Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-02
on THE TENTED FIELD.
WHERE THE MILITARY WILL
DRILL AND LIVE.

Drill Grounds - Accommodations
for $4,000 Spectators TO Witness
the COutests-A Glance at the y i
campment - Where the SOLDIER
Eat and Sleep.
Camp Washington, cut OF which is
shown on the first page, is the encamp
ment Of the military which will gather in
Savannah this week. IL takes its name
after Gen. Washington who, in 1871, pre-
sented the Chatham Artillery with two
guns which they still have.
The grounds cover about 20 acres In
Guiding the Whitaker street base ball
park, which was rendered the Galatians
by Col. j. II. Estill. The field is as level
as a board. IL lies on the estside OF the
City and Suburban railway, 200 yards
south Of Anderson street. and is not more
than II miles from the City Exchange at
Bull AID Bay streets. Camp Washington
is reached by the Whitaker street cars,
which will land passengers at the Ander-
sou street depot. The cars Will return on
Abercorn street and will run two minutes
apart.
THE DRILL GROUNDS.
Visitors 10 the camp will enter the
grounds at the northeast corner or the
lower right hand corner, as SHOWN Ga the
cut. To the left OF the entrance is the pa
Tade and drill ground. 400 feet long by 290
wide. an area Of about three acres. On
the north end OF the drill ground is an
open stand for whites. with seating ca
pacity oil 1900. Facing the ground on the
east is another i'm mense open stand, which
will seat 5000. Directly opposite s
the grand stand which will com
fortabiy accommodate $500 persons.
10 81 80
seals for cOlored SPECTATORS. Without
uncomtOrtaOiy crowding any one $4,000
spectators can be sealed, and there Is
standing room for almost as many more.
ROOM FOR 25,0O0 PEOPLE.
Altogether the capacity OF the grounds
3s about -, 900, dimensions almost ampi-
theatrical. The buildings are all strong
and substantial. The seats in the stands
are given sufficient elevation to allow
every one to see without stand ng up.
and hence that great nuisance IS obYi-
= tied.
TBe Judges tent is on the south side OF
the drln grounds. and at the northwest
corner are tire headquarters 81 tue drill
committee. The commlttee has its room
upstairs, and from averanda IN front the
members will have an excellent view Of
the field.
On the ground floor Of the drill commit
the press. with a Western Union tele-
graph Office and the MORNING NEWS
stand adjoining. The drill committee
bas telephone connection with the city.
Extending across the drill ground on the
west side is the cavalry track with an en-
france on the north side of the field, and
an exit on the south side. A wide track
was dug out and filled with clay and ram
med and covered with sawdust.
UH-r
West, and Immediately back of the
grand stand. is the encampment proper.
Five buD0red new tents dot tue
field, and form the greatest military en-
cempment seen IN the South since the
war, YORKTOWN alone excepted. Method
was observed ia pitching the tents,
and the camp is divided by
streets running north and south and
avenues running east and west. Wheaton
avenue, named in honor OF Capt. }. f.
Wheaton. the present commanding officer
of the Chathams, divides the camp. At
the head Of Wheaton avenue stands the
Headquarters OF Camp Wasnin gt0n's CON-
mandant, Col. c. Fl. Oimstead. On either
side Of him are the quarters Of his staff,
and in front OF his tent stands the flag
staff, from which floats the national col
CTS. Commandant stead's statf is:
Assistant Adjutant General-R. j. Gill
lard.
Quartermaster-G. W. Haupt
Assistant QuartermasteT-E. Il. Buck
ner.
Surgeon Frank T. Lincoln.
Aids-T. +. Screyen, r. NJ. Demere, and
Il. r. Dancy.
AVENUES AND STREETS.
Lexington avenue forms the western
boundary OF the camp. Concord, Bunker
Hill, Monmouth. Cowpens, Trenton,
ltriupQfQn aud KRrxFpeuu atraafa
named after battles OF the Revolution.
Grub avenue, which is the next north OF
Whea .en, Is named in honor OF Gen. Il.
Burd GrU0O, OF Philadelphia, who was
fret selected for the post OF Camp
COmmandsnt, but who was prevented
from coming by tue death OF mis- wife.
Kinney avenue, 20 the south of Wheaton
s. named tor Maj. j. G. X nney, OF the
Governors Foot Guard, OF Hartford,
Conn, the Oldest active military organi-
cation in the United States.
THE COMPANIES IN CAMP.
The Savannah Cadets, VINO went into
camp Friday nlght, face Concord street,
north Of Wheaton avenue. The Mont
gomery Grays will be located west
street. and west of the Grays, on
Lexington avenue, Will be the Gate City
Guards Of Atlanta. the fourth company
east OF Lexington avenue, on the north
Of Wheaton, will be the Montgomery True
Blues, facing Bunker Hill street. Next
on the east are the quarters r. served Tor
the Busch LOuayes. On the south side OF
Wheaton avenue, facing Lexington, will
be the Macon Volunteers. aud north Of
Grubb avenue, facing Lexington, Will be
the Gainesville Guards. The other COM
panies VIII be assigned as they arrive.
THE HOSPITALS.
The hospitals are in the northwest and
Aouthwest corners OF the encampment,
On the north side Of the field is a long row
OF eating sheds, and back OF them are
cooking sheds and tents for the cooks
The barber shop, gorgeously decorated, is
also at this side OF the camp. as Is the
bath house. Toe bath house, with faucets
Tor IA shower baths, was one OF Private
A. z. Harmon's Ideas, and Is a feature
that Is generally overlooked la laying out
encampments.
On the south side OF the field are more
cooking sheds and eating sheds for the
military.
TO FEED THE CROWDS.
Under the grand stand is an enormous
Restaurant where 900 people can be served
~ a time. The kitchen back OF the
restaurant Is fitted up with great boilers,
ranges. ovens, etc, Tor providing meals