The age-herald., 1898-05-07
BIG PREPARATIONS
 TO RECEIVE FLAGS Being Made by First Regiment and by
 Citizens Of Mobile. REGAL ESCORT FOR LADIES. A High Compliment Paid A6e-Herald by
 Camp Clark Yesterday. COL. COX TO COMMAND THE SECOND Physical Examination of Birmingham Battalion Has Been Completed-To Be Sworn In
 Today Major General Coppnger
 Left Has for Washington
 
COL. COX TO COMMAND THE SECOND
Special to The Age-Herald.

 mingham battalion concurred in hearty resolutions of thanks to The Age-Herald for its good offices and most valuable as- sistance to the volunteers. This paper is the toast of Camp Clark. Colonel Higdon said to The Age-Herald correspondent to- night:
 q warmly indorse the action of the Bir- mingham battalion in thanking and com mending The Age-Herald for the services it has rendered. It has been conspicuous factor in creating proper enthusiasm and quickening the organization of the Alabama volunteer forces which gained impetus from the initial movement at Birmingham. !"
 Arrangements have been perfected to meet the Birmingham ladies at the train to- morrow afternoon and escort them to camp with picked company of 100 men and the Eleventh United States Infantry band.
 The presentation ceremonies will be witt messed by thousands of Mobians and the entire camp, promising to prove most brilliant occasion.
 After long period of suspense, orders from the governor were received today, ap- pointing Colonel Cox of the old Third In- fantry, A. N. G., as colonel of the Second regiment, Alabama volunteers. This regi- ment of the national guard did great deal more toward furnishing volunteers than did the Second, and it was natural that the appointment should go to him instead of Colonel Foster, of the Second
 Colonel Cox and his staff will report at camp in the morning. Seven companies of this regiment are now in, and the other five will be accepted soon as additional army surgeons can be secured to hasten the physical examination.
 The Birmingham battalion was finished by the examiners today and will be formally mustered into government service tomor- row. This rejected are waiting for trans portation, which will be furnished them to return home, all sadly disappointed.
 The health Of Camp Clark is still remark ably good, the hospital today containing only two patients, neither of whom is seri- ously i'll.
 This will be the most disagreeable night the volunteers have spent in camp, a cold wind is blowing thirty miles an hour across the exposed plateau. Bonfires are very popular, while tents can hardly be held on the ground.
 At midnight Major General Coppinger, of the United States army, accompanied by three staff officers, left in Colonel Russells private car for Washington where Gen eral Coppinger has orders to report to the adjutant general This is taken to mean that large military movements are contem- plated in the immediate future General Coppnger is of the oppinion that if war is not over in two weeks, it will last several months, and the entire army, including vol unteers, will be sent to the front before a month has passed.
 "J. V." Notes
 Captain Kennedy says that while he knows his boys can eat as little food and and fight as hard if it is necessary, as long l,ff r1aA..D f11 to have it. The J. Vs. located a cook among their recent recruits and they now have stove in their 1----arters and are to be served with good, hot food as long as it is possible. They say that they have the hottest captain in the regiment
 ''Dick" Going carries his first lieutenancy as if he had been there all his life.
 The whole company is blue over Second Lieutenant Miles rejection by the sur geons. They think that ollie can stand as much as any of them. in spite of the surgeons opinions. However, former Ser geant Davidson is as popular as any of them and he wears his honors easily.
 The examination was so rigid that all the boys who passed think they are pretty good men.
 The examining officer says that First Corporal Finch and Second Corporal Gard ner are regular Adonises and passed their examination like West Pointers.
 Artificer Nelson and Wagoner Warner say "where, oh, where, do we rank''
 Like the Milk White Flag" there is only one private in the J. Vs.
 Corporal Finch has been appointed treas- urer with six assistants to keep track of the heavy expenses of the company and he can be seen in his tent figuring accounts all day long. His last report showed sur plus of cents.
 Corporal Johns says "why don't that girl write.'
 Noodle Cunningham and Fred Bowron say well, just you wait until our box comes."
 The boys want all the girls to write to them The man getting the most letters every week gets A fried egp