Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-07-05
CAMP ROBERTS. LAKE PEwAUKEE, /,
June %, 1902.

j o ali " nom TINS may concern and to
all who read the News, we hereby wish
to chronicle some of the events that
transpired in Camp Roberts during
that notable week, June 2I-29, which
the Minute Men of Wauwatosa spent
here. In doing this we have no special
object in view further than to please
ourselves. We are aware that our
subject will perhaps fail tointerest the
many who were not participants. We
know that only those who have had the
experience can really appreciate the
story of life at military camp.
With Captain Lefeber and his stall
wart aids at their head, band of 20
men shonldered their rifles and march
ed to their camping grounds on the
/ shores of Lake Pewaukee, alternating
/ with a 40-ninute march and a 10.min-
ute rest, according to regulations, we
covered a distance of Is miles ia 61{
hours and arrived at Camp Roberts at
$50 a m, June II. The artillery
squad who had been sent out the day
before and had pitched all the tents
had breakfast waiting for us and with
our ravenous appetites we did ample
/ justice to the beans, oatmeal, coffee
4 and milk
Company street lay east and west
/ ON the south side of the street, begin
/ ming on the east end was the quarter
master departments tent, old and
rough-looking but for all of that itwas
general fayorite and in the years to
come it viii be a pleasant reminder of
pork and beans, Paddy mixture, Chap
/ py's prunes, hard-taclz, etc. Next to
this was small tent where Quarter
master Gridley held the fort. Though
the accommodations Of this pup tent
were SO limited that the neither EXTENT
ties of the agno-latitudinal quarter
master were compelled to seek refuge
outside of the tent walls, though he
was abused in every way, shape and
} manner by those who had their petty
faults about eatables, yet he was a
good natured "old soul" and many a
guard who enjoyed Gridley's sand
witch ON his midnight beat viii always
have warm spot in his heart for the
quartermaster, Next to this was what
was known as officers tent. Here was
found Capt. Lefeber, Lieuts. Myers,
Rogers and Warren. There seemed to
he something holy and awe-inspiring
about this tent and the grounds that
surrounded it. The last tent on that
side of the street was the artillery tent.
The various men in this tent had vari-
GUS accomplishments, but the thing
that they could do with the greatest
degree of perfection was to sleep. The
corporals and sergeants have spent
many a laborious half hour in this tent
trying to wake some absent-minded
man to guard duty Going to the north
side Of the street and beginning on the
east end was the the guard tent. This
large, roomy tent besides holding Ser
geant Diglnan and his men, also con
tanned the rifles Next to this was
what was for several reasons called the
circus tent, and VAS under the com
mand of Corporal Phillips. Corporal
! Phillips himself was the model of good
behavior but somehow his men did not
pattern after him. Then came the
tent that Sergeant Pavy and Corporal
kuntz presided over. 1t was the I'M
lucky tent; at least SO far as rocks and
fishing were concerned. Last of all on
that side of the street were Sergeant
Hnlmer, Corporal Pares and their men.
This was the model tent at inspection
OF quarters and the officers took great
delight in pointing it out as such to
others more careless.
Camp Roberts was encircled in o
shroud of mysteries There were
things that happened which cannot
be accounted for. Who fired the rocizs
ON PAWS tent when after a late
visit to the girls camp that sergeant
E tried TO sleep? What became of the
COW that swallowed the soap, pepper
! and mustard all at once? Who was
/ responsible for the appearance of oil.
GERS tent at the inspections of quarters
What was the meaning Of that onion
, which the girls sent to our quarter
master? Who can account for the tent
that fell down ON one Of our distin.
, guished German visitors as he was
registering? Some say that "Favy did
/ it. but who can tell2
= Men Of various trades were found in
Camp Roperts We went TO T. Gveeh.
wood for shoc-shiue kuutz X 60,
= dealt in soda water and pop, AMI
{ Sporleder Co. kept stock Of pies
cakes, etc. On She pages Of our journ-
, al appear the names Of many distin