The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-10
OH! SO GLADl
 HOME AT LAST Montgomery Re turn from Strike Duty. RECEIVED FINE TREATMENT Paid Off an Hour Before De-
 parture. They Engaged in No Actual Fighting. But were on Duty All the Time
 Under Nervous strain Ex-
 pectlng an Attack.

Bedraggled but not dispirited, Troop A. under command of Capt. w. F. Lee, and about sixty men of Battery B. rep resenting the Montgomery military which has been stationed nearly two weeks at Birmingham. came into their own at o'clock yesterday morning, whe en the Louisville and Nashville train pulled into the Union Station. The remainder of the Battery, under the command of Capt. George Todd, arrived in the city last night.
 The strains of "dome. Sweet Home." were not heard as the sun-tanned boys alighted from their stuffy coaches yes- terday morning and night. but expan- sive smiles displayed buoyant disposi- tions and rising spirits at the sight of the familiar town.
 .'Birmingham is q great city, and those miners are interesting creatures, and we had a swell time and the folks treated us royalty" stated many of the ones returned, but let the Barons en- joy the slaspils. We love home and liberty.s
 Everyone was really delighted at being in Montgomery again without having accumulated bumps upon his head from carelessly hurled missiles of stone, not to speak of lead pellets in his body from weapons pointed with evil intent. All of the boys reported that the bad, bad miners appeared very tractable during their stay in the storm threatened precincts around Bir- mingham though they declared that they always had a little feeling of expectaney that something might hap pen. Happily nothing did, that Is nothing very awful. and with the ex- ception of \ few members of the troops all were tn good health after their term of service.
 Major B. F. Noble did not return with his troop and 1t is probable that he will remain in Birmingham for some time upon official business. Ex- actly what position he will be assign ed to is not known.
 Many favorable comments were heard yesterday and last night con- cerning the hospitality dispensed by Birmingham people to the local mili- tary forces encamped near there. 'Cap- tain Lee of Troop A was enthusiastic in speaking of the kind treatment re- ceived by the Montgomery boys. Their duties were made as pleasant as pos- sibla, he stated, by co-operation on the part of the people of that city and so. cial pleasures were provided for their entertainment. ssl
 The opinion has been generally ex- pressed by those who went to Birming- ham that their experiences there was invaluable ana far exceeded the bene- fits which could have been derived by a stay of similar length at camp Chick amauga. The principal duties of the local military consisted in serving as escorts to the strike breakers, in rnak- ing frequent 'hikes" throughout the section In which they were stationed and in routine military work.
 The financial fruits of the Birming- ham campaign will ripen in Montgon- cry for though the boys were paid off in Birmingham they spent hardly a cent in that city. The reason how ever is not economic or patriotic. It was impossible that anything else could come to pass Just an hour before their traIn; yesterdHy morning. pulled out of the station in Birmingham for Montgomery, at about 3 o'clock in the morning. they were paid off and time was given, them after that episode only to prepare for the home trip Thus it happens that all of the money due them for their entire term of ser- vice in the mining town is likely eventually to find its way into the cof- fers of Montgomery merchants.
 The boys arc therefore both happy and prosperous and they feel that good times are yet to come