The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-29
Warlike Animation Bristles on
Worlds Fair Grounds Where
Troops Encamp.
ALL READY FOR TOMORROW.
Colonel Page, Who Married Miss
Tracy of st. Louis, Is First
to Arrive, With Third
Infantry, Regulars.

The fighting man has come to town. He
came in the gray dawn Of yesterday.
dressed in kahki and sarsed in blue, ).
He tumbled. ready made. from day coach
es. after q hard nights sleep. into the gray
morning, on an empty stomach. To the
order. 'Fan In" he gripped his shooting
iron
Then he walked to breakfast. enjoying as
an appetizer colonnades and towers and
dones, or he stuck in the saddle. or he Was
1olted on wicked field piece, on the way
to be fed.
Amy way. you say him. he was the rough
Crook, from Riley. old Leavenworth or
other places, good-natured and capped for
With a one, two, three, four he ra.tled
to the roll call In the wet grass on the
Catlir tract And at the brusque FORWARD
march" he swung into step behind the band
that did not play before mess.
The rhythm Of his swing was poetry.
Fire dripped In the coming sunglow, from
the dapper blades OF Sim Leutenants. who
quickstepped the column to the gates OF the
Worlds FAIR. 1t was all desperately busi-
nesss 6s ths dS Sssaglng hTtS for shS Rdtcation
Forsythe Junction was asleep, but for its
lone woman train dispatcher. The city was
st I'M h,s Mne the hadre eSy 1
lamps burnt blue above the Ivory City,
winked hard at the advancing foe and went
out with many sputtering screams, -
So the regulars came TO town Before 10
O'Clock five long sections" had dumped
1000 of them at Forsyth Eleven O'Clock and
they were In camp in the Education Palace.
Noon saw the arrival Of the ponderous siege
guns from Leayenworth over the rough
roads ~ %dng nd up hy Slopes t5o n
cavalry beat small thunder with their
hoofs as they came. Breakfastless gunners,
riding on jerky caissons. rumbled through
the green landscape OF the park and passed
IN a solemn review through the Triumphai
Causeway-
morning gave a foretaste of the pageant OF
Dedication. Color was plentiful Whole
regiments in yellow khaki, I'm blue fatigue
in plainsmen's soft brims and taunty new
bell caps, in the dressy cloth Of the cayai
ry's latest fashion and the angry Scarlet
trappings Of the artillery.
A day of dust, whirling clouds of II on
the site, jingling officers on horses and att
tending orderlies. and 700 worlImen set
was the warlike animation which bristled
yesterday on the Worlds Fair grounds
vanguard was Colonel John II. Page's-his
gallant Third. the Oldest regiment in the
United States Army. 1t was the first Amer
lean regiment of infantry in the Continental
Army and became by an act of Congress the
Third United States Infantry in I7s4.
Colonel Page is the son of Captain John
Page. who gave his life for his country at
the battle of Palo Alto. in 1886 The pres
ent commander of the Third entered the
service in 1861 His meritorious conduct at
Fredericksburg and Gettysburg wave him
a brevet as Major. He served at the head
Of this regiment through the Cuban cam
paign, and only returned from the Philip
pines year ago. He was breveted Briga-
der in Cuba. Colonel Page married Miss
Eliza Tracy Of st. Louis, the daughter OF
Edward Tracy, one of the first settlers.
The feature of the encampment at the
court of the Fair Immediately in the rear
OF the reviewing stand. where President
Roosevelt win inspect the passing troops
Here nearly forty guns are parked. includ-
ing the monster siege batteries from Leay-
enworth.
An OF the troops from the West were un-
loaded at Howard's Station. south of the
Exposition grounds. They were transport
ed 10 the site by trains over the Taylor
Only the regular troops had arrived at
camp last night. but there were 5000 Of
them-infantrymen, cavalrymen, artillery
men and engineers. To-day 5000 more sol
diers will arrive. representatives OF the Ma
ticipating in the Dedication.
When taps were sounded last night an
end to the soldiers freedom was marked
Reveille this morning will announce the be-
ginning of camp rule, and thereafter the
army regulations will prevail Men will
need permits from their superiors before
they can pass the picket lines, and the
routine abandoned when the men left their
home barracks will be resumed
PRAISE PREPARATION.
Some of the men with the regulars were
at the Chicago Dedication In a similar ca
pacity. They say that there seems to be
more progress IN the building of the Fair
at this time than there was then Their