New Britain herald., 1917-04-06
COMPANY E TOLD TO
 | SLEEP AT ARMORY
|Mihtiamen Will Not Be Permitted to Go Home Nights

NO more Will mem DorS OISCOnpdHy lE be permitted to sleep nights at their respective homes. Last night they were dismissed at o'clock but today instructions have been g1Ven by lieutenant Ashley J. Griffin ordering his men to bunk in the armory here- hfter. The armory has been thor Pughly cleaned since the departure of Company and the members of the troops left here will set up their camp bot and outfit on the drill hall floor ffrhere the men will sleep until they shre ordered to leave the city. Yester- slday LieAtenant Griffin frightened up spn guard orders and none is per- Emitted to enter the armory during The day without consent of the cor poral of the guard.
 The nominations sent to headQuar- CTS yesterday by Lieutenant Grimm snave not yet been approved but 1t IS expected that they will be shortly and ssIhe newly appointed and promoted officers will assume s3heir respectfyy titles.
 x Details from Company B are still Aoing active guard duty and those kho remain at the armory are being but through a rigid series of drills. manual of arms and regulation cales- { SSlhenics. Sergeant Veley was drilling he men today. Second Lieutenant Harris, late of the Winsted company, assumed his duties with E Company 7 his morning and Lieutenant Arthur Johnson, formerly witt, the local com z hand reported for duty with M com 4lsny.
 sj Sergeant Browns Improvement. l Dr. Henry T. Bray, who is attending 4ergeant William Brown at the local Ex1ospita., stated this morning that the s1pldier is still . very sick man. but .siis condition is improved today and le has great hopes for his recovery. Ever since the troops were ordered to
 iobolize Sergeant Brown has been ritically ill. He was first stricken
 ,lth the grip, but later developed
 aenengitis, from which he is now
 lIffering. Sergeant Brown is one of z he most popular members of Com-
 lany E and saw service with this com shAnd along the Mexican border last ammer. His serious illness is deeply 5 Jhgretted by his fellows in the com-
 kny.
 1 News of the action of congress in
 
 Tween this country and Germany, and Ahe later bulletin that the government
 ada decided to take over interned # herman ships here, was received with
 ndisgllised satisfaction by the boys @k the armory. Today their unanf- ous. but unanswered. question, has fSeen: When are we going to leave ?'' Hd First Regiment Chaplain. ! s Adjutant General Cole has an- ' l3unced the special appointment of Hev. Edmund c. Thomas of Hartford sss chaplain of the! First regiment, to fcceed Rev. Irving Fl. Berg, who ac- bmpanied the boys to the border last
 lmmer and who resigned some time
 Eo. Rev. MT. Thomas takes his new R Psttfon with the rank of first lieuten- q The appointment is subject to X kamination.
 The new regimental chaplain Is rec
 1T of St. James church in Hartford
 I'd Is thirty-nine years of age He
 as born in Pottsville, Pa., on Decem- sk sr 28, 1878. ad was graduated from n rlnity college with the class of 1903. sceiving the degree of Lit B. He
 as graduated from the Berkeley
 tvinity school with the class of 1906 hd before coming to the Hartford
 hurch was assistant rector of a z Aurch in Scranton, Pa, and rector of s church Lancaster, N. H. Chap ES in Thomas is married and has two
 kildren.
 ltev. Oliver T. MagneIl of Wethexs-
 fid IS the Catholic chaplain of the s lgiment. essj Co. Men Active.
 Es Especial to the Herald
 3Nhs Company I, First Connecticut fantry, on guard duty: April 6.-In
 Ute of a chilling sleet storm evident
 lert-oyer sample from March. in IS section of Connecticut tonight.
 scattered outposts of Company |. ,rst Connecticut Infantry, are not
 ins forgotten or neglected. Because
 the extreme darkness of the night
 "a the severity of the storm many E the outposts are doubly manned sptaln A. H. Griswold has set up his
 fadquarters and is personally direct :
 the work of his men, ably assisted Lieutenants Raymond R. Rand
 Rodman Chamberlain. First Ser
 ant Cedric Powers is also renderin~
 valuable service and all the non mmlss1oned officers and private. zen the newest enlisted man. is en. ring upon his new duties with a de- imitation that spells s,lccess. yTne sudden storm which has brolx. over the state tonight reminds tbe
 Ser men of their first day out from E " b1ta1n last June. Leaving this under azure skies, the men at that
 ne nad no sooner arrived at Man
 nan storm broke and their first
 III camp was one which tended to npen their spirits. The present
 A'ers enjoyed by the men are much
 com1ortabie than the shelter E ws that the house of ranro..-...-