New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-02-03
GuROSMEh ASK INCREASE
Want Their Appropriations Raised
to Two Millions.
One Request of Interstate Nation.
al Guard Association.

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al Guard Association.
Gen. Joseph Bobleter Returned
Saturday From St. Augustine.
Brigadier General Joseph Bobleter
returned home Saturday night from
ST Augustine, Florida, where, with
Major Geo. G. Lambert, commander
of the Minnesota artillery battalion,
he went as delegate from this state
to the national convention of the Inter-
State National Guard association.
The two Gopher officers report very
p1eant trips both going and coming,
and also that the convention was most
profitable.
They left ST. Paul on Thursday,
January 2lst, and reached st. Angus
tine the following Saturday evening
about 10 O'Clock, going by way of Chi
cago. Three days and half were
spent in that city and they then went
to Jacksonville, Fla. Leaving there
Thursday morning they reached st.
Paul two DAYS later and Gen. Bobleter
arrived in New Ulm Saturday night.
This years meeting of the militia
men was very largely attended, over a
hundred delegates being present. Near
~ every state in the Union was repre-
sented and the Southern states sent
large delegations, as did also Pennsyl-
vania, which had twenty seven officers
at the convention. They were enter
tanned royalty: as the Florida N ational
Guard association spared no pains to
make the stay of their guests enjoy
able.
AS far as results were concerned the
convention was very important and it
should prove helpful to the national
guard all over the country. A reso-
tuition was passed asking that con-
gress increase the government ap-
preparation from one to two millions
OF dollars and the delegates also
petitioned the additional concession of
extending the Thanking privilege to
officers of the national guard.
Permission to contract for clothing
and other supplies was asked by the
states. At the present time the govern
ment is unable to supply uniforms fast
enough to meet the demand and it
will be two or three years before all
the state organizations can be fitted
out. To relieve this shortage it is
proposed to have each state arrange
for its own uniforms from some cloth
ing contractor. The expense would be
no greater and it is understood that
the officials of the war department
favor the plan.
Forage for cavalry and artillery
horses is another thing craved by the
guard and if their request is granted
it will greatly increase the efficiency
of these arms of the service. The
passage of bill of that nature would
mean that the Minnesota artillery bat
TALON could own its horses and would
not be dependent upon unframed ami
mails hired for short periods upon
long occasions.
On the second day of the convention
there was quite a pretty contest for the
honor of entertaining the delegates in
1905. Gen. Bobleter and Major Lam.
bert were among the first to reach ST.
Augustine and they lost no time in
urging the claims of St. Paul, SO thai
| when the Pennsylvania delegation
reached the convention and proposed
the city of Pittsburg they found them,
selves forestalled. They had brought
an invitation from the governor of the
state and Columbia, S. c., was also in
the field but when the matter was put
| to vote ST. Paul was given the pref.
erence by three ballots to one. Subse.
quently this was made unanimous and
the meeting will probably be held dur.
ing the early part of June.
| General Bobleter says that he found
st. Augustine, the Oldest city in the
United States, a place of about 6,0O(
Inhabitants. 1t has many quaint an6
ancient buildings and those in the ole
section of the town are built along the
streets in a hap-hazzard manner
without regard to surveyors lines. Il
that quarter the principal street is no
more than thirty feet wide and its APP
pearance is most unique.
| Many of the streets Of the town are
paved and the balance are bedded with
sea-shells, answering the purpose O
macadam. In the Spanish quarter
there are no sidewalks and pedestrians
must elbow their way along in thu
| middle OF the streets as best they may
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