Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-30
THE VERMONT PHd5N1N BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY.
THE MUSTER AT CHESTER

Istry Guard WIZ Wake the Campo
Fuller battery Wiii go Overlnnd---
tn, Regulars and Their Mounted
Hand.
The military companies are now arrang-
ing for the annual muster of the Vermont
National Guard. which will be held at
Chester Aug. ola The camp will be pre-
pared 10y the Estey Guard Of Brattleboro'
Col Harmon, assistant quartermaster gen
eral Sergeant G.. ID. Reed, brigade quarter
master sergeant; and sergeant y. y. Had
ley, regimental quartermastet sergeant
will leave here next "Wednesday. Inc
Estev Guard will depart Thursday after
noon at 2:23, their special passenger coach
and baggage car being attached to the
regular north.bouud White Mountain
train. Chester will be reached about
O'Clock. and the cars will be run directly
upon the eucampment ground, 9OOfoot
siding having been laid from the main
track
The company will 60 to work at once
arranging their own street and getting i'll
to quarters for the night. Quartermaster
Sergeant Boyle and detail will leave
Brattleboro Thursday morning and will
have mess arrangements completed when
! the company arrives. The company will
| be served in regulation army style, the
same as last year, and two or three other
companies will follow the lead of Company
| l.
/ The company will report to Col. Han
| non Friday mornpg, and begin arranging
| the camp for the other companies This
work will occupy the time until Saturday
night The other companies OF III regl-
ment will arrive about noon Monday.
Fuller Battery will make the trip over
! land and will start from Brattleboro early
| Sunday morning, Aug. 5. Camp will be
pitched al SaXtons River Sunday night.
and early Monday morning the Battery
will push on to Chester, expecting TO ar
rive there about 9 A. NJ. Monday. On the
return trip the Battery will cover the en-
tire distance OF 81 miles from Chester 10
/ Brattleboro in one day.
Chester being a small town there will be
few attractions for the guardsmen outside
OF their own camp This will insure a
closer attention to duty and discipline, anl
| consequently a more profitable encamp
ment. at least this was the result al Fair
lee two years ago when conditions were
similar.
Friday, Aug. IA, will be Governor
day" Secretary OF War Alger will review
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dent Mckinley will re present. Thi,
promises TO be the most notable day fo
the militia since August, 1901, when Presi
dent Harrison. the West Point cadets anl
many national guard organizations wer'
al the Bennington centennial.
Troops c. L and @ of the Third Unite,
States cavalry from Fort Ethan Allen
under command of Col. Henry, will be en-
/ canned near the state trOOus The cav
airymeu will bee accompanied by thei
mounted band which is said TO be secon,
20 none IN the United States. Companie
Z and T, Duncan and stones, 2lst Iutan
Try, with Calling gun, from the Platts
burg barracks, will also be present TIT
regulars will make practice march acros
country to Chester.
Seventy members OF the New Hampshir
National Guard at keene are planning
TO make the trip on bicycles and in uni
form for governors day. The ChellI
Rifles OF Claremont. headed by Capt. =.
Timson, will also be present.