The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-16
CAMP LIFE BEGINS TO-DAY
C0NNECTICUT'S SOLDIERS GO TO
 CAMP COOKE THIS MORNING.

Routine Work of the Week-Sham Battle
 To-morrow-Friday's Great Day-Clty
 Companies Leave at 7:O5.
 The one week of the year to which all the members of Connecticut's cit- zen-sodiers look forward is at hand, and bright and early this morning the trains will carry them and their equip ment to the state camping ground at Mantle, and the week of soldier life will begin.
 All the indications point to very successful camp this year. The heavy rains seem to have come and gone, and there Is a good probability ot week or comparatively clear skies. The only danger as regards weather is that an- other hot wave will take notion to sweep over us this week, but even then the heat can hardly be any worse than it frequently is during camp week. The date is set week earlier than usual and the third week in August frequent ly contains some of the choicest wealth. CT of the entire summer.
 The New Haven companies go to camp this year thoroughly drilled and in a position to make the most of a week there.
 The start from New Haven will be made at 7:O5, reaching East Lyme at S:35.
 Once there, and the work of pitching the tents over, the routine of camp life will begin. The programme for each day, making the necessary changes for to-day will be as follows:
 RevieIle and roll call, 5:45 a. m. Sick call 6:00 a. m.
 Breakfast, 6:30 a. m.
 Police call, FOO a. m.
 Guard mounting, 7:S0 a. m. Battalion and regimental drill, First
 and Second regiments, to 10 a. m. Same, Third and Fourth regiments, 10 to 12.
 School, Third and Fourth regiments, to 10 a. m.
 Same, First and Second regiments, 10 to 12.
 Inspection of quarters, S:15 a. m. Orderly hour, F m.
 Dinner, 12;30 m.
 Battalion drill, 1:30 to 230 p. m. Battery A and Machine gun battery
 drill, 2:30 to 3:S0 p. m.
 Police call, 3:3O p. m. Regimental parade, First and Second regiments, p. m.
 Same, Third and Fourth regiments, 80
 D. m. Brigade formation, Wednesday and
 Thursday, 5:15 p. m.
 Retreat, 6:25 p. m. ., Supper, 6:30 D. m. Tattoo and roll call, 10 p. m. Taps, il p. m.
 Tomorrow will take place the sham battle already referred to, and it doubt less will be on the the great events of the week, as it will come as near being taste of actual conflict as a militia man can experience in time of peace The public is of course excluded from the camp, except on Friday, but many friends of the soldiers and the state press will have an opportunity to see the fight
 The intervening days will be ones of solid drill work, but with no specia event. Then on Friday, the 20th, vii come the great day of the week-the public's day, when half of Connecticut i journeys to Mantle to be present al the only present day substitute for old fashioned general training. It is the great show day of the week and the public is freely admitted-witt certain restrictions, to see what the state of Connecticut is giving it in re turn for the money annually paid into it's treasury for state military purposes | Then comes Saturday, which is usu. ally the day for slight relaxation o1 the stiff discipline which has prevailed during the week, and of packing up fol home. The active soldiers of a weel return to their various homes and theil varied occupations, and forget tha they have been soldiers except for tht added discipline which the week ir | camp has given them