The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-08-13
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Recreant breezes danced gaily
through the stately pine trees that
shelter Camp Noel Sunday, making
the day, from an atmospheric stand
point, one of the most pleasant that
the soldiers have experienced since
the encampment began. Major VIM.
G. O'Farrell was officer of the day,
and the first event of note was the
general inspection of the camp, which
took place at nine o'clock a. m. This
inspection was made by Gen. Keesler,
and he was accompanied on his
rounds by Gov. Noel, who, together
with Mrs Noel, spent the entire day
at the camp. At eleven o'clock there
was divine worship at the Y. NJ. C.
A. tent, the services having been con-
Quoted by Col. E. D. Solomon, chap
lain on the staff of Gov. Noel. The
services We're largely attended and
proved interesting and profitable TO
the soldiers, as well as 10 a number
of civilians who We're present.
At one O'Clock Gen. Keesler enter
tained number of friends at din
ner at division headquarters, Gov.
and Mrs. Noel having been the guests
of honor. The pavilion, which is
near Gen. Keesler's tent, is used as
a mess hall by the officers at head
quarters, and as about eighty geusts
can be comfortably seated therein the
officers are enabled to entertain on
a rather elaborate scale.
At FIVE O'Clock Sunday afternoon
there was a concert by the Twelfth
cavalry band, and at the conclusion
Of this concert the trophy won by
the representatives of Company a.
Third anfantry, of Vicksburg, at the
recent rife range practice in Vicks-
burg, was formally presented to the
company This trophy, which was a
handsome loving cup donated by Col.
Carl Van Seuter, of Jackson, was
presented in a neat speech by Gov.
Noel, the response on behalf of the
company having been made by Capt.
James E. Garner.
weather which prevailed Saturday,
Gen. KeesIer issued an order stating
that the brigade review announced
on the official program would not
take place. but when Sunday turned
out to be such a beautiful day it was
decided to adhere TO the original pro-
gram. and the review took place at
six o'clock, having been witnessed by
a large coneourse of people.
There is always something fasci-
those who CHANGED to pass Camp
Noel on the trolly cars Sunday night
were forcib1y impressed with its ap-
pearance. A pale moon shed its sub
dned rays over the rendezvous OF
the soldiers, and the myriad of white
tents, with here and yon a bright
light cleaning in the quarters of
some officer who had sat far into the
night inditlng letters to loved ones
Mt home, formed a never-to-be-for
gotten sight The air was cool and
chilly. and the blazing wood fire
which the officers on duty at the
guard tent had built added to the
charm of the picture.
The traffic on the street car line
was not very heavy Sunday night,
and many of the motormen and con-
1uctors were relieved from duty |
about eleven o'clock. number of |
-noco man haordod a 1a4o cor oc If /
passed out from the confines of the |
amp, and every action denoted the |
act that they were all suffering from /
physical exhaustion, but some sol
iiers who were on the rear platform
,egan TO hum patriotic air, and
he spirits of the weary ticket punch
rs and manipulators OF the motor
evived, and, with faces wreathed in
miles they joined with them in the
merry making.
Monday was devoted largely to
outline work, the most startling
vent of the day having been an or
er issued by Gen. Kees1er in which
e threatened to confine all the men
. the limits of the camp between the
ours of seven p. m. and seven a. M,
Mess certain depradations ceased.
seems that some of the boys have
cen paying nocturnal visits to chick !
Z coops in the neighborhood con-
guous to the camp, and the owners {
hereof have made complaint to !
Gen. Keesler is deter
lined not to permit depradations of {
lis kind, and unless these pilferings
Ease at once the privates viii be I
ompelled to remain in their quar-