Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-14
BY THE SAD SEA WAVES.
WHERE TIE FIRST ARTILLERY REGI.
MENT WILL CAMP.
1t Will Go to Santa Cruz, as Usual
Arrangements for the Trip-Rates
of Fare-Etc.

The members of the First Artillery Regi-
ment will leave for Santa Cruz on August
I'd, and are looking forward to the day
with Impotence. There will undoubtedly
be large number of the friends and fam
lilies of the guardsmen accompanying them,
as has been the custom on former encamp-
ments, and the special train that will leave
here will surely be a large one.
The start will be made about or 8
o'clock that night, and Santa Cruz will be
reached the following morning. Besides
the passenger coaches freight car will be
attached for carrying the trappings of the
regiment.
There was some hesitation at first on the
part of the officers as to whether or not
Santa Cruz should be chosen as the camp.
ing grouno, but the majority land finally
all of them) agreed that the encampment
should be held there. 1t is thought the
total cost will not exceed So 600. Santa
Cruz donates the grounds and $3.50, and the
State appropriates 81 400 to the regiment :.
but as this is not sufficient to carry on an
eight days encampment, each of the com
panies are to be assessed S75 and each com.
missioned officer So, so that there will be
no lack of funds.
Transportation will cost as follows.
Round trip tickets for those in uniform.
from Sacramento, So 30; from Woodland,
S. 30, and from Colfax, 81 55 The fare on
the narrow gauge road from Nevada CITY
to Colfax is 81 80. The cost TO friends and
members OF families who accompany the
regiment will be So from Sacramento,
nd x
fax. Those who purchase tickets can re-
turn home at any time during the encamp-
ment, II they so desire. The regiment
will not return until Monday morning.
eight days after its departure.
The camp-grounds will be closer to town
than those selected heretofore. They will
be directly back of the church which can
be seen from the road which winds I'D the
hill from the Ocean House. on the way to
the field used last year. The battle-ground
will be that used at the division encamp-
ment several years ago.
Colonel Guthrie states that the regiment
proposes to hire cooks and waters and do
Its own cooking. Barney Dean will, in all
probability, manage the culinary depart
ment, as he did last year, and the men can
count on good food. Visitors who wish to
board at the camp with the regiment will
be charged S. for the week.
The following clipping from a Santa
Cruz paper shows that the people rather
favor encampments in their vicinity
Mayor Bowman received telegram last
evening from Sacramento stating that the
First Artillery Regiment had accepted his
offer. This settles all doubt as to where
the Sacramento regiment will camp
They really desired to come to Santa Cruz.
but the amount of the bonus was con-
tending point for some time. However,
all has ended well, and with the three
camps the militia will have pretty good
control OF this city for a couple of mouths
to come.
With the 45o Sixth Regiment boys from
Stockton. Fresno Visalia and Modesto and
all their friends and followers during the
middle of July, the 400 First Regiment
boys of Sacramento, Grass Valley and
Woodland, and all their Sacramento valley
friend and followers, during the first part
OF August, and the 1000 Second Brigade
boys from San Francisco, Oakland, San
Jose. Petalums and San Rafael, and their
great following, Santa Cruz should enjoy
Its hveliest and most prosperous summer.