Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-24

| ed on mirrors) or acetylene lantern
| (uSed at night ten words per minute.
| It's telephones should be in good work.
ing order. capable of use up to distance
of twenty miles.
These things seem almost impossible of
accomplishment, but they have been
panies of the Signal Corps every
day. 1t does not seem odd that army
| officers call the Signal Corps the
nerves of the army. No other arm OF
| the service performs such a delicate
function. The commanding general Is
kept in touch with his base of supplies
the rear of the army, it's wings and with
| the firing line. Signal Corps men are
everywhere and their duties are both
arduous and important.
| The company has been unfortunate Tor
more than year in that its command
ing officer has been detached from the
| infantry. Just prior to camp. however,
commanding officer was appointed. and,
although having but little time prior to
coming here to accomplish much, 1t is
expected by his superiors that he Will
before another year has passed have as
good a Signal Corps Company as is TO
be found in the entire National Guard OF
the United States.
This officer is Lieut. r.. w. Barker. 1T
is his intention to make special efforts
upon return from camp to recruit MS
company up to the minimum strength
ffty-eight men. There is not much doubt
but what he will be successful, this
branch of the service offers special in
ducements to recruits, not only in pay
but in experience.
Bugler Is Song Bird.
Like every other military outfit, the Dis
tT,ct National Guard has it's great and
grand singer. This time he is bugler.
that dashing accessory to any organiza-
ton. but especially dashing because he
belongs to that grand old troop Of can
nonaders known as Fox's Artillery, or
rightly named the District Battery.
The singer is Jasper Orange. He is of
Italian birth and has he voice of that
dear Naples so far away. The men
want nothing better than to have Jasper
get through with what work he has, and
stand up to sing the toreadOr song from
Carmen" There is but one man in the
battery who knows what the words
there isn't man who doesn't know
what the music means.
Jasper sings a Neapolitan song by
moonlight that would make you weep
Mobile with that beautiful. reckless
abandon that made Caruso famous; at
least the boys say so.
Many of the company officers mess with
their own men this year-that is they eat
the same food. but sit alone in their little
tents eating from a company mess kit
The reason is that the company gets the
benefit of the cash which the officers
contribute, and are able to buy a few
extra dainteS with the charge 1t makes
the men little more contented with
their lot, too; many a guardsman
grumbles when he sees his lieutenant eat
ing grandly at regimental headquarters
while the enlisted men grub along on
81 Il oi1
Sergt. Trussell a Hero.
Sergt Shaulter V. Trussell is the hero
of the camp. He belongs to the LIST Bat
terry, District of Columbia, and can be
truly said to be the only man under fire
SO far this year.
The battery was out maneuvering one
morning with a regular army officer
along for instruction purposes. The Of
ficer had tied his horse to a fence corner
and was explaining some tactical points
to Capt. Fox and Lieut. Shannon
Suddenly the horse at the fence corner
reared into the air and paved at the
| heavens. He seemed to want to mount
the fluffy clouds that were floating by
| SerGt. Trussell leaped for the horse and
found that the halter shank had twisted
| in the horses leg, and that in stamping
around on it, the steed had put his hoof
into hornets nest.
The bullets We're not flying thick and
| fast, but the hornets We're, and Sergt
! Trussell was a target for the best sting
ers they had while he was leaning over
! trying 10 get the captains horse loose.
! The batterymen saw him shaping him
! self and the horse very hard at close
intervals and could not imagine what
| had happened 1t was not long, however,
before Sergt. Trusselrs face was COM
/ plete evidence of the fact that he had
| been in sharp engagement
Caring for the Injured.
| their daily stunt of scouting across coun-
| try for their enemies, the soldier doctors
| go along behind with their hospitals and
ambulance outfit, just as they do In real
war When the I'd Regiment was busy
firing itself to death in the woods Friday
the surgeons pitched their hasty hospital
! tent near a farmhouse and did everything
| in accordance with the army regulations
! covering such cases.
The tent was simple thing, hastily
! arranged. An operating table was made
| right on the spot, with sapltngs cut down
and trimmed with sharp axes. The in
struments were laid out on improvised
| Der cLes, the sterlizing bowls were made
j ready, four or FIVE rubber mats on the
! ground, with blankets over them, were
| arranged for the wounded men, and a
; Red Cross flag was placed in conspicuous
! position. This hospital was for the firing
/ line use, as 1t were. 1t was hastily
made thing. and as soon as the wounded
men CheoreticaD were bandaged up and
| cared for, they were shipped back to a
| more permanent or more nearly permR-
nent hospital. farther away from the
| scene of fighting.