Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-30
JOINT MANEUvER
PRACTICE TODAY
REGULARS AND MILITIA TO
BEGIN EXERCISES
Specially Detailed UmpIres Arrive.
Only TWO California and Arizona
Companies Absent-officers
in Company
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CAMP ATAsCADERO. Sept. 2s.-
With two regiments of infantry, SIX
troops of cavalry, one machine gun
company with six machine guns,
three batteries of artillery or SIX neld
guns, a company of engineers and one
company of signal and hospital corps
besides a large number Of men in the
auartermasters and commissary de-
partments and complement of clerks
under Chief Clerk Louis E. Lamprecht
at headquarters, now here, all the reg
ulars from the California, Arizona ana
New Mexico posts are in camp tonight,
and with the arrival Monday of the
Arizona militia and the California ma
tional guard the joint maneuvers Will
commence on the 25,0OO-acre Atasca-
dero camp.
Although only a colonel in rank,
Colonel Marion p Maus will command
the combined regulars and militia or
the three states and territories, practl-
cally two brigades of troops.
The following officers, especially oe-
tailed as umpires during the maneu-
vers, with Colonel John Riddle chief OF
staff as chief umpire, have arrived III
camp:
Capt. Charles Crawford, Twentieth
infantry; Capt. Campbell King, First
cavalry; Lieut.. Stephen G. Fuqua,
Twenty-third infantry; Lieut.. 4. u.
Beebe. Fourteenth infantry, and Lieut..
II. L. Hodges of the First cavalry.
These officers will umpire the game
of war which will be played with all
the realism of actual warfare between
| the "Red" and "Blue" forces, except
that blank instead of ball cartridges
will be used.
viii Camp Near BY
The California and Arizona militia
will be camped close alongside OF the
regulars that they may learn as mucn
as possible of the duties and work OF
| the regular troops in time OF war py
observation and close contact with the
army during their short stay In camp.
The militia viii be given the same
| work, duties, evolutions and tactical
problems as the regulars, though al
| first somewhat more elementary.
The field hospital in command OF
| Captain TRULY, who has just returned
with his men from maneuvers at amer
| lean Lake, Washington, is exceliently
located in the highest point III the
camp and was opened today.
| Two cases were admitted today-one
man from the engineers, suffering with
| ivy poisoning, and fever patienI
| There are six tents with accommoda.
tions for 11S patients. The hospital
has an operating tent and is fully
equipped as In time of war.
| An isolation ward for contagious dis
eases has been established some dis
tance away. Besides being a fully
equipped field hospital with ambu
lances, litters and stretchers, 1t is
school of instruction in which the hos
pitai corps of the militia will be givei
practical instructions in the care
the sick and the wounded.
Another feature of the camp is tn
school of instruction in cooking an
, baking. The Eighth infantry from For
Mcdowell, under Colonel Frederick A
Smith, arrived shortly before noon to
day and went into camp on knoll
the lower horn of the crescent shapes
| encampment.
Four troops of the Fifth cavalry from
| New Mexico and Arizona, whicl
marched from Los Angeles, arrived a
l o'clock and took its position at th'
extreme northerly point of the CAM
with the artillery.
Colonel Schuyler will command thu
artillery and cavalry camp.