Show ia pl 11 1 1 I 1 FOOT THE OR inon x 0 IT combatants 1 WHO W A I 1 C t ACCOMPANY c C alt IN CUBA 4 I 1 1 I I 1 14 4 s u Y t lers i e ArAL tIla away by the 66 new fio I 1 k w volunteer laun 1 afre 1 thweat of can aa 4 kl tion A lr 14 of oft lyl pl d J outlets ar a to L bj I 1 Os nw MW agul ali liong and K ig elan danis of camp U vas III b be adment it from rom the en on cip f old tor durin during the artea ip the r will try 7 to replace those ix mthr I 1 taueu ot at former camo signs 1 t equipped and 4 ebbit cwb accompanying the troop troops on abw travels will supply 11 all II euch such e taw as the old time autler w wall ac at to dl in these will include luxuries puch uch as canned fruits j RW auar cured hams ear bar dil daem looks milk butter chease bjor aandy etc em soldiers Sold lere are als mostly very vary fond of candy and complaints I 1 bv lave been made recently because of J this tb brave boys at chickamauga and c tha were to the hos pital OW la IN ot of excessive con of ot aogi pluma plums by admiring adm irine young women in farmer former daba da half a doxen dozen women ww WOO fetterly attached ADO to each company of or united states As a rale rule they were ine the whee when of enlisted d men aken of non rion and nearly alwy always they were try worthy per boole me ot of thenn them the regiments reft ments for as much as it yua s and they were olac lAlly ly rec as belonging to lo the military or one ration in other words ft he b food allowance lowance of a soldier so liller was allow to each beach of them and everi ever en ell iltz baa man paid a given ghen rate for their services perv loee ae in war time towy did work as nurses and the q era occupied by them at each army poet went under the th e BUM of Snape ud ROA eight esis ago however the war department made an effort to dispense with them and their rations were taken away consequently no laundresses taun dreese will tol fol I 1 liw low the troops during the present caro cam paten and the soldier boys will have to wash their own clothes it Is 18 an interesting fact that in a number of Imal the sons ot of these anny army reee reseed eie educated aduca t ed and stilt sent to the military academy at west point holding at this day commissions as officers for obvious reasons it Is not desirable deel rable to anen aon names n I thia this CO n a i evam rm case rj is that of a well wn infantry officer bo was coached for na eat point by the wife of general graham he lie tailed failed to pass pan because of an imperfection in me his erat innar but general sheridan took a it great interest in him and the upshot of the matter was as that he was ivas appointed from civil life as a second lieutenant a year daoro the class he lie tried to enter was graduated his ills father was a non commissioned filter and hie mother was a regimental laun drees dress women as naturally flock t neighborhood of a it military am ami a as 5 crone to a cornfield icher er ou our r troop troops settle do down doan an for even so sh it a time as a day or two there III be plenty of volunteer laundresses in cuba the native women will be only to I 1 glad to do v washing ashing for the a idlers tor for the fake of making a few fenk achile AV falle on the march however the men trill will have to wash ash tor for themselves while e the officers will employ their servants who bo are most commonly negroes of ficere servants and mess mesa attendants constitute quite a large class of camp follower followers and arlly artly there are a good many who straggle abony alon in the wake of an army looking for employment under the he regulations an officer Is not permitted to compel an en n listed man to do any sort of material ria I 1 toll such as cooking or washing at the aune blaine time the enlisted man Is at gt liberty to accept pay day tor for such work ark film fiern an officer the army canteen has taken the place of the old time q st re of ficera liters and men inen together r subscribe th ill money required for the establishment of the canteen to pay for or the eto sto k in trade etc and after a certain reason able percentage on the investment hie has been paid back to them the I 1 alance il f the profit goes to the soldiers the profits chiefly derived from the sale of beer are very large and they are on iii piled plied to the improvement of the condl tion of the men paying for various luxuries make a welcome add addi flon to their messes thus for ex ample they are enabled to ha e 0 i 1 their table tables butter and milk which are not furnished by the missan aft after er a while the original debt for the can teen is paid off and find then the ci of listed men run it for themselves it la Is natural that the war depart devart arent should wish to do away assay with the extortions extort ions vihti h inevitably ace ac ompa v the system hence tic 11 if v de tie which contemplates the fur ni alfing of the soldiers through the canteen car AeeD with everything that ahr th sut aare alere used to sell at tile lie simp I 1 me jahe pil 1 he saje safe of distilled liquors Is rt gedl prohibited on ground grounds that seem ra dional enough the only draw drawback b ack about this thin atlon Is that men de priced of whisky by official order will always try to get it t 1 underhand means the consequence ri sequence Is that the mot most abominable eort sort of stuff a smug bled into the campa camps and the men turn up drunk in squads army of fleer liter was telling the writer yesterday d about the trouble he had at an army poet post in the far west vi when hen the sale of whisky within the post limits was for bidden by an order from the war d de e apartment part ment the sold itral used to sneak tie ak away at night to elfrain c ertain questionable establishments that were set get up in the neighborhood called in par lance hog 1109 ranches and many of them were ere constantly unfit tor for duty the of flew quoted wilted on hie his own responsibility directed the poet post trader to get a 41 quan lity of good whisky and sell it to the tle men at a reasonable price the only re being that no soldier aft should be permitted to get drunk the result waa was that nobody did get drunk aid and the ills hog hot ranches quickly went out of id IV the neighborhood of a settled mil gitary camp there are always low who sell the rottenest rott rotte enest next kind of by the canteen bottle or jug there then I 1 Is no so tow law to reach them and if tang caught they buffer no penalty beyond the of their stock i trad and perhaps a brief I 1 imprisonment in the worse than these are folo followers ers of adother kind who 0 prey unon the soldiers eold SoLd lere lers they are pro feio aal gamblers chort card men lashed wilb marked card cards and some time with alki mull lail faro layouts 4 rca jeca ilanay they are re fair tair gamblers a I 1 e exper expert who rely on their super for or kill la in every regiment there are ni toted men who arc are such excellent card players as to be able to win large bor of money from their comrade general Poe forth the famous indian india fl fAter wd your our correspondent about lit nuu W command downia nd who after a having been paid off for walt oft service aleut home ff bad won WOO at poker fair lye be a wo oa thu amount inside of at a va a U to to prevent f ing aw will 60 it in aa ir it 4 A r b 1 1 a blua if no beitter 0 tr aft fact that 8 L n 13 do not 1 V lost a good not 14 1 ad t when 1 pa rat T ua haulda li I 1 it 1 ei 1 s P 1111 11 N V A A ai I 1 4 7 6 ac 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 his I 1 if I 1 4 I 1 0 I 1 i vit 1 flu s t I 1 1 I 1 I 1 t toc u 0 q I 1 1 el 11 oil I 1 quit 11 do 33 r aar aft got or 1 I a 1 V own 00 I 1 in cather WA sal of y wa seters la iu the regular abul iua it h men amft M tt to take etoy troi from a them ogg 0 4 oo 00 each depos drof I 1 to tir the t I 4 per cent con t pw per annum the question as to during the vw war are to enjoy this privilege has h not came up for or decision as yet in kw san fran alloo n L few years as a sergeant ap map preached a regimental paymaster and aston labod him by laying alm ilis oa the pay table salting that it be credited to him the re avd on the ground that he lit vas ob llred to take anly the savings and ordinary accumulations of the men tb the e n replied that the rel represented pro red his savings as a an enlisted man inasmuch as a he be bad bought a wharf lot ot ten i earn bufore and had just bold sold it tor for the th sum in question quett ton the paymaster salt sall that the govern ment could get all the money it wanted at 3 per cent and it ought not to be obliged to pay 4 per cent under euch such circumstances the sergeant then re fused to take the money back and the matter was aa referred to the attorney general who deel declied led in ills his favor general fora forayth we that when he was in comman command d at fort arizona there was an infantryman in hl his regiment 1 I 1 0 was as a company tailor tallor 11 lie had been in the service foi 30 odd years and had saved his money lie he earned outside of his hi pay pity by mending and altering clothes for goldla fare s and of fibers from 12 to 20 a and wax was reputed to hae have a very ery larise lame sum on deposit in cal fornia savings banks bell s g queeni ay ned on the subject he told general Oe forsyth that the tile amount to bis big credit wag was 1800 IS lie ile began to make deposits when he first enlisted at a FL time when the savings banks on oil the pacific coast vere were 2 per cent a month interest la terest in india an army of three thousand or tour four thousand native troops Is to ac afe coniD anted customarily by anywhere from five thousand to eight thousand camp followers including the aives ives and children of the soldiers cifers it used to be the same way aa as tar back as the day of darius up to quite recent times european armies were followed by barms arms of persons of every imaginable description including numerous women of dubious character the policy of the war department during the present con flicht iiii la 14 be to discourage camp follow Pea reasonable ex era ere as far as possible caption will be made in ta fa r of news paper men who are perhaps the most persistent ot of all camp followers follo wem in speaking of camp followers one ought not to omit mention of the nume numerous rouE animals which accompany every army I 1 very company of soldiers has hag its r ts al at val vas A including one or tw two 0 dogs y with ith an occasional squirrel and raccoon |