Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-08-10
NEARLY EQUIPPED; GO SOON
Three New Companies Go in Few
Days, Says Adjutant- General.
Nearly Ready-Band of IS Pieces in
Headquarters Company Is One
\ You've Bcen Hcaring-Rccruit-
~ Ing Offices Opened.

Their duffle is or ought to be on the
ment has been organized and is practicing
daily. all three new companies and the
provisional company and recruits are
being worked out daily, and Adiutant-
General Lee 9. Tilotson expects a general
getaway in a few days. The days of the
''moushy" camp are numbered, while at
Fort Ethan Allen itself there are only
fifty stalwart inhabitants left
The machine gun company is practically
equipped already With the exception of
a few individual articles the men are
well-supplied with all they need. on the
trip to the Mexican border or about any
where else. Some ponchos are needed to
replace the slickers or raincoats which
the cavalrymen used; about 800 bed sacks,
| and the same number of MOSQUITO
bars" The acknowledgement has re-
| ceived instructions not to move his mon
! until they are provided with all their
equipment. A certain number of pairs
of field glasses are also required to be
used by officers
The supply gun company needs sad
dler's and backsmith's tools, n supply
of leather, horseshoes, etc. This com
pany is simply n portable blacksmith
and wheelriEht shop and makes general
repairs of various sorts that may be de-
manded of them.
The Headquarters company Is already
partly equipped SO is the provisional
company which has been mounting In
numbers for the past ten days owing To
recruits enlisted by three government
recruiting offices that have been opened.
Captain l.. E Ryder Is stationed at Ben
nington; Lieutenant r. c. Knowlton at
Middlebury; and Lieutenant w c.
Merkel at Morrisvile, and each officer
has a sergeant, corporal and private as
sisting him. All three officers in charge
were formerly connected with the Nor
witch cadets.
The equipment Of the 70 companies at
the front was not complete when they
left here. And the full quota of the regi-
rnent is Is companies anyhow. The three
new companies. whose organization was
announced a week or more ago in tho
Daily Free Press, will complete the
quota of companies but not the numerical
war strength of the regiment. which
amounts to about 500 men. 1t now num-
bers, including the three companies and
the provisional company formed of those
left over and additional recruits that
took the oath lately, about 200 men.
The men not already assigned to a COM
pany will be scattered among several
companies, with the object of making the
strength of each as nearly the same WITH
that Of every other as possible.
The three newly-opened recruiting sta
lions are supposed to draw men from the
entire State They are the only Of
fees of the sort now maintained by the
government. bennington has Furnished
eleven men already; Morrsville has pro-
vided almost as many; and Middlebury
is coming along.
A band has been organized in the
camp as part of the headquarters com
pany which will be the rcgimenta
band. 1t Is rehearsing daily. and Esse>
Junction, the post Winooski and Bur
lington have already heard sevcra
samples of what 1t can do. The res
! of the company is doing guarc
duty and the like: the machine CUR
company is practicing several hour:
daily at the range in the fort; and the