Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-16
MILITARY MATTERS.
One Battery Will Probably Be Mus
tered in, Monday.
Others Are Fast Filling Skowhegan Men
Expected. Today.

rive in the city, today, to assist in fill
ing the batteries. and the camp will
present n much more stately appear
ance, Sunday. than it does at present,
by the addition of more tents.
The men who will arrive; today. will
be from Skowhegan. and possibly a
few from Bangor.
There are no members of the list Bat
talon in camp. and the Skowhegan
men will be the first to arrive. They
passed a very good examination. 46
out of the 81 who took the examination
passing. They are not all expected to-
day, but Captain Mcphetcrs, who is to
be the 1st lieutenant of the battery of
his battalion. will arrive With about T.
men. so it is said
Captain Hume went to Bangor, Fri
day afternoon, with Captain Martin.
and it is thought that several of the
Bangor men will so into the Sd Bat
talon Battery. and that some will
come to this city. today.
Speaking of the Bangor men. there
seems to have been bad miXup there.
Major Robinson was in the city, Fri
day. to see what chance he stood of
entering the service, as he is very
DESTROYS to go 1t will he remembered
that he was given the chance Of being
the commander of the battery of his
battalion. but he refused. The reason
that he gives is that he was informed
by the company in Bangor. that they
had decided not to go. and he did not
think it right To take the command
from Captain JeWctt. when that oill-
GERS company was to make up the
larger part in the battery, while Major
RobinSon's home company would take
no part in the formation of the bat
terry.
1t has developed that the Bangor
as they are now DESTROYS of gong
This led Major Robinson to look
around to see if there was any posi-
bic chance of going.
His only hope now seems to pc III
the matter of securing the position as
adjutant of the artillery battalion
which there seems no doubt Will be
formed.
As matter of course. it would seem
as though the men of the Bangor com
pany would go to the battery th;il Is
made up of the battalion OF Which
they are members. which Is that OF
which Captain JeWett will be the COM
mander, yet some of the men VIII
probably go into Captain Eumc's pat
terry, with the Eastern Battalion men
All those who will pass of the Bangor
company, cannot go into that battery
as it lacks only IS men of beng luh'
The IS men already in the battery are
from Houlton, Machias, Calais ana
PASSPORT, there being respectively A.
%. Is and II from those places.
If Captain Hume succeeds in secur-
ing the necessary men at Bangor ne
will without doubt be mustered III"
the service with his battery by Mon
day at the latest.
Captain Hume says there "ou'o NC
no trouble in enlsting the men 1T MS
home station. Houlton, if they were
examined in some way, but the OIL
GERS cannot go to that place TO eN-
anime them now. and transportation
cannot be furnished them unless they
have been examined.
Lieut. Royden was in Bath, yester-
day, going to Waterville so that III the
evening the Watcrville company was
examined. At the same time the bath
company was being examined by NIL
jor Fuller, and both these companies
may come into camp, Monday.
While Lieut.. Royden was at Bath' q
men passed the examination.
1t now looks as though the 30 Eat
| talon Battery will be the first TO gel
| in readiness to be mustered, as al