Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-10
NEW HAvEN,s FOOT GUARD.

The public will look with great interest l for the first public appearance of the re- company of the Second Com oary of Governors Foot Guard. The as has been already announced, may have a parade in its new uniforms next Saturday evening, but if this Is given up the public will have chance to see them in all their splendor on the day they start for Trenton, N. J., to take part in the dedication of the Trenton 1 monument. About half of the new uni | forms for the company have arrived in | this city and the balance are expected to- day. Before they can be given out they will be inspected by the officials of the ad- iutant generals office. It ia expected that they will be given out on Friday evening at the weekly drill of the company pre- paratory to parading on Saturday.
 The company enters now upon 6 new and important chapter in It's long and hon. orable history and with the large number of prominent and influential men of the city who have recently been added to it's membership, 1t stands forth more con- spicuously than ever as @ representative body of Connecticut men of rare distinc- tion with history back of it vieipg in honor and antiq uity with that of any in the United States. The new organization will be one of the most unique military bodies in the country. It will practically be guard of honor to the governor of Connecticut. and in this respect will be restored to it's original purpose, the first company organized having been @ body guard to the colonial governor. The uni form of the Foot Guard will be after the early continental uniforms and will be one of the most attractive and picturesque military uniforms that this country has had since the old colonial days of cooked hats and knee brooches.
 And just here 1t is interesting to note . fact which not many in this city are aware of, that the first uniform of this ancient organiz ation was modelled after that of the famous Grenadier Guards of Great Britain, as was fully set forth in the COURIER some time ago, and the full facts concern ing which are given in Captain Charles H. Townsbend's book which was published not long sines.
 The history of the Foot Guard begins with the outbreak of the revolution and to the present. IL is the only old-t time military body in the United States that can boast of an unbroken | record since its formation. The l Guard, too, are 6 'separats com
 pany." holding their charter from the | governor of Connecticut and subject to | his orders alone. In the rebellion the com | oaay figured prominently and has since l that time been most intimately connected | not only with the history of New Haven, but also with the history of the country. l he hara If fho houa l oeen many whose names have been promi l nent in national history, while the organ 1 izsr and first captain of the Foot Guard was one whose name and history is almost as familiar to the English speaking people as that of Washington-the traitor, Bene- dict Arnold.
 A full and extended account of the formation of the Foot Guard, as told in the records of the company, was given in | formed December 2S, 1774, by about seven citizsns of New Haven.
 Immedia,+ly on tha formation of the l Second compaoy drills were begun and on }, 1775 m-morsal wss pcesen7ed to the lex,-latur.' b. Pie pons Ed wards, mem OCT of th7 legislature and also of the com pany. asking for charter.
 On March 16 1775, the company elected | ta6 uTSU OluooIs h5 lolIOWb. SdHGhku, ooh0- dict Arnold; lieutenant. Jesse Leaven-
 worth; enaign, Hezekiah Ssbin, jr; ser gesnts. Samuel Greenough, Eliakim Hitoh | cock. Nathan Fitch. Jeremiah Parmelee; | and clerk, William Lyon.
 Of the charter members of the company Nathan Beers, jr., served through the rev. olution and came out with captain's com- mission; Jeremiah Parmelee also fought
 through the war and was fatally wounded
 at the battle of Brapdywine. The names
 of Hon. James Hillhouse. who was the Stated senator afterwards; of Caleb Trew | bridge, afterwards famous as sea captain,
 and who was prominent during the war and | suffered long imprisonment because he | told the British that as soon as they let him go Che would be at them again." of | Pierpont Edwards, who afterwards be- | came distinguished lawyer and United States district judge, and of many more l who are prominent in the history of New | New Haven are among the signers of this l original petition asking the assembly for 8
 charter for the company.
 The original company of the Foot Guard | signed a charter that was hardly less start 1 ling in it's declaration of the rights of the citizens of the state than the Declaration of Independence that came in the year fol-
 lowing the organization of the Foot Guard. The latter, when the first news of the en- l gsgement at Lexington reached New Ha- l ven, set out at once, in eppositi m to the
 town authorities, and of this original com l pany about twenty members followed Ar
 mold in his expedition against Tconderoga
 and Crown Point. From that time on down
 through the rebellion members of the Foot
 Guard have figured prominently in the
 military history of the country.
 The new uniform of the Foot Guard are
 modelled after the old colonial uniforms,
 and consist of 8 scarlet coat with heavy
 blue collar, Hat silver buttons, the coat
 being cut away and showing white broad
 cloth wsistcoat, cream colored trousers,
 black velvet leggins and bushy besrskin
 hat after that worn by the Coldstream Guard of 1770.
 ] Quarters have been secured for the Foot Guard at the Trenton Hotel at Trenton by
 Msssrs. L. M. Clark and Even Mcintyre,
 who visited that city for the purpose, and l General Harb rbison of Governor Morris'
 staff was in Trenton day or two ago ar
 ranging for tho visit of the governor and
 party. They will arrive on the night of
 October IS.
 l NOTED MEN.
 The president, the vice. president, and
 the other Washington guests are to be re-
 ceived at the state house by Governor
 Werts, and after the dedicatory ceremonies
 they will be entertained at collation. in
 Turner hall. The visiting governors and
 -taffs will also be received at the state
 house by Governor Werts and will be
 served with luncheon in Masonic temple.
 TO ACCOMPANY THE FOOT GUARD.
 Major Brown of the Second company,
 Governors Foot Guards, has signed a con-
 tract with the Second regiment band, Pro-
 lessor Frank Fiohtl leader, to accompany l the command to Trenton. There will be
 thirty pieces in the band and Professor
 Ftchtl leaves this morning to secure the
 entra musicians from some of the prinoi-
 pal musical organiz stions in New York. The Roll of Membership.
 Following is the official rell of member
 ship of the organization, with the rank
 held in military organizations hitherto: | Msi,r Re, amin K Brown command