REPLY OF LIEUTENANT BATES.

Your Excellency: I thank you for this commission of First Lieutenant, and I shall endeavor to perform the duties of the office with credit to the Company and honor to the state.

GOVERNOR GUILD'S REMARKS TO THE

LIEUTENANT.

NEWLY ELECTED SECOND

Second Lieutenant Benjamin Cole, Jr.: I take great pleasure in carrying out the wishes of your comrades and conferring upon you this espontoon, the emblem of the office of Second Lieutenant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. I am sure that your comrades have well chosen, and congratulate you on your election, and wish you every success for the coming year.

LIEUTENANT COLE'S REPLY.

Your Excellency: I wish to thank you for your kind words, and in receiving this insignia of office I appreciate the honor you confer upon me. I also am aware of the many duties devolving upon me, and it is my hope that I shall so discharge them that when one year hence I resign the office I may have gained the commendation of the Commonwealth, yourself, and the members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.

GOVERNOR GUILD'S REMARKS TO THE ADJUTANT-ELECT.

Adjutant Bruce: The Adjutant-General will now confer upon you the espontoon, the insignia of office of Adjutant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. From your own military record and your excellence as a marksman, I am sure that the espontoon will be worthily and well carried in this ancient and honorable corps.

REPLY OF ADJUTANT BRUCE.

Your Excellency: I thank you for your kind words, and I shall endeavor to serve my comrades of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company as faithfully as I have tried to serve you and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Commanded by its newly-elected officers, the Company escorted Governor Guild to the State House. Then it marched through Beacon and Tremont Streets, Cornhill and Dock Square to Faneuil Hall, where, after congratulatory speeches, ranks were broken.

THE FALL FIELD DAY PARADE.

A visit to Cincinnati, O., was proposed as the objective point for the two hundred and sixty-ninth Fall Field Day parade, October, 1906, and the commissioned officers looked into the question of transportation and visited that city to ascertain what hotel accommodation it offered. Apparently the most feasible plan was to travel to New York by the Fall River Line, and thence by special train of coaches to Washington, supper to be served at a hotel in the capital city, and by special train of sleeping cars to Cincinnati. This route relieved the monotony of railroad travel, but it involved spending some seventytwo hours in going and returning to secure two days and a half in the city visited, and also an unusually large assessment on the members of the Company. These facts, coupled with the unexpected illness of Captain Innis in the latter part of the summer, led to the abandonment of the plan. New Jersey was deemed more accessible than Ohio, and the Company visited Atlantic City, the great popular seashore resort on the Jersey coast. It was rather out of the season for visiting the seashore; but Atlantic City has many features of an all-the-year-round resort, and while the hot weather population runs into figures which no man has the data to determine accurately, the permanent. population is as great as that of many American cities. The Company reached there at noon on Tuesday, October 2, and left. after lunch on Thursday, October 4. It spent the intervening days very pleasantly. Summer visitors had returned to their homes, winter visitors had not r ached there, and consequently the "boardwalk" had comparatively few occupants and many of its amusements and stores were closed; but the surroundings were a decided novelty to the men from New England, and the trip as a whole was universally considered a great success.

MONDAY, October 1, 1906.

Officer of the Day: LIEUT. CHARLES S. DAMRELL,

The Company left its armory in Faneuil Hall about 3.30 P. M., and, headed by the Salem Cadet Band, marched through State, Court, Tremont, Winter and Summer streets to the South station, where a special train of six coaches was waiting to convey it to Fall River. It was joined at the station by a number of belated members in fatigue uniform and citizens' dress, and they brought the total of all ranks to 325. Captain Innis was in command as the Company left the armory and proceeded through State and Court streets, but he turned the command over to First Lieutenant Bates for the remainder of the march, Second Lieutenant Cole then commanding the Infantry Wing and First Sergeant Quennell the Artillery Wing. It was the first appearance of Captain Innis in public since his illness, and he had not fully regained his strength. Sergeant Quennell wore a sword which had been presented to him by members of his company and other friends.

The special train left Boston at 4.20 P. M., and reached Fall River at 6 P. M. Forming line on the wharf as it left the cars, the Company escorted the colors to headquarters on the steamship "Puritan." The Black Dike Band of Yorkshire, Eng., which had played in Boston the previous day, and whose leader, John Gladney, had been entertained there by some of the members, was billed for a Fall River theatre that evening, and complimented it by greeting it on the platform as it detrained, by playing in alternation with the Salem Cadet Band as it marched on board the steamship, and during the hour which remained before the time of sailing, and during which supper was served, by giving a concert on board. Sergt. Charles M. Robbins presented Leader Gladney, Manager A. B. Pryce and Bandmaster Harry Bower with souvenir watch fobs. Colonel Hedges thanked the band for its courtesy, and Leader Gladney responded appropriately.

TUESDAY, October 2, 1906.

Officer of the Day: CAPT. LAWRENCE J. FORD.

New York was reached at an early hour in the morning. After breakfasting on board the Company was transferred by annex boat to Jersey City, and there took a special train over the New Jersey Southern and Atlantic City railroads, to Atlantic. City. The distance traversed on the rails was something over a hundred miles, and it was made without a stop. Starting at 9 A. M., the "special" should have completed its journey at 11.45 A. M., but delay caused by getting the Company's baggage on board, and additional delay caused a little later by an open drawbridge, varied, the schedule sufficiently to make it 12.20 P. M. when Atlantic City was reached. The country traversed was new, however, the Company's previous trips across New Jersey having been on the Pennsylvania or the Reading from Jersey City to Philadelphia, and there was much of interest to be seen through the car windows by New England eyes.

The Company was greeted on the railroad platform at Atlantic City by Mayor Franklin P. Stoy, and also by LieutCol. J. Frank Supplee, of the Fourth Maryland Infantry, one of its members, who had come from Baltimore to join in its outing. In conversation with its officers, Mayor Stoy welcomed it to the city of boardwalks, and offered to do everything in his power to make its stay pleasant.

Marching from station to street, with Mayor Stoy on its staff, the Company was received by the Atlantic City Troop of Cavalry, 40 men, Capt. Robert H. Ingersoll commanding, and was escorted through Atlantic, Illinois and Pacific avenues to the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, which it had selected as headquarters. Everywhere spectators crowded sidewalks and hotel piazzas. "Atlantic City never saw anything more spectacular,” said the Union, "than the picture the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, the oldest, wealthiest and proudest military organization in America, presented as it marched shortly after noon to-day from the Reading terminal. to turn the stately Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel into an armed, but none the less peaceful camp, for the ensuing ninety-six hours." That two companies of infantry did not also join in the

escort was stated as due to a local misunderstanding. Mayor Stoy's own impression of the escort given by the cavalry was embodied in a letter which he gave to the press later in the day, and which was as follows:

To the Officers and Members of the City Troop, Atlantic City, N. J.: — I desire to extend public thanks to your organization for the fine manner in which you turned out to welcome the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, Mass., which arrived to-day for a visit of a few days. Your representative body of horsemen conducted themselves in a soldierly and gentlemanly manner, reflecting credit upon the city, and establishing your body as a sort of an official one for the reception of visiting bodies.

Respectfully,

FRANKLIN P. STOY,

Mayor.

State and city officials, visitors and natives, greeted the Company as it entered the spacious rotunda of the Hotel Marlborough, and welcomed its members individually after they had marched to the Blenheim and been photographed.

The part of the hotel known as the Marlborough was assigned to the Company, that known as the Blenheim being reserved for the use of the other guests. It gave it splendid accommodations, with a dining hall for its individual use and a large number of salt water baths, and with not a cot anywhere.

Nothing formal, either in the line of duty or entertainment, had been assigned for the afternoon or evening, and members spent their time in making the acquaintance of the features of Atlantic City life. They traversed the boardwalk in wheeled chairs, single or double, pushed by colored men, or, in a solitary instance, by a white man. They visited the steel pier and the roller skating rink, looked over the collections of souvenir postal cards which were to be found on every hand, and were photographed. The band gave, by request, concerts on the terrace of the Marlborough-Blenheim in the afternoon and evening.

WEDNESDAY, October 3, 1906.

Officer of the Day: CAPT. JOHN G. WARNER.

Members entertained themselves individually during the morning and afternoon, the only specific assignments being the