Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-07-03
COMPANY FS
ENCAMPMENT.

National Guard of Pennsylvania at
Gettysburg, will be lighted by cleo
tricity. Forty lamps will be used and
seven miles of wire will be put up.
The Twelfth Regiment stands very
high in its spring inspection ratings
and the Third Brigade leads the other
two in its averages.
The commissary department will be
established at Gettysburg on July 10
i'll "A building specially erected for the
issue of ratiOns to the advance details
and provost guard. The ration list
for the encampment has been enlarged
to prevent the purchase of additional
supplies from private subscriptions or
company funds, a practice which
General Stewart is anxious to have
discontinued.
Company commanders are expected
to provide and sink in the ground
proper refrigerating boxes for the
preservation of fresh meat The great
est care must be used i'll storing, cook
ing and serving the rations to the men.
The issue of commissary supplies
will be made during the encampment,
as far as practicable, according to this
schedule:
Fresh meat, Saturday, July II, and
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday !;
ham, July II and lS; fresh fish, July
IS, 4 A. NJ soft bread, July II and
Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday hard bread, July 10 and Mon
day and Friday; beans, five issues {;
sugar, eight issues rice, three issues !;
coffee, eight issues; candles, one issue I;
salt, one issue; pepper, one issue !;
potatoes, seven issues; onions, three
issues vinegar. three issues tomatoes
in cans. three issues; prunes, two is
sues; cheese, two issues; pickles, two
issues; flour, one issue, fifty pounds
per company.
General Stewart has made requisi
tion on the War Department for
enough Krag Jorgensen rifles, calibre
thirty, to provide each regiment of
infantry of the National Guard with
arms for team practice; also for car
bines for the practice of cavalry teams.
Captain George G. Kelly, chief clerk
of the adjutant generals office, is i'll
at his home in Lewisburg and may not
be able to attend the division encamp-
ment. Captain Kelly has been con
nected with this department since the
close of the civil war and is the Oldest
employe of the State government III
continuous service.
Mrs. Stone will visit Gettysburg
during the division encampment with
a party of Harrisburg and Washington
ladies. The Governor will encamp
with the troops and a review will be
given in his honor after the annual
inspection.
Colonel Frank G.. Sweeney, Inspect
or General, has issued circular in
relation to the inpsections of the var
ious brigades provided for in general
orders recently issued from National
Guard headquarters. All organiza-
tons will parade for inspection in
canvas uniform and campaign hat.
with white gloves, gloves may be re-
moved during inspection drills. The
infantry of the Third Brigade will be
paraded for inspection by regiments
on the division parade ground, III
such order as shall be designated by
the brigade commander, the first regi-
ment reporting at O'Clock a. m, on
July 10, to be followed by other regi-
ments at intervals of two hours. The
infantry of the Second will be parad-
ed for inspection i'll same manner as
the Third on July Is, and that of the
First on July II. The inspection of
arms and general appearance will be
made by the inspector general i'll per
son. The inspection will be under the
direction of the adjutant general, pre-
ceded by "A review.