The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-18
BOYS IN BLUE AT NIANTIC
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At noon the troops were served with an ample dinner consisting of tomato soup, roast veal, roast beef, baked and boiled potatoes and watermelons.
 The men were at liberty to patronize the new bathing pier and seek pleasure in baseball and other amusements after dinner. Many took advantage of 1t to rest themselves from the effect of the early start and journey.
 At and 4:S0 o'clock there were regi- mental parades.
 The following details of field officers of the day were made: Major Charles w., Hendrie, Fourth regiment, Monday; Lieutenant Colonel Alfred l.. Thomp- son, First regiment, Tuesday; Lieuten- ant Colonel George M. Cole, Third regi- ment, Wednesday; Lieutenant Colonel James c. Cove, Fourth regiment, Thursday; Lieutenant Colonel Timothy F. Callahan, Second regiment, Friday
 The provost guard consisted of three sergeants, eight corporals and thirty-sx privates, who reported to Lieutenant Carter A, Second, at o'clock In the afternoon. The regular guard detail will be four each first and second lieu tenants, eight sergeants, twelve corpo rals. 1S2 privates and four musicians divided equally between the regiments.
 The regimental officers of the day for guard for yesterday were: First officer of the day, Captain Moore, company I; officer of the guard, Lieutenant Water day, Captain Wolff, company C.; officers Nf kl,N r Tor K, and Lieutenant Jones, company I. Third, officer of the day, Captain Hog rerg, company c; officers of the guard, Lieutenant Drea, company, A; Lieuten- ant Cochrane, company E.
 Theregim ental officers of the day for to-day of the Second regiment are: Off, ficer of the day, Captain Giddings. company A; officer of the guard, First Lieutenant Markham, company H: Sec ond Lieutenant Morris of the Light Guard.
 General Haven issued yesterday morning the orders for the preserva- care of the sick. There were but nine teen cases treated at the brigade hos pital last year, against forty-one the year before.
 The details for instruction In drill with the siege gun and mortars under Major Albee, L. s. A. P. and o. O., con- sist of Sergeant F. H. Smith, Company F, First regiment; one corporal from each the Second, Third and Fourth reg iments, and one private from each oth- CT company in the brigade. Sergeant Congdon of the regulars, who had been detailed at camp for many years, is Calef of Fort Trumbull has detailed Sergeant Beasley, Fourth United States Artillery, as instructor.
 The Brigade Signal corps yesterday morning sent two messages, one to Col onel N. G. Osborn of the New Haven Register and the other to Colonel George Pope of Hartford. The first message was sent to Colonel Osborn, and was signed by General Haven. The general in the message invited Colonel Osborn to visit the camp and told him that this was the first message ever sent from camp by heliograph.
 The message to Colonel Pope ac- knowledged the indebtedness of the Connecticut National Guard to him for the bicycle equipment of the brig ade,
 Governor Coffin was an interested ob- server of the signalling.
 The signal men stationed in front of brigade headquarters communicated with flags with Durfey's Hill. Thence the messages were sent by heliograph. In Hartford the flashes of the helio- graph were received and sent by two of the Signal corps stationed on the dome of the capitol. These operations were the source of good deal of won der to the good people of the city who did not know what they were doing The signalling will be continued to- day.
 The Hospital corps is ready on the ground for all emergencies. There was one call for it's services late yesterday afternoon A member of the First reg iment was found prostrated, presuma-
 bly, by the heat and the ambulance was summoned and carried him to the hospital tent, where it is expected that
 he will soon recover.
 The appointments of the camp are better all round than ever before. It was just 10 o'clock yesterday when Quartermaster General Disbrow turned the camp over to Brigadier General Haven This was the earliest hour for
 this ceremony ever known The brig ade arrived in camp in the following order: Fourth, Second, First and Third regiments. It was estimated at noon
 that about 2,70o men were in camp. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the sea- coast battery, under command of Ma jor Albee of New Haven, fired the sa- lute to the brigadier general. | Captain Bowen, Company I, of Meri- den, went into camp with sixty five men.
 Captain Barber, Company K, of Wal | lingford, took siXty-one men to camp ! Dr. Twitchell, eX-cha plain of the Sec ond regiment, is sta! ing at one of the hotels with his wife.
 | Last night the weather at camp was l excellent. The moon rose in cloud ] less sky and the stars were never | brighter Company streets were filled
 with the boys, spinning yarns and dis cussing the work Of the first day in camp. The provost guard was abroad | early, taking possession of the streets | in Mantle and guarding the railroad
 station for possible deserters. The day | and evening were without incident everything, passing off smoothly with | out @ hitch. Only one man was placed | in the guard house. and he was civil 1 ian, a New Londoner. Daniel Shea | came over from New London yesterday