Evening star., 1911-08-12
Districts SoIdiery Preparing
for the Tented Field.
PAUL REVERE NOT NEEDED
Click of the Typewriter Gives Pre-
liminary Warning.
NO VALLEY FORGE IN VIEW
Sternness of Campaign Will Be Con-
siderably AmeHorated by Efforts
of the Quartermaster.

Those stirring old times when a minute
man rushed pell-mell, astride a patriotic
horse, to alarm the farmers and to in
form them that the tyrant's heel had ac-
tualy landed in the shape of brigade
of armed invaders have died a death
choked to insensibil!ty by red tape.
The troops are going to war tomor-
row. but the minute man hasn't shown
up yet. In place of the good old rider
and his horse. one can see in the offices
Of the headquarters Of the National
Guard Of the District of Columbia, many
busy young persons with typewriters and
multigraphing machines: officers In civil
ian clothes. all declaring that their COM
pany is getting the rough end Of the
deal
The minute man isn't In it with the
auartermaster these days The quarter
master is the man who has the small job
of Issuing every one of the several hun
dred thousand individual things that
camp Of | 800 men will need. Everything
from rock salt to saddles he has to ham
die, and no sane person would want to
be quartermaster, even at the rate of 80
a minute, on the day just before the
troops go to war"
camp d1gn-ClaSS Aualr.
The first engagement for the troops is a
high-class affair at Fort Meyer, where no
one but the officers will be in attendance
no one but officers and the cooks. that
is. Despite the hardships of war. there
is going to be no lack Of food at Fort
Myer or Camp Ordway. The officers go
into camp at Fort Myer tomorrow after
noon at o'clock, and for three days
thereafter will buckle down to learning
few thousand things about camps,
sanitation, map drawing, practice "hik-
ing" guard duty, patrol work. advance
and rear guard work and several other
elementary things of the kind.
They have very easy time of it. First
they get up with the sun and go to school
all the morning, then they have lunch,
go to school or go on hike all the after
noon; then supper, and after that they
can come back to town and help their
poor benighted companies get the equip
fnsdn3ght. perhaps. and after that they
have nothing to do until morning.
Battery Marches to Camp.
TBe battery and thirty mounted men of
the signal corps company win start for
Frederick early Tuesday morning. Three
days have been planned for this march.
and the men will undoubtedly get a great
deal Of camp practice before Ordway is
an established tented plain. Lieut.. Will
son. quartermaster for the battery, has
planned for every conceivable detail of
the march. and the men Of that organiza-
tion are looking forward to the three-day
hike as being as comfortable as such
things can be.
The brigade proper will entrain Thurs
day morning. Four long specials. start
ing every half hour from the New York
avenue yards. have been arranged for.
The first section. with the men who do
the first work in camp, will pull out at
o'clock.
While officers and men are preparing
to go into camp at Fort Myer and Fred
erick, members OF the brigade rifle team
are preparing to leave for Camp Perry.
Ohio tonight. Under command Of Lieut..
Glendie b. Young, the District riflemen
will participate In the national matches
and in the matches of the National Rifle
Association, and will remain at camp
Team for Seagirt.
On completion of the national matches
thirteen members of the team will be
selected for the shooting at Seagirt. n.
j., where the tournament Of the New
Jersey State Rifle Association will be
ton September ..
The team which will leave tonight is
made up of the following:
Lieut. Col Glendie b. Young, 1st In
fantry; Capt. Frederick II. Heidenreich,
small arms department.: Capt. William
W. Cookson. small arms department,
Cap. Frank W. Holt. ordnance depart
ment: First Lieut.. Thomas r. McAnaliy,
ordnance department.; First Lieut.. Ralph
Alderman. ordnance department: First
Lieut.. Richard Powers, 1st Infantry;
First Lieut.. Louis 4. Clausel, I'd In
fantry. First Lieut.. Harry {. Caldwell,
ordnance department: Second Lieut..
Thos. Brown. 1st Infantry: Second Lieut..
John II. Cole. I'd Infantry: Sergt ]. r..
Fehr. Company X, 1st Infantry: Ser2t.
A. G. Schmidt. Company h. 1st In
fantry: Corp Joseph D. Schriver. Com
pany X. lst Infantry: Artifcer J. d.
| McNabb, Company f. 1st Infantry; Pri-
vate Robert Clouser, Company b. Is,
| pany b. I'd Infantry Private w. l.. kel-
| ly. Company *, lst Infantry.
! Capt. Cookson has been appointed rifle
team spotter and auartermaster: Lieut..
McAnally Is team coach and adjutant.
| Target practice al the District militia
rife range at Congress Heights vas held
Wednesday of the past week for tie last
i time this year, under the direction of
MAJ Thomas King. More than 100 men
1 participated in this practice. About 50
per cent of the men qualified. Heretofore
! the range has been kept open for at
| least two months longer.
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