The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-18
BURLINGTON is MILITARY
City Expects to Have Entire Batta
ion in the Guard

ion in the Guard
II is possible that within a year or
more. Burlington, which for many
years has had but one company OF
the Vermont National Guard, may
quarter an entire battalion OF four
companies, with total enlisted
strength OF some two or three hun
dred men, under command of an Off.
Ger with the rank OF major.
This possibility gathers strength
from the fact that Bennington has
been unable TO recruit and re-organ-
iZe Company X In manner satisfac-
tory to the state military authorities,
or in numbers that give promise that
the company. II reorganized there.
would be able to maintain the requr-
ed standard of efficiency
Adjutant General Lee S. Tillotson
and Lieut.. John b. Barnes OF the 9Th
u. s. Infantry. the inspector instruc-
tor of the LIST infantry. v n. G., went
TO Bennington last Tuesday night TO
muster in and re-organize Company
X. which was disbanded In June. But
the number OF men on the new roster
was not sufficient to justify re-organi-
zation and the project TO maintain a
company of the LIST infantry TO Ben
nington was definitely abandoned.
on account of the disbanding OF
Company X. the LIST infantry went to
muster at Camp Governor Mead In
September with only IL companies.
When second company was first
proposed for Burlington II was ex'
pected that II would be known as
Company X. But the citizens OF Ben
nington started a movement 10 reor-
ganize their company. and the new
company here finally took the letter
c. that of the company at Brandon,
which was disbanded since the en-
campment. That next company to
be organized, wherever IL may be
located, will, OF course, take the let
ter X.
A number OF villages in this state
have signifed their desire TO have
the new company, but II is question
able II a company can be kept up,
both as to personnel and efficiency,
in the smaller communities. Expert
ments along this line In the past
have usually not been crowned with
success. To place a company where
It's permanent maintenance is prob
lematical is regarded as the worst
kind of temporizing and makeshift.
For some time the practicability OF
organizing a company OF the first in
| fantry at the state university has
been under consideration, and when
Bennington failed to come back,
the matter was taken up between the
state and college authorities. Presi
dent Benton and the faculty think
well OF the proposition. and on Thurs
day, when the matter was presented
to the faculty by Capt Harold l.
Jackson, military instructor at the
university. Il was decided to permit
the organization OF college compan,
Captain Jackson and Lieutenant Bar
mes will meet the sophomore class OF
Saturday afternoon. when the ques
ton will be entered into in detail.
The detachment hospital corps o
"a men located at Burlington Is to b.
transferred to some other town-pos
sibly to Brandon, where the state al
ready has armory accommodations
This village found {, impracticable L
maintain a company of IS men. but l
is thought that the smaller organiza
ton will be kept up to full strength
there.
This decision involves the dis
charge and transfer 70 local organ
ization OF the personnel OF the pres
ent hospital detachment aud make
Il possible to give Company CON
pany armary accommodation In tn
quarters on Bank street. which are q
be made vacant by the transfer O
the hospital detachment Throug
this arrangement, Companies NJ an
G. will each have their own quarters
instead Of occupying the armory o.