The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-17
OFF FOR NIANTIC TO-DAY
THE STATE MILIrIA LEAVE FOE
 CAMP THIS MORNING.


 Routine and Rules of Camp Graham
 Provisions for the Health and Comfort
 of the Men-Captain Petit, U. S. A., In-
 specting oflicer-General Miles to Visit
 the Canp-Quota of New Haven's Com
 panies.
 The camp of the Connecticut Nation al Guard at Mantle, which commences to-day and will continue until Satur- day next, will attract a large number of visiting officers from outlying states, and particularly from New York, who take considerable interest in the camp of the Nutmeg state. The routine of the camp, decided upon by Brigadier General Haven, commanding the bri- gade, is as follows: Reveille and roll call, 5:45 a. m; sick call, 6; breakfast, 6:30; police call, [; company drill, 7:30 to S:45; inspection of quarters, s; bat talion drill 9 to 10:30; regimental drill, 1030 to 11:45 orderly hour, 12 m.; din ner call, 1290 p, m.; guard mounting, 2; battery and machine gun drill, 2;30 to 3:30; police call, 3:SG; regimental parade of Fourth and Third regiments, 4; regi- mental parade of First and Second reg iments, 4:30; brigade formation We'd nesday and Thursday, 5:15; retreat 6:25; supper, 6:S0; tattoo and roll call 10, and taps, il. All calls will be sounded at brigade headquarters. No lights will be allowed after taps with ptIt ha hi,io Ia mander, excepting at head of company streets and in quarters of regimental and unattached company commanders, adiutants, guard house and hospitals, Civilians will not be permitted in camp on any other day than Friday unless they have a pass from brigade head quarters. No teams other than those of the quartermaster's department will be permitted on the grounds without pass, and no other teams will be per mitted on the parade ground or in any of the streets at any time. Command ants of regiments and unattached com mands will issue passes only in cases of urgent necessity. Daily inspection of quarters will be made at 8 o'clock a, m, by brigade staff officers Drum Major William c. Steele of the First regiment will have charge of the con- solidated bands. Major George F. All | bee will have charge of the seacoast battery. First Lieutenant Henry B. Garter of the Second regiment and | Second Lieutenant Charles F. Wolfe of the First regiment have been detailed l to assist Major Fitzmaurice to-day for duty with the provost guard The commissary sergeant of each regiment will superintend the inspection of each meal furnished by the caterers, and company commissary sergeants will re- port to him after each meal on blanks | furnished for the purpose. The troops will be reviewed by His Excellency O.. IV. Coffin, governor and commander in chief, next Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. A wharf for bathers has been | constructed on the east shore Of the l camp It is 3S4 feet long and reaches l the channel to avoid the seaweed. It | branches out ten feet on each side. The bathing houses are fifty in number and will accommodate twoimen each. They are built on the beach fronting the sea- coast battery. The guardsmen who de- sire to bathe can thus wade out from the bath houses or run along the | wharf and take headers. To avoid the possible pollution of the drinking water 1 the washtubs at the head of the eoffi- pany streets are this year placed uni form distance of fifteen feet from each pump.
 The Second regiment will leave here at 6:30 this morning and will be met by the other regiments at Mantle. It Is planned at present that all the regi- ments will arrive at camp at nearly the same hour, about 930 o'clock.
 The entire brigade will be entamped, the organizations being the same as last year with the exception of the Second company, colored, of Hartford, | which has been disbanded Captain Lathrop's command, the First Separate company of this city, will be the only Icolored organization in the field. It will be uuartered at the extreme left.
 Following a long observed custom the regiments will occupy the long stretch es of tents on one side of the parade | ground in the order indicated by the seniority of thair colonels in rank. This will bring the Fourth regiment, Colonel Frost. on the extreme right of the line, the First regiment, Colonel Burdette, next, and then the Third regiment, Colonel Tyler, the Second regiment be- ing last, because Colonel Burpee is only year old in his position at the head of the regiment. As a matter of fact, it makes little difference what position a regiment has. The Separate company, the Machine Gun platoon and Battery A of Guilford occupy positions on the extreme left.
 Across the parade ground from this long line of tents the tents of the dig
 nitaries are pitched. First there is a
 semi-circle of canvas for the governor
 and his staff, and in front of the gov
 ernors tent Is a pavilion on which a
 tall pole is erected, Here the three vine
 flag is kept flying whenever the gov
 ernor is in camp. Then there is anoth-
 CT semi-circle of tents for Brigadier
 General Haven and his staff, and ir
 front of the generals tent is the liberty pole of the camp from which the Amer
 ican flag is kept flying during the day
 and it's hoisting and hauling down are
 among the features of camp life. For
 convenience the Signal corps and the | HosnitaI cornS are located on this side