Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-26
TO WORK WITH REGULARS
Uncle Sam Wlll Fay Troops State
 Will naKe Up Difference.

Hartford, May 26.-"I have no doubt the soldiers will like the duty at Man. sassas,' said Acting Brigadier General Schulze to q reporter yesterday after noon. My belief is that the men will not be so hard worked there as they are Ut Mantle. They certainly won't have to keep changing their bill of dress from khaki to blue and back again, with the intermission of white trousers, as they do at Mantle, accord ing to the kind of drill or ceremony or dered.
 Tt should be fine thing for the officers and men and much good should result from that tour of ten days duty ill Virginia Many men are anxious to 20 and there are others who don't want to, but my impression is that the brigade will go down there with fuller ranks than ill camp. Why, yes, they will be rather remote from their base of supplies, but that won't matter, the commissary department will supply all that's needful for the tour of duty, and things that are not needed had better be left at home.
 ''It will not be practicable to carry excess baggage, for the government will furnish transportation and won't pay for the transportation of such Q lot of baggage as the troops usually carry into camp.
 The proposed location of the troops is healthful one and there's no req son any soldier should be taken sick, barring an epidemic, if he takes care of himself, goes to bed at night, eats carefully drinks moderately and bathes frequently. Many men are quite anxious to go, others will un- doubtedly ask for their discharge. Those who do not go will regret it, In my Judgment.
 ''The men will learn lot of things among them how to march quite long distance without fatigue. They will be- surprised how far they can travel with easy shoes well soled, if they are ill good form. They may pc called at night to march six or eight miles to a point which they are to de- fend the next day, but they will not mind it, it will be like little excur- sion into the country.
 .'I like the idea and think that the more it is considered the better it will appear to the troops. Certainly the tour of duty with the regulars should be of great advantage to the officers Of the brigade, and, while the officers are learning the enlisted men are also acquiring information and knowledge Governor Chamberlin asked my views about the tour some time ago and we had quite talk about it. Of course, having spent several months in that country with my regiment in 1898, during the Spanish war, knew some thing about the place and gave the governor my information.
 II expect a pleasant time with my MHn nxaH think the tour of duty will be of much value to the National guard. There will be considerable saving for the state, for there is no necessity of pitch ing a camp at Mantle, an expensive job as thoroughly done by the state. The government will pay the troops, government pay, and the state will make up the difference between United States pay and state pay. The state will save all the expense Of rationS, transportation and many other items which go to make up the cost of an encampment of the National guard at Mantle Officers, and possibly the men may miss some of the creature com forts which the state has been in the habit of furnishing, such as barrels of ice water, well furnished latrines, etc, and it will probably be difficult for them to fill up with the soldiers piece de resistance-pie, but there'll be plenty of good wholesome food. Uncle Sam is well known as generous pro- wider, and the duty will not, I think, prove very arduous."
 Colonel Henry c. Morgan, assistant quartermaster general, said that Ad- jutant General Cole was expecting soon to hear from General Corbin, SJ l east, at Governors island, more of the details, what troops would be there, whether the government would furnish transportation from home sta tion or some place of rendezvous with in or without the state. He, too, thought that such a tour of duty as proposed at Manassas would be of much value to the National guard.