Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-01
JERSEY BRIGADE
TO HONOR WILSON
Military Unit of $500 Troops
to Be Transported to Wash
ington for Inaugural.
GFrom n stan Correspondent

II rom sum Correspondents
TRENTON, n. j., March Final
details were completed yesterday by
Adiutant-General Wilbur F. Sadler
and Quartermaster-G General c. Edward
Murray for sending the New Jersey
troops to Washington next week, for
participation in the inauguration of
Governor Wilson as President of the
United States. The troops to be sent
to Washington under the $780, 600 APP
preparation authorized by the pres
ent Legislature will comprise the
Second, Third and Fourth Regiments,
the First CEssex) Troop of Cavalry
and the Signal Corps In military
parlance. it will be a tactical unit
composed of fun infantry brigade,
with the addition of the cavalry and
the signal corps
It was said In the adjutant- gen
erals office that it will he one of the
finest military representations this
State has ever sent anywhere. The
three regiments will be recruited to
the full peace footing of siXty-eight
men and three officers to a company.
Each regiment will have twelve COM
panies, so that there will be more
than $500 National Guardsmen in the
command. The soldiers will wear
olive-drab uniforms, caps and over
coats.
Acting Governor James f. Fielder
| hi cta oil mount ad
and the members of the staff in full
uniform will march at the head of
| the New jersey troops in the in
augural procession which will be re-
viewed by President Wilson in front
of the White House. The members
of General Fielder's staff will be:
Adjutant- General Sadler, Colonel
| Thomas II. Birch, of Burlington. Just
appointed personal aide to the Acting
Governor: Lieutenant-C Colonel William
| G. Sehauff1er, of Lakewood; L.euten-
ant-Colonel William Libbey, of
Princeton Captain Ralph W. e..
Donges, of Camden, and Captain
George F. Perkins, jr.. of Jersey City.
Commanding officers.
The troops will be in command of
ANllnE Johb ~
Mather. of Camden, recently detailed
to the brigad.er generalship to sue
coed General Dennis f. Collins, of
Elizabeth, promoted by Governor
Wilson, as commander-in- chief, to
the office of major general, command
ing the entire division of the New
| Jersey National Guard. The other
commanding officers will be as fol-
lows:
Second Regiment. Colonel Horace
NJ. Reading, of Stockholm; Third Regi-
ment. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas d.
Landon, of Bordentown; Fourth
Regiment. Colonel Henry H. Brinker-
hoff, of Jersey City; First Troop,
Captain Bertram r. Roome, of Arl-
ington; Signal Corps, Captain Will
lam Y. Dear, of Jersey City.
The three regiments will be re-
cruited to their fun quota from the
First and Fifth Regiments. The
troops will proceed to Washington
next Monday by special trains, each
train running in three sections on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The
Fourth Regiment will leave Jersey
! City at 3 o'clock a. m; the Second
Regiment win leave Trenton at 10
a. M. and the Third Regiment will
leave Camden at II a. IN. The troops
will rendezvous in the Armory An
mex at Fifth and X streets. Wash
ington where excellent accommoda-
tons. as good as any in Washington,
have been provided for them. The
soldiers will start home Tuesday
! NIGHT about II 40 o'clock
The Hildebrecht Catering and Res
taurant Company of this. city will
feed the Trenton troops in Washing
ton.