The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-20
Orders Expected Tomorrow
for Entraining for Fort
Ethan Allen
PAVILION RECEPTION
TOMORROW EVENING
Squads of Rockies Constantly Under
Instruction - Movements of Troops
After Reaching Fort Not Known -,
Band Decides Not to Go.

Band Decides Not to Go.
Capt E w. Gibson of Company I,
/ V. n. c., received advisory dispatches
! today that the company probably
| would be ordered to entrain Thursday
| morning at S.53 for Fort Ethan Allen,
| arriving there in the afternoon at 4.2O.
Earlier dispatches indicated that the
| departure would be made tomorrow,
but information this afternoon was that
| the movement would be delayed until
| Thursday.
What the movements of the troops
will be after reaching the fort are not
known, but it is expected that the Ma
tional Guard of the different states
viii. take turns in guarding the MeXi-
can border.
The Armory was 4 busy place last
evening with young men seeking OPP
iqortunities to enlist; the quartermas-
ter outiitting recruits, and here and
there on the big floor a squad of rook-
les being put through the fundamen-
tails in the school of the soldier by drill
Isergeants.
Last evening George NJ Thompson,
who was the engineer who surveyed
1.-The route for the Boston a Maine rail
road from South Vernon to Bratt,e-
horo and who built the Mexican Cen
trail railroad from the Mexican border
to Mexico City and about 300 miles of
railroad along the Rio Grande, hap
pened to be in town last evening and
IcaEed at the Armory, where he gave
a short talk to the members of the
company on conditions in Mexico.
This morning the company was
. early at the work of drill, being in
, command of Liaut. Spaulding, an6
working on the streets and the com
mon in company formation. Squads OF
2 troolies were constantly under iustruc
tion in the Armory all the morning an,
. the same conditions viii exist this af
ternoon until the company leaves.
Four more names were added to the
, roster of the company as the result OF
, examinations Of Il recruits yesterday
and today making a total of seven whC
, have passed the physical examinations
ont of Il applicants, an unusual per
centage. The latest additions to the
, company are Walter r. Needham. Grey
: F. Goddard, William Miller and Charles
II. Stevens.
Major Linn D. Taylor left this morn
ing for Springfield and other towns II
the state where companies of the Yer
mont National Guard are stationed
He is under instructions from the in
: spector general department to take
complete lists of the state and fedora
property in possession of each com
pany. He viii not return to Brattle
boro. but on the completion of the worl
assigned to him will report at For
) Ethan Allen.
Major w. o. Cooley, former captain
of Company I, viii accompany the com
: panv to Burlington.
= When asked this noon at the Armor,
about the status of the First Regimen
band, Capt. f. w. Gibson issued tn
| following statement:
= Il am informed that some of th
n members of the First Regiment bant
n have asked for their discharges. If tn
e discharges are granted it means tn
i end Of the band as a regimental OF
# ganization.
81 cit is understood that some month
f ago the members of the band wer
II promised that in ease of an emergenc
= they could apply for their discharge
. and receive them if they so desired.
= is also understood that at meeting 0
7. the band members held yesterday nj
- ternoon only six members signife
- their willingness to continue in TIL
service. This means that the band wi
be recruited elsewhere in the state.
'In addition to calling for enlist
! ments in the company 1 also wish
= make an appeal for enhstments as mt
II sieians that a regimental band may b
" maintained here.
,e Very soon we shall ask for q
X. Armory. If we have more than on
le unit we can ask for, and expect to r,
% ceive, a larger appropriation than
e. we have only one unit. So the maiI
ss tenance of the band organizatio
t means a great deal to Brattleboro.
" 81 appreciate the reasons whic
t, actuate some of the members of tn
rt band in asking for their discharge
nj but it does seem to me that we have
40 sufficient number of young men wit
musical ability who ought to see the
lie duty and do it.
III Acting under orders I have take
MS over tho property of the band and Al
Ii using the uniforms to equip the ne
recruits of Company L
!. ERNEST w. GIBSON,
Captain commanding Co. I
While the band may not longer e,
al ist rs a military organization, its a
cision not to continue as an enliste
band does not mean its dissolution
Il. a musical organization.
- Capt. Gibson said this afternoon this
~ he had received requests from mi
IS. sicians in Springfield (Vt.) to be a
II. eepted as members of regiment,
- band. Capt. Gibson wishes the fa,
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