Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-10
MILITARY PLANS FOR
INAUGURATION DAY
Provisional Regiment to Escort
GOvernor-Elect Harrington On :,
Annapolis.
GEN. GATHER ISSUES ORDER.
Party and Escort Will Leave Camden
Station by Special Train for State
Capital.

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commander of the First Brigade, M. N.
G., has been detailed to take charge of
the arrangements in connection with
the inauguration of Governor-elect
Harrington on Wednesday, January
II, and announced yesterday that the
complete details of the part the State
militia will take in the ceremony
Company c, of the First Infantry
quartered at Cambridge, the home of
the Governor-elect, and the Fifth Reg
iment Veteran Corps, under the COM
mand of Major George w Hyde, will
escort the Governor-elect from the
Rennert, Baltimore, to Camden Station,
where the inaugural party will board a
special train for Annapolis
A provisional regiment of infantry
will escort the Governor from the
station in this city to the State House.
General Gathers order showing what
the trops will do is as follows:
Special Order No Pursuant to
to the request of the Governor elect
and by permission of the Governor and
COMMANDMENTS Chief, provisional
regiment of infantry from this brigade
will act as escort at the Inauguration
of the Governor of Maryland in Annap-
oils on January IL, 1916:
The provisional regiment will be
made up as follows: Col. Charles A.
Little. First Infantry, commanding !;
Lieut.. Colonel Washington Bowie, Jr..
Fifth Infantry; Adjt.-Capt William p.
Lane, Jr., First Infantry; Quartermas
ter-Captain j. E. Goodwin, Fifth Infan-
try; medical officers, First Lieutenant
c. P. Erkeubrack, First Lieutenant d.
H Mohr and First Lieutenant c. Wood
ruff
Organizations, (a)-A battalion from
the First Infantry, Companies d. E, i
and H, Major M. A Record, command
ing; OBJ, the Second Battalion of the
Fourth Infantry, Companies e, F, G
and H, Major A. S. Gill, commanding !;
(c), the First Battalion of the Fifth
Infantry, Companies A, B, C and d,
Major S j. Poe, commanding.
Sanitary detachment attached to the
First Infantry.
Battalion commanders will be allow
ed the authorized staff
The officers named above will re-
port to Colonel Little on January IL at
such time and place as he may desire
for instructions No mounts will be
required
Companies of the Fourth and Fifth
Regiments of Infantry will consist of
three officers and forty men and the
companies of the First Infantry not
more than fifty enlisted men nor less
than forty
The colors and color guard will be
furnished by the Fifth Regiment In
fantry and will accompany the bat
talon from that regiment
Company c, First Infantry, is de-
tailed as special guard of honor to the
Governor-elect and will report at the
Hotel Rennert at a. m. January II.
1916, for that purpose.
The uniform will be the service with
service cap, overcoat and gloves. No
mess equipment will be taken Com
panies of the First Infantry will have
to spend the night in Baltimore with
blanket rolls. Fair leather belts will
be worn by the First and Fourth Reg
inents. with McKeever cartridge box
and bayonet; field belts for the Fifth
Infantry
officers and men will volunteer their
services for this occasion; transporta-
ton and subsistence. being furnished.
Travel schedule will be furnished by
the brigade quartermaster and COM
handing officers of the organizations
named will assemble commands at
such hours as viii enable them to
comply with the same
The brigade quartermaster Will
make the necessary arrangements for
furnishing the troops with a meal in
Annapolis.
Officers of the following organiza-
tons, other than those detailed with
troops, will report to the commanding
general at Camden Station not later
than go a. m, January u, 1916, in
dress uniform, with overcoats and side
arms, to accompany the Governor-elect
ON his special train to Annapolis First
Infantry, Fourth Infantry, Fifth In
fantry, Troop A, Field Hospital No. 1
and Ambulance Company
The route and formation of the pa
rade in Annapolis viii be announced in
BY command OF Brigadier-General
Gather. E. A ROBBINE. JR.
Major and Adjutant