Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-05
STATE HOUSE.
Complete Itinerary for Inspec-
ton of National Guard.
Forest Fire at EI|iottsvi||e, Piscata-
quis County, Is Out.
Governor Hill Invited to Attend Ohio's
Coming Celebration.

The complete itinerary for the inspec-
ton of the organization of the Ma
tional Guard of Maine, which Capt.
| Dwight r. Aultman, u. S. A., is to con-
| duct, has been prepared at the office of
| the acknowledgement. The first inspec-
ton took place last evening at Auburn,
when Co. C, First Regiment, was eX-
amined. The other inspections will
occur as follows:
Portland-Signal Corps, Wednesday,
May 6; Co. A, First Regiment, Thurs
day, May Z; Co. L, First Regiment, Fri
day, May s.
Lewiston-Co. I. First Regiment,
ment. Tuesday, May II; Ambulance
Corps, Wednesday, May 10; Co. B, Sec
ond Regiment, Friday, May IS.
| Westbrook-Co. NJ, First Regiment,
Monday, May IS.
| Rockland-Co. H. First Regiment,
Tuesday. May 10.
Bath-Co. C, Second Regiment
Wednesday. May 20.
| Farmington-Co. X, Second Regi-
ment. Thursday, May q.
| Brunswick-Co. *, First Regiment
| Friday. May %.
Eastport-Co. I, Second Regiment
Monday. May 25.
Houlton-Co L. Second Regiment
Wednesday. May q.
| Bangor-Co. G. Second Regiment
Friday. May 30.
| Dover-Co. f. Second Regiment, Mon
day, June l.
! Skowhegan-Co. E, Second Regi-
/ ment. Tuesday, June 2.
/ Waterville-Co. II, Second Regiment
Wednesday, June 3.
/ AuguSta-Co. NJ, Second Regiment,
Thursday June 4.
Gardiner-Co. A, Second Regiment,
Friday. June 5.
| NorWay-Co. d, First Regiment,
| Tuesday, June 9.
| Biddeford-Co. G.. First Regiment
Wednesday, June 10.
| SanfOrd--Co. f, First Regiment,
Thursday. June II.
Portland-Co. B, First Regiment,
Monday. June IS; Co. Z, First Regi-
ment. Tuesday, June 16
| The inspections or all the companies
will take place on regular drill nights,
with the exception of the new COM
panies in Waterville, Augusta and San
| ford. The hour for the inspection to
| begin in each case is s o'clock in the
evening.
| In reference to the new national mill
| tary law which provides for the in
spection of the National Guard organi-
cations of the several states by
officers of the regular army, a well-in-
! formed writer says: :
When the bill was under considera-
| ton in Congress its enemies said that
| the inspections would create bad blood ;
| that the inspections would give the
| regulars an opportunity to make fun of
| the guardSmen and subject the citizen
| soldiery to humiliation and ridicule
| The inspections are about to take place
| in this State and it is predicted that
| there will be no friction between the
inspectors and the Inspected and that
| the officers who come here to muster
| with the critics eye their comrades of
| the first reserve and report to their su-
| periors what they saw will neither rid
icule nor humiliate the guardsmen
They will find nothing to ridicule, al
| ticuSH iHty may, IOOhllS upon lHc
State troops with the eyes of profess
| sional soldiers, find cause for some
criticism. In the organizations where
| the club spirit predominates, as well
| as in the bodies where no social lines
| are drawn, in the large cities and in the
| small towns, there has been so much
| improvement in the National Guard
that with few exceptions. officers will
welcome the regular army inspectors
and feel satisfied that the condition of
| their commands will not be found dis
| creditable to the State.
| THE visits of the officers of the reg
ular establishment will have an educa-
| tional effect also on the professional
soldiers. 1t cannot be denied that they
have looked down upon the National
Guardsman as an, amateur, and have
| often used the prefixes paper and
| tin in speaking of the citizen soldier.
On closer acquaintance they will find
the Guardsman worthy of the title sol :
der, and of the respect of his profess
sional comrade. The inspector will
probably be surprised in many in
stances to see that men engaged in
business, whose time is taken UP by
their various vocations, who have little
time to devote to their duties as
Garland of Monson that the fire in the
they are, and that the true soldier spirit
is so well developed in the organization
of which they are members.
II ION the whole, instead of provoking
II displeasure and anger, as some people
predicted they would, the visits of the
regular army representative will pro-
mote good fellowship between the two
branches of the service, which by the
h operation of the new law have been
brought closer together than they have
ever been before"
II Forest Commissioner Ring was, yes
terday notified by Forest Fire Warden
Garland of Monsoon that the fire in the
woods in Eliottsvile plantation in
Piscataquis county. had been extin-
guished, after burning some two or
three days. The fire started along the
/ line of the Canadian Pacific railroad.
which runs through that territory. and
was probably caused by sparks or live
| Goals from a locomotive belonging to
that company. The railroad company
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