The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-17

"The Happy Four" of the company Sergeant Greenbaum, Corporal l. Il. Rockensurz, Inspector Nelson and Private Mattheison, all occupy the same tent and assure their friends or a warm welcome to their home at any hour before 10:3O.
 Corporal Rockensurz desires his friends to look after his dog, Fender while he is away at the war.
 Grand detail from company E Light Guards) were Corporal Richard K. Watson, Privates Joseph O'Neil, Bolt and Kidder.
 Guard detail from the Blues, Co., D, were Lieut.. Page, Sergeant Newbold' Privates Guilford, Wallace, Walker and Syner. For provost guard, Corporal Scheen and Privates Coates and Lid ell.
 The Wilkins Guard, First separate company (colored), has flfty-seven men in camp.
 Captain Lathrop says he has fifteen men in his company who have service medals for ten or fifteen years service nthe National Guard. He beats all other companies in the brigade in this respect.
 Lieut.. O'Bren of the Second platoon battery A, brought thirty mine men to camp. The lieutenants trunk was handled severely on the trip down, and as a consequence he has lost his entire stock of choice "sodas."
 On guard for the platoon yesterday were Corporal O'Neil and Private Ap- pleby.
 Leader Fichtl brought down his full band of twenty-six pieces and it Is furnishing fine music.
 Fred Guilford's new march, dedicat- ed to the fife and drum corps, will be played to-day
 CAMP NOTES. Mails were collected and distributed at the camp at 10:30 a. m. and 2:15 and 4 p. m.
 There are, eight U. S. mail boxes on the ground conveniently located. The first arrest of the camp was made at noon when a captain of the Third regiment sent member of his company to the guard house.
 One man was brought to the hospi- tai suffering from an attack of the SNAAS' AiAio WdS tile OIly CdSS Ol Sc- were sickness of the day. The most notable Improvements are the flooring of the mess houses with l asphalt concrete few new wells have been dug, all have been provided with sinks and the waste water has been carried off by a drain. The color line is 1,79S feet long and there are in all about 1,500 pieces of canvas. includ ing tents and flies. There are eighteen | tents to a company and each company street is eighteen feet wide, An important formality of the camp took place at Il a. m., when Quarter | master-General Lewis N. Van Keuren | turned over the entire camp property to Brigadier-GeneralR Russell Frost. Colonel James D. Houston, aid-de- | camp and Captain John Milton Thomp- son, inspector of military firearms on staff of the commander in chief, have been detailed by him to thoroughly in spect the drill, guard duty and field | manoeuvres at Camp Cooke. The launch of the naval battalion is moored near the bathing house manned | by coxswain, engineer, fireman and deck hand. It has fifteen-horse en- zine and will be used to carry details over the river and signalmen to Fish CTS Island
 l What the boys ate yesterday: | Dinner-Tomato soup, roast beef and roast lamb, potatoes (boiled), bread and butter pickles, melons, coffee, tea Supper-Cold ham, corned beef, hot rolls, bread and butter, coffee, tea, stewed prunes.
 No teams or civilians will be allowed in the camp without pass from brig ade headquarters.
 There are the usual crowd of fallirs outside camp, but no "hard-stuif' is offered for sale.
 Daily Camp Routine. Reveille and roll call. ......... 5:45 a. m. Sick call ......................6 500 a. m. | Breakfast .................... 6:30 a. m. Police call .................. zoo a. m Guard mounting ............. 7:30 a. m. Battalian and regimental drill,
 First and Second regiments,
 500 to 10:30 a. m. Third and Fourth regiments,
 10.00 to 12 m School, Third and Fourth reg iments 500 to 10:00 a. m Inspection of quarters. ..S:15 a. m Orderly hour. .12:00 m DlHller ................., lz:ou D. III Battalion drill. 80 to 203: p. m Battery A and Machine Gun Battery 80 to 3:30 D. m Police call .................... 3:30 p. m Regimental parade, First and
 Second regiments .......... 400 D. m Third and Fourth regiments, 4:30 p. m Brigade formation, Wednes-
 day and Thursday y.......... 5:15 D. .n Retreat 6:25 n. m | supper ....................... b.3U D. m Tattoo and roll call. .......... .10:00 D. nj
 Y. M. c. A. Entertainments. Monday Evening, August 16.
 Illustrated address. Subject: Get tysburg" W. H. Davis, Bridgeport
 Joseph Muldoon, Hartford, will give selections upon different musical in struments.
 Tuesday Evening, August IT.
 Photographic Entertainment, Con ducted by W. E. Spicer, New London
 Joseph Muldoon will also give musi. cal selections.
 | Wednesday Evening, August IS. I r+,-iIp cto tn1Iirp