The Portland daily press., 1895-08-13

to the hospital is the long line OF tents
extending back in company streets too
the row of tents in which the field and
staff officers are quartered. An officers
tent is comfortable establishment 1t
is more properly speaking, composed of
two tents, that III front being used as
office and sitting room, while in the rear
is the tent with the camp beds. Back of
the officers row is the line of mess tents,
one for the staff OF each regiment, one for
each band and one for each company.
The mess. houses are not9 architecturally
beautiful, but they keep out the wind
and rain. and are large enough to accom-
modate fifty men at the two tables in
each. These tables, three times day are
loaded with good, substantial grub,"
and three times a day the rations disap-
pear with marked rapidity. 1t is needless
to say that the rain does not seriously in
terfere with the march of the companies
to the mess houses. Behind each mess
house is another small building, the
sanctum OF that important functionary,
the company cook. 1t is here that the
uncooked rations are prepared and as it is
only a step to the back door of the mess
house, they can be served hot. The
camp sutler is here selling pies, cakes
and hop beer in stand on the edge of
the grounds "A man in a tent on which
| a sign reads. Barber Shop" also does
| fiourishing business That in brief is
what Camp Cleaves looks like.
Life here is not all play, as the list of
the daily duties will show. 1t is place
where you must be up with the sun and
where you are supposed to be wrapped in
slumber promptly at ten D. m.
The following hours of service, duty
| and roll call are hereby established and
will be strictly complied with
| First call for reveille, 5.25 a. m.
reville, $50 a. m. assembly, roll call.
setting up drill and policing of quarters;
5.35 a. m. sick call, 800 a. m. mess cali
| (breakfast) 25 a. m. assembly, $50
m.; guard mount, z. 45 a. m. /; assembly,
| 7.50 a. m. adjutant's CALL 500 a. M
drill call, (battalion) 900 a. m. assembly,
8. 10 a. m. !; adjutants' call, 915 a. m.
| II. 45 a. IN. ; mess call, (dinner), II. 55 a.
m. assembly, - 90 M drill call, 800 p
M. assembly, 8. 25 p. N. ; adjutant's CALL
| 3. 30 D. m. recall, 5. Is p m. mess call
| (supper) s. So p. ~. assembly, 600 p. m.
| first call for parade, 35 minutes before
| sunset; assembly, 30 minutes before sun
| set; adjutant's call to form battalion, 20
minutes before sunset; adjutants' call to
| form regiment, 10 minutes before sunset;
| retreat, sunset; parade to be- esimmediately
| followed by roll call and N uster in COM
pany street; first call for tattoo, $50 p
m. tattoo, 10. 90 p m. , roll call to imme-
diately fol low, taps, IL p. m.
| At the first call for reveille officers and
men rise and dress At the first sound of
the assembly following reveiIle companies
| are formed for roll call. Tho formation of
a company must be attended by at least
| one of its officers Immediately after the
| assembly roll is called followed by notice
to those who desire medical advice to re-
port as soon as dismissed to the first SER
geant, the first sergeant then reports the
result..of the roll call to the officers
present; short setting up drill is held,
after which, the men will continue to
place their tents in order and police the
| ground around them and the company
| street, under the supervision OF the
sergeants and corporals of the company
AT sick call the sick are marched by the
| trst sergeant or on-commlssloneu
officer detailed by him, to The hospital;
| the commissioned officer presents the
sick report to the medical officer and IN
due course of time returns with 1t TO 1he
first sergeant.
At the assembly following mess cail
companies are formed and marched 10 the
mess hall by the first sergeants
At guard mounting call the men ue-
tailed for guard and rs supernmnmefafless ~ s
prepare to fall in: at the Ifs1 Mouhu VI
| the assembly following 1T, the nrst
serpeant sff forms their respective details,
| inspects arms and uniforms closely, re.
nlaces men not up to the standard OF
neatness. instructs their supernunefafles
ana on-commissioned officers IN Unelf
nos3tions at guard mounting, ana at the
Fet eoITnd IF the march following ad-
| infants call they are to march them onto
| the line. The first regiment is responsible
for this guard detail