Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — FOURTH ON ITS WAY. [ARTICLE]

FOURTH ON ITS WAY.

Chicago Regiment Resina Its Trip to the Philippines. 1 Bound for a trip more than half around the world to the east, officers and men, of the Fourth United States infantry left. Fort Sheridan Sunday morning. With few halts they are to hasten-to the PhSM: ippines, where service in the tropics will, claim them for indefinite months or years.. The stops on the long journey of nearly 15,000 miles will be Ncfw York, Gibraltar, Port Said. Aden, Colombo and Singapore, all except one of which are practically. British ports. Three days are to be spent ; at each halting place, but the troops am not to be debarked from the transpoit| Mohawk. For seven or eight weeks they Will bpj cooped up in the ship, sometimes is the : furnaee-like heat of the Red Sea, where night brings no relief from the sizzle and men tell of boats that have to turn aboot, in order to get a little breeze for stilling*: passengers. But the men reck naught o4T these things. The ceremonies of ture from the fort were not elaborapfM The regiment went to New York in thrcfr sections over the Pennsylvania road ahgjß numbered over 1.200 men.