The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-13
IN CAMP AGAIN.
Annual Tour of Duty
Of the State
Militia.
DATES SELECTED.
Second Brigade to Precede
the First This
Year.

The local representatives of. the Sec
ond brigade, Emmett Guards, will go
into camp this year at South Framing
ham before the local companies, the
City Guards, Light Infantry and We'll
lington Rifles, of the First brigade re-
versing the usual order of things. This
was determined at an important meet
ing held Thursday at Boston, which
was attended by the commanders of
the different regiments of the state mi
litia
The Second brigade, which is COM
posed Of the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth
regiments of infantry will go into
camp at South birmingham for a
weeks tour of duty August 5th. The
First brigade, consisting of the Second,
and Sixth regiments of infantry and
the Light artillery, will commence their
tour of duty between the goth and Goth
of August.
The meeting which was called by Adj
jutant General Dalton, was held to de-
eide upon the dates of the annual en-
campments of the state militia for this
year, and was held in the adjutant gen.
erals Office at the state house, Boston.
The two divisions Of the state militia
were represented by their commanding
officers, except the Ninth, whose newly
elected commander, Colonel Donavan,
has not as~yet been examined to con-
slider his ability to command the regI-
ment
Among those who attended the meet
ing We're: OF the First brigade, Cen
eraI Thomas r. Mathews; Colonel D. r.
Clark, Second regiment; Colonel Charles
Pfaff. First regiment; Major Charles
K. Darling, senior ranking oftleer,
Sixth regiment and Major Duchesney
of the Light artillery. Of the Second
brigade, General William A. Bancroft;
Colonel William A. Pew, Jr., Eighth
regiment Colonel j. H. Whitney,
Fifth regiment; Major Perrins of the
First battalion of cavalry. Lieut.. Col
onel L. ]. Logan, who was invited TO
attend the meeting, was unable to DO
so because of illness. Battery A and
Troop F of Chelmsford We're not rep
resented at the meeting.
After some discussion, it was sug-
gested that the First brigade go into
camp during the latter part of August
and the Second brigade during the ear
" part of the same month. The otil-
GERS of the Second brigade objected Sc
riously to this, as the Fifth and Eighth
regiments have not as yet received
their equipments and would be in nc
shape to go to camp The Fifth and
the Eighth have recently been mus
tered out of the service of the United
States. and their commanding officers
anticipated that they would not have
their necessary equipments in time.
Adtutant General Dalton said that
Capt. Luke r. Landy, superintendent
of the state arsenal at South Framing
ham. had assured him that he could
equip the troops who lacked theil
eouipments. before the time for the an
nual tour of duty. and said that the
regiments of the Second brigade would
be equipped in time to enter upon theiI
tour Of duty. With this assurance
from the adjutant general, the officers
of the Second brigade consented to the
plan.
AS now arranged, the Second brigade
will go into camp on Aug. 5th, and will
remain a week until the 18th. This
is a longer time than is usually put into
the annual tour of duty. Formerly the
tour lasted but five days from Monday
until Saturday. This year 1t will be
one week from Saturday to Saturday.
The First brigade will go into camp
to enter upon the tour of duty between
the goth and 30th of the month. The
First heavies or the First regiment OF
heavy artillery go into camp at either
Fort Warren or New Bedford. The
First corps of Cadets will hold theil
encampment at bingham, and the Sec
ond corps at Bedford during August
The naval brigade win have its tour OF
duty on board the Prairie, which will
cruise about the Atlantic seaboard.