The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
CAMP CROWS FAST BY ARRIVAL OF MORE TROOPS Many Additional Features for Visitors at StratfOrd Today Signal Corps in Camp Last
 Night Troops of Tenth Calvary Arrive With Much Equipment- High Officers and Statesmen Ex-
 pected Saturday Fore noon

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 Tents at the Paradise Green camp in Stra tford sprang up like mush- rooms during the night and when vis- ! itors appeared on the scene of activf- l ties this forenoon the camp presented decidedly different and more active appearance than yesterday. Go. A, Signal Corps. arrived in camp late yesterday afternoon, coming all the way from Omaha, Nebraska. The corps, consisting of about 90 men, in
 command of Captain Holland Reubot-
 tom, came by train of 1S cars. These were unloaded at the foot. of Union street and after mounting, went to Stratford camp.
 Shortly after the arrival of the Sig nal Corps, and l. troops of the Tenth cavalry came into the city and went into camp in Stratford This forenoon Long Hill and to Orange. The colored troopers will act as orderlies for the I officers, and messengers Troop l. of about 90 men remained in the Strat-l i ford camp.
 The Signal Corps began work imme-
 dIately this morning getting their l camp into shape Two details were sent out, one to Long Hill and an- other to Orange. The Long Hill de- tail consists of g men and is in conn | mand of First Class Sergeant Watson and First Class Sergeant R. B. Kelly. The detail is for torchlight service on Long Hill and the squad of. 21 which went to Orange is for wireless service. The work of fitting the camp with tel- iephone and teiegraphic services was started at once. This was an inter- esting feature of the days work at the
 
 their way there. @ k The Signal Corps is one of the best lequipped in the United States army. 1 1t has a Telefunker Wireless portab1e station This carries sectional pole lof between 90 and 100 feet as an ariel line engines The v hole arrangement can -he. put up within 20 minutess time iand taken down fF a50Wf the safisa amount of time The pack sets that | were sent out in details this morning are for telephone and telegraph ssr- 1 vice There are four complete sets of 1 telephone and telegraph apparatus.
 The Signal Corps is very proud of it's equipment. many of the pieces of ap- | paratus having been won in competi- l ton for horsefnanship and general
 service tests. The four wire carts WhicIsare run over the ground as fast as horses can carry them. letting out ] wire as they go. were of much inter- est to visitors The apparatus for re- ceiying and sending messages is of the
 bdzzer system and the telegraptic code is used.
 on the staff of Maj.-Gen ORyan of the New York National Guards; Lieut.. Col Sternberger and Lieutenant l Kincaid, aid, all of the same staff, are at the Stratford camp preparing for the headquarters division of the New
 
 today and began work at once, get l ting things into shape for the arrival of the headquarters division, which will arrive, it is expected, sometime during Saturday. The headquarters division will be camped in tents that 1 have been pitched in the rear of the
 row of umpires' tents. Adjt.-Gen.
 Bliss of New York. Brig. Gen. Yer l beck and his staff and Gov. Dix of New York and his staff, together with some of the New York state legfsla- I tors will be in the division to observe the war manoeuvreS.
 The first detai of, the New York Ma tional Guard troops started today. Tn ] this detail is the first and the second
 cavalry under command of Colonel | Bridgnnan and Col Debevoice. They are coming overland from New York.
 The rest of the New York troops will come by train and boat, going first to New Haven The First brigade head quarters and the Seventh and Sew enty-first regiments will come on the steamer Richard Peck. leaving at II o'clock Saturday morning. The Sixty ninth regiment will :. come by the l steamer Boston at g o'cock and the Brockton will bring the Twelfth reg | iment These troops will come by train First regiment, field artillery | and Batteries A and B of the Second
 regiment of field artillery; Second ' IL @+wv& <1rpI regiment and the Forty-seyenth regi-
 ments and battalio1ls of the Twenty second regiment Of Engineers. Their | trains will leave at z and g o'clock from New York.
 The steamer Naugatuck has been re- 1 served for bringing officers from Gov-
 ernor's Island to Bridgeport, Satur- day, the day when most of the high
 officers of the army who are to paf- ticipate and observe the war man.
 oeuvres, will arrive.
 It is understood that Gov. Eugene Foss of Massachusetts will come to the Stratford camp sometime during the manoeuvres, accompanying the
 Massachusetts troops. Gov. Baldwin l will also be camped at the chief un- pire's camp and there will be an array of high officials and statesmen aside fro mthe military officers of high rank.
 The Signal Corps contains men of much intelligence and good deal of special training. Those directly con- | cerned in the operation of the appara- l tus are required to be all around elec- l tricians. It is expected that the tele- egraph and telephone service will be we'll installed throughout the camp before nightfall and then attention to l outside installation will be given | c. S. Farnsworth, chief of the staff of the Red army, arrived at the camp today, but left shortly after for Orange 1 to take up the work connected with | his part in the war manoeuvres. | The airships which will figure in the manoeuvres are expected to arrive to- morrow afternoon. being shipped by freight. They will be quartered at the l left of Go. B, Engineers corps. Those | to have charge of the aeroplanes will probably arrive sometime today or to- morrow. Lieut.. B. D. Foulois. one of the pioneer army aviators, will have icharge of the airship detail
 Soldiers who are taken sick during the rnanoeuvres will be taken care of at the Bridgeport hospital
 An interesting thing at the camp is the improvised shower bath, with con- tfnuaus running water, the source of 1 sContinued on Bage- al