Little more than half a century ago the Company made its first Fall Field Day parade to a point outside of Massachusetts. Seventy-five years ago it celebrated its Fall Field Day on Boston Common or in South Boston, Charlestown, East Boston or Cambridge, the exercises often taking the form of target practice in the afternoon and a banquet in the evening. In 1834 it visited Newton and in 1838 and 1849 Salem. Since 1856 it has visited the following places :—

In 1901 a service in Boston in memory of President McKinley took the place of a Fall Field Day trip to another city. In 1903 the Company escorted the Honourable Artillery Company of London, England, to West Point, New York City, Washington, Niagara Falls, Toronto and Montreal.

VETERAN MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS VISIT

BOSTON.

The First and Second Companies of the Governor's Foot Guard of Hartford and New Haven, Conn., the Putnam Phalanx of New Haven, Conn., the Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester, N. H., and the Worcester Continentals of Worcester,. Mass., spent Thursday, October 18, Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20, in and around Boston. Governor Roberts and Adjutant General Cole of Connecticut accompanied the Foot Guard, and Mayor John T. Duggan of Worcester the Continentals of that city as guests.

The visiting companies reached the Back Bay Station, Boston, at 7 P. M. on Thursday, and at once proceeded to the hotels which they had chosen as their headquarters. Thence they were escorted by details of members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to the Armory in Faneuil Hall. These details were as follows:

Brunswick Hotel: Sergt. L. S. M. Glidden in charge: Sergt. Charles W. Howard, Sol Basch, Dr. E. S. Taylor, Lieut. Fred A. Ewell.

Copley Square Hotel: Sergt. Jacob Bensemoil in charge: Lieut. Thomas J. Tute, Henry B. Black, Wilbur F. Adams, C. E. Durgin.

Hotel Oxford: Sergt. F. E. Harlow in charge: Sergt. Irving B. Vose, Sergt. William J. Quennell, William H. Magrath, Sergt. W. H. Thomas, Walter E. Knight.

Hotel Somerset: Sergt. Fred M. Wood in charge: Capt. William O. Webber, Sergt. George B. Ketcham, Sergt. Aaron Wolfson.

Hotel Nottingham:- Sergt. William B. Wood in charge: Sergt. George H. Wilson, Sergt. Henry P. Wilmarth, Charles F. Morrill, Charles H. Buchanan, Josiah H. Long, Jacob A. Turner, Sebastian Gahm.

The proceedings at the Armory were entirely informal. In the absence of Captain Innis through illness, Col. Sidney M. Hedges briefly welcomed the visitors, expressing the wish that they make themselves thoroughly at home and look upon the Armory as their headquarters while in the city. The commissioned officers Lieut. R. Whiteman Bates, Lieut. Benjamin Cole, Jr., and Adjt. Philip B. Bruce-assisted by Capt. Jacob Fottler, Lieut. Charles H. Porter, Lieut. Samuel A. Neill and Sergt. Howard C. Woodbury as a committee, received the guests individually. A promenade concert was given by the drum corps of the Foot Guard, the drum corps of the Putnam Phalanx and an orchestra which the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company had secured. A collation was served. The museum of Colonial and Revolutionary relics was examined, and advantage was taken of the opportunity to meet friends of previous years or to make acquaintanceships which it was hoped might ripen into friendships as the years rolled on.

The companies visited Lexington and Concord on Friday morning, in the afternoon gave a street parade in Boston, and in the evening entertained a large number of guests, among them officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, at a banquet at the Hotel Somerset. They returned home on Saturday.