Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-29
CAMP POWERS.
Ofhcers Presented Their Commits.
sions by Gov. Powers.
Baker Carts Prohibited on the Grounds
Events Of the Day.

SiOHs ny Governor Powers
Governor Powers accompanied by his
guest, Judge John Douglass Armour
chief justice of the Queens Bench fol
| Ontario. and Adjutant General Rich
| ards, visited the camp, early in the
forenoon. and they were warmly re-
| ceived by Major Newcomb and the
| other officers.
All the commissioned officers were
| called to the headquarters, to the Gov
ernor's room. where Governor Powers
addressed them briefly, and then for
| mally presented the commissions which
have been prepared by General Rich
ards in the best manner possible, hay
ing beautifully engraved commissions
with the writing executed by an expert
penman
The officers were introduced to judge
Armour, and after 4 few moments re-
turned to camp
Shortly after, the Governor and par
ty, accompanied by Major Newcomb.
rode through the camp, finding the
guard turned out in the most approved
manner, as though they had been used
to doing II every day for years, in
stead of for the first time, as was the
case with many of Them for the digni-
taries have not visited the camp very
regularly during the short time the
batteries have been here, with the eX-
ception of General Richards, who stops
there all the time. And furthermore
the guard is so small that all the men
have not yet had chance to stand
guard.
The new service and duty cards were
followed for the first time, and all APP
prove of them. though they are dif-
ferent than the ones used during tae
encampment of the National Guard
in some respects.
Major Newcomb has added as one
! new feature to the service, an officers
meeting each day a little after dinner.
1t is hoped that at this meeting many
matters may be discussed and settled.
that would otherwise be unsettled. #
there was no regular meeting. This
is looked upon as great improvement
| over the old way of meeting only when
| notified
The officers look with favor upon n
| fixed time for everything, as they hav
been going on their own responsibility
as long as they wish and now they will
know ''where they are at
| The card has dress parade sched-
uled for each night at sunset, but this
part of the programme will not be fol-
lowed at present, until the men learn
how to handle a gun. and can execute
| the movements in confident manner.
| 1t can be understood, now, how the
| troops from other states appeared
| when they went from the states in
| their undrlled condition to the points
of concentration. They We're as vii
| ling as these men, but they needed the
| drilling and the old members of mil
| itary organization to keepthemin shape
| The batteries do we'll considering their
| mexperience, when drilling in compan-
| les, but the same members of them
now who We're here in May would have
laughed at Il company that did even as
| we'll as these do now. Then there
| were more old men, and all who We're
| not we'll drilled We're as a rule kept in
place by their more intelligent neigh
bors.
| No II ore Of the cheap pastry recently
mentioned in the Journal, as causing
be obtained on the grounds, as Major
| Newcomb has issued an edict that for
bids all bakers teams and ice chean
teams from coming upon the grounds
Milk wagons with milk that will aver
age better than so per cent, will still
be allowed to come, as the men enjoy
| the milk 50 WE'LL ana 1T rs not SUPPOSED
to be so Injurious as the pastry and
ice cream.
| Ndjutant Wade was on the sick list
| Thursday, though not seriously so.
II Qualtermaster Dutton was Obliged
to stay in his tent the greater part OF
the day, as he was still suffering from
a bad headache.
Did, you see the soldiers about the
streets, Thursday, with only parts OF
uniforms on, and the other part OF
their attire of the civilian type? They
| We're the men who later in the day
strutted about the same street with
the red stripes on their trousers OF
perhaps the stripes on their arms.
. The stripes are being added to the
trousers and to the coats as fast as
the tailors can put them there, and
while the work is being done the mer
must wear some other clothes thai
they must borrow. The sportiest lac