The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-28
VERMONT REGIMENT ARRIVES
Reaches Burlington in Early Morning
Hours Wednesday.

ment of infantry, Vermont National
, 'uard, comprising 46 officers and 7s9
q. commanded by Colonel Ira f.
h q, president of Norwich Univer-
sity, 20. ged in Burlington at an early
hour t. d orning, just three months
to day they left Camp Cover
nor Gates bound for Eagle Pass, Tex
as. The troops spent the remainder
of their sleeping hours aboard the
cars, which were placed on the Cen
tral Vermont tracks near the old sta
ton, and proceeded this morning to
Fort Ethan Allen, where they will de
train and move into the quarters
which Colonel Joseph T. Dickerman,
commanding officer of the 2nd cavalry
has assigned to them. The regiment
travelled from Eagle Pass, which they
left on the night Of Wednesday, Sep
tember 20, in three sections, made up
as follows: First section, Colonel Ira
l.. Reeves, Major Walter o. Cooley,
Major T. j. Hagan and A, b, c and ID
companies; second section, Lieut.-Col.
Fred b. Thomas, Major j. NJ. Ashley,
Lieut.. W. Hayes Mitchell and l. *, l.
and NJ companies third section, Ma
ior j. w. Tinker Lieut.. w. ii. Tay-
lor and Il, f, & and IL companies.
The mastering out of the troops
from the federal service will occupy
at least weeks time, during which
the men will occupy the following
quarters at Fort Ethan Allen: Off
GERS, band barracks, A and b compan-
les, X troop barracks; c and ID, l.
troop barracks; + and f, NJ troop bar
racks: &, II and |, ambulance corps
barracks; X, l. and NJ, machine gun
barracks. Colonel Ira l.. Reeves and
his staff will be quartered in one Of
the houses on officers row. Captain
b. S. Hyland Major Carpenter, Cap
tain T.. w. Gibson, Lieutenant Sheldon
and Major Melville, who are the of
ficers commanding the 100 unassigned
recruits, have been occupying one OF
the houses on officers row since the
return of this detachment from Brat
tleboro on August 81, that being the
nearest point to Eagle Pass which
they reached.
During the time that the regiment
remains at Fort Ethan Allen, there
will be a regular program of daily
drills and the men not otherwise en-
gagged will be busy at the target range,
The State national guard rifle team,
which will compete in the national
rife matches at Jacksonville, Florida,
beginning October 20, Will be picked
at this time and sent to Jacksonville
within few days after the regiment
Is mustered out. Major Carpenter,
who is one of the crack shots of the
regiment, will probably command the
team. Only one battalion has been
able to get any target practice wGle
at the border, so that the team will
be considerably handicapped There
| will be nightly concerts by the regi.
mental band and a review in honor OF
Governor Charles w. Gates on Fri
| day afternoon. The 160 unassigned
recruits who have been langushine
in camp all summer will be assigned
to companies today.
| As soon as the mastering out. which
will be done by battalions, has been
| completed, the men will be sent to
| their homes by companies. The mus
tering cut from the federal service
| causes the men to revert automati
| cally to their former status as STATE
| militiamen and they are still subject
| to federal as we'll as State call. The
| process is practically giving the men
a vacation from active duty, until
such time as they are needed again OF
until their enlistment term expires
| The members of G. Company were dis
| charged upon their arrival at the
fort and are not subject to either
State or federal call. without re-en
LISTING.
Adjutant.G General Lee S. Tillotson OF
ST. Albans, who returned a few days
ago from five days stay at Eagle
pass. and who will remain at For
Ethan Allen until the regiment is mus
tered out, expressed himself yesterday
as well pleased with conditions a
the border. "The Ve-snont regiment,
he said. was regarded by regulal
army officers as one of the most efIi
cient of the national guard organiza
tions and made fine record OF whicl
It may well be proud"
| Col Ira H. Reeves OF Northheld, II
command of the regiment, was on th'
first section of the train and his brie
summary of the gathering of thu
troops at the border may be summed
upin the following words "The com
ing of the national guard instilled fea
In the Mexicans and in my opinion
stopped war between Mexico an,
the United States"
| The men complained of the seryic
given by the railroads and Col
Reeves said. 1--WE were handled lik
cattle trains until we struck the Rut
land railroad. On this road we hav
received the best treatment, the hes
service In the entire 2700 mile ioul
ney. At Syracuse. or short distanc
from the city, threatened to take tn
men from the train and pitch cam
unless we were moved along. TIL
stop there was over three hours l
duration and for no apparent reaso
whatsoever"