The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
HAPPY COLORED
SOLDIERS At
THE PRESIDE
Delighted With Their
New Quarters.
ON GOOD TERMS WITH WHITES
PREPARING TO SEND MORE
TROOPS TO MANILA.
New Orders to Number of Officers.
Mishap to Corporal Thornton
of the Fourth Cavalry
Band.
ON GOOD TERMS WITH WHITES
PREPARING TO SEND MORE
TROOPS TO MANILA.

The detachment or the twenty -1ourln
Infantry stationed at the Preside has be-
come comfortably located in its new
quarters and officers and men are a unit
in voting the post the most desirable in
the country. Certainly the colored
'doughboys" have not been long in es-
tablishing themselves and already they
are the recipients of marked attention at
the hands of their civilian brethren and
sisters.
They are a happy lot, those black
skinned warriors, with never care nor
thought of the morrow. The veterans
among them recall the days before the
Spanish war, when they were stationed
continually on the frontier in small gar
risons, where all the routine duties de-
volved upon a few men, the more desira-
bic stations being given TO the white
troops But their work in the Santiago
campaign earned for them something bet
ter than "herding Indians and they have
been rewarded with the finest station in
the service, where enough troops are con-
stantly stationed to divide the work and
give them all plenty of leisure.
They are a neVer-failing source of
amusement to the white cavalrymen and
the casuals at the Preside bound
for the Philippines, and the best
of feeling prevails. When the reg1
ment was recruiting up to its maxi
mum strength at the breaking out of the
war the recruits were drawn almost
wholly from the plantations of the South,
and the quaint negro dialect, with its
simple humor, broken by contagious guf-
flaws, is heard on all sides. They are as
frolicsome as a litter of kittens, and the
white boys readily join in their sports.
Yesterday afternoon there was a hotly
contested ball game on the old parade
ground between teams from the Twenty
fourth and the white soldiers. The scorer
We nv md craX oh of n
few innings. but the players kept right
along with the game: In another part of
the field squad of whites and blacks
mixed up Unfortunately in football
match. All the other soldiers on the res
ervation who were off duty divided their
attention between the games, cheer
ing the players on TO greater efforts.
Out-of-door sports are all right with the
white boys, but when the newcomers Sug-
gest a game of craps it is different. Many
of the men have families and stylishly
dressed maids and matronS and rollicking
pickanninieS abound.
Johnny Morrisey could go out to the
Preside and pick up some cake walkers,
buck and wing dancers and musical come
dians that would discount most of his
imported talent.
Preparations are being rushed for the
reception of more troops en- route to the
Philippines. Carpenters are putting up
wooden kitchens on the camp ground near
the eastern entrance for the accommoda-
ton of troops in transit, while the new
Eight batteries of the Sixth Artillery will
arrive in day or two and sail on the
transport Warren about the 18th inst.
The Newport will sail on or about the
goth, carrying battalion of marines and
two batteries of artillery.
The famous Twenty first Infantry will
arrive here next Sunday or Monday, and
will sail on the transport Hancock. Light
Battery E, First Artillery, now at the
PreSidio, will also sail on the Hancock.
Acting Assistant Surgeon w. A. Nc
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Presidio General Hospital. Acting Assist
ant Surgeon r. f. Gray has been relieved
from duty on the transport Warren and
assigned to the general hospital. Acting
Assistant Surgeon R. E. Williams has
been relieved from duty at Angel Island
and assigned to the Warren.
First Lieutenant H. G. Leonard, Four
teenth Infantry, has been assigned to
duty with the battalion of casuals at the
Presidio, and will accompany it to Manila.
First Lieutenants Thomas Mcconnell
and Hugh D. Wise, Ninth Infantry, will
proceed to Manila to join their regiment
on the Hancock.
Second Lieutenant Samuel A. Kephart,
Fourth Artillery, has been detailed as
quartermaster on the transport Leelanaw.
He will also take charge of the detach-
ments detailed to accompany the horses
and guns shipped on the Leelanaw
Lance Corporal George w. Thornton,
Fourth Cavalry band, met with an acct
dent during the funeral of Colonel w. C.
Smith on Tuesday, but fortunately es-
capped with comparatively slight injury.
When the band wheeled into Steuart
street from Market ThorntonS horse
slipped on the pavement and fell. The
rider was playing a the time and did not
have a chance to get his foot from the
stirrup before, the horse fell upon his
right leg. No bones were broken, but the
skin from the knee to the ankle was
scraped away. Corporal Thornton was on
his feet as soon as the horse, and, re-
mounting, continued on to the ferry with
the hand