Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-15
AROUND CAMP COLUMBIA.
IT is NOW AN ARMY POST
NEAR HAVANA.
Daily Routine of Army Life Visitors 10
The Camp Social Life. The Band,
Great Field For Army Work.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL BARRY
IN COMMAND.

When the United States Government
found il necessary 10 prot6 CT its in
terests in Cuba, il sent To the Island
last October between eight and twelve
ty thousand troops, 10 he known as
The American Army OF Cuban
paciiication. While the army is distTi-
buted throughout the interior, the larger
number of men are located at Camp
Columbia.
During our visit of fortnight to
the camp il was not an army post, but
since our return to the States, Camp
Columbia is now known as a regular
army post, according TO the notes from
Cuba published i'm last weeks Army
aud Navy Journal. At Camp Colum-
bia there are two thousand mon. In
this number the various departments
of the army represented are the engi-
neers, four troops of the cavalry, the
Twenty y-seventh Infantry, two batter
les of field artillery, two batteries of
mountain artillery and the marines.
Each branch of the service occupies
separate and distinct part of the
camp, and has its own work, regu-
lated bv its own officers. The engi-
neers make maps of the country and
do a great deal of surveying, all of
which has been most helpful to other
departments of the service. In no To-
cality and at no army post has the
Signal Corps greater advantage for
its special line of work than in Cuba.
II has gone through the interior on
hikes, set up wireless stations, given
its mon instruction in wireless tele-
graphy, laid and maintained field
wire lines, and during our visit the
Signal Corps at Camp Columbia laid
wire line eleven miles in length.
IL has demonstrated the use of the
kite in field wireless, and has success
fully shown the advantages and con
yenience OF the wireless cooker or
food warmer which the service uses
when out in the field on five day
hikes. Every branch of the army has
its own work of usefulness on the
Island, and is doing that work sue
cessfully. If in the States il is
thought the officers and men are in
Cuba on n vacation, there never was
greater mistake made. They all
work hard. from early morning rev
ellie until the lowering of the flag al
sunset. TO be sure the greater part
of the work is done in the early morn
ing hours, as the heat later in the day
Is too excessive. Guard mount is held
Il the morning at about o'clocl,
and all the routine duties are hegun
and finished before the sun has much
power. The heaqduarters of the Arm y
of Cuban Pacification is at Marianao,
about ten miles from Havana, but,
as we said before, the larger number
of troops at any one post are at Camp
Columbia, about seven miles from
Havana.
The Army of Cuban Pacification is
now commanded by General Barry,
but at the time 81 our arrival in la
vana the commanding officer was Col
onel Sweet, who was appointed to as
sumo that duty during the absence OF
General Wint, whose i'll health com
pelled him to seek relief in the States.
Shortly after his arrival General Wini
died in Philadelphia, where he had
been accompanied from Havana by bis
faithful and devoted wife Probably
there never was an army officer more
dearly beloved, more highly honored
more universally esteemed than Gen
eral Wint His death caused deep ano
sincere regret throughout the army,
Colonel Sweet was relieved from com
mand upon the appointment of Briga
dier-General Barry and at hts arrival a
Camp Columbia. General Barry com
ing was looked forward to at CamI
Columbia with more than usual inter
est. The camp put itself in the very
best of order, the men tidied up theii
Kahki uniforms and all the accoutre
ments of war were made to look spiel
and span and to shine like a new pin
| for it was known General Barr,
would make All inspection of TIN
troops, and officers and men desireC
the commanding officer to find th,
Army of Cuban Pacification in gooC
| shape.
(Continued).