Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-10
Officers and Company Messes.

Arrangements having been made for the
pay Of cooks for officers and company
1nesses. the various commanding officers
concerned are authorized to engage the
services of competent cooks at the rate Of
$3.50 per diem for cooks and $3.50 per diem
for assistant cooks, during the period of
the encampment. The allowance of cooks
will be according to the following:
For regimental and battalion field and
staff officers, non-commisioned staff officers
and company officers of the 1st Regiment,
constituting one mess, one cook and two
assistant cooks.
For regimental and battalion field and
staff officers, non-commissioned staff Off
GERS and company officers of the I'd Regi-
ment, constituting one mess, one cook and
two assistant cooks.
For field and staff, commissioned
staff and company officers of the LIST Sepa-
rate Battalion constituting one mess, one
cook.
For the enlisted men of each company of
an organized battalion, constituting one
mess each, one cook
For the Field Hospital and Ambulance
Corps, constituting one mess, one cook and
one assistant cook.
For the Battery of Field Artillery. con-
SiStant cook.
For the Signal Corps, constituting one
mess. one cook.
For the band, constituting one mess, one
cook.
For the Corps of Field Music, constituting
one mess, one cook.
Company commanders and quartermas-
tiers will direct the cooks they employ to
report at the Office of the commissary gen.
eral, 1926 E street northwest, with a GER
tffcate showing their employment, on or
before July 18. Cooks on reporting will be
furnished with a badge which viii give
them transportation to camp. AS no cook
will be taken without this badge. it is es-
sential that company commanders and
Quartermasters see that their cooks report
as directed. One wooden and one rubber
blanket will be issued to each man at the
time he receives his badge. These articles
must be returned in good coHdition before
the persons to whom they are issued will
be paid for services.
Post Quartermaster and Commissary.
First Lieut.. Pinckney W. Smith. inspector
of rifle practice, LIST Battalion, is detailed
as post quartermaster, and|First. Lieut.
Edwin H. Neumeyer, Jr., qnartermaster,
I'd Battalion. Is detailed as post commits
sary during the encampment.,
On the duty required for this encamp-
ment officers and n-c6mmfssioned off,
GERS of the general staff and field and staff
officers of regiments will be mounted. Each
officer and non-commissioned officer re-
qufred to be mounted will be allowed ~ per
diem for horse hire. Offcers will report
to the Quartermaster general on July 10
the names Of the owners of the horses
hiled by them and the date from which
the hire commenced in order that vouchers
may be prepared and signatures obtained
during the encampment.
The commissary general and acting quar-
termaster general District OF Columbia
Of all matters pertaining to his depart
ments In connection with camp.
Capt Clarence a. Weaver. surgeon, LIST
Regiment. Capt Francis J. Woodman. sur
geon, "a Regiment. and Lieut.. 8. Clifford
Cox Naval ta,fU
to the surgeon general ON arrival at camp,
for assignment to duty at the field hos
pital.
To facilitate military instruction, organi-
station commanders will see that a SUFFICIENT
number Of copies Of the regulation books
and naan1iais are taken to camp, in oredr