Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-18
ALAS, ONE IS GONE
Only Thirty-Six in Gen. Grants
Army Now.
RUMOR SAYS IT'S ALLISON
Gallant Colonies and Majors Still
Galloping.
LOST IN vIRGIN1A'S WILDS
Commissioner Morrow, 'Tis Said,
Reads These Accounts With
Fear and Trembling.

! I'm bet We a months pay said the top
sergeant at Fort Myer yesterday. that
tn members of the Grand Army OF tn
Roosevelt Ridin' School will be wishin'
| It is hobby horses they're ridin' before
ever they get to Fairfax Court House.
! AN furthermore" spoke up the pro-
| vost sergeant, as he play dug his
knuckleS into the top serSca1t'S ribs.
they'll be wonderin' what reveille is
when they hear it so early in the morn
In
Perhaps they did wonder. Perhaps some
Of the majors and colonies. as they rub
bed their eyes at the screech O. dawn
this morning quoted that line from
Danny Deever:
what are the buges blowing FORE
said Files-on-Parade.
90 To turn you out. To turn you out,
the color sergeant said"
For at $50 this morning enough officers
to command a victorious army were ruth
lessly reused from tired sleep by the
brassy blare Of the trumpet. and had
the hell-cats been there they would have
marched in and out of the tents. playing
drums and blowing flies so as to make
sure that sweeter music than the strains
of paradise played havoc with the lids OF
soldiers eyes.
Lackaday! Read This.
There were thirty-seven of them as they
rode CALAMITY away early yesterday
morning; but. alas. one fell by the way
side and now there are but thrty-six.
Rumor has it that Col. James N. ALI
son of the subsistence department, Gov
ernors Island, who has been suffering
with stomach trouble recently, was taken
i'll just four miles this side of the spot
where the camp was pitched He made
the rest of the trip in the ambulance. 1t
is for no one to say that many other Of
f1cers wished they had thought of it first.
Col Allison will make the ride at later
date.
Yesterdays march was made at a trot
and walk. Only one stop was made,
and that in order to keep the inner man
from kicking too hard He was quieted
with few sandwiches and the ruthless
advance began again.
The required thirty miles Of the first
days march came to an end at Fairfax
Court House few minutes after 3 pm.
Them Good Old Days.
1t took seven hours and a half to do It..
There was lots of talk on the ride. and
as they started out with the cool of the
morning tanning their faces there were
many recollections of times when riding
was pleasure, when early mornings
were given over to long gallops across
country, when the sight of hedge filled
the field with emulatien-and as for a
long ditch, why, what was more exhilarat-
ing than to place ones feet firmly in the
stirrups and let her go!
But when they diSmounted finally! All,
well. the army has been joshed so much
about the test rides that no one connected
with it wants TO say much about the &C
tual state of affairs, but rumor again has
it that mysterious lotions were rubbed in
we'll on spots that have not ached since
childhood.
Today's ride will be thirty more miles.
and Gen. Grant has ambitions of going
out fifteen miles by one road and back by
another. bringing mis- command into camp
again at noon. If yesterdays ride made
them stiff. what will todays ride do?
At any rate riding like that makes APP
petites enlarge themselves to enormous
proportions, and the meals taste good,
anyhow, and the cook has hard work.
The Heroes Roster.
Those who rode away so CALAMITY were:
| Col. William S. Patten, quartermaster' s
department. New York city.
Col. Abiel L. Smith. subsistence depart
ment, New York city.
Col Frank Heath. ordnance depart
ment, frankfort arsenal, Pa.
Col. William II. Comegys. pay depart
ment, New York city.
Col. Garland y. Whistler, Coast Artil-
lery Corps, Fort Totten, n. Y.
Col. Rogers Brine. ordnance depart
ment, Sandy Hook, \. j.
Col James n. Allison. subsistence de-
partment, Governors Island, n. Y.
Lieut.. Col Frederick g. Hodgson, quar-
termasters department, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lieut.. Col. Grin B. Mitcham. ordnance
department, Governors Island, N. Y.
Lieut.. Col. Henry II. Ludlow, Coast Ar
ttllery Corps, Fort Hamilton. N. Y.
Lieut. Col. Samuel E. Allen. Coast Ar
| tiilery Corps, Fort Wadsworth. n. Y.
Lieut.. Col Edwin b. Rabbit, ordnance
department, New York city.
Lieut. Col. Albert e. Blunt, Coast Artil-
lery Corps. Fort Schuyler. n. Y.
Lieut.. Col Beverly w. Dunn, ordnance
department, New York city.
Lieut. Col. Charles Richard, Medical
Corps, Fort Jay. n. Y.
Maj. William F. Carter Medical Corps,
Fort Monroe, Va.
Maj Henry a. Shaw, Medical Corps,
| Fort Socum, n. Y.
| Maj Joseph f. Kuhn, Corps of Engi-
neers. Norfolk, Va.
Maj. William f. Craishill, Corps of En-
gineers. Baltimore, Md.
| Maj. Francis A. Winter. Medical Corps.
Fort Myer Va.
| Mai Charles L. Potter Corps Of F)nei-