The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-13

TOMORROW
All day business session of head camp
The day will be devoted by the st. Pau
! committee to a personally conducted ex
curs1on for visitors to Lake Minnetonka
| Thls outing will include special trains
| from St. Paul and Minneapolis, a steamer
cruise OF the lake, dinner at Hotel St
Louis, music and dancing.
| Evening-Parade Of Foresters in Min
/ neapolis.
| St. Paul came within an ace of missing
the much heralded parade Of Foresters
altogether to-day When it was finally
pulled off, some four hours behind sched-
ule time, 1t proved by far the greatest
attraction the visiting Woodmen have put
up for the capital city. The narrow es-
cape from a loss of this great feature was
caused entirely by the indifference of the
St. Paul Woodmen to the needs Of the
officers of the troops at Camp Northcott.
The long and tedious delay borne by
the thousands of people who thronged the
streets of st. Paul was in no way due to
any failure of the officers or men at Camp
Northcott to do their part When re-
yeille sounded in camp this morning the
men were out of their cots with a bound
and long before 8 o'clock, the time when
they were scheduled to start on their
march into st. Paul to join the other
Woodmen at $50, were in their ranks and
battalions we're formed by Brigadier Gen
eral Liggett and Adjutant Ringer
SteedIess Officers.
But there was different scene in the
officers quarters. The general commit
tee on entertainment for the visitors at
st. Paul, of which Mr. Monroe is chair
man, had made arrangements, according to
their report to General Mitchell, COM
| manding officer at the camp, for horses for
the sixteen officers and for two other
steeds for Head Consul Northcott and
the head clerk, Major c. w. Hawes. At
O'Clock there was not horse in camp.
The officers at headquarters notified the
committee at St. Paul by telephone that
none of the officers Aad mounts. most
| atfable answer came back to the effect
that the nags were on their way to the
| camp and should have arrived.
| Half an hour later General Mitchell
again telephoned to st. Paul and said that
| the steeds had not yet arrived, and that
| the men who were waiting in line, as well
| as the officers, were much put out by the
! delay. very curt reply was received
| the gentleman on the other end Of the
line, a member of the st. Paul committee
| who had had the matter in charge, volun-
| teering the information that they ha(
done all in their power and could not helI
matters II the arrangements were mo-
satisfactory to the officers in the camp
Nine o'clock brought the first of tn,
| horses into camp, and the Indignation o.
the officers, which had been rising grad
ually since early yesterday, was expressed
in language about as forcible as theil
vocabularies would permit
SaddIesIess Horses.
There were just five horses in the first
consignment furnished by the ST. Paul
committee, and they were as one officer
expressed it, "the tackiest lot of nags'
ever offered by city to its guests. There
was not good steed in the lot, and not
one Of them was provided with either
saddle or bride. But these horses, had
they been well equipped or equipped at
all, would not answer for the eighteen
men. The St. Paul committee was in
formed that unless every horse promised
for the camp was furnished in short
order, not an officer would accompany the
parade to the city. 1t is probable that
the men would have refused to march
without their officers.
NOrthcOtt Waits for a Horse.
/ Governor Northcott had been informed
Of conditions at the camp, but he came
out, anyway, with the head clerk and
was compelled to wait about the camI
for nearly an hour before his horse ar
! rived. 1t was too fractious an animal fol
| the head consul, who is not as sprightly
| as some of the younger officers in camp
and another long wait followed
At 1920 fourteen horses had been Sc
cured, and word came from st. Paul
that that was the best the committee
could do. Every available mount in the
capital city had been ''cinched" by the
St. Paul Foresters themselves, who man
aged to put into line their whole civil
staff of officers, including the aides and
inspectors, twenty-six men in all, on
twenty-six of as fine horses as st. Paul
can furnish. There was none left for the
guests.
Fair Promises.
The camp officers would not have felt
such chagrin at their treatment at the
hands Of their hosts had it not been for
the fact that the committee in charge OF
things at St. Paul led them to believe
that everything had been arranged for and
that nothing was wanting, until the very
! last minute, when it was impossible for
the officers to procure horses on their own
| personal account 1t was a deliberate
| throw down at the hands of the st. Paul
| Woodmen, and the officers feel it deeply
T. With only fourteen horses in camp,
/ some of the officers were compelled to
miss the parade, and Brigadier General
| Anderson, acting quartermaster general,
and the commissary general gave up
places in order to accommodate other off,
GERS. These officers, with the Command
ing generals orderly, G. A. Crawford,
who also should have had a place with
the general, were compelled to take the
street car to st. Paul or miss the parade.
The ladies in the camp, who were to have
been provided carriages to the city, had
| to call on their husbands, who engaged
hacks for them.
Cause of the Trouble.
The trouble at Camp Northcott, caused
by the negligence Of the st, Paul COM