Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-15
MANY STIFF AND SORE
FROM TENT RAISING
Order Issued for Dress Parade Every
Evening.
GEN. HARRIES IS EXPECTED
Col. Garrard Will Be Umpire at Ma
neuvers-Raw Recruits Are
Having Strenuous
Time Of It.

Special From STAFF Correspondent
CAMP ORDWAY. Bolivar Heights, w.
Va, August 15.-Officers of the National
Guard of the District of Colum bia were
very much gratified this morning when
they found that Camp Ordway has the
greatest number of national guardsmen
ever taken from Washington to Ma
tional Guard camp. Morning reports turn
ed in by first sergeants from every COM
pany in the brigade show that 1859 offi-
GERS and men are in the camp.
Today was given over entirely to SIM
pie drills on the part of the infantry and
other elemental military exercises in the
other organizations The regular artillery
battery went out for hike early IN
the morning. and from 4 until III o'clock
the infantry companies were drilled. This
afternoon non-commissioned officers were
given a little course of lecturing, and later
the officers of the guard listened TO a
talk on the care and preservation of the
rifle
Several hundred men were vaccinated
this afternoon at the field hospital. This
was the second anti-typhoid treatment
the men have received. This treatment
will not make arms so sore as the first
treatment several days ago.
Maj. c. Fred Cook, adjutant general.
today ordered dress parades every even
ing. The 1st Infantry parades today at
3 o'clock. The I'd Infantry will hold
dress parade tomorrow evening at 3
O'Clock and the 1st Separate Battalion
will parade Saturday afternoon. a pa
rade of the entire brigade has been or
dered for Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
Many visitors from Washington are ex-
pected
The Signal Corps company is expected
to raise its wireless poles today.
Every company commander was having
trouble this morning with the pay rolls.
Soldering is no ciLch. It's grand
thing to die for ones country: and
out Of the 1.Ja9 National Guardsmen
wished they could do at 5:15 this MORN
ing when that pestiferous bugler in front
of Col. Joseph Garrard's headquarters
sounded reVeille, first call In fact. they
would rather have died for their country
than get up and drill for II on a muddy
field under hot sun. AT a:13. mind:
at the hour when most people are dream
ing peacefuily. when the mysterious
mlkman whom no one ever sees leaves
his wares and when no decent person is
supposed to be abroad in the land-at
that unhed rd-of hour 10 0of Washing
toms finest National Guardsmen had to
get up and begin to do a lot of antics
called setting up.
Oh. ye gods of war. Was there ever so
awful a moment as that which comes
when the soft-muscled and bone-weary
raw recruit finds suddenly that he has
to get up in the cold and wet and go
through gymnastics to timber up. He is
stiff and sore from the tent pitching and
tent raising OF the day before. His COM
rades of previous experience have made
him do all the hard work and the SER
geant has cursed him roundly for
bunk fatigue soldier, and in general he
considers that he has found more rea-
sons for wishing himself dead than any
other mortal who has ever lived since
the dawn of creation.