Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-06

study Of the national guard board of reorganization, Governor Chamb erlain, Adjutant-Genera1 George M. Cole and Brigadier-Ge Russell Frost, in the matter of adapting the Connecticut Ma tional Guard to the requirements of the law passed by congress, were made known in general orders issued last night. The first requirement. of the law was regiments of three battalions each, twelve companies. The desire at Washington was that there should be one regiment of heavy artillery. The state had four infantry regiments, one in each congressional district-the First with ten companies, the Second with ten and the Third (nominally) and Fourth with eight each, a total of thirty-Six companies. Both the Third and Fourth were weak. One company in New London, one in Danielson and one in Westerly had been disbanded recently, bringing down the total num- Der of companies in the Third to five at the present time. Neither the Third nor the Fourth has a colonel to-day. Lieutenant-Oolonel M. F. White of Bridgeport is in command of the Fourth and Lieutenant Colonel w. H. Hamilton is commander of the Third. Colonel Edward Schulze of Hartford commands the First and Colonel T. H. sucher of New Haven the Second
 There have been several meetings of the board since camp. At one of them all the regfmental commanders and Colonel l.. F. Burpee of Waterbury, member of the examining board, were present and gave their views. General Cole had studied faithfully on the de- tails and it was gratifying to find at the meeting of the officers that there was harmony on the main points. The decisions of the board will not satisfy all the expectations of each officer in the brigade, but 1t certainly is long step forward, and other matters, like the artillery which the war department desires. will work themselves out, probably before a great while. For instance, if any infantry regiment is detailed from time to time for artil- lery duty, it is likely that some one of the regiments will eventually ask for an artillery organization, or receive most kindly a proposition or order to become one. The machine gun bat tery is left as it is. It would be well, no doubt, if the machine guns were at tached one to each regiment and in~ fantrymen were trained in the use of the guns, but that with other changes undoubtedly will come in time.
 It will be seen that the main organ ization is put into more practical shape. The old congressional district lines have been retained so far as req sonable, the changes being in the inter ests of consolidation and efficiency. The present companies of the First re- main as they are and the Winsted company and Wi1limantic company are added to make up the complement of twelve. The Second regiment com panies are left unchanged and two va cancies for twelye-company formation are to be filled. The two new conn panies will make up in the aggregate for those disbanded at Westerly and New London. This general order ac- cepts the new company petitioned for by Danielson citizens and it is att tached to the Third. Then the Third and Fourth CWinsted) and one com pany of the Third CWillmantic) being assigned to the First, this uniting of, the Third and Fourth gives a new regi- ment of twelve companies. There will be one major in the eastern section and two in the western.
 The work has been aceomp lished in season for the beginning of the winter drills, next month and by spring the brigade ought to be in better shape than it has been the past two or three years. Tn case of emergency, state or national. it is decidedly more wieldy. The orders issued last night follow:
 State of Connecticut,
 Adjutant- G enera1s Office,
 Hartford. Oct 5, 1903.
 General Orders, No 26:
 Tn accordance with the decision of the board of organization Consisting of the commander-in-chief, adjutaI1t- general and brigadier-gener com manding brigade) and in order to con- form to the requirements of the na- tional5 militia law, the following changes in organizations of the Con- necticut National Guard are hereby or dered:
 I. The several companies comprising
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