The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-30
MILITARY LEAVES
MOBILE SENDS STRONG SHOWING
 TO CaICkAMAUGA.
All Companies show Full Rolls and Enthusiasm Is Manff est--Mer- chants in City Not Grumb-
 ling Over Delay.

Mobile. July Especial )--with the band playing lively march tunes and amid applause from those who had gathered at the armory to see them on, the soldiers of the first bat talion. 1st Regiment Infantry, Ala bama National Guard. left their quart CTS shortly after II o'clock tonight on their trip to Capm Taft at chickarnau- ga Park. At their head and in com mand was Major John D. Hagen. whose voice as 1t rang out in command show ed that 1t ha dlost none of the fire of other days, and indeed the major Ioked as young. strong and hearty as the day on which he first donned q uniform.
 There were fully 2sO men in line as was shown by the muster roll of com panies. an evicence that the boys had gotten over their disappointment of a week ago. and also that they had been able to fix up the matter of delayed vacation. with their respective em- pIoyers. The officers of the different companies say that az far as they have bee nable to ascertain there were no serious complaints from the merchants and others of this city regarding the postponement. and that in but few instances were there found men who were unable to, go to camp by reason tharaof.
 The battalion .as 1t marched out Royal street to the Mobile and Ohio depot. made . ane apeararce and, nun ericaiiy it was up to standard Company D, the Gulf City Guards were lined up fully seventy-five strong. in the compony are men who can build q telegraph line, construct a bridge aud. in fact do almost anything that would he required of a corps of engineers. Nearly all of them are men who have mastered c trade and are competent mechanics. For this reason in partic- ular as we'll as others in general. com pany D is considered as e valuable unit of the 1st Regiment. The cons pany is commanded by Captain D. J. Groves who has for his lieutenants, Charles Hartford and Mir England.
 Company A and company D, the Mo- bile Cadets and the Mobile Rifles re- spectively, each had sixty-five men in line. the bulk of whom have served in their companies for several yearss The added recruits made a line showing and the manner In which they swung in step to the beat of the drum gave evidence of the carefullness of the manner in which they had been drilled during the past few weeks. Captain John Callahan commands company M and his lieutenants are L. Mountain and J. LuteF.
 The Cadets, company A. is command ed by Captain Frank Horton. whose Iieutenants are John Black and Johc Rutherford.
 Interest to some extent was centered in the Lomax Rifles, company B. Since the eneampment at Pickett Springs last year this company has un- dergone many changes and for the greater part of the time has been Al ~ Burgess, then lieutenant in the Gulf City Guards was unanimously elected to command the company. and since that tilns there has been a pev era in the Lonax Rifles. There number, ss they marched from the armory, was not as great as that of the other com panfes, being ffty-hve, but there are some sturdy youngsters among them woh bid fair to make excellent sol- diers. Already they have taken to drill, as Captain Burgess says, with a readiness that e duck takes to water, and the way they marched and hand led their guns would seem to indicate this Captain Burgess has as his lieu tenants, C. C. Cooper, who did much to hold tn ecommand together in it's dark days. The second Iieutenancy Is not filled. a fact that will make time at hecamp all the more interesting LO the NOiAP6hgs
 Under Chief Musician D. G. DraSo and Drum Major J. w. Farley. the band mustered sixteen pieces strong. With them Is the Chickamauga drum mer boy, Emile Verbeck. who forty four years ago rattIed the drum head on that field when he was with the 36th Alabama.
 The entire command was entrained with great rapidity, and few minutes after midnight the sections were pulled out from the Union Station. The first battalion of the 1st Regiment goes straight through the Chickamauga Park The other two battalions will be pick ed up by trains over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, with the exception of the Uniontown company which will reach Montgomery by way of Selma. At the capital city the battalions will be formed, each major taking charge of his own companies.