer
service day before yesterday with The
Sixth Immunes. is a captain of the Nine
teenth Infantry and he has been assigned
to mastering duty. Orders came to him
yesterday to report to Capt Morton in
connection with the work.
No doubt is expressed as to the Third
Connecticut getting out of the service on
Monday. The officers and men of the COM
mand have been hard at work on the de-
tails necessary before the command can
be discharged, and they will nave broken
the record by ten days when they are
turned loose. Heretofore something like
a month from the time muster out orders
have been received has been required for
the completion OF all the work incident
TO 1t, but the Third has gone to work win
such a will that all records have been
broken. As much as two months have
been necessary for some regiments TO do
everything demanded in the way of max
ing up final accounts, turning in property
and making out the muster rolls in dupli-
cate, but twenty days are all the Third
has needed.
There will be another exhibition of hard
work Dy railroad men when the Third is
discharged. The passing of the Sixth call
ed for great labors but there will be just
as great when the Third goes. The Ocean
Steamship Company VIII bring compli-
cation into the situation, and its rates for
soldiers will doubtless be very low. In
the case of the muster out of the I'm
munes there was no water line TO be con-
sidered, but the roads will have 10 make
special efforts if they desire TO get ahead
of the Ocean Steamship Company in the
contest
The steamship line has vessels running
to Boston and TO New York both of
which places are not far distant from
the points where the soldiers were en-
listed in the volunteer service. Traffic ar
rangements will doubtless be effected with
the railroads In that section, and tickets
will be sold through to the destination of
the men. On the other hand, extremely
low rates are already In effect by the rail
lines from Savannah to the East, and it
is probable they will be able to sell almost,
If not quite as close, as the steamship
line, All the initial lines viii be interest
ed in the movement, and viii work hard
to secure their share of it. but two of
them that did especially well in the effort
for the business. of the Sixth will not have
so good route TO the East as they have
to the section from which the Sixth was
raised, and for that reason the other roads
will come in for a better proportion of the
passengers.
The officers and men of the Maine Ar
tillery do not know when they will be
mustered out of the service. Mastering
officers have not yet been detailed for the
battalion, and there have been none of
the preliminary steps taken. 1t will prob
ably be three weeks or month before
the men can get home.