Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-09
GOv.J.N.GILLETT
REVIEWS TROOPS
AT ATASCADERO
FIGHTING FORCES PRESENT
IMPOSING PAGEANT
FIELD EQUIPMENT SAME AS IN
ACTUAL WAR
One More Case of Diphtheria Discov.
cred and TWO Are In Hospital,
but Neither in Danger
GUS Condition
rBy Associated Press.l

one of the finest military reviews
- ever held in camp or field on the
Pacific coast 5000 troops of all arms,
representing TIE organized fighting
force of one state and two ter
ritories regulars and militia, today
passed before Governor James n. Gill
lett of California.
Led by Col. Marion P. Maus, COM
manding the department of California,
the regulars from posts in California,
Arizona and New Mexico and the mill
tia of California and Arizona presented
a splendid and imposing pageant, made
all the more impressive by the field
equipment of the troops, as If actual
war, and the utter lack of everything
pertaining to dress parades and re-
views in cities. For over an hour COM
pany after company of infantry, squad
rons of cavalry, batteries of field guns,
signal ana hospital corps. marching In
close formation, filed past the governor
in the large plain to the west of the
camp, while three thousand people Sit
ting and standing under the beautiful
oak trees on the hills in the background
looked on.
Seventeen Guns Greet Governor
The thunder OF seventeen guns from
battery f of the First artillery, in COM
mand of Lieut.. Naylor, this morning
announced the arrival in camp of the
state executive. Governor James ~.
Gillett, who reviewed the combined
forces this afternoon. Governor Gill
lett, accompanied by Congressman
julius Kahn and six officers of the
governors staff, arrived at Paso Robles
Hot springs last night, where he was
met by Col. Marion p. Maus, COM
manding the joint military maneuvers
at Camp Atascadero; Gen. ]. b.
Lauck, adjutant general of the state;
other officers and the Second infantry
band. The party remained at Paso
Robles last night and came to the
camp this morning.
Under the direction of Major Dun
ming, aid to Col. Maus, Acting Major
Faulkner, commanding the artillery,
directed Lieut. Nayior to take po-
sition on the right side of the road
near Atascadero creek along which the
governor would come, with battery
of his three-inch field guns. Lieut..
Paul w. Beck, chief signal officer, sent
detachment of signal corps to lay a
wire along the road for half a mile to
signal the approach OF the state exec
utive.
Salute Executive
As the governor. the commander-in-
chief and party approached at $3.50 q
salute of seventeen guns doomed out.
The governor, accompanied by Col.
Maus, Gen. Lauck. Congressman Kahn
and the governors staff, then made
an inspection of the encampment, Wis
iting the camps of all the regulars and
militia.
The governor again and again ex-
pressed his pleasure at what he saw
and repeatedly complimented Col.
Maus upon the splendid camp which
he had established, as we'll as COM
mending the officers for the excellent
showing they made.
Upon being taken through the tent
ed field hospital by Capt. A. E. TRULY,
the officer in charge, the governor ex-
pressed his astonishme-' at the COM
pleteness of such an institution in the
field and stopped to inquire of some of
the patients how they were getting
along.
At 1880 the officers of all the
troops in camp appeared at the head
and were presented to the governor by
Col. Maus.
Luncheon to Governor
At noon the commanderin-ch chief gave
a luncheon to the governor, to which
were invited Maj. John T. Knight of
the general staff, who arrived last
detailed as an observer at the man
euvers for the general staff; Colonels
Frederick A. Smith and w. s. Schuy-
Ter; Lieutenant Colonels Moon, Brain
ard, Bellinger, Biddle, Bennett; Majors
Dunning. Keefer and Picket of the reg
ular troops and General Lauck, Gem
erals WanlSowski and Roster, Colonels
McClintock, Bradbury, Wilhelm, Ander-
son, Amweg, Seymour. Smith and
Schneider, of the militia.
During the cavalry evolutions this
j. B. Carricol of Sacramento,
a member of Troop B, state cavalry,
fully but not seriously injured. He re-
ceived long laceration in the face
and his right shoulder was badly
bruised.
Sergt. e. A. seeley of the regular
signal corps had his left eve blown out
while standing by a camp fire last
night by a cartridge which had been
thrown into the fire by some one.
Following the isolation yesterday of
Samuel Searle of Sacramento, a MEM
ber OF company L, Fifth infantry, Ma
tional Guard, who is i'll with diphtheria,
Sam Harris, a member of company A,
Samuel Searle, was taken down with
this morning and placed in
the isolation ward.
Major Keefer, chief surgeon, stated
that both cases were of mild form,
and no apprehension need be felt re-
garding their recovery. AS a precau-
tionary measure, however company A
has been separated from the rest OF the
regiment.
GREAT NORTHERN ELECTS