The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-11
JOLLY TARS FOR A WEEK
THE NIYAL MILITIA WILL START
FOR THE .JNNUiL CAMP TODAY.

FOR THE .JNNUiL CAMP TO-DAY.
To DO Taken to Gardeners Island on the
Cruiser Cincinnati - Reserves From
Rhode Island and New York to be In the
Same Cnmp-United States Vessels to be
Present-Assistant Secretary of Navy
McAdoo VIII Inspect the Camp and Re-
main During the Week.
The cruiser Cincinnati Of the United
States navy arrived off the breakwater
Thursday evening at about o'clock
and anchored at but three-quarters of a
mile from the lighthouse, She will to-
day carry the Connecticut naval mill
tia to the annual camp, which will be
held this year at Gardeners Island, Just
OFF the northeast extremity of Long
Island. A detail of about dozen men
of the naval reserve was busy yester-
day getting camp fittings into shape to
load aboard the cruiser and at about
o'clock in the afternoon three barges
We're loaded ready to go out to the
Cincinnati. The loaded boats were
towed out by the little launch belong
ing to the reserves, there being two
men aboard each boat to look after
things
At o'clock this morning the first
load of the local reserves will go aboard
the cruiser AT the Hartford division
under command of Lieutenant Parker
will arrive with about fifty men and
will at once go aboard. 1t Is hoped
that GARDENERS Island will be reached
in time to get the tents set UP before
dark. Some complaint Is heard among
the reserves owing to the fact that they
are obliged to build their own camp,
while the state milltiamen at Mantle
have the camp prepared for them.
Commander Reynolds is in charge of
the Connecticut Naval Militia, while the
first division of this city is commanded
by Lieutenant Goodridge and the sec
ond of Hartford by Lieutenant Parker.
Chief Engineer Mather of this city, who
is also principal Of the Boardman
school, will have charge of all engi-
neering work. The New Haven divi-
sion will consist of about 100 members.
The drill In camp will be conducted in
part on land and in part aboard the
cruiser, which will remain there during
the week. The drill will consist of
shore and boat drill, reconnaissance,
signal drill and gun drill
| There will be at Gardeners Island in
/ addition to the Connecticut Reserve,
the Naval Reserve of Rhode Island and
and part of that of New York. Twelve
members of the New York Naval Re-
serves under command of Ensign Nc
Farland went to Gardeners Island yes
terday morning to lay out the camp
for the remainder of the New York Re-
serve. The advance New York detach-
ment went down on the United States
| tugboat Nina,
A detail of twenty men from each
of the four divisions of the State Naval
Reserves will leave thea foot of East
/ Twenty eighth street this morning on
the battleship Montgomery. These men
will be under command of Lieutenant
Commander George Edward Kent.
Besides the Cincinnati there will be
in attendance at the camp several other
United States vessels, among them the
| torpedo boat Cushing, the battleship
| Montgomery, and the despatch boat
Dolphin, aboard which will be Assistant
Secretary of the Navy McAdoo, who with
| Lieutenant Nibloch and other naval
officers will remain during the entire
| week and inspect the encampment
| The boys Of the naval reserve will
| find GARDENERS Island camp this year
a great Improvement over that of last
season at Orient Point or thereabouts,
/ Gardeners Island comes about as ear
being a primeval spot as any place in
this quarter of these United States. 1t
4 is a great place for summer sports and
would be much more generally patron
| lied were it better known. Large tracts
of it are covered with portly, moss
1 fringed oaks, whose branches are stud
ded with the great nests of countless
fish hawks. Dozens Of these birds and
of sea gulls fill the air with their cries.
In the sWamps can be seen scores of
| black snakes, almost at one look, which
do not seem to fear mankind, so unused
are they to seeing human beings. The
hills are filled with loaded raspberry
vines and in one creek in particular,
| which is recalled. there is an abundance
of crabs and box turtle, SO fat and
lazy, that it seems pity to catch them.
| Gardeners Island, could it be got hold
of, would make a veritable sportsman s
paradise.