The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-18
Column of Regulars, National
Guard, Marines and Ma.
val Reserve.
FIGURES OF TRANSPORTATION.
The Southern Pacific Agrees to Reduce
Round.Trip Rates to Two.ThirdS
of Single Fare.

The National Guard troops of the Third
Brigade are anxious to hold their summer
camp of instruction at the Preside of San
Francisco and on July join the Second
Brigade troops in grand parade in this
City.
The subject has received the serious
consideration of Brigadier- General War
field and igadier-General Muller,
commanding respectively the Second and
Third Brigades of State troops.
Permission to encamp the regiments of
General Muller's brigade on the Preside
must be obtained from General Graham,
the post commander.
An interview of the three officers had
been appointed an hour or two before
General Graham started for Santa Bar
bara on the battleship Oregon, but as
General Muller failed to make connec-
tions the subject was not then taken up.
Saturday last General Graham returned
and negotiations will be reopened at once.
The interior troops will be able to provide
their own subsistence at the Preside from
Wednesday, July /, until Monday. July 6.
A fund, however, must be raised for trans
portstion, but on this point General War
field sees the way clear TO carry out the
plan OF campaign.
I. II. Goodman, general passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, has agreed to give
round-trip transportation for two-thirds
of single-trip fare. For example, if the
fare from Fresno to San Francisco should
be Sc the company would carry guards
man to San Francisco and return for 81
In Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, Visalia
Sacramento, Woodland, Auburn, Mays
vile, Colusa Oroville, Chico, Nevada City,
Grass Valley and other cities where COM
panies comprising the Third Brigade are
located, there is local sentiment in favor
of home parade of the respective companies
on July 4, but this is not thought to be
strong enough to weigh against the ad-
vsntages il instruction which the troops
would gain by six days encampment near
the United States troops on the Presidio
reservation.
This is a matter that rests largely with
the commanding officers. Should Major
General Dimond direct division encamp-
ment, or the concentration OF two brigades
at San Francisco during the first week in
July, the order would be obeyed, but trans
portation would have to be provided.
The last Legislature was obliged to ap-
propriate so much money to defray the
expenses of the strike campaign that no
provision was made for transporting
troops to the annual encampment this
year, hence public enterprise must be re-
lied on to provide the necessary funds.
Again, it has been a custom long hon
ored among the interior regiments of the
National Guard to consult the line officers.
and for that matter the enlisted men, as to
preference in locating the summer camp
of instruction. General Muller, in talking
over the proposed camp at the Presidio
finds the desire among his troops almost
universal.
The commander-in-chief,G Governor Budd.
and Adjutant-Genera Barrett recognize
that encampments adjacent to the United
States troops in garrison would be OF great
service to the guardsmen.
The military display on July should
be the finest ever seen on the peninsula.
1t is true that the garrison OF regular
troops at the Preside has been dimin-
ished numerically by the detail of four
troops of cavalry to patrol the Sierra
parks, and there will be further reduction
by detailing two light batteries OF the
Fifth Artillery to participate in the Sloate
monument celebration at Monterey. Still
seven companies of the Fifth Artillery re-
main iii the harbor, which, together with
nine companies OF the First Infantry al
Angel Island and Bencia, should form a
superb column of regulars
The guard regiments of the Second and
Third brigades, REINFORCED by the
mounted company of the First Brigade al
Salinas and the Second Brigade Signal
Corps, ought to make an effective dis
play.
Another division composed of the com.
panies OF the Naval Battalion, REINFORCED
by marines and sailors from the United
States cruisers in the harbor, should con.
stitute superb feature of the grand
column.