Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-04
ENTHUSIASM THE KEY.
NOTE AT CAMP FERNALD.
National CuardSmen Determined to Make 1909
Tour Of Duty Most Successful in Years..
Facts Concerning Subsistence.

The lesson of military activity at
| Camp Fernald this year is to be learned
| from the very elements, beginning with
Company drill and these passing to
platoon movements and other work of
| more difficulty 1t will be drill, drill,
drill all the forenoon and parade par
ade, parade in the late afternoon with
officers schools and shooting on the
range for company qualifications sand
WICKED in between.
| The drilling Tuesday forenoon from
| z to II was drill by Company in close
| order, emitting platoon movements.
| The Companies We're drilled by the
Company commanders under the sup
ervison of the field officers. officers
school was held at 1.30 P. NJ and at
the same hour that the officers school
began all nOncOmmissioned officers Of
the regiment assembled in body and
reported to Capt. Prescott, commander
of the regulars, who presided over a
school at which various duties pertain
ing to their positions We're taught and
explained in q manner such as to make
the instruction of much practical value.
Col NeWcJmb, commanding officer of
the Second Regiment, is confident that
he will be able at the close of the 10
days tour of duty to send the men
home better vested in guard duty than
ever. before. Much mere attention to
detail is being paid than formerly be-
cause tho length of the tour of duty
will permit of it. In the drilling Tues
day forenoon all the Irregularities We're
observed by the field officers in super
- he ,lf
brought to the company officers, SO that
each defect might be remedied. The
drill on the first day of actual work of
the encampment was largely prepara-
tory and served to familiarize the Of
ficers and men with the drill in Tho
open field. which is a somewhat diff
ferent proposition from drill upon tn
solid floor Of the Company armory.
The solid hours of work during tn
forenoon whetted the apretites of of
liccrs and mon for the noon mess TIL
food with which the guardsmen ar
fed is good wholesome and well cooked
The best that the market affords
gwen the soldier boys and the wa
that they devoured it yesterday moo
shows that they brought their appe
tites with them.
An idea of the quantity of FOOD
which will be consumed during thi
tour of duty will be obtained from TIL
list of the goods ordered for the sub
sistence of the National Guardsmel
during the 10 days of encampment
Seven hundred pounds of roast lamb
l. 515 pounds of roast beef, $40 pound!
Of stew beef, 1736 pounds of corneC
&c \ I,1
dock, 40 pounds of salt fish, scrap cod
700 pounds of pork chops, 1,750 pounds
Of beef steak, rump and lOins: a24 can
of baked beans, 1900 pounds Of pota
toes, bti pounds of beets. 672 pounds
turnpS, 700 pounds of cabbages, $40
loaves of white bread, 575 lOaves o.
brown bread, 900 pounds of creamer!
butter, 500 pounds of cheese, $50 pound:
of Mocha and Java coffee, IA 900 dough
nuts COO pounds OF pickles, Is pounds
of tea; 220 pounds of rice. 1850 pounds
of boiled ham, 33e cans of corn, 23S
cans of apricots, eight pounds of gin
ger. 300 pounds of sugar one barre
of vinegar, 300 pounds of flour and 400
quarts of milk.
The bill Of fare Tuesday was fo'
! breakfast: baked beans, brown bread
white bread. hard bread. doughnuts
cheese, coffee. tea: dinner: beef stew
potatoes, onions. boiled rice, white
| bread. hard bread, pickles, coffee: sup
per: boiled ham, potatoes, hard bread
white bread, coffee tea. Following Is
the bill of fare for the remainder of the
tour of duty:
Wednesday, Aug. 4.-Breakfast: porf
chops. baked potatoes, white bread
hard bread. doughnuts, cheese. coffee
tea: dinner corned beef, potatoes
beets, turnips. cabbage. white bread
hard bread. coffee; supper, vegetable
hash, white bread. hard bread. SLICED
onions, apricots coffee, tea
Thursday, Aug. 5.-Breakfast, baked
beans. brown bread. white bread, hare
bread. douehnuts cheese coffee; din
nnr: roast beef. corn, potatoes. boiled
onions, white bread. hard bread pic
potatoes. white bread, hard bread, cof-
fee tea.
Friday Aug. G.-Rreakfazt: fish, pota-
| toes, white bread. hard bread, dough-
nuts, cheese, coffee tea; dinner: fish
| potatoes, baked beans. boiled rice.
white bread. hard bread, coffee: sup
per, fish hash, sliced onions. potatoes
| fee, tea.
| Saturday. Aug. breakfast: beef
| steak, onions, potatoes. white bread,
| hard bread, doughnuts, cheese. coffee;
| dinner: roast beef, potatoes, corn,