The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-07
To Fill Out the Roster Of the
First Regiment
IF CONDITIONS ARE MET
According to Letter Just Received Barre
Must Assure Suitable Men to Fill
the Company and Guaran-
tee an Armory.

| In advices Just received, Barre Is Of
! fered a charter in the Vermont Nationa
Guard, provided suitable men are secured
and provided also that proper armory
accommodations are arranged for. II
has been seven years since the old Com
pany e, which was one of the regiment
crack companies in its best days, wa:
disbanded in Barre and reorganized IN
Bellows Falls. Whether the military
spirit has revived enough here since that
time to warrant application for char.
ter remains to be seen.
In letter TO Capt. Newell Barber oil
Barre, a member OF Colonel 4. II. DwyeT's
staff, Admtant-General Lee s. Tillotsor
OF st. Albans announced that the choict
OF location for the twelfth company
in the regiment lies between Barre and
Burlington, it being second company
in Burlington il the choice turns that
way He writes that men and an armory
must be promised by Barre If it wishes
the company.
The number of men required is SO en-
listed men and three officers, not large
number by any means for a city with sc
many young men as Barre. Already
several men have approached Capt. Bar.
Der with requests that efforts be made
to get a company of the " n G. in
Barre, showing that the interest is con
siderably awakened If sufficient men
should be secured and charter be grant
cd them, they would find conditions
changed considerably since the old Com.
pany went out. For one thing, the
state now pays drill pay when two
thirds at least of the company respond
to the weekly drill. That furnishes IN.
centiye to the men TO attend drills and
thus maintains their efficiency in the
manual OF arms and marching.
Now, too, the Vermont National
Guard has a state range, where regi-
mental competition Is held preparatory
to selection Of team to represent the
state at the national camp in Perry, Ohio.
Moreover, the state intends to give aid
in the direction OF well-equipped arm
ories for the housing of the companies,
thus endeayoring to avoid the trouble
about renting quarters Another evil
deBce that the militia is coming into its
own 10 a bill before Congress which
contemplates increasing the pay OF the
men. Then again, there is the athletic
side Of military life. which is quite pro-
nounced nowadays. chiefly in basketball.
The question OF suitable armory will
not be so easily met as the enlistment
of men, for there are few floor spaces
in the city at the present time which
could be utilized for that purpose. That
would be perhaps the first matter to
consider in the placing of a company in
Barre.
At the present time there are eleven
companies in the regiment, being located
at Burlington, Rutland, Montpelier, st.
Albans, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, st.
Iohnsbury, Brandon, Woodstock, New
port and Northfeld Several members
of Company II in Montpelier are young
men from Barre, who appreciate the
military features enough to 60 to the
neighboring city.
II there are sufficient young men who
desire a new company in Barre, they
are asked to talk the matter over with
Capt. Barber who has volunteered to
use his efforts to secure the twelfth
charter in the regiment for Barre. The
present vacancy in the roster of the
regiment was caused by the recent dis
banding of Company X, which was To-
Gated at Bennington,