Evening star., 1900-07-24

| LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. n. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price Soc. per bottle.
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The cocks for the various messes are hired.
| The field and staff officers of the lst Regi-
ment have one cook and one assistant COOK,
and the field and staff officer of the ID
| Regiment have the same number. One
cook looks after the officers mess of the 1st
| Separate Battalion. Each company of an
organized battalion has one cook The field
hospital and the ambulance corps. consti-
tuting one mess, have one cook and one as
sistant cook while the band and the corps
| of field music, also constituting one mess
are similarly looked after The other sep
arate companies of the brigade, including
| the light battery. the signal corps and the
| engineer corps, each constituting a separate
mess. are allowed one cook each. The gen.
eral staff and the general non-commissioned
staff, of course, have separate mess.
| An unceasing effort is made to have every
| thing in and about the cook tent clean
! as possible. No scraps are allowed to lie
around and collections ot garbage made
at frequent Intervals Enlisted men are
provided with mess kits, and most of the
| companies have erected tables, under cam
| vas shelter Some of the organizations
| prefer to stick to actual service conditions,
| the men forming in column of files and
marching to the cook tent, there receiving
| their allotment and proceeding to their
tents to dispose Of it.
| Distribution of RatiOns.
Perhaps the most important department
| in the camp is that conducted by the COM
missary general He is responsible for feed
| ing the men, and receives all the blame ii
anything goes wrong anywhere, or if any
body is dissatis with anything Within
two hours after the arrival of the brigade in
| camp rations for the first two meals had
| been delivered to all organizations, and
since then the issue has been at frequent
| intervals At one end of the camp grounds
/ CT
| This is considered a model institution. 1t
| includes a large tent full of supplies of III
| sorts, and reminds one of store. There
are counters and scales and knives and
meat saws and all the appurtenances of a
| first-class grocery and meat establishment
| The pride of the commisSary general,
| though is his ice house. 1t is pattern of
| its kind, and in it is stored sufficient in the
way of meat and other perish BILE articles
to supply the entire brigade in case of emer-
gency. Company commanders supervise
the cooking of the messing of their COM
| mands, and a commissioned officer is in
| charge of each enlisted men mess. His duty
is to observe the method Of cooking and the
! quality of the cooked food. and to report
promptly to the proper authority whatever
conditions in his opinion, deserve correc-
| ton. This authority is usually the commits
| sary general.
Where the Stores Come From.
| Next door, SO to speak, to the commisSary
generals headquarters are those of the quar-
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| tent, and is one of the most abused indi-
viduals on the grounds. Everybody seems
to want everything that he is not entitled
| to, and goes to the quartermaster gen.
eral for it. Patience must of necessity be
| included in the makeup of the quartermas-
ter. and in view of this fact, and of their
trials and tribulations, Maj. Parmenter and
his assistant deserve medals of honor.
Within a few minutes after the arrival in
camp last Thursday the Quartermaster de-
erty. Proper allowance of tentage and all
other camp equipage had to be made and
this was giant task. All issues We're made !
to the battalion quartermaSterS and the
commanding officers of separate company
organizations. Each receiving officer had a
detail of men to handle the property when
delivered in carts and wagons al the re-
Spective camp sites.
All this was done Immediately after an
other huge task had been completed. 1t
was the packing and transportation of all
equipage, property, baggage and supplies
from the armory and other points in Wash
ington to the camp grounds.
Notes Of the Camp.
Lieut.. w. w. Cookson. inspector of rifle
practice, proceeded to Washington yester-
day representative of the 9th Battalion
at the funeral of Mrs Harvey, mother of
Maj. w. Z. Harvey, the battalion COM
mander.
Among the visitors to camp yesterday
Gen. Grant. He took supper with the
headquarters mess.
The engineer corps is engaged in the
construction of small bridge across one
of the gullies within the camp inclosure.
1t will be a great convenience.
On the public road bordering the camp
grounds yesterday number Of enterpris-
ing individuals engaged in the sale, from
wagons, watermelonS and other eat
ables. They made themselves obnoxious
by not even attempting to be cleanly The
officers of the guard had no authority TO
order the venders away, they We're To-
| Gated on the public road. so other methods
had to be adopted. n sentinel was placed
near each wagon and no member of the
brigade was permitted to make purchases.
With the entire cessation OF business the
mendfcant merchants very soon disap-
peared.
For some unaccountable reason the ma
1ority of the lanterns in camp disappeared
last evening, and the members of the guard
detail complained. Soon the sergeant of
the guard had troubles of his own Each
individual of the detail, and particularly
the corporals, approached the sergeant in
turn and insisted that he furnish a lantern
Finally patience ceased to bear even |
slight resemblance to virtue, and the
sergeant delivered himself.
You fellows wait till revelle' he said. |
land it will be light enough them
c. F. C.