The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-10
THE FOOT GUARDS.
Remarks from the Buffalo Expr,

l Remarks from the Buffalo Express Recruiting in the Guard Lively. l The Buffalo Evening Express of June
 3 has the following in reference to the l coming visit to the exposition of New Haven's Governors Foot Guard l '"The Governors s Foot Guard, the old est military organization in Connecti- l cut, is to make a visit to the Pan
 American exposition in the week of
 June IF. The company is composed of representative men of the state. There | are two companies, the First of Hart | ford and the Second of New Haven.
 The Foot Guard was organized in 1775
 and has war record since the war of | the revolution. Benedict Arnold was l it's first commanding officer. Colonel
 Rollin $. Woodruff of New Haven, | Conn.,, quartermaster of the company, | has recently been in Buffalo making arrangements for the quartering of the company for it's visit to the exposition. The organization is to act as an es- l cort to George P. Mclean governor of Connecticut. The company will make 1 its headquarters at the Iroquois. The Foot Guard will arrive in Buffalo on
 the evening of June 1T and will partici-
 pate in exercises to be held on June 20
 at the position-Connecticut day.
 "The Foot Guard is uniformed, wear ing the uniform of the Continental
 army, red broadcloth coat, blue facing. silver braid, silver buttons, white
 broadcloth vest, white broadcloth
 knee brooches, black velvet leggins and
 bear skin hat. The company fought
 with the American army at the battle
 of Lexington and a detail under Cap
 tain Arnold performed duty afterward
 at Fort Ticonderoga, when Arnold was
 major general, commanding on the
 Hudson. Among it's earliest members
 was James Hillhouse, who was United
 States senator, and third commandant
 of the company, and Pierpont Edwards,
 who was judge of the United States
 district court.'
 Three notable members of the Foot Guard, Hon. James M. Townsend, chief of staff; Sergeant Edward c. Beecher, and Sergeant Eli Mix, New Haven's coroner, are all living descendants of men who marched from New Haven to Lexington in 1776 and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
 The Second Company, Governors Foot Guard during the past week has enlisted some notable recruits from the ranks of men in professional and off, oial life The company is drawing up- on the best material from all over the southern part of the state, and some of the best known men in the state are to wear the continental uniform of the company and shoulder musket. Not ably among these are Hugh Stirling, ,,;J ;,,e, listed; Dr. C. Lincoln Banks, a promi- : nent physician of Bridgeport, and Dr. i J. F. Calef of Middletown who was | surgeon general on the staff of Cover nor Coffin. All the new recruits have l been ordered to report at the armory Monday night for drill. It will be the | last drill of the company before going to Buffalo.
 The Second company has made plans for an enjoyable trip to the exposition. The company will travel in Pullman coaches, and Captain George T. White, the commissary, will serve an elaborate luncheon en route. He is to be assist ed by Captain Charles B. Ware of New | London and Sergeant Fred Brown It II Is probable that the SiXty-fifth regi- ment N G. N. Y, in command of Col onel Samuel Welch, jr, will receive the company upon its arrival in Buff falo, and escort the ''feeters' to the Troquois. For the wives of the mem bers who are to accompany the con- pany to Buffalo plans have been ar ranged for their enjoyment. It is in- tended to give them automobile rides about the city, and an interesting feat lre of the trip will be visit to Niagara Falls.
 The company has another drill to- night.