The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-28
At CAMP HYDE.
Portland High School Cadets Are
Visitors
AND INSPECT THE CAMP OF THE
COBURN CADETS.
How the Soldier Boys of the Maine Univer-
sity Live Under Canvas-Rain Inter-
fered With Days Programme But the
Portland BattalionsHad Good Time.


| fered With Days Programme But the
Portland Battalion..Had Good Time.
ESPECIAL TO THE EREss.J
Camp Hyde, Bath, May 27.-Friday
morning when the Coburn Cadets strike
their tents at Camp Thomas W. Hyde
and take the train for Orono, there will
not be many of the young soldiers who
Will regret leaving Bath. Since Friday
| OF last week when Camp Thomas W.
!! Hyde welcomed the soldier boys of the
Maine University there has been only one
pleasant day, and during the most of
| the time the rain has fallen in steady
doWnpour which has effectually Inter
fered with the carrying out of the daily
routine of camp life and made the boys
OF the State University anything but
comfortable under their canvas shelters.
| The camp ground has been ankle deep in
mud greater part Of the week and such
thing as showing up a shine on the
shoes at morning inspection has not even
been thought Of In many ways Camp
Hyde has been one of the pleasantest
camps the Coburn Cadets have ever had
and if the weather had been in any way
decent it might have proven one of the
most successful as we'll. The people of
Bath have been very kind to the soldier
boys and have neglected no opportunity
to make them enjoy their visit to the ship
building city There have been many
| hops at the Alameda rink at which the
sweetest and fairest of Bath S gentler sex
have been strongly in evidence and many
prominent citizens have thrown open
their doors and done their best to enter
tain the city's guests. But while Camp
| Hyde may ever be remembered as grand
social triumph, Lieutenant Ell. N. Royden
| of the 23d United States Infantry, cannot
look back upon his tour of duty at Bath
as being huge success from military
point of view. Owing to the nasty wealth
er which has characteri zed the week in
camp there has been very few opportu-
mites of instructing the cadets in the
school of the soldier. although what they
have learned of roughing it under canvas
and in performing disagreeable guard
duty on these rainy and uncomfortable
nights may prove of inestimable value to
them some time.
Today the Portland High School Cadets
visited Camp Hyde and were the guests
of the battalion from the Maine State
University. 1t was not the pleasantest
kind Of weather for trip of this kind
and the continual downpour greatly inter-
fered with the pleasure of the visitors.
While they are not merely fair weather
soldiers and can, on pinch, face even as
cold and disagreeable rain storm as
that of today without flinching, still
like every one else in the good city of
Bath, they growled good deal at the
weather and INDUCED their propensity
for grumbling to the utmost But it
aroved to be an instructive trip for the
Portland cadets in many ways, and tax
ing all in all, they greatly enjoyed the
day.
The cadets left Portland early in the
morning and with them came Capt.
Baker, their drill master, and the princi-
pal of the school, Mr.. Albro E. Chase.
There was also good-sized crowd of
Portland people who embraced the oppor-
tunity of visiting Bath and seeing the
Coburn Cadets in camp. The Portland
| contingent arrived at Bath shortly after
s O'Clock, and when they alighted from
the train the prospects for good weather
were not 1attering. Bath at it's best is
not a very attractive place, but in rain
storm there are few cities in Maine
which are more forbidding and cherries.
1t was the original intention of the
Coburn Cadets to turn out with their
band and escort the Portland boys to the
camp in state, but this part of the pro-
gr'amme was not carried out and when
the Portland Cadets alighted on the
platform they found only a few of the
Coburn Cadets and their officers to show
them the way to Camp Hyde. Neverthe-
less, Major Frederick A. Norton, who
commands the High School battalion,
formed his companies in the most ap-
proved fashion and marched them away
through Baths muddy streets to the
camp ground. As the Portland boys
marched through the streets they were
again and again heartily applauded, and
with their fine military bearing and
neat and trim appearance they made a
great impression on the citizens of Bath,
who turned out in the rain to welcome
them. Arriving at the camp the Port
land battalion was dismissed for the fore
noon and the Coburn Cadets proved
themselves to be excellent entertainers
and took delight in showing their guests
about the camp.
Camp Hyde is situated on hill over
looking the Kennebec and is not far away
from the residence of Gen. Thomas W.
Hyde, for whom the camp is named
The camp is ankle deed in mud and in
places there are large puddles of water
which make walking about most uncom-
Portable unless one wears rubber boots
in III IA;