Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-17
DRAWING 70CL0SE
Camp Of Instruction Will
Cease This Afternoon.
thursdays Program includes
Tactical Aike,.SignaI Practice.
Great Battle Fought, theoretically,
On City's Outskirts.

IL mas been a benevolent hand that
has guided the weather for the Camn
or instruction this year at the State
Muster field where the officers are on
cdihped Tor instructions preparatory
TO the maneuvers of the combined
FORCES of the department of the East
which will operate at Pine Plains IN
the northern part of New York the
latter part of August next At these
maneuvers will be worked out problems
conforming to actual war conditions
as nearly as the real thing as is pos
SIDE under laws governing a time of
peace. Here infantry, cavalry, artil-
lery, signal corps, engineering corps
| In all its elements in one gigantic
moblllZation will vie with each other for
supremacy and one united object, that
VI eillclehcy for the army as a defence.
AT this mammoth camp many new
features of the army will be tried out
and notably will be that of aeroplane
tests by the signal corps. For some
time it was thought that the I'd regi-
ment would participate in these manu-
vers and the men specializing and an
ticipating regarding the trip; but when
1t was definitely known that they
would participate an unusual amount
of interest and enthusiasm seized the
men, officers and all, neutrality-suspicious.
We're made with vigor ana determine
ton that the State of Maine shall make
creditable showing as she al
ways has when forced 7. to show
her hand. The citizens s. of the
| State can depend on the contingent
she sends out there this trip, as no
| finer, better fitted or more intelligent
body of young men properly differed
will leave any section of the country
prepared to take all that is coming to
| them.
! The spirit of the men in camp has
grown steadily every day until now it
has reached point that if the camp
was to continue another week it would
be impossible to have anything come
up that would detract from it-more
eager to grasp each new prob
| lem and more intensely interested do
they grow, and listen to the advices
and interpretations as given by the in
structors detailed here for that pur-
pose. Major Fuller, the surgeon de-
| tailed to look after medical wants of
| the men, reports that the health of the
camp is excellent and not even a
slight cold has developed among the
men-they have grown rudy and
healthy during their short stay and
| their appetites have become ravenOus
[ as testified by the genial chef Peter
Sterling" who delights in having the
men test the capacity of his culinary
| outfit. When there is a moment to
spare for diversion they take advan-
| tage of it and many man comes in
| for a chatting of some sort and loud
peals of laughter vii ring through the
camp and then suddenly dim silence
will reign and then to business and
| all the world outside of war prepara-
| tons is shut out until taps, the soldiers
| lullaby, is waited over the tented SWard
under Gods blue canopy and the tired
| soldiers are lost in slumber. Then is
there any reason why the State should
not be interested in these men who
give all they can to train themselves to
| be able to protect its interests il the
occasion should demand it? AS in the
| case of the veteran Guardsman just re-
| tired, Col. NeWcomb, who has served
| his native State which he loves 50
well 81 years, II of which he has adj
miniStered the affairs of his regiment
with great credit to himself and to the
l
State and when his country called for
assistance to defend it's honor and
avenge the death of the poor sailor
who Law in the mud of Havana harbOr.
he answered the call and could be
| found in the swampS and hills of Cuba
directing his men in the performance
Of their duty. 1t is, that same spirit
that prevails in the younger members
| of the Guard today who are also will
ing to grow old in the service the same
as he.
Lieut. Gould of Bangor. crack rifle
shot, and also a member of the State
rifle team is an artificer of some note,
and is so recognized by the men in
camp He has brought into camp d
rifle that he converted from a gas pipe.
| it is considered a masterpiece of work
mauship and he claims he can register
as many bulls eyes at 1000 yards as
any man can with new service rlhe