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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1898
Page
2
Two thousand residents greet returning sailors from Chicago on May 23 departure. At 6 40 a.m. the 84 bronzed crew members arrive to cheers from distant crowds, factory workers, and marching bands. A breakfast, speeches, and open-arm welcomes mark the homecoming in Moline.
A list of service personnel and the ships or stations associated with their service appears, naming numerous individuals by surname and given name initials, spanning multiple towns and organizations. The compilation reads like a tribute roster with minimal contextual details beyond affiliations.
Crowds packed Moline streets to greet returning Chicago sailors led by Engineer Harrie Webster and General William Clendenin. Mayor Swensson praised their service, honored the Maine memory, and invited the crew to breakfast at the Windsor Hotel after a jubilant march from Market Square.
A crowded naval militia gathering is described with bunting and a room full of flags and "Gut Heil" insignia. Attendees dine at small tables while crowds outside await access. I. F. Cranle, on the reception committee, could not stay but left cigar bases for the sailors, later distributed after breakfast.
Four hundred ninety members of the Ulingis naval reserves departed Jersey City for Chicago at 10 am. They were split among forty two vessels and met on board the Vermont, with Lieutenant Hawing and Chief Engineer Tharrie Webster in charge of the first train. A young woman tore a fragment from her hat as a souvenir amid the crowd.
The travellers left Chicago at 10:25 PM and rode regular trains via RA Q to Galgsburg and Moline. Chicago welcomed the sailors warmly and provided comforts. Chef Engineer Harrie Webster led the voyage from Chicago to the city and praised the service. Lieutenant Hawley will be in the city Monday to muster out the men.
The United States Navy announces enlistment for seamen and experienced machinists for three years. Recruitments are being held at multiple rendezvous locations including Chicago and San Francisco. Candidates must meet standard requirements and report to designated naval offices.
Lieutenant Commander Hawkes arrives from Chicago to discharge eighty four Moline naval militia members who came from southern waters. The informal ceremony at Seventeenth Street and Third Avenue awarded honorable discharges noting individual service credits with minimal ceremony.
Certification states faithful service from the day of 1898 in the war between the United States and Spain. Discharge issued under the May 4 1898 act, to recognize the president's deeming service necessary. Signed enlistment records note payment in Scales $1.
In rating the proficiency of each tar his seamanship ordnance marksman ship great guns small arms signal ing sobriety obedience and average standing for term of enlistment. In the marks the boys averaged up very well and nearly all of them are now the proud possessors of honorable discharges with high ratings on their enlistment record.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Harry Kerr Private Fred Berglund and Private Howard Johnson departed from Rock Island Arsenal to report to their regiment on its arrival in New York. They were issued transport and earlier recovered from malaria in Porto Rico aboard the Lampusas. Lieutenant L. R Gaylord hopes to rejoin the Sixth or meet his wife in Detroit if plans change.
Henry Hansen, a Moline naval militia member aboard the Bancroft at Boston, reports repairs delaying discharge for about ten days. The Bancroft is being repaired before decommissioning and the crew, including Hansen, enjoys liberty every other night sightseeing in Boston.
David King receives a nephew John W. King letter from Key West noting on Sunday September 4 surgeons dressed the leg and said a second operation would not be needed. The leg was in bad shape with gangrene but healed well and walking is expected soon. Phil Neene also has an earlier letter with similar information, confirming recovery progress.
Mrs. A Miller of Buda Illinois reports relief from kidney trouble attacks after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. She endorses Hood's Pills as the necessary companion and urges readers to choose Hood's.
The Rock Island Arsenal phased out the night shift with 160 men discharged Saturday. Many night workers were moved to day shifts, notably in the machine shop, as the gradual force reduction continued after the order.
Ely's Cream Balm offers a 10 cent trial to prove its catarrh remedy with claims of stopped mucus and improved hearing and voice. A Monmouth attorney shares experience. George Welch pleads guilty in county court for tapping a market till, receiving a nominal fine and release on own recognizance.
Mel Crawley returns from a business trip in the west as advertisements tout Burdock Blood Bitters as defeating “bad blood and indigeation” and promoting health, reflecting era tonality and popular patent medicine promotion.
Rudolph Hicks 31 a former Savanna Ill plasterer and Mail Carrier turned Quartermaster-Sergeant of Company F Sixth Regiment died August 30 at a Porto Rico camp after a struggle with fever. One of the first volunteers from this city Hicks had given up a good job to enlist and was promoted for his energy. Relatives live in Savanna. he came to Moline six years ago. He would have become acting carrier October 1.
A wartime letter from Rudolph Hicks, quartermaster sergeant of the Sixth Regiment, describes his health, voyage to Porto Rico aboard the Columbia, and remarks about Santiago and a front-line stance. The piece notes the letter being the last received in Moline and comments on Hicks’s humor and gripes about food and belly. Nearby items report John Jordan's death in Davenport at 85, a former mayor in 1851, and a lumber accident injuring Andrew Larson.
Captain Frank Clendenin reports the death of Quartermaster Sergeant Rudolphus Hicks of Company F. Hicks died in a Ponce hospital on the morning of August 31 after typhoid fever followed by acute mania. He had become ill at Utundo and while sick aboard the Columbia, then received care in a first class military hospital. The regiment mourns his loss. Hicks had learned the native language to converse with locals.
In this section catarrh is labeled a constitutional disease requiring internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio is advertised as a universal remedy with a hundred dollar promise for any failure to cure and is sold by druggists for 75 cents.
Davenport Times reports John Bledsoe of Rock Island father of S L Bledsoe a Private in Company Sixth Illinois Infantry who died at Camp Alger is in a demented state. Sheriff Mc Arthur obtains a permit from the board of supervisors to send him to Mercy hospital for care where he is now undergoing treatment.
Try Allen's Foot Fase a powder to shake into shoes to cool hot swollen feet. It relieves smarting burning and tight footwear, blisters and callous spots, and eases bunions with rest and comfort. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 25 cents trial package free address Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy NY.
FE BR Knox's horse ran down Fifteenth street yesterday afternoon. His son L C Knox drove the animal with Mrs Bennett present. The horse backed toward a street object and Mr Knox leaped out to grab the head. Mrs Bennett released the lines as the horse pulled away causing about $10 in buggy damage.
Nine patients are now under treatment at the city hospital with one discharged, two weeks after opening on August 29. Four occupy the surgical ward, three with operable injuries, including Jesse Garriga and Fred Y. Oldenburg. Five receive medical care in the fever ward, including Miss Christine Ekman and three typhoid cases. Nurses work shifts as Anna Warner and Anna Almlof begin training. reception spaces shift from the F G Allen ward to the first floor, with the doctor’s office to be repurposed as a reception area.
A sudden croup attack risks life without Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil. Lieut. Charles Keller is reported ill with typhoid fever in a Chicago hospital according to a letter to Joseph Rosenfield.
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