The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-25
camp TERRELL" NOTES
R0UTIdE WORK GOING ON AMONG
THE TROOPS
Every body fs Having n Fine Time.
Visitors Continue to Visit the
Camp I'm Great Numbers-Onenders
Summoned Before the Colonel and
Punished.

BunIshcu.
The soldiers at Camp Terrell ara
making merry as the days pass by and
between the hours set for duty. they
seek enjoyment in ways that are many
and diverse.
And this wild search for pleasure
why If tales be true, everybody is a
successful finder OF great rollicking fun.
This crowd of five hundred men. the
equal in looks and department and ca
pacity of any large crowd, are as merry
an aggregation and as clever a one, as
any body ever run against.
The soldiers life cannot be gathered
from the official routine Of the camp as
issued from headquarters. OF course
there are drills and calls and assemblys,
but these are minor things and yet the
men acquit themselves SO well in all
their work that they received most
fiattering compliments from competent
judges on their magnificent appearance
in the drill.
But when these duties are over, then
comes the fun. To try and classify the
amusements INDUCED in by all the men
NA~ Wv ~ IL I'LL Illdll
est private, would be to name all the
~recreations n amusenIents and games
known to man..
Probably the most INDUCED in of all
the pastimes is swimming and bathing.
Everybody takes a daily bath, and
many tai several baths daily. Both
still water and surf bathing are i'm
mensely popular with odds in favor of
the surf. And surf parties are quite
usual and highly enjoyable. Several of
the young men have given compliment
AIRY parties of this kind to their young
lady and gentlemen friends.
An interesting incident connected
with a bathing party is told in Mon
days Atlanta Journal III The newsy notes
from Camp Terrell sent by that en-
terprising papers special correspondent,
Mr.. Clarence Amman. He says:
The first interesting event in the
camp outside of routine was the SWIM
ming party organized by some of the
officers in which some of the officers
came to grief, by stepping On shells and
cutting their feet. After Surgeon Biz
zell had attended to thu wounded mem
bers of the party there was a hasty
consultation among the officers as to
ways and means for DONG away with
the shell pest. Captain Nunnemacher
rose to the occasion and sent to Will
mington for some brooms and a bathing
spot was swept Clean. When dyed-in-
the-wool-resorters heard of this they
laughed and intimated that the shells
should have been raked and not swept
away"
But this form of amusement is not
all. it is simply one Of many. Fishing
is decidedly one of the great" sports
and hundreds daily indulge III angling,
some contenting themselves with hard
seats on the Banks channel" trestle,
WhiIa nthor caaE tho rpora Stron1Io1c
fisherman's experience by going into the
sea with regular b each fishermen in
their rock boats" and il they get sick,
why that is simply another bit of eXpe-
rience to them n they say experience
is a wise teacher"
Base ball has it's lovers here and daily
match games are arranged between
squads n these games-they are well
played and holly fought and are always
won out by small scores.
But why so on. Everybody is seeking
enjoyment in the way best suited to
their natures and everybody is finding
enjoyment in n way or another.
The "Hammocks" is coming to be re-
sort of ideal" camp. The Georgians
are delighted with it and they will try
to come again next year and possibly
make it a permanent camping ground.
The only thing out OF ordinary yester-
day was the meteing out of punishment
to the soldiers who became involved in
a little melee in the city night before
last.
Time Colonel Anderson heard of the
unfortunate occurrence, he despatched
a provost guard, under command of
Captain Pomeroy, of Company Y, to
Wilmington.
They called at police headquarters
and asked Mayor Waddelrs permission
to take the offending soldiers to camp,
request was immediately granted.
At camp each offender was summoned
separately before the colonel and asked
for his version of the story. They were
all retired and later ColoneI Anderson
decided On the form Of punishment.
The colonel expresses vtry genuine re-
gret at the occurrence. 1t is the first
of rules so far reported and was
so slight in it's final outcome, that its
unfortunateneSS consists mainly in the
publicity already given to it.
Large crowds of visitors continue to
visit the camp and expressions are
heard on every side of The gentlemanly
and courteous treatment by all the
soldiers.
At dress parade this afternoon. full
white duck uniforms will be worn by
the entire regiment.
NOTES FROM THE CAMP.
Thursday night 1t the Seashore hotel,
a full dress german will be rendered the
officers of the Georgia regiment by the
hotel management.
The rest of the notes is taken from
the Atlanta Journals special correspon-
dence:
There are several AtlantiGns in
Wrightsville guests OF a house party.
Several Wilmington boys TOOK them out
for a sail, and in accordance with the
time honored Wilmington custom threw
two of the Atlanta boys overheard to
initiate them into Wr:ghtsv1lle sound.
They were John Dean Stewart and Will
Hackney.
Vacation Days.