The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-28
NO MORE HIGH LIVING IN CAMP.
MILITIAMEN WILL EAT ARMY RA-
TIONs THIS YEAR.

The Company Commissary System
Done Away with and a ReEimental
Commfssary Adopted-New Feat
ures of Camp Life All Around-The
Officers to Have "A Separate Ness
and the Field and stan Will Have
TO March ON Foot-HOrses Forbid
den in Camp.
The First Regiment will enter camp at
Griffin June IS. Nothing has been done as
yet in the way Of preparation, but the
companies are drilling regularly every
Monday night. There is a large turn out
at the drills ana the company command
ers expect to carry up fun ranks.
The regiment viii carry seven COM
panies to camp this year, including he
PooIer Light Infantry and the Kell RI
hss Of Statesboro. This will give it a
maximum allowance of $50 men, exclusive
of field and staff an average Of forty
men being allowed to each company. If
one or more OF the companies should be
short ten men each the other companies
having larger enlistments would be al
lowed to carry enough men over forty
Of the regiment. In this way the Cadets
will probably tcarry sixty men, while
two or three other companies will carry
between forty-five and fifty men each.
The regiment will be subsisted in camp
this year for the first time by the regi-
mental commissary, and not by the COM
pany commissaries, as heretofore. There
is some grumbling among the men on this
account, the company commissary sys-
TEN being generally preferred, as it al
lowed each company some choice in the
selection of its fare.
Lieut.. Col. Peter Reilly, when spoken
TO about this matter, said last night that
the company commissaries viii be called
together some time before the departure
of the regiment for camp and requested
TO mako out lists of what in their Judg-
ment will be required by their respect
i've companies. These lists will then be
turned over 70 the regimental commits
ssarv Capt John T. Roman, who VIII pur-
chase the supplies IN Dulk capt
Roman will probably purchase ms
supplies here and ship them up
to Griffin The Griffin people raised a now
two or three years ago when Col ". W
Gordon inaugurated the regimental COM
missary system and purchased all ms
supplies in Savannah before going 10
camp. They naturally regarded TINS as
one of the perquisites OF Grimm by rea-
son of the location of the encampment
there. Now that the advisory board has
ordered the adoption Of the regimentai
commissary system for all commands go
ing into camp the odds will be rather
against Griffin in the way of financial
advantages from the camp.
The argument in favor Of the regimental
commissary system is that supplies can
be purchased cheaper in bulk and it also
secures regularity of the ration issued
and puts the militia on the regular army
basis in this respect. Under the company
commissary system some of the compa>
MES by contributions from their MEM
bers lived high while in camp. This did
not meet with Lieut.. Satterlee's approval
and one object in making the regimental
commissary system obligatory was TO put
an end TO this sort of thing.
Another innovation this year will be
the officers mess. Heretofore the COM
missioned officers of each company have
eaten at the same mess as their men,
though in some instances separate tables
were provided. This year there will be
separate mess for the officers, including
the field and staff as well as the company
officers.
The field and staff officers will go into
camp dismounted The orders issued for
the encampment forbids the bringing of
horses into camp by the field and staff.
This is supposed to be move in the in
terest of economy The officers do not
like it, however. The military regulations
require that regimental, battalion and
staff officers shall be mounted at review
and parades and other active duty 1t
is not regarded as being in keeping with
proper military appearance for the COM
manding officer of a regiment or battalion
10 march with his men on foot.