Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-28

or hats is the enemy ADVANCE. Every
hat means a rifle, and the clatter is
meant to put them out of business. There
is no smoke. The guns bark and bark,
but not bit of smoke comes from them
Smokeless powder is a great thing, thinks
the boy.
line and fire. He pumps away. believing
he is aiming. The gun kicks and surprises
him, but he fires straight ahead across
the gulley. He looks around and sees
the regulars hiding. All up and down the
line as far as he can see. every man Is
concealed, and there is an impression In
the boys mind that something really
might hit him. So he hides, and hides
good. The Blues. coming gradually to-
ward him in the woods. are scary. The
out of the woods. They fall back into
cornfleld. and through the half-grown
stalks shoot into regiment of Blues at
the foot of hill. Guns sound very diff
ferent in cornfield. In the open they
spit. In the woods they bark. In the
corn they go pi-i-i-i-ng, and the concus-
sion presses the ear drums more. That's
all the boy gathers out of that maneuver:
The boys battalion was marched out OF
the corn to another position, overlooking
a sIope. The ground ran down. There
was a stream at the foot, and then the
hill on the other side sloped upward
There was fighting going on across the
slope somewhere, and to go down the MIL
was an eApoSuie' bul 'ho o''oi' -
to do it.
Run fast as you can. Don't trot,
rum" The boys captain was sprinter
and led the way. "Biff-bif- bin went
the boys heart. as he tried to keep up.
The men were running at top speed,
carrying their rifles by the strap. In
the stream the boy fell and cut his
forehead on a stone. Get up there"
hurriedly ordered a lieutenant.
Lie Down and Fire.
I'd at the top of the hill they lay
down again and fired into a regiment
Of Blues that was making a mistake
by coming into the open. 1t was bad
piece Of work, but the boy thanked
his stars that they were there. and
that he was allowed to lie down in
the tall grass and make believe he was
loading and firing his gun.
Then. after a long time, they march
ed home. Miles and miles of dust
lay between the firing and the camp.
1t was the most awful six miles to the
boy and to other boys who had run
over hills and valleys to take the part
of chess men, while officers moved
them around by means of pins on big
map at the farmhouse headquarters,
two miles away.
All along the march home the men
dropped out to get drinks of water, and
to hide in cool spots. The officers were
not bit particular. 1t was so hot and
so dusty.
Gee" said the boy, "hes got it soft"
He was looking at a mounted orderly
who was Jogging along on two-doliar-a-
day contract horse.
Gosh" the orderly was saying. Il
never want to ride a horse again.
The stone in his shoe had been taken
was different when he was a high school
cadet He wished he had never come.
That evening at roll call he fell in
faint.
"sure, they always do that first" said
the top sergeant. why, | remember when
the regiment was in Cuba"
It's tough, but that is the way they
make soldiers.
Six heat prostrations after one single
maneuver in the I'd Regiment show the
character of the strain the youngsters
are under on a hot day on one of these
long hikes 1t is almost certain now
that the recommendation for next year.
as far as the District is concerned, will
be for camp on the old Harpers Ferry
style.
Heavy Work for Hot Days.
The men do a tremendous amount of
work in the heat of the day. The Dis
trict officers would have it differently.
according to their talk around the camps.
the guard officers the ''hikes' would
start at in the morning-the cool of
the day-and there would be no hard
work during the hot afternoons.
An army running over a cornfield dam
ages the cornfield not little. After every
battle a damage board gees over the
ground and arranges with the farmers,
according to their losses. The District
of Columbia will not have to pay cent
for any damage the guard does in the
maneuver area, as 1t Is United States
camp.
Guardsmen approached his captain a few
days ago with the odd request that the
captain should lend him his uniform and
saber. The captain got out his olive
drabs and turned them over, with his
saber. to the private. When next the
captain saw the uniform the enterprising
private was hiring it out at so cents a
man to the whole company. man after
man. while q photographer took indivld-
ual pictures of about forty mountaineers,
clothes.
Cost Of Food.
The guards entire food bill for the camp
will be about s4,62O. including the 21.94
cents apiece per day for the good old
government ration. The extras which
Maj Neumeyer Is buying for the COM
missary department will run into some
thing like $500. according to a rough es-
innate made In the commissary depart
ment. So far the extras bought by Maj.
Neumeyer are as follows:
Three hundred and fifty pounds of
smoked sausage. 300 pounds of cooked SUI
gar-cured shoulder 400 pounds of ginger
snaps 800 pounds of macaroni, 40 pounds
Of cream cheese, 20 dozen big cans Of
peaches, 1000 heads Of cabbage, 10 bar
res CT beets. barrels OF turnips, 10
barrels of carrots, 100 dozen punches of
parsley, 900 pounds of fresh cod and
bluefish, 500 dozen eggs.
Last nights storm furnished temporary
relief from the dust plague which has
infested the camp for several days. 1t
did comparatively little damage. A num-
Der of tents were split. because the
guardsmen failed to loosen the guy ropes
after the heavy rain. Immediately after
the downpour ceased the sun came out
and those tents which had not been loos-
ened were split as they dried. The Of
Nice of Capt. Harry Coope. adjutant of
the LIST Infantry, was toppled over by the
wind.
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