The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-17
CAMP OSBORN
COMES TO END
Michigan Troops viii Leave fol
Home, Friday, After Successful
Period Of Instruction.

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VJNCAMP OSBORN, Mich, Aug. IT,
Gen. Joy. not Gen. p. L Abbey. will
be In command OF camp tonight. To-
day Is pay day, and each OF the $500
enlisted men who have been hiking
through the hot sun each day until
sweat showed through his leggings.
will receive his SIPS per for the ten
days In q lump. With tho end or the
problem and lunch In the held today,
the serious work Of the encampment
was at an end and the work OF hav-
Ing as much fun as possible before
camp breaks tomorrow morning was
started.
Judging from what has been done
at previous camps, the night Will
be one OF song and carnival, blanket
tossing and running the ricketts, for
the rockies. Rookie night" was cele-
brated In the maneuver camp at
Boards Hill, but the rank and fle
were too tired by the long hikes
through the hot sun, lying in trenches
crawling through corn fields, through
underbrush and barbed wire fences In
ravines, to put the rockies to much
!. more OF q test OF their courage than
TO make them sing song or make
speech.
The tin-pan brigades started parad-
Ing the company streets, gathering
strength as they went last night. To-
night will occur the annual shirt-tail
parade. which has been a fun feature
OF the M. N. g. encampments. What
stunts have been reserved for to-
might are being kept secret, but II Is
hardly thought that the sarcastic hu-
NOR Of the funeral cortege which pa
raded the streets OF the camp last
year behind a coffin filed with dead
soldiers" that Is. empty beer bottles,
will be equaled.
After the maneuvers at Boards Hill
the fields used as camps were left In
. as good condition as before the en-.
campment, except for the fact that
the tent stake holes remained. The
camp was thoroughly policed before
the soldiers left, every scrap Of rub
bish being carried and dumped into
the pile into the camp kitchen fires
and burned The same will be done
, at Camp, Osborn, when the tents are
struck, and aside from the fact that
there will remain a few paths worn
by the senties walking post and tent
stake holes, there will be nothing left
OF the tented city except the perma-
nent parts OF the mess structures.
Detroit, by the way, narrowly escap-
ed invasion by the Blue Army OF Wis
consin this morning. Only the valiant
. work OF Capt Roy Vandercooks Bat
terry A OF Lansing saved the base OF
supplies the state of Michigan had
established north of the camp. Early
this morning word was received that
hA nf a "a nf Uiannnafu
were marching on the camp. The
defenders, In charge OF Col. George
McCaughna, OF the Third regiment,
marched to meet them, taking up their
position along Junction-st. In the out
skirts OF the city. Here, carefully
concealed In the brush, Capt Wander
cooks battery OF four guns, which
enfalaided every avenue OF approach,
did valiant work until the Blue Army,
In command OF Col. Kirk OF the First,
and consisting of the First and Sec
ond regiments, Troop A, OF the cav
airy, and the entire signal corps. had
nearly turned the Michigan left flank.
As the Wisconsin forces, driving the
Reds before them through the thick
underbrush by volley fire, crossed the
narrow road In spite OF the fire that
the four three-inch guns OF the battery
poured In upon them, Col. McCaughna
ordered the battery to gallop to a
new position nearer the base OF sup
plies. where the country Is open.
Despite the fact that many can
noneer's teeth were nearly Jared out,
this evolution was successfully per-
formed and the battery from its new
position aHHihilaied several companies
which had double timed down the rail-
road track in an attempt to catch the
battery mapping.
Or, In other words, the last OF the
100000 rounds of blank Springfield
ammunition and the remainder of the
$4,000 rounds OF pistol ammunition not
yet expended In maneuvers, were fired
on this morning to make another
Chinaman's birthday even better than
the one at Boards Hill.
ATKINSON