The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17
Quartermaster's Department
Faces Problem in the
Maneuvers.
UNDER WAR CONDITIONS
THE REGULARS AND NATIONAL.
GUARDSMEN WILL CAMP IN TEN
cENTERs AND SOLVE PROB
LENS OF ACTUAL BATTLES.
(American News Service)

New York, May 1.-THE quarter
masters subsistence, and engineering
departments of the army are now pre-
fecting plans for the transportation
and encampment of 100000 regulars
and militiamen this summer. The
troops that are to participate in these
exercises, which are to be the most
extensive ever held in the United
States, will consist of about Ga, 600 Ma
tional guardsmen, from practically
every state in the Union. and all of
the regulars now in the United States.
Ten encamDments will be held. I'M
der the direction of generals of the
regular army. Two of the most i'm
portant will be in the Department of
the East, of which Governors Island is
the headquarters. The sites of these
maneuvers will be Pine Plains, Jeffer-
son Count, N. Y, and Gettysburg. Pa.
Major General Fred d. Grant will COM
mand at Pine Plains, where the troops
from New York will take part, while
Brig. General w. W. Wortherspoon
will be in command at Gettysburg.
Strength Of Militia.
The $1,000 militiamen include 50
regiments of infantry, 81 troops of cav
airy. 20 batteries of field artillery, sig
nal, hospital, and engineering corps.
The regular army will furnish Fl regi-
ments of infantry, 9 of cavalry, q field
batteries, six companies of signal, and
nine companies of engineers, with hos
pital attachments for each of the ten
encampments.,
The encampments will cover every
section of the country, the most west
ern being at Atascadero, Cal. Besides
those in the Eastern department the
others will be at Chickamauga Park,
Ga; American Lake, Washington;
Leon Springs, Texas; Fort Benjamin
Harrison. near Indianapolis; Sparta,
Wis; Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and
Fort Riley, Kan.
1t was said on Governors Island yes
terday that the maneuvers will be the
most thorough ever held in this coun-
try and that the battle and other prob
lens that will be submitted to the
army and National guardsmen for so
luton will be unusually instructive.
being worked out to give every arm of
the service an opportunity to demon
strate what the country may expect
| should they be called into actual serv-
| ice.
More Than 40 States.
! More than forty states will be rep
| resented in the maneuvers, the troops
being assigned to the encampments
in the military departments in which
they are located. New England makes
the poorest showing of any of the
states, New Hampshire and Connect.
cut, will not be represented at all.
Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts
will furnish one regiment of infantry
each, while Rhode Island will send III
cavalrymen.
New York will be represented at
Pine Plans by five regiments of in
fantry, six troops of cavalry, one bat
talon of engineers, one battery of field
artillery, and one company Of the sig
nal corps. The Fourteenth regiment
of Brooklyn was to have gone. but ask
ed to be excused. The men of that
command, it was said, thought they
were entitled to a real vacation after
their strenuous experience in Massa-
chusetts last summer. Squadron A
took the place of this regiment
In addition to these encampments
the officers on Governors Island are
also preparing for exercises of the
coast artillery in the Department, of
the East, which will take place this
summer and which will be on a most
comprehensive scale. Similar exer.
cises will take place at all of the i'm.
portant forts between Norfolk. Va,