The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-25
THE ARMoRY WAR.
Of Which the Public Hears Daily Ru-
 mors.

Of Which the Public Hears Daily Ru- mors.
 There is more war in the newspaper offices than there is anyhere else" re-
 marked the popular captain of one of
 the local military companies the other
 evening. The facts in the case in re-
 gard to the reports of unusual activity
 In the state militia and naval reserves
 are about as follows:
 Orders have been issued from the ad- jutant generals office to the officers of the various companies commanding them to get the correct places of resi- dence and addresses of all the men in their commands; also some orders as | to the arms and accoutrements of the various commands. These orders are | said to be a little out of season, but not new. The order relative to secur- ing the addresses of the men is a | part of the Connecticut military code, | which requires the proper officers to re- | wise the lists once each month. AS | matter of fact this has never been done in most of the companies; hence | the reiteration of the order at this | time.
 | The naval reserves, more especially l the engineer division, are the most | prolific source of local war stories just at present.
 l Chief Engineer Amasa Trowbridge l received orders from the navy depart l ment in Washington early in the week | asking information relative to the Ves- | sels belonging to Connecticut ports. | The idea and the order both possess 1 the antiquity which would make them | venerable and uninteresting were it not | for the recent all absorbing topic of | interest to-day-the blowing up of the Maine. It was proposed by Captain | Goodridge of the Naval college a year | or so ago that this work of classifying | the shipping be given to the naval re- | serves of the different states to do. | Several weeks before the Maine was ] blown up it was reported that orders | had been sent out of the purport of the | one above mentioned This report | served the purpose of a ante-Maine- | disaster sensation as the orders now | are of past Maine disaster sensation | At the time of the report the orders | had not been received in New Haven, | but the purport of them was fully ex- | plalned in this paper.
 | Lieutenant Trowbridge last evening attached considerable importance to | the receiving of the orders at this time | although admitting that7they- were not | new. He said that there were intin1a- | tions in connection with the order l which indicated that the government | was in haste for the information and l also darkly hinted at other Secret orr l ders about which he could not speak He also said that he "knew" Com mander Buckland Is in Washington by
 order of the navy department.
 | At the meeting of the engineer divi- 1 sion last evening the work of getting | the information was apportioned out in | districts to members of the division, as | follows: From eastern coast line of l the state to New London, Machinist l Wheeler and Water Tender Pond; from | New London to Norwich, Bremen Gil- i bert and Reynolds; from New London ! along the coast and up the east hank l of the Connecticut river, Oiler Hall and Fireman Kellogg; west side of the Con 1 necticut river, Ensign Spencer and l Fireman Burdick; Connecticut river to l New Haven, Oiler Lum; New Haven | | Adams; New Haven to Bridgeport, l Oiler Mather and Fireman Bassett; Bridgeport, Water Tender Bassett and Fireman Brown; Bridgeport to South i Norwalk, Bremen Bells and Carter;
 South Norwalk to New York state i line, Machinist Adams.
 | These men will get the names of all
 the vessels and launches in their as- 1 signed districts and these will be clas- { sif1ed and sent to the navy department. The information will be obtained in | part through the custom offices and | partly by visits to the different places. 1 Lieutenant Trowbridge says the infor-
 nation will be hurried along. Ordinar- | fly it would not require two months to it, but on pinch it could be obtained
 in two weeks.
 WE TAKE YOUR OLD PIANO OR