The San Francisco call., 1908-09-30
REGULARS AWAIT
ARRIVAL OF THE
MILITIA TROOPS
Mimic War Between Reds and
Blues" at Atascadero viii
Begin Next Week
Field Hospital and Cooking
School Are Features OF Big
Army Encampment
National Guardsnlen Will Gain
Experience by Association
and Observation
CAMP ATAScADERo, Sept. 49,

CAMP ATASCADERO, Sept. ZS.-
With two regiments of infantry, six
troops of cavalry, one machine gun
company, three batteries of artillery,
company of engineers and one COM
panY each of signal and hospital
corps, besides large number of men
in the quartermaster's and commits
sary departments and complement
of clerks under Chief Clerk Louis E.
Lamprecht at headquarters, all the
regulars from the California, Arizona
and New Mexico posts are in camp
tonight and with the arrival Monday
of the Arizona militia and the Cali
fornia national guard. the joint maneu-
vers will commence on the $4,000 acre
AtaScadero camp
Although only colonel in rank Col-
onel Marion p Maus will command the
combined regulars and militia Of these
states and territories, practically two
brigades of troops. The following ON
Gers, especially detailed as umpires
during the maneuvers with Colonel
pire. have arrived in camp-
Captain Charles Crawford. Twentieth
infantry, Captain Campbell King. First
infantry. Captain g. d. Rhodes. Sixth
cavalry. Lieutenant Stephen O. Fuqua,
Twenty-third infantry: Lieutenant R.
Z. Beebe. Fourteenth infantry. and
Lieutenant H L Hodges Of the First
cavalry. These officers will umpire the
game of war which viii be played with
- -
tween the red and blue forces. ex-
cept thar blank instead OF bali ammuui-
tion viii be used-
The California and Arizona militia
will be eamned close TO the regulars
that they may learn as much as pos
sib1e of the duties and work of the
regular troops In time of war by OBJ
servation and close contact with the
army during their short stay in camp
The militia will be given the same
work, duties, evolutions and tactical
problems as the regulars, though at
first somewhat more elementary The
field hospital. in command of Captain
TRULY. who has just returned with his
men from the nlaneuvers at American
Lake Wash, is excellently located on
the highest point in the camp and was
opened today
Two cases were admitted, one from
the engineers, suffering with ivy pois-
oning. and a fever patient. There are
six tents with accommodations for lis
patients. The hospital has an operat-
ing tent and is fully equipped as in
time of war. An isolation ward for
contagious diseases has been estab-
Ifshed some distance away Besides
being a fully equipped field hospital
with ambulances, litters and stretchers
it is a school of instruction in which
the hospital corps of the militia will
be given practical instructions in the
care of the sick and the wounded
Another feature Of the camp is the
school of instruction In cooking and
baking
The Eighth infantry from Fort Me-
DoweIl. under Colonel Frederick A
smith. arrived shortly before noon to-
day and went into camp on a knoll at
the lower horn of the crescent shaped
encampment- Four troops of the Fifth
cavalry from New Mexico and Arizona,
which marched from Los Angeles, ar
rived at o'clock and took position
at the extreme northerIy point of the
camp with the artillery
Colonel Schuyler will command the
artillery and cavalry camp.
RoLFE ASSUMES COMMAND
Captain Robert h Rolfe assumed
command yesterday OF the OmCeS OF
superintendent of transport service and
depot quartermaster, during the alb
senee of Colonel J.. B. Bellinger at
Atascadero- Colonel Bellinger expects
to be at the maneuvers until the end of
October. so Captain Rolfe was sent here
from Washington TO take charge of this
important arm of the service
Captain Rolfe had charge of the depot
auartermasters department at Maya
sakf for two years, up to December OF
last year. His assistant, Captain
Campbell E. Babcock. will be In charge
of the transport dock