The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13
AT CAMP BAILEY.
Preparations Under Way at
Vinewood for the X. N. Ct.
Companies of Guardsmen VIII
Begin Arriving on Sunday.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Governor, Adjutant General and
Brigadier General Have Tents.
Topeka Militiamen Busy With
the Preliminary Work.

Camp Bailey, the rendezvous of the
Kansas National Guard which goes into
camp Monday, is alive today with hur-
ryiEg men who are carrying out the or
ders of the officers in direct command
of the preparations of establishing the
1, 500 soldiers who will commence to come
into the city by Sunday afternoon
The quartermaster's stores and those
of the commissary department are be-
ing sent out in car loads to the camp
on the city railway today. The camp is
situated to the northeast of Vinewood
park a distance of two blocks. Tents
for the staff, the quartermaster and
the commissary department are being
unloaded and pitched while brooms,
rakes, wheelbarrows, tent poles and
stakes, boxes of maple syrup, bacon and
cooking utensils are being transferred
from the cars of the Vinewood railroad
standing on the sidetracks to wagons
and dumped on the grounds prepara-
tory to a systematic arrangement of
the supplies.
Topeka Company A, of the First regi-
ment of Kansas National Guards, is
coming in for the heavy work. No
other company is on the grounds and
none will be here before Sunday so that
all of the supplies which come in from
now on until that time must be han
died by the boys composing the Topeka
company. This means that tons of stuff
will be freighted about by the 50 Tope-
l<a boys who compose Company a. The
officers in charge of the Topeka COM
pany are Captain Ed Banks, First Lieu
tenant George Evans, Second Lieutcn-
ant Jerry Springstead.
The Topeka company will go into
camp tonight and will be assigned to
the northeast portion of the grounds.
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Clad Hamilton, of the engineer corps,
is approximately 1,500 feet east and
west and the same size north and
south. A wooded raVine running in a
southeasterly direction practically d.
vides the grounds into two halfs. The
First regiment under Colonel Metcalf
will have the northwest portion being
separated from the Second regiment by
the ravine, the tents of each company
will be arranged in lines facing each
other, the lines running north and
south. AT the extreme northwest cor
ner and adjoining the First regiment
artillery.
On high knoll to the southwest of
the grounds will be maintained the
headquarters of Adjutant General KEEL
Sey, and near to the center of the field
and on a similar rise of ground Briga-
dier General Hughes and staff will have
their quarters. The electric line runs
to the camp a little to the west of the
southern boundary. Close to these
shipping facilities will be erected the
tents belonging to the quartermaster
and commissary departments, Captain
George Huron and Captain Philips re-
spectively in charge. The former has
already had shipped in Al cords of wood
the amount supplied for the week, and
about one car load of hay of the 40
tons necessary. Capt. Philips will have
the details of looking after 40 tons of
cOmmisSary material
The mounts of the officers is worry
ing feature. Sixty horses will be press
ed into service for the ten days. Sew
eral of the officers will supply their own
mounts but those who are not fortu-
nate enough to possess a steed will have
to rely on the aid of Capt. Huron.
The whole tract of ground is rolling,
both to the ea%e. north and south. 1t
is enclosed on the south and north by
wooded ravines and lies on a elevation
of grouped not unlike a miniature pla-
teau. The drainage cannot but help be
perfect. Workmen are engaged today
in cutting down the tall weeds and
making the grounds suitable for the
troops. No trouble exists in handling
the supplies and the officers We're warm
this morning in praise of the railroads
expeditions manner in handling its
end of the traffic.