The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-07-09

The Westminster boys brought
home the bacon from Hagerstown and
won enough glory for all and to spare.
Every one had a good time, behaved
well and reached home feeling well,
and proud to say he was from old Car
roll county. There were many of the
citizens OF Westminster in the crowds
/ that lined the streets of Hagerstown
and their presence and applause in
spired the efforts OF our organizations
which resulted in sweeping every
thing before us.
The HagerstoWn people are royal
hosts, and have every reason to be
proud of Captain John Kyd Becken-
| baugh, commanding company B, 1st
Infantry MI. M. G., AZ he was the soul
of the committee Of arrangements and
it was largely, if not wholly. due to
\ his efforts that the 4th and 9TH Of
July, 1915, will be held long in mem
ory by his townspeople. We sincere
\ ly hope that as one of the good re
suits OF this occasion Company B. will
soon recruit up to full peace quota,
and continue to hold place as one of
the livest companies Of the 1T Regi-
ment.
Company H carried officers and 81
noncommissioned officers and men as
they marched down Main street. Sun
day morning in column Of platoons to
entrain for Hagerstown at 9.36.
There was quite crowd Of wives,
sweethearts, mothers, fathers, broth
ers and others at the station to see
them off and wish them good luck.
The company occupied one entire
coach and the Band, Al strong, an
other. There was also special bag
gage car which had been loaded the
night before. The train pulled out
(almost). on time with the bugles
sounding and we were off. Arriving
at Hagerstown a little before noon
there was a brisk hike OF about two
miles out to the Fair Grounds, the
large pyramidal tents which &C
commodate eight men each were
pitched, for the first time by our COM
pany, the cook shack fitted up and
dinner cooked and served by o'clock
b. m. This was pretty quick work
for men who had never seen one OF
those new tents before, but a. Capt.
Weigle remarked, Many hands, and
willing ones, make light work" and
the boys were hungry, too, which
speeded them up bit no doubt W.
had been told that tents would be
ready pitched and dinner served as
soon al we arrived at camp, but were
glad that such was not the case as
we want all the good hard field ex-
perience we can get before going to
the target range
The camp was a pretty sight pitch
ed in a broad field to the right of the
grand stand, inside the fair grounds.
Every detail was carried out in strict
accordance with Field Service Regu-
lations. There were four companies
dc infantry camped a. a battalion,
each company having its own line OF
tents with parade in front arranged
as four parallel streets. The COM
pany officers tents at the head OF
each company street and the Battal-
; ion Commanders tent at the center
and back OF these
Promptly at o'clock the Battal-
ion was formed in the enclosure OF
the race track and after parade was
! marched in review by Major John i'd
Markey, commanding This was an
inspiring experience as the Compan-
IT, swept past the reviewing officer
I'LL company front, with the 1T Regi-
ment Band playing Maryland My
Maryland" with all the stops pull all
the way out The companies in the
, column were Ell, Westminster. Capt
John N Weigle, the senior Captain
! present, o, Cumberland, Capt T- R
Palmer, "a, Frederick, Capt Harry
Monshower and B, Hagerstown, Capt
; John Kyd Beckenbaugh. The color
guard was selected from Company TIT
/, T@I pfI1.
i ingslea being detailed for this duty
which IL the highest honor that can
J be conferred ON soldier and his
command. After review Major Mar
} KEY complimented Capt. Weigle on the
, fine appearance of Company and
, the large number present, which was
almost double that of any other Com
pany i'm the Battalion Supper was
! served Immediately after parade and
review were over and we all were
ready for our cots Taps sounded
All no p. m. and most of IN we're al-
! ready asleep.
Street Parade and Sham Battle on
Monday.
RevilIe sounded at 5.45 a. M. and
the companies all fell in with ponches
on as it was drizzling rain, Dut after
breakfast which was served for Com
pany H Immediately after Reville, il
! cleared up and the day was an ideal
! one for long street parade After
breakfast the officers held consulta-
ton in the grand stand and arranged
the details of the sham battle to be
fought that afternoon About
!, o'clock the Battalion left camp to take
position in the parade which was lead
by Major Markey and staff The lst
! Regiment Band under command Of
} Drum Major Harry NJ KINNEY, head
cd the troops with Company H next
in column. then same Companies G,
: "A and B, In the order named. The
4 National and Regimental colors being
carried in thu center of the column
! between Company G and Company "a
| with the two handsome Sergeants
i from Company IT on either side fhe
J military section of the parade W. fol-
lowed BY the various Fire Companies,
} with civic display Of tastefully ar
n ranged floats bringing up the rear
Every Westminster boy in the Band
! and Company held his head high and
stepped with snap and swing that