The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-10
GUARDSMEN PAID
OFF IN CAMP FOR
MONTH OF JULY
Recruiting Officers Are AS
signed to Various Towns
in State-Battery B to
Be Inspected


They are being paid or for the month
of July. Wednesday afternoon long lines,
with hundreds of men in them. were
formed before the paymaster's window.
Some of the boys were so happy that
they were wearing money stuffed through
the button holes of their shirts The
canteen was doing a rushing business
with the men with new money. 1t takes
sometime ito pay off 1000 men, and the
job will not be completed until Thursday
afternoon. The Second and Fourth regi-
ments were paid Wednesday, while the
first and all unattached companies will be
paid Thursday
RECRUITING TO BEGIN
The 10 recruiting captains have been
assigned their stations by order of Cen
eral Wood, at Governor Island and New
York Capt Arthur Harrison, infantry,
unassigned, goes to Admission; Capt. Jo-
seph w. Sanders to Dothan; Capt. Martin
c. Folmar. to Troy; Capt. Lewis S. Betty
to Greenville; Capt Hunter McDuffie, to
Selma; Capt. David Holt to Bay Min
cite; Capt. John D. Lee to Dadeville;
Capt. John A. Elmore to Gadsden; Capt
frank Peabody to Tuscaloosa; Capt
James H. McTyeire to Jasper, and Capt
James S. Parrish to New Decatur.
With each captain will go sergant,
corporal and private to help with the
work of recruiting. The enlisted men are
allowed 81 a day for rations, paid in adj
vance. The recruits received will be sent
to the Ala bama bridge or to the regular
army as they choose. Transportation and
subsistence will be furnished by the quar-
terma ster's department at Fort Barran-
cas-, Fla. The men will leave for their re-
spective station Friday for work.
VISITORS HOURS. CHANGED
The hours for visitors has been changed
from p m to p m. until p. m. Dur
ing those hours visitors may pass in and
out of the camp without having passes
Authority was received at camp to send
Captain Blakely to Birmingham Saturday
to inspect the newly recruited battery
there. When the new battery is mus
tered in it will be known as Battery B
and will at once join the brigade. The
inspection will be held Saturday night in
the Birmingham armory. by Captain
! Blakeis, u. S. "a, and Immediately there
after If it passes muster, a mastering
officer will be sent to muster 1t into the
service.
Corporal Stronnecker of Company C,
Second infantry, was sitting up Wednes-
day afternoon. The bird shot fired into
him by Jim COSTA, the negro who fired
on bunch of the soldiers in town Sum
day night, have not yet been picked from
his body. He says he hopes to be out
and about his duties within two more
days. He was anxious to leave the hos
pital Wednesday, but the attending physi-
clans denied him that.
FIGHT IN CAMP
What promised to be rather a nasty
affair occurred at the camp between the
Montgomery True Blues and the Greys
Tuesday night about 10 o'clock. Two men
of the companies got into friendly ar
gument as the merits of the two COM
panies. which have had a friendly rivalry
for years. Words multiplied until an in
suit was passed, whereupon others of
Bottles, sticks, fists and whatever were
the handiest until there was general
free-for-all fight going on. Quiet was
| soon restored. None were seriously hurt.
three or four were sent to the hospital
with bruised heads and blackened eyes.
All seemed harmonious Wednesday be-
tween the men of the two companies.
Provost guards are still sent downtown
at night to prevent any recurrence of
the Sunday night row with the negroes.