The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-01
FOURTH WON'T PARADE.
Board Of Officers Decide Not
to Escort the Vol
unteerS.

Previous to the meeting of the Board
of Officers of the Fourth Regiment, last
evening, Lieutenant Colonel Bumsted
called on Chairman Cole of the reception
committee and asked what the committee
would do with an offer from the Fourth
Regiment to parade as an escort to the
volunteers on their arrival. Mr.. Cole said
the offer would be accepted by the COM
mittee and that he would telegraph to
Captain Christie acquainting him with the
offer. However, the plan of Lieutenant
Bumsted never went through. When he
made a motion to that effect at the meet
ing he was voted down. Mr.. Cole said
this morning that he did not think the
offer of the guard would have been ac-
cepted by the volunteers.
The officers refused to say anything fur
ther about the matter than was embodied
in the report. 1t is we'll known. though,
that the National Guardsmen have no
use for the Volunteers, with the possible
exception of those members who are also
affiliated with the Guard. One officer
short time ago, said he thought the city
would be better off if the whole regiment
remained in Greenvlle. Relative to the
Executive Committee appointed by Chair
man Frank o. Cole, the chairman ex-
planned his reason for not appointing any
officers of the Guard on the committee,
shortly after the selections were made
He said. after much hesitation, that on
scanning the list of subscribers he failed
to see the name of an officer of the regi-
ment. Therefore, he did not think it would
be just the proper thing to appoint
member of the Guard on the committee
al ! +1or tfcrva ION
would not be invited to parade, and this
has also helped to make the feeling
against the volunteers more bitter. The
action of the volunteers in not asking the
guard to take part in the homecoming
celebration was because the guardsmen
failed to enlist when the regiment was
organized.
Colonel Robert G. Smith, in an inter-
view with a News" reporter, said that
the boys who stayed at home We're to
be given as much credit as those who
volunteered. He added that the guards
men were anxious to enlist, but We're
finally compelled to remain behind py
their home responsibilities.
.eThis calling them stay-at-homes' is all
wrong.,' said the Colonel 81 repeat that
they are not to be censured for remaining
at home"
The members of the Fourth New Jer-
sey Volunteer Regiment and especially
those who comprise the regiment band,
are in a state of mind They are going to
lose their instruments. The government
is to take their belts, canteens, knapsacks
and guns also.
When the regiment was organized last
July the soldier boys went into camp
without a band Mrs. E. F. c. Young
headed subscription list shortly after
the regiment reached the Sea Girt camp
and enough funds were realized in no
time to purchase Instruments for the
band These instruments have been taken
to the Greenville camp but when the
regiment leaves Thursday next the treas
ured pieces of brass will be turned over
to the government. The volunteers claim
that they are entitled to the instruments.
Others are of the opinion that they belong
to the government, the regiment being
under the government when the instru-
ments were received.
1t is now practically decided that the
Hoboken Company which had intended TO
march only to Jersey avenue on the day
the regiment arrives, will march over the
whole route as suggested by q. Van Heu-
ten Post No. 8, G. A. R. Special cars will
be in waiting at Bergen Square for the
Hoboken and Bayonne companies.