The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-17
MEN OF FIRST TO COME TODAY Regiment Camps at Pickett
 Springs. 600 SOLDIERS EXPECTED Colonel duM0nt and Staff Pleased With Location. First Dress Parade at O'Clock This Evening, When Camp Will Be
 Named-Four Mobile Con-
 panies Coming.

nual practice encampment at ficket' Springs Special cars of the Traction Company will be in waiting at the Union Railway Station and the men will be hurried away to the suburban resort. By nightfall the regimental en- campment will be in perfect running order.
 The first dress parade of the regi- ment will take place at 6 o'clock this evening, with Col. Robert B. du Mont' of Mobile, commander of the regiment, in command. At this time the camp will be formally named and other or ders for the conduct of the soldiers during their stay of one week in Mont gomery will be promulgated.
 Colonel du Mont and most of the members of his staff are already in Montgomery. The headquarters tent and the living tents of the officers have been pitched at Pickett Springs and the officers slept there last night.
 Members of the StaM.
 The regiment Is officered as follows: Robert B. du Mont, Mobile. Colonei; Graph J. Hubbard. Troy. Lieutenant- Colonel; A. l.. Williams, Dothan, Ma tor; Frank P. Folmar. Troy. Major; Howard Gaillard. Mobile. Major; Major w. H. Oates. Mobile. Surgeon; Capt. J. G. Thomas, Mobile. Assistant Sur geon; Capt James M Watkins, Troy,
 
 ridge. Mobile. Adjutant: Capt. G. M. Van Liew, Mobile. Quartermaster; Capt. A. E. White. Mobile, Commissary; Capt. w. k. Mickle, Mobile, Inspector of Rifle Practice; Capt. F. M MaddAy. Mobile. Instructor of the Guard: CaN. Julius A. Smith, Mobile. Ordnance Officer; Capt A. c. Harte. Mobile. Chaplain' : jor; G. M Van Liew, Jr, Mobile, Quar- termaster Sergeant, and William Mo- Cowan, Mobile, Commissary Sergeant.
 Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard is i'll at his home In Troy and 1t is doubtful if he will attend the camp. Major Gail lard of Mobile has just rendered his resignation to Colonel du Mont and his battalion, the Third, will be command ed during the camp by Capt. John D. Hagan of Mobile, the senior captain of the regiment.
 Arrival of Companies. The schedule for the arrival or the companies forming the 1st Infantry In Montgomery today is as follows: Com pany F, from D0than, and Company Ii from Troy, will arrive on the regular Atlantic Coast Line train at S:05 o'clock this morning; Company c, from Ge- neva, will arrive on the regular l.. and N. train ct 10:30; the four Mobile com panies, A, B, E and M. Company D from Fort Deposit Company G from Brew ton, and Company K from Evergreen will reach Montgomery on a special train over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at 12 o'clock. Company l. from Enterprise will arrive here on the Atlantic Coast Line train at 6:15 o'clock this evening. and Company l.. from Uniontown, including the Marion de- tachment will reach Montgomery at 6:20 D. m. over the Western Railroad.
 The railroad companies and the stree. railway companies have been advised that 1t is douptful if any of these com panies will consist of less than nfty men, Officers of the regiment express ed confidence yesterday evening that fully 800 men would be in the Pickett Springs camp before nightfall this evening.
 The arrangements for transporting the men and their baggage to the 1st regiment camp grounds Is admirable The regimental paraphernalia in car load lots Was switched from the tracks of the Western Railroad near Athletic Park and the cars were run over the lines of the Traction Company direct to the camp ground.
 General Manager w. H. Rasland of the Traction Company said yesterday that he had made perfect arrangements for hauling the soldiers from the union railway station to Pickett Springs to- day. He will give the movement of the cars his personal attention and a sufficient number of cars will be pro- vided to prevent any delay.
 Pleased With Camp Site
 Officers of the regiment who are all ready here, including Colonel duMont himself. are enthusiastic in their praise of the site selected for the camp. It is just east of the railroad terminals at Pickett Springs, the drill grounds lying Just across the tracks from the park proper The parade ground has been rolled and the rain yesterday will make 1t firm and solid today.
 Most of the utility tents for the camp have been already stretched. The soldiers will pitch their own tents un- der the direction of company sergeants as fast as they alight from the cars at the grounds Lights, perfect water supply and sanitary provisions have been made. An immense flag pole has also been erected and mammoth United States flag will be foated over the camp.
 General Barry L. Holt, ouartermaster General of the National Guard. was at the camp all of yesterday assisting the officers in the routine of arranging for the men who are to come today.
 Incidents Recalled at Supper.
 General Holt and Judge Thomas G. Jones were Ruests of Colonel duMont and his staff at supper yesterday even ing. Judge Jones. as Is well known. was for many years the commander of the old End regiment and later as Gov ernor of the State was commander-in- chief of the guard. He referred yes terday evening with pride to the fact that 1t was on the grounds at Pickett Springs a score of years ago that the men of his old regiment presented him with a splendid watch, which he now wears, the presentation speech being made by Governor ONeal.
 Reference to this happy incident of bygone years brought out the fact tat twenty-three years ago when the regi- ment of Judge Jones was encamped at Pickett Springs he appointed Gen eral Holt, then a private in the cavalry troop. ouartermaster of the regiment This was the beginning or a service by Colonel Holt that has been invaluable to the State Guard. Later as Governor of Alabama Judge Jones appointed General Holt quartermaster general and every succeeding Governor has continued him in the place.
 And" said a member of the supper nartv "the officers of the Guard would be lost without General Holt to care for the supplics. Every officer loves him and knows his worth His services are beyond estimauon'
 While no social analrs are contem- plated at the camp of the list infantry Colonel duMont said yesterday that he hopea the people of Montgomery would visit the camp and that everything would be done to provide for the com fort of visitors
 = A novel feature of the camp of the