The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-01
BACK FROM ORIENT
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT is NOW
COMFORTABLY SETTLED AT
FORT SMELLING
HAS BEEN GONE THREE YEARS
Was the First of the United States
Troops to Plant Stars and
Stripes on Walls of
PeI<in.

The first thing the officers of the Four
teenth did after reaching st. Paul was to
impress upon US the fact that they were
very old hands at travelling. A lieuten-
ant jumped to the ground and looked in
the direction of a train coming down the
next track, and quite ready to run over
him or any of his men who happened TO
leave their cars. Then he waved his
first sergeant back into the car stopped
down and looked under the train, gave
a quick command and got back into the
car again. Here he gave another quick
command and in TWO minutes an entire
company had tumbled out of the car and
was forming ranks on the other side of
the train, where there were no engines
to run over them. Meantime other COM.
panies had left tbs train and came
marching from behind some box caHs
to join the line. Already Maj. Francis
Z. Eltonhead was tramping up and down
in front Of the battalion. 1t was only
7:10 o'clock, but it was quite dark and
there We're no crowds of cheering people
There was not even an electric light
10 relieve the blacknesS, and the troops
stood facing the river waiting the word
to start
1t seemed hard TO realize that in the
space Of three minutes al men had left
a train they had cd in nearly a week.
and with all their belongings We're ready
to find a new home. Yet the yellow
men," as they have come to be called,
| have been around the world and their
| home is wherever they happen to pitch
! the shelter tents which they carried
| across their shoulders. In the last few
! years they have pitched these little can
! vas homes in the swanlps Of the Philip
! pines islands and under the shadow of
! the walls of Pekin. The line of yellow
/ men" looked very solid as it stood fac
! ing the river in the moonlight, the same
| line that tramped all the way from the
sea to the Chinese capital city and float
! cd it's flags upon the walls. Then Col.
Qufnton gave the command to start and
I the companies tramped up to Third
street. where they boarded the sixteen
street cars that carried them to the fort.
On the way Col Quinton explained
why his band didn't play. 1t was in
poor shape, he said, because half of it
had been composed of F'ilipnos, VINO
couldn't leave their families and so stay
ed behind.
Lieut.. Col William Quinton is fine
type of the regular army officer. He was
| bundled up in his big blue army over
coat and looked as though just starting
out on a trip instead of ending one.
Capt. H. G. Fearnard, the adjutant OF
| the regiment has had many exciting
trips in line of duty. Not long before the
breaking out of the Spanish-American
war he led relief expedition to Alaska.
! He was in a dozen BATTLES in the Philip
! pines, and was one of the first over the
! wall at -Pekin. Capt Joseph Frazier, the
acting quartermaster, has not been long
! with the Fourteenth, having been trans
| ferTed a few months ago from the IA
! nous Ninth, with which he served at the
| terrible battle of Tientsin. DR.. Mus
! grave, the surgeon who came through
III charge Of the train, has fine appoint
ment at Hot Springs, and won it by long
| service in the Philippines. Taken all to-
gether it is a most interesting set Of off,
GERS who will be posted at Fort Smelling.