Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-24

| company. There are eight tents, including
| the one sacred to the uses of the
lieutenant commanding. Neatness 10 the
universal rule, and the men are very proud of
the cleanly Appearance their camp makes.
Between these tents and those devoted to
hospital purposes is the ambulance, q vehicle
of which every member Of the company is very
proud. IL is q strongly-built and nely-fnished
| government ambulance and was made at Fort
Leavenworth. Every necessary convenience 10
| found in it, and it has already been
| called into service with very satisfactory re-
| suits. The company is divided into two squads.
One OF them attends battalion and other drills
In the morning and the other does patrol duty
during the afternoon The entire company
| turns out at dress parade. If any one wants to
witness really practical drill there is no better
company to watch than this.
The ambulance and stretcher drill takes
place every morning at 6:I5 o'clock and will
repay any one who viii get up that early to
| look at it.
AT THE pIsPEysARY.
They have a new man on duty at the post dis
pensary-Hospital Steward Frank Luerssen.
He is hospital steward Of the second regiment
Pennsylvania national guard. He came down
to camp as visitor last night and missed the
last boat for town Fellow-pharmacists pro-
vided him with bed, and this morn
ing. he looked after the dispensary
while Hospital Steward F. R Reh ate break
fast. He had not poisoned any one when Ser
geapt Reh returned, and two hours later he
was requested to do duty in place of Reh, who
visits the city on leave for a day. One hundred
| and fifty prescriptions were filed at the dis
pensary yesterday, but none of the cases were
severe.
''DRua STORE" CALLERS
1t is astonishing to note the frequency with
which some men visit the ''drug store" Their
ailments are frequently imaginary, and they
go to see the doctor with the hope that he will
prescribe imported sherry or thirty
year-old brandy. DIR. Cole is good
seemed to be asleep when his eyes were very
wide open indeed. This morning one Of the
notorious ''coffee coolers" entered the dispen-
| sary and claimed to be seriously affected.
Have you little blackberry brandy" he
asked with a very weak voice.
81 don't think blackberry brandy would re.
lieve you" was the reply. "You have consumed
so much of that during the past couple of days
that 1t Is losing its efficacy SO far as you are
concerned" Then, turning to Q hospital
steward he said:
Sergeant, take this man into the operating
| room. You will find there a large horse syringe
and a bucket of buttermilk. There is no better
remedy than that"
The sufferer was on his way to camp in less
than five seconds.
ONE RUG "Too MUCH"
Everybody has unhesitatingly accepted the
clearly-stated fact that ''beauty unadorned is
adorned the most" but Inspector General Gale
disputes this by attempting to decorate his
| tent floor with very dudish-looking rug. That
| is what may fairly be termed work of superero-
| cation, for when the major is not in his
| tent no one looks at it, and when
he is under his canvas roof why no one would
take their eyes off him for moment TO scan
the furnishings of the apartment. Nobody
cares two cents for the majors tent unless he
| himself Is In it. How much interest or value
attaches to oyster shell when the pearl
is gone? Incidentally it may be
remarked that the rug belongs to Capt. Par
| menter, who only consented to loan it when its
| cost value had been duly acknowledgements
| sarily for publication, but simply rs guaran-
| tee of good faith" Gen. Ordway has one large
rug in the headquarters tent and Capt. Aldrich
has two on the fanciful mating which covers
| from them, but from Major Gale it is too
| much-just one rug too much.
WET AND DRY.
"Do you suppose that was intended to be a
dry moat?" asked Lieut.. "Jake" Moore Of
Capt. John Miller yesterday. They were ex-
amining the fort and the lieutenant, who is
paying great deal of attention to fertilization
engineering especially of the "stone-fence"
Variety, wanted all the information he could
get.
mo-" replied the captain, very positively
| a wet moat, but out of respect for the Presi-
dents order as to the sale of liquors on the
reservation its character was changed"
The lieutenant is much better this morning
thank you, but he had a very narrow escape.
There ls sweet music around the headquar-
tiers of the first regiment every evening after
| supper and it is really treat. The colored
servants and a few of the vocalists from the
seventh and eighth battalions gather around
near one of the baggage tents and sing char
acteri5hc songs IN hrst-class style.
THERE WAS VERY PAINFUL SEPARATION
Of mother and child last night. Mrs. Forsberg
was down in camp, jus. down to see how her
husband was behaving himself. She brought
with her their child, a pretty little infant,
When it was almost time for the last boat to
leave for the city it was discovered that Papa
Forsberg could not get away from camp, so Ser
geant Major Rennie gallant soldier he is) vol
unteered to carry the baby down to the
wharf. The offer was accepted, and when
| the wharf reached Mrs. Forsberg went
on board the waiting boat, expecting
tine sergeant-major to follow closely. Man pro-
poses around Camp Ordway, but the sentinels
have little something to say about the dispo-
sition Of things and just as the sergeant-major
was about to puta foot on the gang plank he was
stoppedby the guard and ordered to produce
his pass. He did not have any pass and the
sentry was obdurate. The officer of the guard
was appealed to and the case was stated to him,
out no permission came from MS lips. Finally
the sergeant major stood upon his dignity
and informed them that he was of the
regular army and they had no jurisdiction
over his movements. That struck them like a
thousand of the best imported English glazed
brick and they succumbed. Once more the
mother and child were united and when the
gallant cavalryman stepped off on to the wharf
the boat glided out into the stream.
ENvIoUs OF THE CoLoNEL's ABILITY.
Col. w. G. Moore of the first regiment has
gone to the city and will probably be away
| from camp until Friday. In the meantime the
regiment is commanded by Lieut.. Col.
Walton. This arrangement will not pre-
vent Col. Walton from continuing to
play upon the banjo and guitar The rumor
that it would have such disastrous effect was
the fabrication of some base villain who is en-
vious Of the coloners ability.
BASE BALL.
The Washington Light Infrntry base ball
team played game yesterday afternoon with
picked nine selected from various companies.
The Infantry won-14 to 4. The bat
teries were: Infantry, Lee and Far
rell; picked nine, King and Leach,
This afternoon another game was in
in progress in which Wise and Farrell did the
honors for the infantry. The other nine was
composed of members of the drum corps.
''JEss MY LUCK"
remarked a young colored militiaman this
morning as he walked past the canteen with
n