The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-21
TROOPS GO FOR DUTY
CAvALRYMEN WILL LEAVE FOR
 BIRMINGHAM.
order For Active Service Was Read At Dress Parade Yesterday Afternoon---Csmp Broken
 Last Night.

a week in summer practices, received orders to break camp. and all troops except Thoop s. of Camden, were or dered to prepare for journey to Bir- mingham this morning to relieve and reinforce infantrymen who have for the past few days been patroliug the mineral region to Quell strike disturb ances.
 It was an anxious day for the troop CTS. They have for three days now lived In expectation of active duty or- ders. At last they came. The men lost no nme in breaking camp. men. wagons and equipment by 9:30 o'clock last evening being seen in marching order. hurrying to the coaches on the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks.
 At about the same time the Cavalry men were ordered to march on Birm- ingham by command of the Governor, Capt. W. F. Longcrier, of Battery c, 1st Artillery. of Selma. received orr ders to leave last night for Birming- ham. The artillerymen are supposed to have left Selma last night at an early hour by the Southern Railway and arrived in Birmingham at II o'clock.
 The selma Battery. According to the orders issued both to Major E. k. Noble. commanding the Cavalry Squadron. and to Captain Long, crler of Battery c, the men are to re- port to Sheriff D. L. Higdon. of Jeffer- son County. immediately upon arrival in the Magic City. They are as the disposition of that officer.
 By command of the Governor. the following telegram was sent yesterday to Sheriff Higdon by Adjutant General Graves:
 Three troops of cavalry. Major B. F. Noble, commanding, Battery c, ist Artillery. Captain W. r. Longcrier. commanding, have been ordered into active service and report to you for duty. Battery c due in Birmingham at II p. m, goth inst, via Southern Railway. cavalry due morning 2ist. Will advise hour later"
 It Ia expected that the hour of arr rival of the cavalry will be at 10:3o o'clock this morning as the men will not go on a special train but will trav- el In extra coaches attached to the regular local passenger train depart ing from Montgomery at o'clock this mornig.
 Troop B, the Camden organization. who were excused from the active ser- vice order, left last night for their home. They have been in camp here since last Tuesday.
 Following Is a copy of the order sent yesterday by wire to Captain Long crler, practically duplicate of which was conveyed by messenger also to Major Noble at the local camp yester- day afternoon:
 "captain W. F. Longcrier, Command
 Ing Battery c. First Artillery. Ala
 baina National Guard, Selma Ala:
 "Battery Is hereby ordered into the active service of the State. Cap tain Longcrier will report to the sher- iff of Jefferson County, armed and equipped with rifles and revolvers and with ball cartridges for duty.
 "By command of the Governor.
 ''Bibb Graves.
 "Adjutant General"
 Cavalry WtIl Be Dism0unted.
 As the cavalrymen will be dismount- cd and the artillery will leave their guns behind, the attachments which will go to Birmingham will amount to no more than infantry. True there are already In Birmingham Gatling guns shipped Friday to that point by order of the Governor. but they are to be used only in case of dire emergency, 1t Ia understood. Last night the men were given several rounds of ball cart ridges and detailed orders preparatory for the trip to Birmingham were made clear to every man.
 The three troops of cavalry and the single battery of artillery will carry between 900 and 225 men to Birming. ham. It was said yesterday in high military circles that the attachments are to take the place of the infantry men who have been on duty near Bir- mingham for the greater part of the last week. Others, of a speculative turn, took this statement for what they believed 1t to be worth and added that the troops would not relieve the men already in the strike region but would reinforce them. The belief was ex- pressed that notwithstanding the sit- uation seemed encouraging between the strikers and operators, there was a latent fear of violent outbreaks wtich were better anticipated than not.
 Troops Break Camp.
 The troopers who broke camp yes- terday after day of guard duty cap- ped of with dress parade showed It, tie sign of deep concern about the trip to Birmingham. They had been ex- days and when the word came they were easily reconciled. It was disap- pointing in high degree to some of the boys who had arranged with their employers for only a weeks vacation. Still they considered the order for ac- i've service of paramount considera- ton and they philosophically dismissed tneir positions as citizens to be read justed as soon Gs they shall have served out their time in the Birminx- ham strife.
 An interesting bit of gossip yesteP- oay was to the effect that the brigade encampment. instead of being held in Cnickamauga Park. may be held in Bir- mingham. To many persons intimate with high authorities this seemed a very practical turn that the encamn- ment matter may take after all.
 The present status of the infantry encampment rests under an order of the Governor which postponed the ma neuvers that were to have begun next Thursday in Chattanooga to a week later. This was deemed wise by tha Governor and he So directed the Ad- Jutant General Sunday
 It is believed that the Governor will look with an economical eye on the encampment proposition. given ap- propriation of the States money will be spent in the encampment wherever held. The question arises if 1t were not better to mobilize the soldiers with out demonstration at a suitable point | in or near Birmingham where they | may go through the practices that had been set down for the Chickamauga | campaign. There they would he avail | able for the emergency now threaten ing among the strikers and there | would not be the extra expense of pos- | sibly drawing attachments at intervals | from Chiekamauga.
 The Suggested Plan. Then, too. the many thousands of | dollars necessary to transport the | troops to Chattanooga and back to | Alabama would be saved to the State | Treasury, which ls in no healthy con.