The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-05
READY FOR WAR.
In This Case They Will Only
Play at Battles.
X. n. q. Encampment Plans Be-
ing Completed.
ON A GRAND HIKE.
One Contemplated Under Heavy
Marching Orders.
Have to Eat
ON A GRAND HIKE

It is proposed that during the en-
campment of the Kansas National
Guard, at Vinewood Park August Is to
25, that the two infantry regiments and
the two field batteries go on grand
hike through Topeka, north on KAN
sas avenue, over the river and through
North Topeka to some point on the
North side where the militiamen will
bivouac for the night and then hike"
back to Vinewood the next day. This
march will give the citizens a chance to
see the soldiery on parade in heavy
marching order, the same order as they
would assume if they were marching
forth to protect the city from an in
vading force.
The brigade headquarters will be es-
tablished at Camp Bailey on Saturday,
August 13, and the camp will then be
laid out and the tents put up by the
advance guard. The two regimental
bands, from Emporia and Hiawatha,
will attend the encampment and will
give concerts every night at brigade
headquarters. Governor Bailey and his
staff will be provided with headquarters
at the camp.
There will be several novel features,
besides the nike and the band concerts,
and they will be bareback, butter and
prunes. These three items are not on
the regular bill OF fare of militiamen in
camp.
In the first place militiamen don't
subsist on bareback as the old soldiers
did in the days of real war, but to give
the Kansas soldiers chance to say
eaten of hard tack, Adjutant General
Kelsey has decided that one day
of the encampment the soldiers will be
treated to a ration of genuine, SO 7S-1OO
pure, double resiStency, impenetrable,
armor plate hard tack. Any old SOL
diers who wish to see the young SOL
diers try their molars on hard tack can
visit Camp Bailey on hard tack day.
Soldiers in camp are not under the
rules and regulations as promulgated
by the strategy board at Washington, |
allowed butter but Kansas corn fed sol |
dierS like butter, are used to 1t, know |
how to keep the flies out of it and con- |
sequently they will have butter as a |
diet.
Neither does the government schedule |
allow fruit but the strategy and dietary |
board at Washington has decided that |
the best fruit to be had for soldiers in
camp is prunes. Therefore, by way of |
a special attraction. the militiamen will |
receive two issues of prunes during the
But prunes, butter and bareback
do not make up the full menu. Cap
tain H. NJ. Philips, brigade commits
sary, will have to issue regular ra-
tions as provided for in the regula-
tions The issue will be on the basis
of field rations and each man will re-
ceive just so much meat, bread, po-
tatoes, hominy, beans, etc, for each
day. A ration of fresh meat is a
pound and four ounces per day per
man, bacon IL ounces, bread one
pound two ounces, beans two and two
fifth ounces, hominy an ounce and
three-fifths, potatoes and onions
pound, canned tomatoes three and
one-fifth ounces, jam one and two
fifth ounces, coffee one and seven
twenty fifth ounces, sugar three and
one-fifth ounces, vinegar six twenty
ffths of a gill, sixteen twenty-f1fths of
an ounce of salt, one twenty fifth or
an ounce of pepper, ten twenty-hfths
of an ounce of soap, six twenty-hfth
ounces of candles. /.
CAPTAIN Philips will not have to
measure out six twenty-fffths of a gill
Of vinegar nor one twenty-fifth of an
ounce of pepper, but to each regiment
he will issue the amount allowed by
each ration for a day Dy
the number of men in the regiment
md then multiply the total number
Of pounds and ounces of each article
needed for a day by ten. representing
he ten days of the encampment- Jam,
however. is a delicacy, and is issued /;
out once during the ten days; that will
pc jam day.
There will be about 1,400 men in /
lamp and therefore 1,4O0 pounds OF
md a total of $4,000 pounds for the :
en- days, and the rest of the rations i
n proportion. The fresh meat viii {
De furnished by Kansas City pack
ng house, unless the strike prevents,
md then the soldiers will have to
BED in refrigerator cars and switched
% the street car tracks and run out
o the camp and will be issued direct I