Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-02
GOV. FIELDER TO
! ATTEND REVIEW
/ At THE ARMORY
First Regiment Event Will Mark
Opening of the Season for
Local Infantrymen.
CITY OFFICIALS ARE
INVITED TO ATTEND
Band Concert, Reception and
Dance TO Follow the Mil
itary Ceremonies.

Governor James F. Fielder. COM
mander-in-chief of the National
Guard eof New Jersey, will visit the
Sussex Avenue Armory tomorrow
night and review the men OF the First
Regiment on parade. The Governor
will be accompanied by Adjutant-
Geqeral Wilbur F. Sadler, jr., and
seIeral members of his official mill
lady family. They will arrive in this
city at D. m. and will go direct to
the Washington, where Colonel John
Fraser. commanding the local regi-
= hent and his staff officers, will give
dinner in their honor.
The review and its attending cere-
monies will mark the formal opening
Of the armory season for the local
infantrymen, and in accordance with
the program outlined the affair will
be a notable one in the history of the
regiment. Never before has the regi-
ment opened it's drill season with
teview and regimental parade or any
other kind of ceremony or public dis
play. In past years the respective
battalions merely assembled for drill
on the nights assigned to them and
executed their initial maneuvers with
cut any pomp or ceremony and in the
presence of only a handful of spec
tators. The new change of affairs
was decided on by Colonel Fraser,
who, after conference with his Off
GERS decided to set the armory sea-
son in full swing by holding a review
Simultaneous with the formal open
Ing of the armory for fall and winter
work.
The officers have made elaborate
Preparations for the reception of the
Governor and the military and social
features of the review. The guests
Invited to the dinner to be given at
the Washington, besides the Cover
nor, are the following: Adjutant-
General Wilbur F. Sadler, jr.; Major
Edward r. Christman, U. S. A, in
spector-instructor of the National
ant A. Ellicott Brown, U. s. A., who
has been assigned as instructor-in-
fpector OF the First Regiment, and
the chief executives military aides.
The officers of the First Regiment
who will attend are, besides Colonel
Fraser, Northumberland George NJ.
Futile, Majors Roland d. CrocAer,
Arthur II. MacE<ie and Alvin H.
Graft; Major Jean f. VOLTS, of the
medical department; Captain Richard
J. brewer, regimental quartermaster;
Captain I. Newton Davies, regimental
sd;utant; Captain Gerrish Newell,
U-nmissary department.; Captain
Frederick Doderlein, assistant inSpec-
tor of small arms practise, and Rev.
Oscar E. Braune, regimental chap
lain.
Among those who have been invited
tc witness the ceremonies at the
rrmory as guests of the regiment are
Mayor Jacob Haussling, City Counsel
James r. Nugent, Major-General p.
Farmer Wanser, retired; Major-Gen-
sral Dennis r. Collins, commanding
The division, National Guard of New
Jersey; Major-General Joseph w.
Plume, retired; Brigadier-General
Edward A. Campbell, retired;
Brigadier-General Edwin W. Hine,
commanding the First Bri-
gade; Brigadier-General R. Heber
Breintnall, retired; Lieutenant
Colonel Henry Alters, chief of the
medical department; Colonel Arthur
L. Steele. of the Fourth Regiment;
Colonel Albert A. Van Walraven, OF
the Fifth Regiment; Major Forrest
J.. Dryden, Alfred n. Dalrymple,
Ouartermaster-Gene C. Edward
Murray, Colonel Oscar H.
Condit, inspector-generals depart
ment; Lieutenant-Colonel Robert L.
Patterson, inspector generals de-
partment; Major Charles E. Burgess
quartermasters corps; Lieutenant
Strayer, U. S. A.; Lieutenant-Colo
John NJ. Rogers, of the adjutant-gen
erals office; Major David S. Hill,
quartermaster's corps; Lawrence t.
fell. Major Peter S. James. quarter
masters corps; Major Frederick w
Garvin, nspector-general's depart
ment, and a number of former off,
cers of the First Regiment.
The ceremonies at the armory will
begin at Sis p. m, and will consist
of concert by Voss's First Regiment
Band, reception to Governor Fielder
and the reviewing party, regimental
drill and a reception and dance in the
drill shed following the military cere-
monies. The Governor and his party
will arrive at the armory at s O'Clock
and will be ushered to Colonel Fra
sers quarters, where an informal re-
ception will be held before the party
is paraded to the reviewing stano.
The guardsmen will parade in the
olive drab uniform. The armory Will
he decorated for the occasion. All of
the companies have arranged tc hold
.'open house" after the ceremonies for
the entertainment of their friends and
former members