The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-13

Reserves officers will not be retained
is, as far as 1t goes, contirmatory OF the
belief that the navy department mas
bigger plans than patrol service for
utilizing the Reserves.
The week Of pleasant weather, as
agreeable as it was unanticipated, has
made the camp life especially enjoya-
BILE. 1t would be hard to find anywhere
jollier, healthier set Of men than In
the camp of the Reserves. The dread
ed physical and mental examination
drove the smile from several faces and
the night rest of the camp was disturb
ed by the low murmurings Of some or
the men trying to box the compass
or to give the knots of the lead line.
The physical examination conducted by
DR.. Sayers, a retired surgeon of the
United States navy, was searching
one, and it is not surprising that eight
or ten men of the first division failed to
pass it. After the first division men
had been examined the examinations
were proceeded with more rapidly at
| the request of Commander Fields and
| somewhat to the advantage Of the
| Hartford men comprising the second
| division.
| The men of the engineer division OF
| New Haven have been examined in the
requirements of their branch of the SER
vice and have been given very credita-
BILE ratings for the most part. 1t will
probably take two days more work to
| complete the examinations, and about
| Wednesday it is thought all will be
mustered in together and taken to Bos-
| ton A large number of the New Ha-
ven divisions secured passes and spent
| Sunday with their friends at home. The
first division has a baseball team in an
| embryonic condition, from which great
things are anticipated by it's promoters.
| A few of the men are afflicted with
| colds, but otherwise the health of the
camp is excellent.
The commssary department Is the
most popular feature of the camp and
the rapidity with which the boys get
their plates and cups of Harveyized
! steel and get in line for mess" COM
| pletely eclipses all other formations.
| Pompey Africanus and assistants OF
the same royal line of Ham attend to
! culinary matters. This fact gave cur
rency to the yarn in one of the New
Haven papers that the Reserves had
colored men to do the dirty work of
camp and therefore were considered
dudish by the other soldiers Of the
camp. If cooking bacon, beans, soup
etc., is dirty work the average amateur
tar would like to inquire what kind OF
work is it being your own dish washer
laundryman, etc, to say nothing Of the
pleasures Of policing camp, to which
the Reserve is a constant heir, whether
he will or not. Naval Reserve dudes!
We rather think not!
Visitors are rare, those of the lovely
woman variety being about as infre-
quent as one would expect to find them
In Terra Del Fuego or Van Demen's
land. OF the latter there are not eybugf
to occupy the attention of the officers
while the attention of the seamen, or
| binary seamen, and landsmen went tt
grass long ago.
A bevy Of young ladies who visited
camp one day stood by and watched
several of the boys scrubbing away al
their weeks washing. One Of then
was heard to remark in rapturous
tones, Isn't this glorious?" The tars
who were perspiring at their subscrut
l
The monotony of existence and the
soup bacon beef steak beans die
are occasionally varied by box sen
to one of the boys by kind friends from
home. The Mantle appetites acquired
by all the boys render such donations
very timely. AS the men are lined VI
for mess waiting their turn at the ba.
con and beans a large tishhawk sails
proudly by over their heads with q met
fresh fish in its claws for it's supper
what a hint for the Naval battalion
commissaryi
There is case of humps In camp
the mumpy man being member O
Captain Beach's battery. The poo
fellow is isolated in tent by himself
where he has little but solitude and hi
mumps to while the hours away. HI
has the universal sympathy of TIN
camp but few are anxious to share hi
company and his humps.
Captain Beaeh's battery are still
without uniforms. The men need then
badly and feel that they have beef
somewhat neglected. The marching o
the battery is excellent and is one o
the features of the camp. The YAH
boys, too, are stll here, being drillet
hard and fast becoming well trained
soldiers. They have their horses, fine
looking and well-cared for animals, blu
are still "shy" of guns. There is
general impression about camp tina
some of the big wheels in the executive
departments need oiling badly, so SLOW
are the equipments and back pay il
reaching Mantle. The long anticipat
ed and as long promised pay of TIL
artillerymen was received yesterday
and relieved the long continued finan
cial stringency in camp.