The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-14


of the Railroad Company.
All the Thirteenth regiment is now
home, with the exception Of a Darty
Of twenty-four which took the water
route, another party of the same size
which is coming north by slow stages
and a struggling few who remained IN
Georgia, went farther south, or stopped
off at one place or another along the
way home.
The arrival of the first section at 1.25
yesterday morning was told at length
In yesterdays Tribune. The second
section came in at $40 o'clock yester-
day morning, and the third and last
section five hours later
The second section was made up OF
Company ID, of the central city; Com
pany C, OF MontrOse, and a part Of
Company G, of the central city. 1t
was in charge of Lieutenant Colonel
Fred w. Stillwell. Other officers on
the train were Captain John w. Eam-
beck, Company b; Captain Frank Rob
ling, Company c; Captain Thomas Gil
man, Company d; Captain 5. S. Der
man, Company a; Captain s. w. Cor.
win, Company II; Captain r. j. Me-
Causland, Company G, and such of
their lieutenants as had not taken other
routes.
on the third section were Company
f. of Honesdale; Company f, of the
West Side; Company a, of the central
city, and one car load OF Company g
men, who were left behind because of
ply IF hn /
section. Major T.. d. Fellows was the
senior officer on this train. With him
were Surgeon Major w. Il. Keller.
Captain II. p. Decker, of Com
pany F; First Lieutenant William V.
johnson and Second Lieutenant John
A. Keith, of Company A; First Lieu
tenant William /. Dodge and Second
Lieutenont Henry T. Varcoe, of Com
pany E; First Lieutenant David ]. Da-
Wis and Second Lieutenant William :.
Freeman Of Company i, and Battalion
Adjutant Walter T.. Gunster
OTHER OFFICERS.
Captain George A. Smith, Of Com
pany +, left the train at South Rocky
Mountain, North Carolina, to join his
parents. who are wintering there Ma
jor Walter A. Wood stopped off in
Washington on business.
Adjutant l.. T. Mates went to Flor
ida; Quartermaster II. Il. Cox remained
behind in Georgia. Rev. y. F. Stahl.
chaplain, continued on to his home in
Princeton, n. j.: Assistant Surgeon
George Coe Merriman, NJ. D., stopped
off at Falls Church, Va.
The scenes at the arrival of the sec
ond and third sections were a repeti-
tion of those which marked the incom-
ing of the first, about the only differ
ence being that the crowds at the sta
tion We're larger. The soldiers in each
instance left their cars before reaching
the station and We're swallowed up IN
the crowd.
Captain Robling and his Company c
men, headed by a bugier, marched
short distance up Lackawanna avenue
and were vigorously Cheercd All the
other soldiers were taken in hand by
their friends and hurried home.
The largest crowd of any that ASSEM-
Died to welcome the soldiers was that
which met the third section. Hun
dreds Of school children We're among
the throng. Had the train come into
the station with the soldiers aboard
there would have been a very enthusi-
aslic demonstration, but the Delaware
and Hudson company held the Soldier
train for over half an hour at the elcc-
trlc lght house, so that its regular from
the north might have the right Of
way.
When ii was apparent that the train
was to lay over, the boys piled out Of
the cars and Clambered up the steep
bank Hundreds of the waiting throng
rushed down the bank and along the
upper tracks to meet them. The result
was that soldiers and citizens became
mixed up in one general mass and IL
was long time before many of the
waiting throng could find the particu-
lar ones they came to meet.
COMPANY + WAS LONESOME.
When the train finally did back in
the only soldiers aboard were the MEM
pers Of Company T., who were to be
taken through 10 CarbOndale and sent
nome over the HOnesdale branch.
Ihe Company G men who came in on
lhe thlrd section We're highly aud lust
~ indignant over the treatment thev
received at the hands of the Atlantic
Coast lire. Captain Robling had char
tered "sleepers' for his whole COM
mand but when they were ready to
take III" train it was found that there
was one sleeper missing. The cam
tain made kick and the officials prom-
ised to furnish the sleeper at Cnce. 1t
didn't though The fact of the matter
was that the company did not have
sufficient cars and thought to work
ofC day coach in place of the sleeper
that had been paid for The matter
was finally compromised by a car load
of the company remaining behind IN
Ill the railroad company could hunt
up another sleeper The sleeper was
secured and attached TO the third Sec
ton. This was very aggravating to
Captain Rohling and his men, as they
had arranged to come home intact and
had gotten together full supply of
refreshments for the journey.
Company c is not alone in its kick
against the Atlantic Coast line. Every
soldier i'm tn regiment that came by
that route bitterly complains OF it. 1t
contracted 10 land the regiment i'm
Scranton WITHIN twenty-siX hours after
the start. The first section got through
in thirty-four hours and the last sec
tiOn thirteen hours later, The cars,
too, were, in most instances, dirty
ana not a few OF them had the ap-
pearance Of having been resurrected
from the scrap pile.
NO LIGHTS IN SOME CARS.
The cars Of the second section had
no illumination by night and wnen the
rofreshment committee at Harrisburg
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