Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-24
ON THE DR|AY DEEP
District Soldier Boys Are on.
Their Way Home.
LEFT BOSTON LAST NIGHT
Transports Are Due Here Early
Thursday Morning.
WOOD BUBBLES WITH PRAISE
This "War'' So Fine That Massa-
chusetts May Have Another
Next Year.
WOOD BUBBLES WITH PRAISE

Special Dispatch to The Star
BOSTON. August 24--The National
Guard of the District of Columbia, which
has been participating in the war game
In Massachusetts. departed from Boston
yesterday evening aboard the army
transports Sumner and Mcclellan. which
are expected to reach Washington about
daylight Thursday morning.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, Z. S. A.,
commanding the Department of the East,
has returned to New York. Speaking OF
the recent maneuveis, he expressed him.
self as being greatly pleased with the be-
havfor OF the men OF the two armies
The greatest value OF the exercises"
said the general, rs that they have
shown US We can have extensive maneu-
vers in thickly populated sections with
minimum OF damage and expense. The
men behaved themselves In every way;
there was no drunkenness or trouble of
any kind with the residents there"
Everybody Liked the Soldiers.
DWellers in the sectio OF coutry be-
tween Boston and New Bedford and
Plymouth and Taunton. Gen. Wood said.
were highly pleased with the behavior Of
the men, and said they would be glad
to have the maneuvers repeated there.
Speaking of the commissary department,
Gen. Wood said there had been a cou-
pie Of instances where the supply wagons
had been trifie slow. That was due, he
explained, to the unexpected speed OF
the men attacking Boston and to the
heavy rains that begged the wagons.
Another excellent feature of the maneu-
vers, according to Gen. Wood, was that
the large territory over which they were
A,,1 ~ -
try gave the Red army chance for q
steady advance. This meant the work.
ing out OF new problems each day, where
as In previous maneuvers in this coun-
try. he said, the troops had been re-
stricted to much smaller area ana were
therefore forced to go over a great deal
Of the same ground repeatedly.
When the final report Is made up. based
on the sectional reports OF the observers
and concluding with criticisms and sug-
gestions, copy Of 1t will be sent to
each command ng officer who took part
In the maneuvers.
When the suggestion was made to Gen.
Wood that the returning troopers had
anywhere they could procure home
cooked meal, he replied, with broad
smile:
well, guess we all did that. but 1t
wasn't question Of quantity. but rather
quality. You see, the army rations come
pretty near being the simple life, SO far
as food is concerned"
Plan Another Mimic War.
1t is reported that another big mimic
war game is being arranged by the War
Department for 1910. In Worcester and
Middiesex counties. It is also stated that
as In the recent maneuvers the Maesa-
chusetts militia will act as the defend
ers Of Boston against a hostile army,
uyf otto oh
from q point west of Worcester. Most
OF the fighting is expected to take place
In the vicinity OF this city and South
birmingham, where the base Of supplies
of the defending army will be.
Engineers of the War Department are
said to be working on maps Of the dis
trict, covering radius of fifteen miles
from South birmingham.