Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-07-23
Gallant Marines Also Leave For the
FrOnt-New York Scene of Military
Activity Recalling Spanish War
TImes--Eighth Back From Cuba.

tomorrow eight companies OF the Eff
teC>lth regiment, United States infantry.
which has been stationed for several
months at Governor Island, will start
for San Francisco, to sail from there
Aug. l for Manila and thence to China.
The remaining companies of the Eighth
regiment We're delayed by a storm off
Cape uattcras and are expected to ar
rive here this morning and will immcdi-
ately follow their comrades to Fort Smell
| ling.
Governors Island yesterday looked like
the advanced post of an army on the
march. Everything was on the qui vive.
The troops, smart in their new khaki
uniforms and tan colored shoes, We're
strolling about the grounds saying fare
wells to the girls they will soon leave
behind them, chatting with friends and
relatives about their departure or packing
up the equipment of the regiment and
furnishing up their bayonets and guns.
The men seemed more alert than they
have been for months. There was an
air of expectancy about them as if they
We're eager to be on the way to the new
fighting ground of the worlds armies.
warIiI>e Scenes.
Soldiers We're to be seen at every turn.
They gathered in little groups on the
Battery, stood around the dock on Gov
ernors Island, passed back and forth
on the General Hancock, making that
craft look like an army transport, and
several hundred swarmed about the quar-
ters of the Fifteenth regiment, packing
up their tent equipments and helping
get together the general baggage of the
regiment.
All the soldiers seemed to be In fine
condition and exhlarated by the prospect
of soon having a chance in the field. They
were bitterly disappointed, they said yes
terday, because they We're not sent to
Cuba until after the fighting was over.
The regiment, as an organization, has
not yet seen service in the field, although
some of its members are re-enlsted men
who have seen fighting in Cuba, Porto
Rico, the Philippines or in the west. The
ma jority, however, is composed of re-
cruits, whose nearest approach to bat
tlehed was when they went into the
province of Puerto Principe Cuba, last
December to garrison it.
Some of them were asked yesterday
if they did not feel trihe nervous about
going to China after the terrible expe-
rience of the Ninth regiment before Tien-
tsin.
Not bit" said sergeant. "The
more we hear about the trouble the Ninth
had with the 'Chnks,' the more anxious
we are to get over there and take a hand
in it. We don't feel revengeful or any
thing like that, but we feel that we
should like to be there and do some of the
fighting"
Colonel Moale, who commands the Fif-
teenth, is already on his way to China,
having sailed from San Francisco a week
ago. He will probably reioin his regiment
at Nagasak or Tien-tsin. Lieutenant
Colonel Constant Williams is now the
senior officer with the regiment and will
command it until Colonel Moale joins it,.
The next in command now is Major
George A. Cornish.
To Start Tomorrow.
Three companies, commanded by Cap
tains Cook Mitchell and Paxton, that
are now acting as garrison at the island
will start for San Francisco at Z o'clock
tomorrow morning. \ fourth company,
under Captain Cotter, which has been
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta,
will join these Oh the way to the Pacific.
Other companies will be picked up or
will assemble here before the Governors
Island battalion starts and thus mako mp
eight companies and more than 1000
men before the regiment reaches San
Francisco.
Colonel Williams said yesterday that
his men We're in excellent condition, finely
equipped in every way and all eager for
fight. He said that a few had deserted
within tho last month, but they were
men the regiment could well spare, and
he would rather have them leave now
than wait until the regiment gets to
China.
The regiment has been ordered 10 sail
for Manila, the present base of supplies
of the American army in the east. This
has caused some alarm in the breasts of
the soldiers lest they be intended for
service in the Philippines, but it is up-
derstood by the officers that they will be
hurried right through to Nagasaki, which
the mikado has offered as a base for the
United States troops, and thence to Tien-
tsin.
A battery from Fort Wadsworth will
relieve the Fifteenth temporarily at Gov
ernors Island today. As soon as the
Eleventh regiment reaches here from
Porto Rico it will be stationed AT the is-
land and at other posts now occupied by
the Fifteenth.
In heavy marching order and looking
spruce in their uniforms OF blue 130 ma
rines, the pick of Uncle Sans fighting
force at the navy yard, left yesterday
morning for China.
For the marines and the officers who
were in the detachment there was little
ont of the ordinary in their trip. 1t was
| all in the line of their duty. For their
sweethearts and wives, however, it was a
night of anxious waiting, and sun up
found them hurrying to the navy yard to
say goodby, that may shortly be followed
by the news of dear one lying cold in
death in the land of the far east.
Marines Start From Washington.
| Washington, July 23.-Five hundred
marines, under command of Major Ran
dolph Dickens, left Washington yester-
day afternoon over the Chesapeake and
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