The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-05-04
At CAMP POWERS.
First Day Of the Encampment at
Augusta.
MILITIA BOYS ARE MADE VERY
COMFORTABLE ON WHOLE.

Tents Have Been All Provided With Stoves
En- rollment of Volunteers will Take a
Week or Ten Days-Arrival OF Exam
lining Surgeons-Governmen Will Fay
Expenses of Muster
Especial TO TIE PREss.l
Camp Powers, Augusta, May 3.-Noth-
ing out of the usual run of things has
transpired on the muster field today.
There are now over 1000 men in camp
and more are to come. The three eastern
Calais will not be here until tomorrow.
They will swell the ranks to over 1900
men. The Machias company will come by
the way of Mt. Desert ferry and Bangor
and the Calais and Eastport soldiers will
land in Portland from the steamer St.
Croix and take the afternoon train for
Augusta. They ought all to be in camp
by six O'Clock Wednesday.
Tuesday morning the different COM
panies were out for short drill, and the
new recruits were also put through the
manual OF arms. These new recruits are
line looking body of men. They all
come into camp Monday in one company,
IN charge OF lieutenants and they were
the subject for as much cheering as were
the boys who were uniformed
The three Portland companies were
about the first to get settled Monday
night. The boys received many callers
during the evening.
General Richards, Captain Morton, o..
5. A., Col. Thompson and Major Spauld-
Ing OF the governors staff passed Monday
night in camp and will continue to stay
here nights until the encampment is over
The boys found different weather on
their arrival here Monday than greeted
them at muster time last August. But
the adjutant general had provided for the
cool breezes by fitting every tent with a
stove and each man had plenty of
blankets. There are over three hundred
shaped tents have stoves of the same
shape and the smoke is carried through a
funnel which runs out through the peak
of the canvas.
The troopers will be in camp ten days
or two weeks anyway, as it will take that
lar army service. Lieut.. 81. N. Royden,
q. S. A, has been detailed by the war
department as mastering officer, and he
has already established his headquarters
in the Burns cottage near the State
House. W
officers about the appointment of the
colonel to command the regiment which
will enter the regular army. The PRESS
representative was talking today with
one of the governors staff about the mat
ter, and he thought that Col. L. Fl. Ken.
the camp commander, stood pretty good
show for the position.
There were not many visitors in camp
this forenoon, but during the afternoon
many people came around. Wednesday
the boys will work and work hard.
battalion drill and before it is over the
troops will have marched fifteen miles.
An announcement which will be graft
flying to the tax payers of Maine was
made by Gov. Powers Monday night
The National government, Monday, as
sured the state authorities that it would
bear the entire expense of our National
Guard in camp this week, including the
cost of transportation. This will relieve
the state from the payment of some $751;
900. The funds to meet this will be taken
from the emergency appropriation made
by Congress.
Lieut.. Royden, the United States officer
detailed here, will audit all the bills for
the government as incurred by the
adjutant general.
The state authorities have also been in
formed from Washington that IL, 500 army
rations will reach here Saturday night,
when the troops will have to subsist on
plain government bareback, etc.
Adjutant General Richards announced
Monday that all militiamen who enlist in
the United States army, will be given
leaves of absence or furlonghs from the
National Guard, not severing their con-
nection with it, so that when they return
from the war they can fall back into their
old organizations. This, it is believed,
will obviate much of the difficulty an
ticipated in transferring men from one
regiment or company to another.
Doctors Gordon of Portland and Gid
den OF Gardiner, with Surgeon Styles, U
5. a., stationed at Fort Preble, Port
land, arrived today to begin their exami-
nations of the candidates for the United
States army.
THANKS TO CUMBERLAND CLUB.