Evening star., 1895-06-12
GOING INTO CAMP
More Than a Thousand Guardsmen
Are Ready.
BUSY Times at THE BRIGADE ARMORY
Everything is in Readiness at Fort
Washington.
WILL START TOMORROW

Whether there is sunshine or storm. or
will leave for Fort Washington on the
steamer George Leary tomorrow morning
at $50 o'clock. The brigade will remain
at Fort Washington for ten days.
From an early hour this morning there
was considerable activity at the brigade
armory on L street. Baggage was being
packed for shipping, quartermasters and
quartermaster serSeants were hustling up
stairs and downstairs and wherever there
was opportunity to be busy. Promptly at
6 o'clock the baggage of the fifth bat
TALON was loaded into wagons and sent
to the wharf; later the sixth battalion
stuff moved off in the same direction. A
considerable quantity of the belongings of
other battalionS remained to be sent down
tomorrow, although the authorities around
the armory are Of the opinion that the
battalions whose cry goods are detained
will suffer more or less inconvenience De-
cause of the detention
At the other end of the line-down at
Fort Washington-there has been a great
deal of energy, for. in accordance with
orders, all the quartermasters or other offl-
GERS detailed for commiSSary duty, with
cooks and employees, had to report there
today, so as to draw and arrange suhsis-
tence stores, mess furniture and cooking
utensils, and be ready to serve meals on
have all been laid and the entire machinery
of camp has been thoroughly oiled. so that
when the brigade arrives everything will
start off smoothly.
How They VIII Start.
Promptly at $50 tomorrow morning there
will, it is expected, be more than thou
sand National Guardsmen awaiting the
word of command to embark on the Leary
at the lower wharf. Officers and men will
be equipped in a business-like manner.
Their overcoats will be in camp ahead of
them-if their quartermaster has been
spry--or be piled up on the wharf in boxes
to follow at some future time, If the
quartermaster has been asleep. Each man
will have his wooden blanket rolled inside
his rubber blanket, and the combination
will be strapped on top of his blanket bag
by the coat straps; suspended from the loop
on the bottom of the blanket bag will be
tin cup. The embarkation will be directed
by Major Winthrop Alexander, brigade in
Spector general.
Soon after the arrival in camp mess call
will sound and dinner be served; not as in
times past-to the whole brigade-but 10
battalions, by the commissary officers Of
the respective commands. Tents will, Of
course, be pitched before eating COM
mences, but here will be no afternoon drill,
because the time can be profitably ex-
pended in making everything comfortable.
Bed sacks will will be issued and filled
with straw and host of minor details at
and those ceremonies will take place at
o'clock.
For Duty us the Main Guard.
Details for guard duty are as follows:
Thursday, June 13......Co. d, 1st battalion.
Friday, June 14.........Co. E, 9th battalion.
Saturday, June l5......co. c. ist battalion.
snnday Mnndsy June nne r battaion
Tuesday, June 1S........ Co. A, Sd battalion.
Wednesday, June 10....Co. A. 1st battalion.
Thursday, June 20......Co. A, 4th battalion.
Friday, June 21..:;..Co D, 4th battalion.
In addition to the main guard, as above
indicated, each regiment Will detail COM
pany daily for guard duty around its camp,
for purposes of instruction.
Post officers.
In an order issued today-general orders
No. 9-the following details for the camp
are announced:
Post commissary, Major E. H Neumeyer,
chief of ordnance: post quartermaster,
Capt. H. H. Parmenter, quartermaster sec
ord regiment: post ordnance officer, First
Lieut.. 4. S. kirg, 1. r. p, second battal-
ion; post surgeons, Capt. S. A. H. McKirn,
surgeon first regiment, and Capt. Richard
A. Pyles, surgeon second regiment
Mr. George C. Brooms is announced as a
volunteer aid-de-camp during the encamp-
ment and will be obeyed and respected
accordingly.
Good, solid instruction has been assured
Capt Constantine Chase and Second Lieut..
Gordon G. Hener, fourth United States
artillery, as instructors.
"TroopinE' the COlOrs.
Adjutant General Mosher has issued for
the instruction of officers a memorandum
relative to brigade dress parade. Hitherto
the parade has been a longdrawn line that
fl equenty taxed the capacity of the parade
ground This year the troops will form
in line of masses. There has been some
difficulty in the compiling Of this memo
randum, for the new drill regulations make
no provisions for such a ceremony, but the
experts say that the program is a thor
oughly good one At the conclusion Of the
ordinary dress parade ceremonies the col
ors will be ''trooped," in accordance with
Gen. Ordway's adaptation of the extremely
popular English maneuver.
1t is announced that the National Rifles,
mustered in as a company Monday night,
has been assigned as company b, second
battalion