Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-05
MILITARY PLANS FOR
INAUGURATION DAY
provisional Regiment to Escort
GOvernOr-Elect Harrington to
Annapolis.
GEN. GATHER ISSUES ORDER.
Party and Escort Win Leave Camden
Station by Special Train for State
Capitsl.


Brig.-General Charles d. Gather.
commander of the First Brigade. M. n.
c., has been detailed to take charge of
the arrangements in connection with
the inauguration of GoYernor-elect
Harrington on Wednesday, January
u, and announced yesterday that the
complete details of the part tho State
militia viii take in the ceremony
A provisional regiment of infantry
will escort the Governor elect 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
Commander-in-C Chief, a 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 win 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
G. p Erkeubrack, First Lieutenant d.
II Mohr and First Lieutenant C. Wood
ruff
Organizations. (a)--A battalion from
the First Infantry. Companies d, Z, Z
and II, Major NJ A Record, command
ing; (b). the Second Battalion of tn
Fourth Infantry. Companies e. f. G
and II, Major A. S. GIL, commanding;
(c), the First Battalion of the Fifth
Infantry, Companies A, b, c and y
Major 5 ]. 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 viii 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 VIII 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 u,
1916, for that purpose.
The uniform viii be the service with
service cap. overcoat and gloves. No
mess equipment viii 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
iments. 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
manding officers of the organizations
named will assemble commands at
such hours as viii enable them to
comply with the same
The brigade quartermaster viii
make the necessary arrangements for
furnishing the troops with a meal in
Annapolis.
Officers of the following organiza-
tions. other than those detailed with
troops, will report to the commanding
general at Camden Station not later
than 9.20 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.
and Ambulance Company
The route and formation of the pa
rade in Annapolis will be announced in
Bv command of Brigadier-General
Gather. Z. a. ROBBINE, 'JR.
Major and Adjutant.