The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-12
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 | The militia companies arrived at
 Camp Keeler with the weather condi-
 tions far from suspicious. Between 6
 and ' o'clock yesterday morning the
 rain came down heavily and the sky
 did not clear until after g. Then the
 sun came out, and in less than an hour 1 the grounds were almost dry. After
 the preliminary work attached to the | getting settled part of camp life the l boys indulged in baseball practice. ] This pastime was short-lived, however,
 as the trumpet soon called the men to | the regimental and battalion drills, | which were literally the beginning of the routine of one whole week of camp | life. Shortly after noon the First and
 Third regiments, under the command of Colonel Edward Schulze, of the First
 regiment, started out of camp on five
 mile march northward to Patagaunset | Lake, in the town of Flanders. The l two regiments bivouaced on the north
 side of the lake and spent the night there They will remain in that vicin- ity until o'clock today, when they will
 break camp and take up the return
 march to Camp Keeler.
 l The Second and Fourth will travel
 over the same roads to-day as that which the First and Third went over yesterday. On the road between Camp
 Keeler and Flanders the two supposed 1 attachments, supposed to be opposing
 forces, will meet Advance and flank ing guards will be thrown out with a I
 meet the guards will be challenged and
 afterward the two forces will pass each | other. the First and Third returning to Camp Keeler and the Second and
 Fourth proceeding to Patagaunset Lake
 to carry out the same programme on l Wednesday. The Second and Fourth will hivouac at the lake tonight. This
 line of field work was arranged by Gen.
 eral Cole and is not considered to be cutie as severe as that which was as
 signed last summer. It will be less ar-
 duous and the tramp is shorter by far
 than that ordered at the last encamp-
 ment, which was a march double the
 distance of the one arranged this year
 Neither will the men be subjected to 1 the hardships that were complained of
 loudly after the long tramp over the
 country last summer from Lyme to
 Mantle. The object of the field duty this time to test the efficiency of the
 advance guard and the work of the commanding officers in a disposition of their forces in marching through an en- emy's country.
 1 About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon l battery A and the machine gun battery drills were held and the men made an
 excellent showing. Troop A drilled late
 and their work was also commended by
 the officers in charge. One of the feat
 ures of the afternoons work was the
 detailing of six men and a corporal from each company of the Second regi-
 ment for the purpose of testing the men 1 in their ability to entrench themselves,
 and in their knowledge of the con- struction of the proper kind of en- | trenchments. The men were assembled about 2:30 under command of First
 Lieutenant Wllis K. Sandland, of Co. A of Waterbury. They were then
 marched to the rifle range where the
 practice was held. One half of the number of men were armed and watch l ed and guarded the other half who were
 supplied with picks and shovels The
 latter portion of the men constructed
 the entrenchments while guarded from
 the imaginary foe by their comrades. An entrenchment seventy-five yards in 1 length, running in zig-zag fashion and four feet high, was built. The part of
 the detail which had been guarding the
 workers then gave drill in the con- l struction of nasty entrenchments, using their bayonets to dig up the earth and 1 heaping the dirt in front of them by means of their feet. Colonel Sucher
 and all the field officers were present at 1 this drill. Whether or not they were
 satisfied with all parts of the work they declined to state, and it is presumed |, therefore that the benefit of the use of
 the bayonet by the armed guards in their construction of the nasty en- 1 trenchments, is doubted. The bayo-
 nets used yesterday were made at the
 armory in Springfield, while the Krag
 Jorgeson bayonet is supposed to possess
 more satisfactory qualities.
 The march of the First and Third reg ! ments was not without it's hardships.
 In the broiling heat of the day three
 men were prostrated and brought back
 to camp. They are Privates R. Fried
 Ter, Co. c; J. Lutz, Co. c, and s. sher-
 idan, Co. K, all of the First regiment. | Something of a sensation occurred in
 the afternoon in front of brigade head
 quarters A private of Co. B, Second
 regiment, became disorderly, and after declining to go to his quarters was plac- ed under arrest by Captain Mitchell and taken to the guard house. He was re-