Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-17
COMING 0THEMAYDBILL
MILITARY MAKING READY FOR
CENTENNIAL WEEK.

when the Companies win Begin IL
Neutrality-suspicious. for Tlicil
Reception at Camp Washington
Naming n Streets in the En-
Campment Grounds.
"Half the people in Macon, Augusta
Atlanta, Selma, Chattanooga and all o.
ahe interior towns say that they are CON-
ing to the Centennial" remarked a young
man last night who was just in from q
trip over the State. There is a great deal
of talk about the celebration. which Is
well advertised throughout Georgia and
n%eighboring States. 1t is said that there
is not a railroad station or a country store
but has q poster or two stuck up en- the
walls. As the week approaches the indi-
cations grow stronger every day that 9a-
Yannah will have the biggest military
display and celebration seen in the South
since the war, the Yorktown celebration
only excepted.
The companies that are COM
ing will average nearly 40
men each. The judges will arrive about
Thursday or Friday, April % or 81. They
have received orders allowing them to
leave LuGlf pusLs AIiH - Aho5 u"'O
already prepared their regulations and
the rules viii be issued next week.
The first companies viii probably
arrive on Saturday, May /. sunday
they win come in by the
train load. The Beaufort District Troop
will come over by way OF SCreven's ferry
Sunday afternoon, May ,. The Volunteer
Southrons of NicksbUrg have written
TO Secretary McDonell that they will
mach Garrn .Vsn an MnFI0U with
"a men, including their band.
J, Clarence Simmons, commanding the
Hancock Van Guards of epartaville,
has written that his company Of 30 men
will not get here until Monday. The Ca
diets of the South Carolina Military Acad-
envy, Gen. George p. Johnston Com
mander, will arrive on Tuesday, and will
remain in camp until Thursday evening.
The Cadets number 100. They will give an
exhibition battalion drill.
The CIinch Rifles are not going into
camp, but will obtain quarters in the
city. The Montgomery Greys have shipped
their tents. Had il not been for the rail-
Dad strikes around st. Louis the tents
ordered by the Chathams would have
been here. The order was for 4j2. They
are expected next week. Three rows of
tents Will run east and west, and eight
viii run north and south in the encamD-
ment ground. The central avenue,
extending east and west, Will
be named "WheatOn," IN honor
of Capt. Wheaton, of the Chat
hams. "Grubb avenue' after Gen. Grub,
Of Philadelphia, the COmmandant
of Camp Washington, will be just
north of CIV heaton avenue" South
of Wheaton avenue will be Kinney
avenue named for Maj. Kinney, of the
Governors Foot Guards, of Hartford,
Conn. AS the camp is to be called after
Gen. Washington it was decided to adopt
for the nomenclature Of the streets rum
ming north and south the names of impor-
tant battles Of the revolution. Lexington
avenue viii be the west boundary. East
of it, in the following order, Will be Con-
cord, Bunker Hill, Monmouth, Cowpens,
Trenton, Princeton and Yorktown streets.
The camp will be lighted by We electric
lamps on masts, and there will prob
ably be a number Of small lights along
the streets.
The Chathams' yard back Of the armOry
is being rooted over. A floor viii be laid
and it will be utilized for tables and
dancing.
The Governors Horse Guard, of At
lanta, had their last practice drill pre-
paratOry 10 coming yesterday.
The members Of the Gate City Guard,
Atlanta, are drilling every night at their
armOTy, and are having an outdoor drill
about twice a week.