The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-04
OFF FOR The WARS.
The 26th Regiment
Leaves PlatUsburg
Tuesday.
IN BOSTON WEDNESDAY.
Hundreds of Friends Will
Go Down From
Worcester.
IN BOSTON WEDNESDAY.

if the powers that rule over the trans
portation company can carry out their
Col. Rice and his men will move from
Plattsburg barracks, N. Y, before noon
of Tuesday and they are happy to know
that Boston is their first stopping
place.
1t was at first the intention to come
to Boston over the Boston and Albany
which would have given the hundreds
of friends Of the Worcester men in the
regiment chance to make some sort
of demonstration during their short
stay in the Union station here.
But 1t has been decided to move four
sections out of Plattsburg to Rouse's
Point and six sections from there over
the Central Vermont Railroad to
White River Junction where the trains
Will be turned over to the Boston and
Maine Railroad, the route to Boston be-
ing through Concord, Manchester and
Lowell. Hundreds of Worcester people
will go to Boston, however, to witness
the parade. Lieut. Plummers friends,
in particular, are anxious to bid him
goodbye once more before he starts on
his long trip to the Philippines.
Saturday sthe companies were out on
the parade ground at Plattsburg, prac-
ticing the tent drill, which will be one
of the features planned for the stay
in Boston. The men are proficient in
this detail of military tactics, and en-
tered into the labor of the affair with
the spirit of true soldiers.
1t made Col. Rice's eyes twinkle with
delight when a civilian complimented
his men on this maneuvre.
Everything is now ready but the
cars" said the colonel, and they are
promised US. Every company with the
exception of two is fully equipped. We
lack shelter tents and khaki uniforms
for these two companies, but we hope
to receive them before we start, and
this is very probable, as 1 am informed
that they are on the way.
Massachusetts will feel proud of the
Twenty sixth regiment. Old soldiers
say that finer body of men has not
gone out of the United States since the
outbreak with Spain"
Col. Rice appreciates this fact. He is
proud Of his men. They are to him
his boys, and he calls them that.
1t will require SO tourist cars, three
f1rst-class sleepers, 10 baggage cars and
one special horse car to transport the
regiment across the continent
The regiment will remain in Boston
4S hours, and should reach there early
Wednesday morning Allowing for all
probable delays, IL o'clock should see
the last section in the union station and
unloaded Forty eight hours-from
noon Wednesday until noon Friday-is
the scheduled time of the visit of the
regiment in Boston.
The men will travel in the conven-
ttonal blue uniform, but in Boston,
while on parade and in other exhibit
lions, they will wear their new Khaki
uniforms and the khaki helmets, some
thing new in the dress of the American
soldier. and which makes every man
look like the star character in that once
popular melodrama, "The Soudan."
The cars of the several trains will be
side-tracked while the regiment re-
mains in Boston, and the men will live
aboard them.
1t is not likely that Col. Rice or his
staff will take lodgings away from the
train. but should the present program
be changed, and if he seeks quarters
elsewhere, he and his officers will make
the Brunswick their stopping place,
The regiment expects to reach Provi-
dence by Thursday night, or not later
than Friday morning
The departure from Providence will
be either Saturday night or Sunday
morning, and the trains will run to
either Rotterdam Junction or Albany,
when four sections will be organized,
two going over the West Shore and
Nickel Plate, and two over the New
York Central and Lake Shore to Chi
cago. This will place part of the
command under the supervision of
Lieut.. Col. William P. Duval.
Pueblo, Colo, will DO reached over the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road, whence the Denver and Rio
Grande will transport the regiment to
Ogden, Utah. The route will then be
completed on the Southern Pacific to
San Francisco.
The command will leave Plattsburg
with 1880 men, including the officers; SO
men will be assigned to each car, with
two men in each berth. The cost of
transporting the regiment to San Fran
cisco will be $4,000.
The contract for supplying coffee to
the men was let today. 1t calls for
three pints of liquid coffee to each man
daily, and the cost Of this item to the
government will be $4,000.
All along the line in New York, Yer
mont and New Hampshire the towns
will turn out and the people will shout
their good luck to Col. Rice and his
men.
St Adams is the largest place through
which the regiment will pass in Ver-
mont, and the prominent citizens of
the place will say EAU revoir," and
shake the hand of many Vermont boy
who has cast in his lot with the honor
of his country.
Burlington people have planned to
come TO Essex Junction, the nearest
point through which the trains pass, to
give Capt. Brownell, their son. and his
comrany, G royal sendoff.
Montpelier people, even though exert
ing themselves physically and mentally
for the great Dewey celebration, will
not forget that the state is sending
many of her sons to Manila in the 26th
regiment. and down to Montpelier
Junction they will go in great numbers
to shout hearty farewelle and wish ev-
cry Green Mountain boy all the for
tunes of war and healthy and quick
return to the state that loves him so
we'll.
The Twenty-sixth was recruited
to it's full war strength from the New
England district, and Worcester,
through the local recruiting station in
the walker building. added her share
with glad heart The class of recruits
from this city equals all the others and
in some cases Is above the standard as
many of tho men enlisted are old timers
and have seen service In either the
sachusetts volunteers or the reg
ulars which were recruited in this city
while the war scare was at its height.
Their many Worcester men in the
Twenty-sixth were recruited IN other
cities than Worcester and list of those
that left the local office cannot be taken
as the full number of men from this
city who are in the regiment. The lists
include John J. Mcdonald Of SS Mill
bury street. who has seen service with
Co X Of the Twelfth regulars; Joseph
Mayo Of 1903 Canterbury street, who was
a.al - -. 1T
SO served in that regiment in co. B, aud
saw active service in thebattle Of Ell