Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-25
At CAMP wAsnINGTON.
Tho Week Before tho May Drill-The
Final Preparations.


Tho Week Before tho May Drill-The
! Final Preparations
| Camp Washington will be lively place
this week. The drill grounds are com
| plete and the encampment Enclosure Will
| be filed with tents by Friday, when the
/ companies will beYin arriving. Satui day
! and Sunday there will be q rush, and by
! Monday morning nearly all the cOmpaniG 8
VIII he encamped.
The Centennial Committee has about
completed its arrangements, and the pro-
cramme Is now fully made up. One OF
the latest attractions that has been added
is the prize band contest.
The committee has had number OF IN
quiriCs about "A prize brass band contest
As an inducement tor bands to come they
have offered a prize of $500 for the best
band. The contest will be opened at the
drill ground on Monday afternoon, and
all white bands III attendance will be
privileged to enter IL the contest is not
closed on Monday afternoon 1t will be
concluded on Saturday afternoon.
The preparations for the accommoda-
ton OF the crowds that will be here during
the week are being made as complete as
possible. Up TO last night the lntorma-
ton Bureau had booked accommodations
for nearly 1000 persons during Centen-
NAL week. The greatest difficulty eXpe-
rienced Is to find accommodations for la
dies, Almost all who will take
visitors during the week prefer men
who can be slowed away ten
Geep. Some OF those who have rooms to
rent cOntidentally admit that they expect
TO have to pack guests so close that all in
bed viii have TO turn over together.
Considerable inquiry is being maze by
parties throughout the State in regard to
prices. There is no uniform rate, Of
course. Lodging, which means place to
sleep, will cost from soc. night up.
Meals will average about 81 70 a day, and
II taken with lodging can be had from 81 a
day up. The bureaus address IL 20 Bull
street.
Charm an Harmon of the Centennial
Committee said yesterday that the COM
mlttee has all its arrangements complete
as far as it is possible TO go.
The tents for the military
have arrived and the accommodations
at the encampment grounds are ample
for all the companies that Will be here.
Secretary MacDOneli is daily in receipt
of letters from the various companies that
are coming, and nearly all state that they
will come with full ranks. Tue local
companies are preparing for the recep-
ton of the visiting military, and most Of
the armories are being decorated.
Col. Clifford w. Anderson, command
ing the First Volunteer Regiment, has
issued the following order in reference to
the Centennial:
HEADQUARTERS
FIRST VOLUNTEERS kEGIWENT OF GEORGIA,}
SAVANNAH, April "a, 1885,
General order No. 49,
The Colonel commanding announces the fol.
lowing order for the formation Of the re2i-
meut in connection with the ceremonies at
tending the celebration of the Chatham Ar
tillery's Centennial on Monday, May g. 1856:
l. The regimental line will be formed on
South Broad street, near Whitaker.
Ii. The field and staff will assemble on
South Broad street, near Bull.
III. The regimenta colors will be carried on
the ground by the Republican Blues, and will
be received with the usual hOnors.
". The Quartermaster Sergeant is charged
with supplying the regiment with water dur
ing the day. BE will receive special dlrec-
lions from the Adjutant in regard thereto.
V. 1t Is with much sensibllity that the
Colonel commanding Inpresses upon the regI
ment the nature OF the occasion. the day VI
are about to celebrate, and his earnest wish
that the several companies will present full
ranks, and assist our gallant comrades of the
Chatham Artillery in rearing, as they will
with PRIDE the proud memories OF a century's
life. Past recOllections, long years of clos b
fraternal intercourse. engendered not only in
times of peace but also during the stirring
scenes. the triumphs and disasters of war.
the associations of thu preseni. and all the
.
lngs OF attachment and admiration for our
brothers; and after being crowned with their
Centennial hOnOrs and new century opens
! for them the Colonel commanding but voices
| the sentiment Of the entire First Volunteer
| Regiment of Georgia in bidding them an
| afectionate gOdspeed for the future, with the
| wish that their laurels may flourish in peren-
NAL green. and whose history shall equal the
/ glOries OF the past. The prestige Of the past
/ is the security aud, we trust, a fair type Of
! what will be their noble future.
VI. A supplementary order will announce
the hour of assembling and other details.
BY order of
CLIFFORD w. ANDERSON, Col. Com'd'g.
! JOHN w. WILSON, Adjt.
! Arrangements are being made to carry
out the programme Of the week as pub
| lished in the NEWS several days ago.
During Centennial week the NEWS will
publish all of the official encampment
orders, and all official papers of a public
nature.