The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-24
VERMONTERS
At WESTF|ELD,
SOON|NFRANCE
indications That They VIII
Be Sent at Once
GET NEW UNIFORMS
The 1900 From Vermont VIII Be
Parts Of 1o3d and 1o4th Regiment
and Of Machine Gun Battalion. }

A part of the Vermont troops have
arrived at Camp Bartlett, near West
field, Mass. Other detachments from
Fort Ethan Allen are lost sight OF
temporarily and are probably in tarn-
sit
In the correspondence Of the
Sprintield Union from camp Bartlett
is the following 'a9'
The first detachment of the First
Vermont infantry, consisting of 279
men and three lieutenants, arrived
yesterday. The men were escorted
at the campground by the band of the
old Eight Massachusetts. They were
cheered as they passed down the regi-
mental street of the One Hundred and
Thirty infantry and took their station
in the rear of the Machine gun battal-
ion. The majority of the Vermonters
came from the companies of Bellows
Falls and st. Adams.
The Vermonters arrived too late to
secure tentage. A few of the men
were taken into the tents occupied
by the former Rhode Island and New
Hampshire cavalrymen, with whom
they will be amalgamated The troops
from the Green Mountain state did
not learn their company assignments
until tonight at retreat, so they could
not pitch their shelter tents which
they carried. Like New Hampshire,
the Yermonters arrived in heavy
ma rrhfnrr nd hninn pnftAnd hxv
telegraph just prior to their depar-
ture from Ft Ethan Allen not to take
their tentage or other equipment
The downpour of rain in the after
noon which drove everybody to their
tents did not help these late arrivals.
| They pitched camp on side hill on
wet grounds, but they were cheerful
and there was no grumbling.
Every effort was made to make the
late arrivals feel at home and the YER
dict among the Vermonters was the
same as that expressed tonight by the
| majority of the New Hampshire Off
| GERS and men who arrived yesterday,
wonderment as to how they hap
| pened to be the fortunate ones picked
to go instead of being among the Off
GERS and men left behind.
There wasn't much stirring about
either camp this afternoon because of
the rain Officers went about in slic-
kers and boots. The men took the
opportunity Of burning the huge brush
heaps which had been piled up as the
process of clearing the camp site
proceeded Clouds of smoke curled
about the tents and hung Low, over
the grounds, bnt the rain made every
thing safe and prevented possibilities
of fires
| The parade grounds of the 103d and
l04th infantry regiments have been
cleared The Maine and New Hamp-
shire men have cleared the larger
space, seeming to work faster in this
direction because of their familiarity
with woodcraft than the fellows from
the Bay state. Guards stopped
around in the wet, but there was
thankfulness for the rain because It
laid the dust.
There was a pleasing little cere-
| mony tonight in the camp of the 1OSd.
The former Second Maine band stood
| retreat, and then marched to the head
| of the 103d regimental street. Start.
ing to play stirring tunes they
| marched the entire length of the reg
iment giving each company some mu
2 sic. They didn't stop at the end OF
| the infantry command however, but
| realizing the Rhode Island, Vermont
= | and New Hampshire men comprising
+ the Machine Gun battalion were with
out music, the bandsmen went dowr
n and gave them a concert They came
f is swinging back. playing again unit
n they reached their own quarters,
d Gen. Cole was about camp severa
d times today. There was little tina
escaped his eye, and he had severa
Is | recommendation and instructions I,
officers as the result of his observa
n tions when he returned.
O With the men established In quar-
10 ters and the rough work completed
.e they are turning their attention to tn
many little things which make a cam
attractive. They are building cairn
for ther pipes at the company kitcl
ems. spreading tarpaulins over thei
mess houses, building neat eatin
Ie shacks for the officers and otherwis
doing the hundred and one odd stunt
ID which add to camp picturesquenes
/, and make life in the open little NOR
10 comfortable and pleasing.
~ Supplies are arriving CONSTANT!
and among the latest things to reao
Il camp Bartlett are hundreds OF cot
20 which came in by auto truck tonigh
:. These are to be issued to troops fror
m other states which came into the cam
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