The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-24
NATIONAL GUARD
Of Pennsylvania Again Demonstrates
Its Superiority in Hasty Mobiliza-
3 tion-Story Of the Midnight Order.

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HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 23-once
more the National Guard of Pennsylva-
MIA has demonstrated that 1t Is the
best equipped, best disciplined ind
most efficient body of citizen soldiers
In the world. An Illustration of.its ef-
iiciency was furnished this morning In
the hurried concentration of the great
er part of General Gobin's Third Brig
means to get an army Of regular troops
on the move, men whose daily business
is soldering. with equipment and all
they need constantly. at hand, and then
dwell upon the mobilization of citizen
soldiers. scattered far and wide. clerks.
professional men, merchants, doctors,
Iron workers, men Of every walk OF life,
after midnight, with telephone and tel
egraph stations closed In many small
towns. That seems an almost iInposs!-
bic task. But listen to the simple story
OF the mobilization of General Gobin's
brigade.
Sheriff Tooe. at Shenandoah, feels
that his force Of deputies IS insufficient
to restore order and at o'clock In the
evening he telephones TO Governor
Stone for assistance But the governor
Is n cautious man. He communicates
with citizens md officials. and after
being fully satisfied that Sheriff Toole
needs the soldiers. he calls to his side
Adjutant General Stewart General CO.
bin and others. Stewart Is Mt Phi!adel-
phla. having left Harrisburg late in the
afternoon under the impression TINT no
danger of an outbreak was imminent.
He quickly returns to the capital.
Responds to Duty
Goblin Is at his home in Lebanon, but.
gallant old soldier that he is, he quickly
responds to. the governors call and ar
rives at the, executive mansion about
the same time as Stewart. Richardson,
the ever-ready keeper OF the state ar
senal. Is also at hand. kilograms and
telephone messages are spread before
the assembled chiefs Of the military es-
adjustment Of the state. Sheriff Tooie
Is asked again rs to the situation, and
finally, when the whole matter has
been carefully weighed, the decision is
made. Troops Will be sent.
II IS now between midnight and
o'clock. Governor Stone Issues his order.
to Major General Miller, and Major
General Miller his order to Brlgadler
General Goblin, and Brigadler General
Goblin to his colonies. and the colonies
to the captains, and the captains to the
licutennnts, and the leutenants to the
squad leaders. and from lip to lip, on
horseback and bicycle. the word Is car
rIed from place to place. Men begin to
assemble ut their usual places OF rem
devious. Quartermastcrs are at work;
likewise the cOHmissaries: likewise ev-
erybody from top to bottom. It Is now
a whlrling machine. Every wheel Is In
motion anywhere. General Goblin at
2:30 q. m. Is off by special train, for
Shenandoah. His staff meets him at
Lebanon and ut 6 o'clock he.arrives at
the scene Of trouble with six compan-
les.
a few hours later, on each succeed
Ing train, the rest, OF the command ar
rfves, with them the camp equipuge,
Richardson's skill showing in the
prompt transportation of the tents and
supplies. and on the slopes OF Shenan-
doah Tonight the camp fires of n COM
pact fighting force OF the state are
burning. and the sentinel vIgilantly
PAGES his post. Pennsylvania has rea-
son to be proud OF Its guard, and aside
from the rights Of miners or the attI-
tude OF the operators or anything else
In this unfortunate controversy, there
must reside down deep in the hearts OF
nll citizens OF the state n feeling OF ad-
mlrat!oE for the citizen soldIery.