The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-07-23
BIGGEST EVENT
In OUR HISTORY
COMING ENCAMPMENT OF THE
STATE GUARD WILL BRING
LARGEST CROWD IN
CITY'S HISTORY.
Battalion OF Regulars viii Attend,
Making a Total OF More Than
Two Thousand State and
National Soldiers.

That the encampment of the State
National Guard will bring to Colum-
bus the largest crowd that ever as
sembled here seems to be foregone
conclusion. Definite assurance that
the detachment Of regulars requested
from the United States army Will be
sent here has been received, and this
means that there will be more than
two thousand men in camp. Sixteen
hundred members Of the National
Guard will be in attendance, and the
five hundred regulars viii swell the
number 10 a total of twenty one
hundred.
IN addition to the military men,
Columbus may attain the honored
distinction OF having Hon. William
Jennings Bryan as her guset during
portion Of the time that the en-
campment is in progress. Colonel
Jno. P. Mayo, who was with Colonel
Bryan during the war with Spain,
and who knows him personally, last
week sent the commoner a telegram
urging him to come here and deliver
an address to the soldiers, and there
is good reason TO believe that the
invitation will be accepted. Colonel
Bryan is perhaps just now more
prominently before the public than
any other American citizen, and his
coming would be a big thing for CO.
lumbus. People would flock here
from all portions of this and other
States TO hear him speak, and the
encampment crowd would be swelled
TO tremendous proportions.
A notable event of the encamp-
ment will be the anniversary cele-
bration of the Columbus Rifemen,
which viii ltake place on Tuesday,
August 11th. This is one of the old
est military companies in the State,
having been organized August 18th,
1887, The company has an envia-
bic record on the field of battle. hav-
ing participated in the Mexican war,
the civil war and the war with Spain.
The company is IN splendid condi-
ton, and the anniversary Will be
celebrated in an elaborate manner.
A barbecue VIII be the principal fea-
ture Of the occasion, and the city
officials and other prominent citizens
will be invited
Last May congress passed a bill
increasing the pay Of soldiers, and
as the citizen soldiers receive the
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while in camp both officers and pri-
Yates who attend the coming en-
campment Will draw more than ever
before. The men VIII also be fed as
regular soldiers, the food being
wholesome in quality and abundant
IN quantity. The following rations
will be issued each day.
Twenty ounces of fresh meat, or
twenty ounces of mutton. or twelve
ounces of bacon; sixteen ounces of T
hard bread, sixteen ounces of pota-
toes. coffee, sugar, evaporated milk,
salt, pepper, etc.
The new pay list ranges as fol-
lows: Lieutenant general, s11, 600
per annum; major general, $4,000:
brigadier general, $4,000; colonel,
$4,000 per annum, s333.33 per
month, Sill per day; lieutenant
$4,000 per annum, s291.67
per month, 1912 per day; major,
S.. 200 per annum, $3.50 per month,
1888 per day; captain, $4,000 per
annum. $500 per month, $6.67 per
day. first lieutenant, $4,000 per an
num, $166.67 per month, s5.56 per
day; second lieutenant, S1,700 per
annum, s141.67 per month, s472
per day: chief musician and master
electrician, SIS per month; senior
sergeant majors, regular quarter SER !
seant, company first sergeants, SER
seant major of battalion, sergeant
major, quartermaster sergeant en-
sineer, each $40 per month, $3.50 {
Der day; junior sergeant major, bat J
alton sergeant major, field artillery J
chief trumpeters principal /
musician, each $40 per month, or ]
;133 per day; sergeants of engin- Y
ers, ordnance sergeants, signal corps I
nd bands, company quartermasters,
olor sergeant and drum major, each
'36 per month, or $1.20 per day; {
infantry. cavalry. artillery,
lospital corps, stable sergeant, COM
any quartermaster, sergeants infan-
ry, cavalry. artillery, cook. corpo- J
ais OF bands. fireman, each $50 per t