The age-herald., 1898-05-17
TO BE ENCHANTED
 WITH REGULARS Are the Alabama Volunteers Sometime
 This Week. WHEN THEY'RE MUSTERED IN Only Fifty More Recruits Needed to Con-
 plete Quota, SECOND BEING EXAMINED RAPIDLY Warrior Guards First to Be Sworn Sergeant Major Schwartz Promoted-The Ladies
 of Mobile Are to Make Flag
 for the Second.
SECOND BEING EXAMINED RAPIDLY
Special to The Age-Herald.

Mobile, May l6.--As soon as the Alabama volunteers have been mustered in they will be placed in a regular army camp. This contemplated movement is known to the volunteer officers, and the information comes from reliable authority. Colonel Higdon. however, does not know where the onel Cox advised as to the Second regi- ment's displacement.
 Today Lieutenant Lucien A. Brown of the Birmingham Rifles arrived in camp with sixty-seven recruits for the first regiment They were immediately examined and thirty of the number were refused. Those rejected seemed to be the heaHhiest speci- mems in the whole lot but they were walk in eye-sight, hearing, heart or lungs. This record of nearly 50 per cent. rejections shows how strict the examiners are at pres ent; they realize that Alabama's quota is easily forthcoming, and therefore adopt strict regulations in passing upon physical qualifications of recruits.
 Fifty Recruits Needed
 For the First regiment Colonel Higdon still needs about fifty able-hodied men, and he wants them to respond by telegraph so that they can be sent transportation tomor- row. The fifty recruits will complete the First regiment and permit the last two companies to muster in filling out the first quota.
 This evening the Eufaua company ar rived with one hundred and five men, com manded by Captain J. R. Barr, making the eleventh company of the Second regiment. One more company will complete Colonel Cox's command, and it is presumed that the Tuscumbia company will arrive to- morrow.
 The Warrior Guards, of Tuscaloosa, were the first of the Second regiment to take the oath of service. Four companies of the second have now been examined and the remainder may be finished this week.
 Into Camp of Regulars
 Several hundred recruits are apt to be in demand since the per centage of rejec- tions is now so very heavy. It is probable that the Alabama volunteers will be mus tered in by Wednesday night, and will at once be placed with regular infantrymen.
 Whether they will be moved from Camp Clark on the bay shore or out to Major General Coppinger's division encampment, or will remain where they are, and have regiment of regulars moved into Camp Clark to complete a brigade, is not known. The latter plan is likely to be adopted so the officers believe, since the war de- pertinent seems to have decided to form brigades for the army for Cuban invasion by placing one regiment of regulars with two of volunteers.
 Promotions
 Though the appointment of Captain O. Kyle, of Decatur, as third major of the First Alabama has not been officially an- nounced, the Decatur company has already selected William E. Wallace, captain, and M. V. Pride and w. J. Webb lieutenants by reason of Captain Kyle's promotion.
 It is also a foregone conclusion that Captain Brandon, of Tuscaloosa, iwll re- ceive the third majorship in the Second, though no action has yet been taken.
 Considerable interest is manifested in the appointment of battalion adjutants in both regiments. Only one aspirant has been as- sured of promotion, and he is Sergeant Major Leon Schwartz, who will become ad- jutant of the Birmingham batta ion.
 Captain c. 0. Beach has been elected captain of the Jackson county company to succeed himself. A political fight was made on him, but he won out
 A Flag For the Second
 Today the Mobile chapter Daughters of the Confederacy, appointed committee, with Mrs Harvey E. Jones as chairman. to make flag for the Second Alabama. The chapter also appointed committee to visit the army hospitals Mrs. Colston, daugh- ter of the famous confederate admiral Raphael Semres, was placed in charge of this work.