Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-30

Montpelier. This section was in com
mand of Maj. Tinker. Many Of those
at the station knew boys in the Bel
lows Falls company and found oppor-
tunity to talk with them. In this com
pany is Louis Gorborino a BrattlcborJ
boy.
1t was not until 100 in the morning
that the fourth and last section under
command of Maj. Walter o. Cooley of
Brattleboro, pulled up at the station.
On this train was Lieut.. Taylor, assist
ant surgeon of the regiment, a phys
ician at the Bratt.eboro Retreat, and
several local boys. Stanley Wilson, a
student in the medical department of
the University of Vermont, was n
member of the hospital squad on the
train and had been appointed orderly,
and Ralph Thayer, a West Brattleboro
boy, was a member of Company G, the
University of Vermont company, and
both held receptions. Their parents
and relatives were there to sec them
OF and many high school students had
waited to bid them farewell.
Maj. Cooley was in the officers car
at the rear and did not leave it, but
hanging out of the open window of
his section, he held reception as long
as the train remained at the station.
When the last red light on the
"buggy,' the caboose attached to the
rear of all the troop trains for the use
of the railroad men, had disappeared
down the track Brattleboro had bid.
den farewell to the last of the first de-
tachment of Vermont troops to leave
for the Mexican border. There were
was only a start, for in a week or two
another detachment, now in training
at the state camp ground and waiting
for equipment, probably will go
through Brattleboro and this will con
tain many of the younger boys and en-
listed men.
The correct address of the company
furnished by Lieut., Spaulding is LIST
Infantry, V. N. g., Eagle Pass, Texas.
Company I.
The Vermont regiment was at 7 ,le-
do, o., Wednesday at midnight, having
made excellent time during the day
Letters and post cards from members
of Company |, now cnroute to the Tex:
as border, are being received in town
by relatives. All of them are the very
briefcst of communications, for the
boys are travelling through territory
new to most of them and are meeting
with receptions at every station. They
all report the morale of the company
and battalion as the very highest and
that everyone is well and in the best
of spirits.
Two or three of them report that
Col. Ira l.. Reeves, commanding the
regiment, has said repeatedly that the
LIST Vermont regiment is the best
militia regiment in the United States
that he has ever seen and he has no
hesitancy in ranking Company ] as
the leading company i'll the best regi'
ment.
Dana II. Gilman, formerly captain of
Company |, telegraphed from Sodaliu,
| Missouri Wednesday to +. II. Crane
Advise route first regiment and
leaving time if st. Louis. AS the
route planned for the soldiers did not
include st. Louis, the following reply
was sent "Regiment going via Kan
sas City. Probably leave Chicago
Thursday morning. AS Sedalia is
between ST. Louis and Kansas City,
Captain Gilman undoubtedly met his
/ old company there and it is a safe
/ bet that the boys were mighty glad
see him.
Capt. Ernest W. Gibson of Company I,
! in connection with two other officers. is
putting in long hours each day in drilling
squads of rockies and in getting the re-
cruits in camp equipped for the future
work before them. Everyone expects to
be ordered to leave within week. Al
though no active recruiting is going on re-
cruits are daily coming into camp and be-
I ing assigned to awkward squads and start
ed on their work of preparation.
! There are left in camp about l25 recruits
and more are arriving every day. The
company is represented by about 25 men,
The cook tent is in charge of Cook Way
land Graves, he being left because of the
fact that his foot, which was hurt last
winter, is causing him trouble The rock
les were all disappointed that they were
not permitted to 60 along with the com
pany.
! Julius Kuech left yesterday at
I'LL o'clock for the state camp. Sew
eral other local boys are reported to
be preparing to enlist.
Frederick S. Thompson, who is act
ing as clerk for Capt. Gibson, did not
pass the medical examination and is
remaining in camp in the clerical ca
pacity as long as Capt Gibson is de
tailed for duty there. George p
Thompson, brother of F. S., is in
Brattleboro being treated for an cal
and throat trouble in an effort to gel
into condition to pass the necessary
physical examination which will per