The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-10
BLUES GO AGAIN
TO new ENGLAND
Are Excused From Attendance
on Joint Manoeuvrc Camp at
Mt. Gretna.
SPEND WEEK WITH FRIENDS
Providence, Hartford and New
Haven Will Be Visited by
Battalion.
SPEND WEEK WITH FRIENDS

BY special orders, Governor William
Hodges Mann has excused the Rich
mond Light Infantry Blues from attend
ance upon the joint manoeuvre Damp
to be held during the coming sum-
NOR at Mount Gretna, Pa While the
remainder of tho Virginia militia VIII
go to this camp. unless Mexican affairs
should Intervene, the Blues will DO abb
! sent.
Instead. the vacation OF the members
pleasure trip. In September the Blues
Will visit their old friends In New
! England for one long. crowded. pleas
ure- filled wsek. They Will be the
guests of the Providence Light Infan-
try, of Rhode Island. and OF the First
| and Second Companies Of tho Cover
Dor's Foot Guards, at Hartford and
| they will stop In Now York for a day.
Want Vacation to Fit.
All of yesterday Richmond employers
were hesieged by requests TO make the
vacation season this year include tho
period between September Il and Sep
| TENDER %. with perhaps a day or two
later. to allow a margin for recupera-
tion which may be necessary. as re-
suit of fatigue. From this moment tho
Richmond Blues will begin to plan for
ono OF that series OF interchange of
visits which has made the acauaint-
anceshin with the Now England COM
mand SO delightful.
kilograms from Providence, Hart
ford and New Haven tell OF the pr,pa-
: rations that are going on. The mill
tary companies in those cities express
delight that the Blues are to come
again. and they promise that evsry
moment of their tlmo shall be fully
| occupied.
The formal excuse from the Mount
Gretna encampment was secured from
| Governor Mann without much trouble.
| Whistler military funds are not alto
| gether so plentiful as in former years.
or whether some other reason was up
| permost. the papers were readily
| signed 1t would have been manifestly
impossible for many 0. tho men to
secure two periods OF absence from
their business in ono year. and II camp
| duty were enforced Il would hay,
meant a foregoing OF the hoped for
! trip to New England. No poll has been
| taken, but 1t is believed that practi-
cally every officer and enlisted man In
| the Blues Battalion Will report for
| duty when the trip IS begun
Itinerary OF Trip,
An OLD Dominion steamer will take
the battalion from Newport News TO
! Providence. The start from Richmond
will be on Saturday afternoon. Septem-
Der II. BY Sunday night the party
will be in Providence. ready for what
ever experience fate and tn, Light In
fantry OF that city may ordain Two
| days viii be spent in the Rhode Island
pital, and then the boys will HE 10
Hartford. The First Company OF Gov
| ernor's Foot Guards was in Richmond
| only last year. and the memories OF
those days are fresh. Governor Simeon
e. Baldwin will no doubt be seen and
heard from, as he was at the Ma sonio
| Temple here last October.
New Haven will next be visited
where the Second Company OF Guards
| Will be the hosts. Those who are BILE
to tear themselves away Will get to
New York for a day before thu boa,
1 sails for Newport News and for home
1t Is hoped to make a getaway from
New York on Sunday. September %
so that the return to Richmond may
be accomplished before very much OF
the business Of Monday, the beginning
of the week, Is transacted