The age-herald., 1898-09-17
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR TIE SICK

North Alabama S regiment Will be home today and a royal welcome has been pre- pared for them
 All day yesterday the anxious people of Birmingham were beseging the railroad of- fcials to know the exact time when the trains would begin to arrive, but as is usual with the movements of all bodies of troops, the officials were unable to fix any definite
 time.
 Almost the only news that came was that the regiment left Jacksonville about
 noon, and it was stated in a general way | that the trains would arrive this morning, l or early in the afternoon.
 Nevertheless, everybody continued their
 work of getting ready to welcome the boys l home again. The street car company was | getting it's cars in readiness, the ladies were 1 working hard to get their big dinner pre-
 pared, and in fact the whole city was key | ing itself up for the glorious welcome that l is to be given them this morning. The regiment will furnish it's own music today. It is said that the regiment has a | splendid band, especially it will be
 strengthened by four members of Chase's
 band who will go to Caera this morning to meet the regiment.
 The First Alabama Volunteer infantry will arrive in Birmingham today, the freight and the first passenger section ar irving in the forenoon and the last two passenger sections probably not until the afternoon.
 Even up to o'clock this morning the
 Louisville and Nashville office here could
 not tell exactly when they would handle the trains into Birmingham. The last re-
 port they received from the Plant System
 was that th1 freight section would arrive in Montgomery about 6 o'clock this morn- ing, with the other sections running from
 half hour to an hour behind This hour
 will very pro q y be changed, however. The first section will be the baggage train,
 which will carry the officers horses, the ambuances of the regiment, the tents and other camp equipage The horse cars will be switched off at Twenty fourth street and. unloaded at once, so that they will be in
 readiness for the officers when the other sections arrive. The cars containing the baggage will be taken on to Wahuma, near Woodlawn, where they will be transferred to the East Lake line of the Electric com pany. They will be taken to the Lake inn mediately and sdetracked to await the ar
 rival of the regiment to unload them The Birmingham Battalion The first passenger section will contain the First, or Birmingham battalion of the regiment under the command of Major T. O. SiEith. The companies on board will be A, G, K and l., or, as they are better known the Woodlawn Light Infantry, the Jefferson Volunteers, the Birmingham Ri-
 f1es and the Huey Guards. A sleeping car
 containing all the sick of this regiment will be attached to this train. It is prob
 able that Colonel Hgdon and most of his staff will also be on this train.
 The second passenger train will contain
 of Major D. D. Mcleod. The companies composing this battalion are c, E, H and I, ! or the Etowah Rifles, the Joe Johnston
 Rifles of Decatur, the Bessemer Rifles and the Oxford Guards
 The third passenger section, under the command of Major o. Kyle will contain companies B, D, F and NJ, or the Wheeler
 Rifles of Florence, the Annston Rifles, the
 Huntsville Rifles and the Clark Rifles of
 Pratt City and Talladega. Each battalion will be unloaded at the
 station as fast, as the trains arrive, and
 taken to East Lake immediately. Colonel
 Higdon telegraphed The Age-Herald last
 night that the route of march would be
 short one, as the boys will all be so heav-
 fly loaded with their accoutrements, as
 follows:
 From the station up Twentieth street to First avenue. Thence down First to Nine-
 teenth street, up Nineteenth to Second avenue, east on Second to Twentieth street, south on Twentieth to First avenue again,
 east on First to Twenty-second street,
 where the to East Lake will be in
 readiness.
 Manager McCleary of the Electric com
 pany stated yesterday that there would be
 no trouble whatever in handling the men ] out to east Lake. He will have thirty elec-
 tric and steam cars in readiness, which will be more than enough to move one battalion at time.
 Colonel Higdon has expressed his inten- tion of having the trains run as nearly to-
 gether as possible, but it is probable that at least an hour will intervene between each of them. Each battalion, however
 will march over the same route named above.
 Will Provide for Sick Birmingham is determined that if no oth- CT part of the regiment receives welcome, at least the sick shall be well taken care
 of and will not be forced to go into camp that is wholly unfit to receive them As
 usual, the government has made no ar engagements for receiving the sick Yester- day afternoon Captain Demere, who is chairman of the committee to arrange for a suitable reception for the regiment re- ceived a telegram from Colonel Higdon saying that there would be car load of
 sick, and asking him to make temporary arrangements for receiving them if pos