Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
PLANS FOR THE GUAROSMEN
INSTRUCTIONS FOR EQUIP
MENr AND TRANSPORTATION.
Mai. Robbins, Quartermaster, Pro-
viding for Participation of Local
Troops in Maneuvers.

Mai. Alfred F. Robbins. uuartermaster
OF the National Guard of the DISTRICT. IS
sued further instructions this AFTERNOON
pertaining to the equipment ana Trans
portation of the local troops in connection
with the coming maneuvers in Massachu-
sets.
One hundred and fifty folding cots VIII
be placed on board the transport summer
to supply any deficiency that may exist
in the bunk accommodations for the
troops. Where necessary, the cots VIII
be issued to company commanders on
memorandum receipt.
The property of the brigade staff, the
regiments and separate organizations. in
Guiding baggage and bedding rolls of ON,
GERS and horse equipment of officers ano
mounted men, will be placed in the oIi''
hall of the Center Market Armory by ne-
tails from those commands between the
hours of 10 o'clock in the morning ana :
in the afternoon next WEDNESDAY
Wagon transportation for all tins prop
erty will be furnished by the quarter
masters department, but the loading ana
unloading must be performed by the
men detailed from the organizations.
Officers servants, If properly identlfeu.
will be furnished transportation on Tue
boats. but their subsistence will be pald
for by the officers employing them.
Shipment Of Horses and Guns.
All horses. equipped with halter and
nosebag, will be turned over to the Penn
sylvania railroad at Az street and VIZ
ginia avenue southwest by $50 O'CLOCK
next Friday morning. The guns or the
guns and the Signal Corps wagons Will
be turned over at the same station not
later than o'clock Thursday afternoon
There will be 163 horses. draft and sad
die. to be taken by train, and the battrey
commander, who will have charge OF
them, has been instructed to provide for
age sufficient for two feeds of hay and
four of oats to each animal.
The troops and horses going 10 New
York on the train will move by boat to
pier 10, North river. New York city, and
will embark on the steamer Pilgrim. the
horses at and the men at Z o'clock in
the evening. The destination Of the Pill
grim will be fixed by sealed orders.
officers and men Of the battery and
Signal Corps company have been in
structed to pay particular attention TO
those paragraphs in the field service regu-
lations relating to loading, detraining and
transporting horses, troops and equipment
by water.
Travel Rations and Vouchers.
The troops moving by rail will be sup
piled with travel rations and vouchers for
coffee money. The haversack rations will
be furnished the men on board the trans
port by officers from the Department OF
the East, and will be carried in the
haversack until permission to use them is
given by the commanding general of the
red or attacking. forces.
officers of the local brigade will be
permitted to take, in addition to the
authorized kits and bedding rolls, me-
diminished suit case. which may be placed
in the staterooms Of the transports until
the return of the brigade to Washington
Trunks will not be permitted.
The horses of the 1st Battery and the
Signal Corps company will be hired to
date from August IL and the others from
August Ii.
First aid packets and pouches will be
drawn from the superintendent of the ar
mory and carried by each officer and en-
listed man.
On Cred" Commanders Staff.
Lieut. Col. Luther H. Reichelderfer. for
merly of the LIST Infantry. who was re-
Gently commissioned lieutenant colonel,
the head Of the medical department of the
National Guard of the District, has been
detailed on the staff of Maj. Gen. Tasker
HI. Bliss, who will command the Red
army in the invasion of Massachusetts.
Col. Reichelderfer will be chief surgeon