The Alaska prospector., 1903-05-21
A WARTIME MEETING

"No." remarked an elderly, robust s,-lookine man with the g..G,G LiaiG al ound lis slorci hat. Washington dce.n', lsok much like it uc wis- saw 1t the last tlmIs- m May, lSj5.
 My dad brought me down here to Wash. ingion from De, to ,nier nc al Geo, Rp- town university in t-e !tai isUv. was l.. ..en bit more tan l6 year. oid. l!iktd e fife at t1e Geoiyc.own uais.f.ity uith Ire war broke ou:. ILen taeie were tco ua!y t,l. licking soldier boys tai.. ,a around in the nciyaboraOod of t;eorg.tow for ne to ore. serve my con,entednes.. T..ey all lookea to me as they were enjoying q picnic, and ] made up my mind tnat Ia nave to get one of taose blue uniform. on myself or snrivcl up.
 Snortly after the beginning of the war ~ro.e nome to my daa in Dc,roit-he was then organizing Michigan regiment, wLic.. ne took all tarouga tie war, and il was cut to pitcs several times, too-and told him that laougat would like to join lie army, Ihe phrase wasn't in use then, but ge wrote pack something 10 tls general effect that had another tGink or TWO a-comiLg. He wrote that l didn't know when 1 was well oh, and sand that, as he was ge ing together LOO men for the big conflict, he figured that he could come pretty near doing all the soldering necessary in our family. remember thinking that this was pretty selfish on the old gen,leman's part. l re- hecied that he mad been in the Mexican war, and that therefore in wishing to do all of the soldering in the civil war, too, he cer- tsinly was showing . disposition to hog things.
 However, studied my lessons and went along all rigat at Georgetown university until early in 1881, and then couldn't stand 1t any longer. So one afternoon just cut out through the big gate. made for lne rail. read Station and established conncc; ions with a freigat car tackled on to . freigat train that found was booked to 20 to west ern New York. Inside of thiee or four day. l was incontinentally dropped at Lockport. N. Y.
 1t didn't take me long there to fall into the nands of d substitute broker, and two rays after arrived at Lockport was duly logged out m government straigat uni form tat, as remember it, was the ialGest kind of joke as lit. Son.eaow 1 didn't feel half so c.cerful over the prospect of arollicking miii;aIy career when, with about 100 otner young gossoons, 1 was herded in corner of an oid storeaOuse, near the rail road. and kept there under guard until tine train was ready to take us to the front.
 Naturally enough, l was pretty curious to find out to what part oi tae front we were going, bu, never a line of information could l get from anybody about it until we were well past Baltimore don't sup pose any of the others knew any more than did.
 When we got beyond Bait more, how ever, found out, all right. whiiher we were bound. and the news made nis almost wither up.
 "We're going to Giesboro' Point" one of the young officers aLnounced when the train got outside of Bal,i:nare Now, only lev days before I q jumped the George, own uni versity Id eivc,: letter from my cad In Deti"ii. saylna tat ae'd be ovc, 10 ( Iiiversity .o see me irestn;.y, a. is Icl'l meni Was going to be s;a;ion.G only a iite distance away from Vas. i. s:cI- a, C.e.. horo Point. None oi tae le,rors q; La:te or sudden death looked nal: so fierce 10 le In prospect as my dsG'. discovering ne in