The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-09-27
O. N. G. Was MobiIized
at Canton.
Efficient SERVICE
Rendered BY the Regiments
While on Duty--How the
Militia IL Organized
and Mainta ined.

The efficient manner, in which the
vast crowds which visited the city on
Wednesday and Thursday of last week
were handled by the troops of the o. N.
c., was marvellous and was the sub
ject of much favorable comment from
the distinguished men In attendance
at the funeral of Mckinley. The exec
utive committee had made its arrange
ments down to the last detail, but
were it not for the fact that the troops
rendered such efficient service in keep
ing the streets clear, thus giving the
committee plenty of room in which
to carry out these arrangements, there
is no telling as to just what the results
might have been.
1ne officers in command of the
troops are to be highly commended
also for the ease and quickness, with
which they
HANDLED THE TROOPS.
The orders to have the troops in read
mess to move on Wednesday were first
made known on Sunday, September
10, and by Monday morning the site
for the camp had been selected. BY
Monday noon Colonel Harry Frease,
the general commissary of the Ohio
state troops, had figured out how much
of the different supplies would be nee
essary to feed the men and by Monday
evening the contracts for the supplies
had been let.
| When it became known in Columbus
that the casket and funeral party
would arrive in Canton on Wednesday
instead of Thursday as was the orig
inal intention, the Eighth regiment
was ordered into Canton day ahead
| by General Dick, in order that there
might be troops here to handle the
crowds, and the Eighth arrived in the
city on Tuesday afternoon. The re-
mainder of the troops had arrived and
were encamped by Wednesday evening
at 6 o'clock. The tents for the $500
men and officers
! WE'RE ALL SHIFTED
from Columbus and were on the sites
of the different regimental camps by
| Wednesday morning.
The commissary departments were
smoothly managed, the troops being
fully provided for and there being but
little of the supplies for the men re.
naming.
The reason that it was possible to
manage all the departments so smooth
ly was because of the manner in
which the troops are organized. The
different divisions into which the men
are organized are as follows, named IN
the order of their Importance: Com
panies, battalions, regiments, bri.
gades and all being known as the first
division of the Ohio national guard
This is the manner in which the reg
ular army was organized in '9S,
through special legislation of congress.
Formerly the regiments were com.
posed of only two baitalions but the
act of congress
CHANGED 1T TO THREE.
The Ohio troops were organized in
this manner in '92, being one OF the
first states in the union to make the
change. The bill which caused this
change to be made was passed through
the state legislature during the time
that Mckinley was governor and al
his suggestion. Under the former or
ganization the different regiments
were not organized into brigades and
the division, with the major general OF
state in command of 1t, did not exist
the regiments were individual organi
cations, not part of an organization
embracing all the Ohio troops. Under
; the present order of things, however
there is the major general and hi
staff, the two brigadier generals an;
their stats and the colonels of the
: regiments and their staffs, thus max
ing 1t
COMPARATIVELY EASY MATTEf
to mobilize the troops and handl'
them. Each of the officers named il
in command of a separate organization
which is part of the general organi
cation, the First brigade embracing
all of the Ohio troops and commanded
by Major General Dick.
) The opinions which were expresse,
| by the regular army officers who wer
: here attending the funeral were uni
J formly in praise of the troops and tn
manner in which the duty they wer
/ called upon to perform was executed
At no place on the line of march di
the troops fail to keep the streets clea
!. and their work in keeping the crowd II
order and moving while the remain
Of the nresident were heing YioWa.