Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-04
End INFANTRY
Will Assemble Monday
For State Muster.
Camp {. D. Keyes Will Have
Many Modern Features.
Col. Hume VIII Establish Depart.
ment headquarters, Saturday.

| The camp of the I'd Infantry y. G
| S. NJ, at the State Muster field at Au-
| gusta, August to Is. will be the first
| to be held in this city for two years,
the I'd Regiment in 1910, participating
for 10 days in a Regular Army camp
of instruction. held for 10 days. be-
ginning August II at Pine Camp, JEFF
ferson county, New York As has al
ready been stated the camp this year
at Augusta will be named Camp Z. D..
keyes. which was the name given to
the camp established on the same site.
August 20, 1862. 1t was originally de-
signed to call the camp. Camp Plaisted,
and it vas so designated in the orig
| inal orders issued from the office of the
adjutant general. but at the request of
| Governor Plaisted the name was
changed, and Special orders No. ia
issued, Thursday forenoon, from the
office of the adjutant general amend
the general orders issued in regard to
the encampment several weeks ago. so
as to provide for the change. This is
the first time the State Militia encamp-
ment has borne the name of any per-
son except a Governor of the State
since the days of the Civil War.
The camp will be a thoroughly new
one in many respects and will conform
in as many ways as possible to the
idea of the last mobilization in Texas,
to which many Maine officers. includ-
| ing Col Hume. the commander of the
| I'd Regiment. were sent for observation.
Two very important changes will be
| the discarding of the old kitchen and
mess halls. which will be replaced by
| the more sanitary regulation field mess
Ioutfts, and the establishment of a
regiment canteen which will contain
| such stores as men have been obliged
| in years past to go down town to OBJ
| tain. The feeding and subsisting of
the men will be as near actual war
| conditions as possible. detailed ac-
count of these changes which will
make Camp E. D. Reyes differ in many
respects from the camps which have
preceded it. has already been given in
| the Journal.
Col Frank NJ Hume of Houlton. the
commanding officer of the I'd Infantry.
will establish his headquarters at
Camp e. d. Keyes. at noon, Saturday
August ). Lieut.. Butcher. 18th In
| fantry, L. S. A. who has been de-
tailed as inspector and instructor for
the camp from the regular army. will
also arrive in Augusta so as to report
| TO Governor Plaisted. Saturday, as per-
manent instructor and inspector. He
will be under canvass with the reei-
ment in the field during the entire en-
Icampment.
| The train schedule for the movement
of the I'd Infantry from the home sta
! tons to Augusta, Monday, August Z
was made public in orders issued
| Thursday morning, from the office OF
the adjutant general. Co. A will leave
| Pittstield at about $40 A. NJ. on
special train, following Train 64; Co. e
will leave Rumford Falls at $50 A. M.
on Maine Central train No. 212. con-
Meeting at Lewiston with Train 5
leaving at a.15 A. NJ, arriving at Win
throp at 1912 A. NJ, thence by cleo
tries to Augusta; Co. C. will leave
Livermore Falls at 9 A. NJ. on Train
90. connecting at Leeds Junction with
Train s. arriving at Winthrop at 1O.1:
A. M, thence by electrics to Augusta
Co. d will leave South Paris at $50 A.
NJ. on Grand Trunk train connecting al
Yarmouth Junction with Maine Cen
trail train No. /, leaving Yarmouth
junction at 1.2S A.. NJ, and arriving in
Augusta at sos A. NJ, Co. E will leave