Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-26
WILL LEAVE TOMORROW
Alexandria Light Infantry Ordered
to Repair to Camp in Richmond
With Other Militia

| mona 'COnlOTrO" IHoTtliiIS "HSie IhSs
will 90 into camp with the other Vim
ginia militia ready to proceed to
Mexico. The company will board a
special car on the Washington South
ern train which will leave here at
9:45 a. m. The start from the ar
mory will be made at $3.50 o'clock and
the officials, organizations and bust
ness men who are to escort the sol
diers to the station will assemble at
the corner of Washington and King
street at o'clock and proceed to the
armory.
The order of parade as arranged by
DR.. William M. Smith, marshall, is
as follows: Platoon of police; Am
erican Indian Guard Band; Major
William NJ. Smith, marshall, DR..
Thomas B. Cochran, chief Of staff
and aides; Mayor Thomas A. Fisher
and his uncle, Amos T. Fisher, the
sole local survivor of this coun-
try's war with Mexico in 1876; Rep
rescntative Charles c.. Carlin; Judge
l.. C.. Barley, of the corporation court
members of the city council; city
officials, board Of police commission
ers, board of city school trustees;
chef and members Of fire department;
Alexandria Light Infantry; the Alex
andria High School cadets; old men,
bers of the Alexandria Light lnfan-
Itry: veterans Of the civil and Spanish
American wars; Boy Scouts; Holy
Name Band; members Of Chamber
of Commerce and Retail Merchants
Association, citizens.
Upon arrival at the railway train
Representative Charles c. Carlin
will make an address to the soldiers.
Mayor Fisher has requested the
:acrchantq and shopkeepers Of the
city to suspend BUSINESS from s un-
til 1850 o'clock tomorrow morning,
in order to allow all who desire to
do so an opportunity to participate
in the ovation to the Alexandria sol
diers. The Police Court will not con-
vcne at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning
as is usual, but will continue such
cases as may be upon the docket un-
til later hour in the day, or until
Wednesday morning.
Members of the Retail Merchants
Association agreed today to close
their store from s to 9:30 o'clock.
Besides cnlisting four more recruits
yesterday and efforts to dodge the
rain that poured through holes IN
the roof of the armory early ycstcr-
dav morning, the members of the
light infantry passed an uneventtui
day. A complete roster of the COM
pany up to last night follows: Conrad
Johnson, captain; j. Douglas Nc
Lean. first lieutenant; +. Clinton
Knight, second lieutenant; Charles
a. Deahl, .Jr., first sergeant; A. U.
IJhler, Jr., second sergeant; II. Z.
Brawncr, third sergeant; b. 5.
Steiner, fourth sergeant; j. 3. Ar
mold. fifth sergeant; John Penn,
quartermaster sergeant; George +.
Butler, mess sergeant; w. P. Gard
ner and William Shocks cooks; John
T. Creegan, Lee Magner, r. NJ.
Hancock and w. T. Bitter, corporals;
Bernard II. Cook, musician; Jesse
J. Mitchell. artificer; Raphael Blrrel!
company clerk. Privates-James w.
Brown, Claude E. Haney, William
S. Pettey, Francis NJ. Smith, Robert
Aylmer, Silver Churchman; Edgar
D. Clark, George w. Cowson, Char
les R. beavers, William R. Elgin,
Harry c.. Fischer William n. Gar
rett, Harry J. Hall, Edwin L. Hume,
Robert l.. Hutchinson, Jackson Cor
ham, James A. Ludlow, Charles 0.
Midkiff, Orlando Nightingale, Floyd
! S. Shinn, Grover Williams, William
F. Boswell, Clarence Thorpe; Harry
l.. Smith, Harry l.. Wise, Benjamin
F. Swan, J. Russell Mitchell, Ernest
McClary, Joseph Boland, Leonard
Bettis, James E. Nagel, Maurice
Newton. j. Longstrcet Carlton,
Robert II. Bitter. Lawrence Petty,
George H. Jones, James w. Self,
John McCuen, Walter HaisIip, Ed
gar Wolford, B. Hillman Plckrel,
William A. Bradley, Oscar Barker
Carlton, William f. Birrell, William
C. Meeks, Lewis H. Holler, Blake
Carpenter, Shirley P. Pullin, Her
man Leafgreen, William E. Nolan,
King w. Dudley and N. Winship
Moncure.
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