Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
Shakespeare Was Of This Opinion,
But National Guardsmen Don't
Agree with the Poet.
THE BoYS~ARE, GREATLY EXCITED
Because Their Camp at Arnolds Has Been
named, After q New-FOund Town
Site ThereaboutS.
HOW LAND OWNERS SHOULD ADVERTISE
Town Lot Boomers May Give Away Box Of Soldiers to
Every Purchaser


sidered an adept in the art of advertising
his wares He has to sell what hundreds of
others can duplicate any day in the week.
Therefore he leaves nothing that may occur
to his fertile mind undone which will at.
tract the attention of the public to his prop.
erty. But it remained for local company
to distance all the other boomers of town
lots in efecting the biggest advertisement
of the day. At any rate, if the company is
merely a passive agent in the matter, a
method of advertising the new town of
Kensington has been found which cannot
prove other than effective. 1t has been
generally known that the annual encamp-
nnent of the Second Brigade of the N G..
p. would be at Arnold's station, on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad, and though
there was some comment made on the fact,
it passed. But now ii is officially an
nounced that the camp is to be called
Camp Kensington,' and the boys are, in
consequence, in a state of commotion. Call
their camp by such name? they cry.
Where are the precedents? And the
tongues Of the boys are set wagging as they
never wagged before.
The Guardsmen Unusually Excited.
Acting Assistant Adiutant General
George C. Hamilton, by order of Brigadier
General John A. Wiley, has issued general
order No. 5 relating to the encampment.
Paragraph says ''the brigade shall encamp
at Arnold's station, on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad, from August s to Is, both
inclusive. The encampment will be known
as Camp Kensington." 1t is the designation
ofthe camp that came with surprise on the
guardsmen. 1t was the upsetting of every
precedent TO call camp by such name,
the custom prevailing, under we'll under
stood though unwritten law, that
the camp should be named af-
ter some distinguished soldier. In
casting about for some reason for this,
the soldiers were naturally led into the
arithmetical exercise of putting 2 and 2 to-
gether One > was easily discernible in the
company which has land to sell, and the
other , was the trait, characteristic of the
average American, of allowing no opportu-
nifty to pass of advertising his wares for
all they were worth. So the sum of
tins exercise, as figured ont by
the gossips, is that Camp Kensington came
~ DS ~ hdIitu IuIOuSn iIic
Of the gentlemen inserested in whooping up
the Kensington town lots. This conclusion
-1igured out to their satisfaction, the atten-
1ion of the gossips was naturally next at
Tracted to inquiring why Kensington was
chosen anyway.
Advertising the Land Company.
The location is pointed out as being very
near this city, and old guardsmen saw that,
i
muster in great strength in camp close TO
where they are raised. And So by quick
result arrived at in this case without any
detailed reason, the gossips jumped at the
conclusion that the gentlemen interested in
the land company had influenced those
whose duty it was TO locate the camping
ground.
The locating of the brigade camp is the
prerogatiye of the brigade commander, in
this case General Wiley. 1t is the practice
for the brigade commander and his staff to
visit various grounds and that selected is
chosen mainly for reasons outside of its
natural suitabenesS. The choice this wear
lay principally between EllwoOd and Ken
sington There ALWAYS has been more or
less inducements held out to the brigade
by people interested in suitable locations
TO get it TO camp with them, but this wear
these inducements have been very much
ton was selected it was because the Ken
Eingron people and the Allegheny Valley |
Railroad between them made ii more ad- |
vantageous for the Guard to be encamped |
at Arnold's than anywhere else. Major A. |
y. Logan, who as Quartermaster of the Sec |
ond Brigade, should be officially cognizant |
of matters relating TO the camp, yesterday |
explained how it was that the Kensington |
camp was selected, and why it was so called |
= Ia SaI of, hat, haip
garding the selection of the site and the |
name given to the camp.
The Arnold site Suitable.
the site 1t Arnold's station" he said.
3'vas selected because it appeared to Gen |
eral Wiley and the officers he consulted to |
have more advantages to the Guard attached |
to it than the Ellwood site, that next in |
in favor. In the first place, the ground at |
Arn0l3's is more level and much larger |
than the Ellwood site, the ground at the lat
ter being rough and uneven, while it is not
so convenient rs a parade ground as
Arn0id'S. in addition TO this the Allegheny
Valley Railroad, through Mr.. Anderson,
has offered Inducements to the Guard which
are greater than those held out to them at
EllwOOd. For instance, every company en-
canped viii have 1000 feet of lumber
laid down on its ground for its
use, as well as 1000 feet for
headquarters. Each company will also be
provided by the railroad company with 100
pounds Of ice every day. These are advan-
tages which the Guard has never vet been
granted to such degree and Will be prop
crl= appreciated by every guardsman. The
BUrrall Improvement Company is paying
q, 900 to the farmer who owns portion of
the ground required for its use, and this is
the spot that has been selected for the Gov
ernor's headquarters. The ground is in
every way most suitable for a camp, and /
think thar it will be so generally agreed
WAS any pressure brought to bear on
General Wiley or his staff regarding the
site?''
''None that L am aware of General wvlie
and staff visited Ellwood and carefully
examined the ground, as well as heard what
the people interested in having us go there
had to offer as inducements. Arnold's was
visited, and it was during
conversation between General Wiley, Col
onel Greenland, Mr.. Rafferty,, of the COM
pany, and myself, that Mr.. Rafferty, sug-
geSted the Kensington site.
Why 1t Was Called Kensington.
eve all agreed it would make a capital
camp, and General Wiley decided, having
in mind the inducements held out by the
railroad and the Burreil Company, to locate
tAe camp there. Regarding the name, it
was Mr.. Rafferty, who suggested it might be |
called Kensington,' and General Wiley
said lie sa% no reason why it should not. |
We though Gile company might be afforded |
the compliment OF having the camp SO
called N view of its outlay on behalf of the |
G-3Ed The conditions under which the
VIII be made this wear are |
far superior to any in my experience, in |
cverv respect | have been in the Guard |