Evening star., 1907-06-30

bish In a pile at the end of the street near
est the color-line. If the weather is fair at
morning fatigue call they will loop up the
walls of their tents, and lower them after
retreat. The bed-sacks will be folded over
with one turn, the blanl~sts to be neatly
folded and placed on top of the bed-sack
roll. All arms and equipments will be care
| fully and properly placed when not in use
| and commanding officers will make frequent
| inspections of the methods and conditions
| prevailing in this regard.
Guards will police the grounds adjacent to
| the guard tents. Commanding officers of
| regiments will detail the necessary number
| of men under a non-commissioned officer to
| police the streets of the company, battalion
! and regimental officers. the intervals be-
| tween battalions and the grounds on the
color-line and f1anks at each fatigue call.
The brigade headquarters old guard will
| perform old guard fatigue beginning at IA
tigue call on the day following the compile
ton of its tour of guard duty; to this end
1t will be marched by Its commander to
brigade headquarters and there reported to
Maj. Henry H. Parmenter, chief Of ord
nance. who is detailed to supervise fatigue
or police duty in the brigade headquarters
camp.
To prevent tearing or straining the can
vas, tent ropes must be slackened at tat
too, and during wet weather, to be tight
ened again at reveille, or when the weather
clears.
The marking or defacing of tents In any
manner is strictly prohibited. In case any
tents are marked or defaced the company
in which 1T occurs will be required to pay
the cost value of such tents.
Men will not be allowed to wash in their
tents or throw water in the company
streets.
The firing of rifles pistols or fireworks in
camp is absolutely prohibited.
Officers desiring to be absent from camp
must secure permission from their re-
spective commanding officers company
battalion and regimentaD Applications of
enlisted men to leave camp must be made
through first sergeants to company COM
manders. who, If they approve, will sign
passes and forward them to battalion and
regimental headquarters for approval No
man will be permitted to leave camp with
out such a pass
Capt ]. Harry Bean and the members of
Company G., 1st Regiment, are arranging
to take another trip to Frederick, Md ,
mounted, the first week in Sep p,ember. The
thoroughly enjoyable, Notwithstanding ad-
verse weather conditions. that the mem
bers are anxious to indulge in another
iaunt.
many years a member of the company and
one Of its most efficient and valued mem
bers, has bean elevated to the second lieu
tenancy.
The 1st Battery, Field Artillery. con-
eerned itself last Friday evening with prep
arations for camp. There was inspection,
and Capt. Fox talked to the men on the
subject of road marches. The battery is
to go over the road to Harpe-'s Ferry,
and after camp is to march back to
Washington. Capt. Fox sought to i'm
press on his men the Importance of hors Sc
manship and hostlership. The effective
ness of a field battery depends, he said,
as much on its horses on its men. 1t
would show great efficiency if the battery
ma typ lon rah rpith ipi,r
ing a horse.
Capt. Fox went at considerable length
into the matter of fitting harness and
guarding against calling the necks or backs
of horses. He cautioned drivers against
loungng in the saddle AMI admonished
them that in starting a carriage all the
horses should throw their weight into the
collars gradually and simultaneously. To
do this traces should be stretched before
the team moves. The swing driver should
regulate his movements by those of the
lead driver and the wheel driver by the
swing. Faulty starting of the teams means
CALLED shoulders, balky horses and broken
harness. In checking gait or halting, lead
and swing drivers should be governed by
the wheel driver The captain insisted
that on halts of any reasonable duration
collars should be unsprung and laid back,
that shoulders might be given a chanc
to cool, that cinChes should be tightened
when the horses had given IN, and that al
swellings or bruises should be found and
reported to the stable sergeant, that gals
might be aborted. Capt. Fox said that
he will hold drivers to strict accounta bill
ity for the adequate and proper watering of
horses, and told the gunnerS and caisson
corporals that they must clean and grease
the axles of the carriages every day.
AT the close OF the captains address
there was an informal exchange of ideas
and suggestions on means for promoting
the comfort of the horses, and every man
resolved to obey SO far as in his power