Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-27
COMING MONDAY.
Gov. Powers Orders National
Guard Modified in Augusta.
Active Preparations Will Begin This
Morning for Their Reception.
Some OF the Talk Concerning Who Will Go.
and Other Matters.

sion Is renewed from the nerves of the
members of the National Guard, as
they now know just when and where,
they are to march.
1t was fully decided by Governor
Powers and Adjutant General Richards.
tuesday afternoon. that they would or
der the Guard into camp in this city,
Monday. and the troops will begin to
until Wednesday night, when the last
will have arrived.
For many days the call has been ex-
pected by the officers of the Guard.
and it was especially expected on Mon
day, nearly everyone holding himself
ready to be called at moments notice,
but the call to the troops did not go.
though Governor Powers received an
order from the war department, call
ing for Names quota of the ~, 900 vol
unteerS, and then every MEM
Der prepared himself for service on
Tuesday.
Although General Richards knew
that the call had arrived he could not
act until he received orders from his
commander-in- chief, His Excellency
Governor Llewellyn Powers. who was
train.
The general orders published in an
other column, was prepared, Tuesday
forenoon, to be sent to the company
commanders to explain to them all the
details of preparation, as soon as the
order should be given for marching.
A telephone was ordered to be placed
in the adjutant generals private Off
&c at the muster grounds, and many
other details were attended to.
Governor Powers arrived on the $50
train, and upon his arrival at the State
House, went at once to the office of
Adjutant General Richards, where he
was closeted with the general for near
ly an hour.
Outside waiting in the main office, as
patiently as though a field day was be-
the 112S Guardsmen should leave their
homes and families many perhaps for
ever. was a group of men consisting of
Colonel l.. H. Kendall of the list Regi.
ment: Colonel G.. A. Philbrook of the
ID Regiment; Colonel George l.. Thomp
son. the commissary general; Colonel
L. c. Harrington. the inspector general
of rifle practice; Captain c. G.. Morton.
9Th t. s. Infantry: Captain T. II. Clark,
and Hon. Byron Boyd, secretary of
State.
General Richards called Colonels
Kendall and Philbrook, and Captain
Morton into his private office. and very
soon it was announced that the Guard
May >
The orders for the companies to re-
port for duty on Monday. Will be mail
ed by Thursday morning at the latest,
The tickets for transportation will also
he sent, today, to the company com
manderS.
All the companies will leave home.
Monday, on special troop trains, except
the three companies located at Calais.
Eastport and Machias, who will en-
bark. Tuesday morning on an lnterna-
tional steamer for Mount Desert fer
ry, where they will take the Maine
Central for Augusta.
The regiment adjutants and quarter
company cooks are expected to arrive,
Monday morning. to prepare the food
for the loyal boys in blue, before they
arrive. and thus help make them con
tented by filing their stomachs.
The leggins for the various compan-
les will be sent probably. today. by eX-
press. As the arrival of the troops has
been postponed until Monday, it will
give ample time in which to get all
the camp equipments on the ground,
and everything will be in readiness for
the Guardslnen when they arrive to
draw the equipments needed. Many OF
the Guard, who have but recently been
enlisted. have no uniforms or arms. and
will need to be wholly fitted out. Some
companies have as many as % or ~
men without uniforms or arms, and
have been drilled but very little.
After they are once in camp mere. IL
is not known by anyone how long they
will remain. At the shortest time, 1t
will take three or four days to organize
n regiment for the United States ser
vice as there will be so many different
matters to be attended to.
Neither is it known who or what
companies will go. The men VIII OBJECT
seriously. it is said. to volunteering.
unless they can retain their company
opd rar,oentaI officers, so it is sale TO