The record-union., 1897-08-12
SECOND REGIMENT PREPARES
TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP
GROUND AT SANTA CRUZ.
Various Companies VIII Leave This
City on Friday for a Week by
the Sad Sea Waves.

There is hustle and activity in mill
tary circles, and from the Colonel down
TO the new recruit in the rear rank, all
are busy with their preparation for the
annual encampment at Santa Cruz,
which will begin in dead earnest next
Sunday.
The oldtine campaigners, and there
are many such in the Second Regiment
OF the National Guard. are looking for
ward to the routine duties of camp life
with a degree of pleasure not under
stood by the ordinary layman who does
not know a bayonet from a boathook,
and the members of the "hayfoot,
sGrawfoot" squad are having cold shiv-
ers, and are asking unheard of ques-
tions, and receiving creepy answers
concerning the mysteries of guard
mounting, the vigilance of the officers
of the day, and the horrors of the guard
house.
THE CAVALRY FIRST.
Troop 3. Cavalry, Captain Cooke in
command, will leave for Santa Cruz on
a special train consisting of passen-
ger, baggage and stock cars at 6:30 0.
IN. Friday, and win arrive at its des-
d
morning. The horses of the troop will
go through on the same train, and the
interval between the arrival of the
troop and the rest of the brigade will
be occupied by the men in stabling
and caring for their mounts.
Things win not come as easy for Troop
A Cavalry as for the local troop. The
former has headquarters at Salinas,
and Will make the march overland, ar
irving at their destination some time
Saturday. The Salinas boys, however,
are said to be rough riders, who care
little for hard marches.
THE GALLANT SECOND.
Colonel ]. W. Guthrie of the second
Infantry in speaking yesterday. of the
Preparations made for transferring his
troops to the camping grounds at Santa
Cruz, said that Company F. of Wood
land, Company B. of Colusa and COM
pany H. of Redding, will arrive in this
city per special train about 2:30 o'clock
p. m. Saturday. They will form at the
depot and march to the armory at Sixth
and L streets, where they will stack
arms.
According to Colonel Guthrie's sched-
-.
of Nevada City, and Company D. of
AIarysville, viii arrive here at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning, march to the Armo-
ry, stack arms, and then be given the
liberty of the city until 6:30 o'clock o.
m, when the general muster of the reg
iment viii take place.
REGIMENTAL ASSEMBLY.
The regiment, including Companies e.
and @. of this city, and the field, staff
and band, viii assemble at the Armory
at 6:3O o'clock sharp Saturday even
ing, and in order to allow the people of
the Capital City glimpse Of the crack
regiment, Colonel Guthrie has decided
on the following line of march:
LINE OF MARCH.
From the Armory at Sixth and L
streets the troops win move to X, up
X to Ninth, on Ninth to j. down to
Second, and on Second to the depot
The band will head the column, and
VIII furnish such music as only the
Second Infantry Band can make-rnusic
that has lifted it above mediocrity and
placed it among the foremost musical
aggregations of the State.
THE START.
The special train will be on hand
when the troops arrive at the depot,
and the start viii be made at o'clock.
The train viii go by the way OF Da-
visville, Oakland and San Jose, and Will
arrive at Santa Cruz about ) O'Clock
a. m. Sunday morning, thus giving the
boys a full measure of all-night travel,
and set them down sleepy and tired to
start out on the first day of the an
ual encampment.
Colonel Guthrie proposes, however, to
give his men a rest on Sunday and
besides pitching their tents and getting
things in order, nothing viii be done.
The matter of tent pitching, however,
is intended to be an object drill TO the
entire regiment. The positions VIII be
staked off and then each squad will
erect its own tent in such a manner as
to stand inspection. 1t is expected
when the tent drill is over each and
every man viii have been initiated in
all the mysteries of that intricate op-
Grafton
The Sixth Infantry, composed of COM
panies from Stockton, AIerced, Modesto
Fresno, Visalia and Bakersfield, will
reach the camp about the same time
the men of the Second reach there, and