The San Francisco call., 1904-08-25
Lack of knowledge of Gov
ernor's Movements Causes
Delay in Arrival at Camp
MANEUVERS COMPLETED
Last Problem on Programme
Is Solved by the Browns
and Blues at AtascaderO
BY F. NJ. GILMORE,
Stan Correspondent of The Call.

CAMP -ATASCADERO, Aug. "a
Governor Pardee arrived in camp to-
day. His reception was warm when
he got here, but for time it looked as
though he was going to be allowed TO
find his own way out to camp. 1t was
thought here that the Governor and
party intended getting off the train at
Paso, Robles and Colonel Joselyn, rep
resenting General Macarthur, and Gen
eral Lauck, representing the State mi
litia. took an automobile and went
there The Governor arrived at Paso
RobleS and. seeing no one to meet him
and his party. he again boarded the
train and proceeded up 10 Asunclon
station. To his amazement there was
no one at this point to greet him. In
the meantime the train pulled out. leav-
ing the gubernatorial party on the lit
tie temporary platform. Finally the
news of the Governors predicament
reached camp and Captain F. l.. Winn
took the signal service corps auto
mobile and drove full speed for Asun-
cion. After an hours delay the Gov
ernor reached camp. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Pardee. Colonel and
Mrs. E. +. Beck, Lieutenant Colonel
Robert Weinecke and Colonel II. T.
Slime. Lieutenant Colonel F. w Chap
man came up from Los Angeles and
joined the party here.
After short visit in camp Mrs. Par
dee and Colonel and Mrs. Beck left
Paso Robles in an automobile. The
Governor and the others wto are mem
bers of his staff will remain here over
night. He will leave tomorrow night
at midnight for Long Beach, returning
north early next week.
Problem No. s, the last of the series
of maneuvers. took place to-day. The
troops were under arms shortly after
sunrise The exercise was called the
passage of a deflle. 1t was full of in
terest and instruction to the troops
taking part and of highly spectacu
lar nature. Hundreds of people who
followed the troops for miles were we'll
rewarded for their trouble. for the troops
did fine work all through the day. Very
few of the men dropped out The UNI
pires were lavish in their praise of the
collective and individual work of the
soldiers The militia showed great i'm
provement over their work in the first
exercise.
The problem of the day consisted Of
a blue force arriving at Asuncion sta
tion with the intention of attacking
an inferior brown force, which was said
to be holding the Graves Creek road
to the south The brown force, en-
camped at Paradise Springs, having
been informed by scouts of the arrival
of the blues, moved up to Needle Gorge
and attempted to stop the progress of
the blues at that point. Colonel Mark
ley was in command of the blues and
Colonel Ward commanded the browns.
The blues pushed forward under
forced marches. The cavalry and ar
tillery succeeded in gaining a position
commanding the mountains and the
blue infantry dashed into the defile.
In the meantime cannonading was be-
ing carried on from the tops of the
mountains by the contending forces,
the brown artillery having climbed
an adjacent hill. The result so far as
the casual observer could note was vic
tory for the browns. What the UNI
pires may say about it may be an
other matter.
General Macarthur and staff will
leave for San Francisco on Saturday.
A span of spirited horses ran away
to-day and made straight for the big
camp. They dashed about at full
speed among the hundreds of tents. In
hot pursuit of them was a Mexican on
a polo pony and one of the colored
troopers On a saddleless steed. The
chase lasted for half an hour and
threw the whole camp into state of
great excitement The team finally
ran into small tent and tent, horses
a
of the horses managed TO clear himself
and ran toward Colonel Pitchers pro-
visional headquarters. where the col
cred trooper caught him. Nearly 1000
soldiers took a hand in trying to stop
the terrified animals.
Following is a roster of the troops in
camp here Tonight
Division headquarters, 22O: First
Brigade 1710; Second Brigade, 1716;
lrN-
! tillery, 2S5; divisional field hospital,
| 1OS, and divisional signal corps, 11S, a
total of 44SS, as against 454S on Au-
gust a.
When Governor Pardee was shown
these figures he expressed himself as
highly gratified with the splendid
! showing of the militia and compli-
mented them highly for the good work
/ they had done here, reports of which
/ he had received from General MacAr-
/ thur and other officers.