Evening journal., 1914-07-17
STATE Defenders
ON HIKE TOMORROW
0. M. d., With Governor at
Head, To Leave State
Range Early
REVIEW TROOPS ON
THURSDAY AT DOVER

Preparations being complete. the
Organized Militia of Delaware will
concentrate at the State Rifle Range
tomorrow morning preparatory to
the summer practice march down
State
Headed by their band and hospital
corps and under command of Major
J. Warner Reed, companies A, G. ID
and n will march from Wilmington at
715 o'clock. Major Reeds admtant
will be First Lieutenant A. II. Carey
The pack train will accompany the
troops. Members Of the four com
panies will assemble at the armory at
$50 o'clock. Adjutant's call will be
sounded five minutes later
Company g, stationed at Dover, will
leave there by rail at SIS a. m.
while Company b. of Milford. will en-
train there at 7.27 a. m. Company II,
Of New Castle, will march to the
camp, leaving in time to arrive by 9
o'clock in the morning, while Com
pany 4, of Newark, will make the
march from that place SO as to reach
camp at 10 o'clock
Announcement was made today that
Governor Charles r. Miller commander
n-chief and ]. Puscy Wickersham, ad
iutant general will accompany the col.
umn on the march The governor and
General Nickersham will keep in close
touch with the troops during the war
games which viii be played on the
march. Several problems such as adj
vance and rear guard duty, convoy
guarding attacking and retreating and
skirmishing will be worked out during
the "hike"
The militia will take the field prepared
as though for actual war. The regi
ment will be accompanied on the march
by a long pack train carrying the fol-
lowing supplies:
Soft bread wheat, 1896 pounds
for two days supply beans ihom-
inyl, 4S0 pounds: rice (wholel 800
4 pounds: potatoes (whitel t1l3
pounds for two days supply; onions
twhitel, 500 pounds; tomatoes team
ned), IL cases. 2-pound tins; coffee
1 tMocha) lblendl. 800 pounds; sugar
/ (granulatedl. ESQ 2-pound bags: salt
/ table,, 120 2-pound bags; pepper
/ tblackl, 8 bags; soap ivory, 100
pounds; candles (shortl 40 pounds;
vinegar (cider) gallons: prunes
(40-50). 400 pounds: fish meat, 1850
pounds for 3 days supply; bacon, 812
pounds butter. 10S pounds, for 8
days supply; lard, As pounds for one
days supply; eggs, III dozen for
days supply; milk, 16 dozen GA or
cans.
During the march the command viii
dletown, Dover, frcderica and Milford
On next Thursday afternoon at Dove
the regiment viii be reviewed by Cover
nor Miller. members Of his staff anC
other notabIes. The governor will hold
a military reception in the evening. Ono
iof the men most interested in the
march is Lieutenant Elvid Hunt, u S
A., nspector-instrnctor, who is expected
to report to the War Department the
degree of efficiency shown by the Della.
ware citizen-soldiery in the field.
While there will be plenty of work
for the troops during the march they
i viii have ample time for recreation
Everyone connected with the States
military service firmly believes the
march win mark an epoch in the history
Of the military.
ne TOUR escort wagons OF tne ~ NJ
! D. left the stables at the State Rife
Range below New Castle this after
noon, bound for this city. The wagons
will be packed by members OF the
commissary department of the State
militia this evening. The wagons
will leave here in the wake of the
various companies at GAS o'clock to-
morrow for the hike through the
State.