Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-01
FOR CAMP
Orders Issued to District
Guard Organizations.
BATTERY PLANS MARCH
Signal Corps to Accompany Com
mand-Central Filtering Plant
Will Be Established.

Detailed orders for the annual en-
District Of Columbia have been issued
from headquarters, and actual prepa-
rations for the ten days under canvas
are now in progress.
Maj A. P. Robbins and Maj. F. B.
Wheaton were in Frederick yesterday.
Maj. Robbins, quartermaster, was
making the final preparations for the
camp. forage, wagon transportation
and other necessaries Maj Wheaton Is
preparing a plan of the site.
An innovation in the order this year
provides for a three-day march over
the roads of Maryland by the list Field
Battery and by the mounted detach-
ment of the Signal Corps Company.
Capt. j. Harry Shannon commanding
the battery, will lead about seventy
five artillerymen. while twenty men OF
the Signal Corps Company will adopt
this military style of going to camp
under Capt. 0. G.. Terry. The quarter
master OF the battery will be sent over
the road in advance to arrange for
camp sites. forage. etc. It Is planned
to make camp each day near some VIII
lage.
Will Entrain August ID.
The remaining organizations of the
guard. the LIST and I'd Regiments.
bands. LIST Separate Battalion, Medical
Corps, sanitary troops. etc, will en-
train August IS. To insure perfect
supply Of good drinking water the
medical department is ordered to have
established by the evening of August
16. two days before the brigade ar
rives, a central f1ltering plant. capable
OF supplying plenty Of water for the
entire command during the encamp-
ment. The command is ordered to use
the water from the plant, and to ex-
ercfse reasonable economy in using It,
Water for washing and cooking will be
used from hydrants
The orders call for special attention
by all commanding officers to the i'm
portance Of instruction in guard duty
In all its phases and requirements
and in the observance Of military
cOurteSies. The orders close with these
words:
The success of this camp of instruc
ton depends upon the maintenance Of
strict discipline, both in and out OF
camp. upon the carrying out Of camp
sanitary regulations in the broadest
spirit, and upon the prompt assembly
OF troops for drill and exercises, and
the earnest and intelligent efforts to
excel In each military exercise.
1T is confidently expected by the
commanding general that each officer
and enlisted man Of this command will
do his whole duty"
Army Officers Assigned.
Assignments of regular army officers.
In addition to Capt. James B. Allison, the
new instructor inspector, have been made
FOR the camp as follows:
Maj. Marcus D. Cronin, 18th Infantry,
to headquarters.
Capt. Edgar A. Fry, infantry, and
First. Lieut.. Ronald E. Fisher, cavalry
to LIST Infantry.
First Lieut.. Charles r. Mayo 10th Cav
airy. and First Lieut. James NJ. Church.
Ill, infantry. to I'd Infantry.
First Lieut.. Arthur E. Amends, infan-
try, to 1st Separate Battalion Infantry.
Capt John E. kilbreth. jr., 9th Field
Artillery, to list Battery, Field Artillery.
Capt. Mack K. Cunningham, Signal
Corps. to Signal Corps Company
Capt. Howard H. Baily, Medical Corps
to Ambulance Company.