The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-09

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 The arrival of the chief officers at the chief umpires camp near Paradise Green in Stratford today. added for
 rnality and dignity to the scenes of
 this lively military site and by night fall there was an assembly of noted
 military men, both of the regular United States army and of the militia
 as well. Brig Gen: Tasker Fl. Bliss,
 the commanding general of the East
 ern division of the United States
 army, who will be commander of the
 maneuvers and also chief umpire of
 the war game, arrived with his staff
 during the middle of the afternoon. Now that the officers have arrived
 the camp is ready for the hostilities
 to begin and at once tomorrow morn
 ing the war game will commence. AL
 ready most of the two armies, the
 Red and the Blues, are confronting one another with the Housatonic riv-
 CT between them, in preparation for
 the opening of the game.
 These are the various officers who
 will be in camp at Stratford tonight: Brig Gen. Bliss; Col. William A.
 Mann, chief of the general staff; It. Col. William G. Haan, assistant chief of the general staff; Maj. G. T. Pat
 terson, adjutant general; Col. s. c.
 Mills, inspector general; Col. J. A.
 Hull, dge-adyocate and provost
 marshal; Capt. James J. Mayes, as-
 sistant judge advocate; Col. J. B. Bell
 finger, chief quartermaster; Maj. w. H. BortSch, assistant chief quarter
 master; Col. E. p. Bravo, chief com
 missary: Col. L. H. Maus, chief sur
 geon; Col. William Stephenson, sani-
 tary inspector; Maj. Robert U. Pat
 terson, assistant to the chief surgeon; :;
 Col. H. L.. Rogers, chief paymaster;
 Col. William M. Black, chief engineer
 officer: Capt J L. Welsh, chief ordi-
 signal officer; Capt. G. E.. Thorne,
 24th infantry, officer in charge of
 militia affairs; Capt. H. c. Bishop, 3rd field artillery, First Ut. c. c. Mar shall, ,Jr., infantry, and First Ut H. U. Hodges, first cavalry, assistants to chief umpire.
 Camp Quartermaster, First Lieut..
 Frank H. Phipps. Jr., and Camp Com
 missionary, First Lieut.. Edwin O. Saunders, have been in camp the last two days. Aide, First Lieut., Walter Krueger, 2d infantry, who is an aide, arrived today and Col. D. J. McCler- nand, first cavalry, who is attached to the headquarters camp, put in ap- pearance this afternoon.
 In addition to those above named there were several foreign military attaches in the group of distinguish ed men who are now at the camp.
 Among them is Baron Debode, Rus
 sian military attache, and the British military attache, aside from attaches from Mexico and other countries. Gen. Bliss came to Bridgeport on a
 government launch, from Governors Island.
 The camp was a decidedly unpopular fhrn rrrh f1,nf f5~a AL lie was excluded from it, guards being stationed at the various places of en- trance and given instructions to admit no one without proper credentials. This order of things does not set well
 with the public, who feel that they should be admitted as public money
 pays for the maneuvers. Some of the officers within the camp as we'll as privates don't like the idea of the
 public being excluded.
 | There was some speculation as to whether the order to - keep out the public would be in effect throughout the period of the maneuvers Some were optimistic enough to believe that ! the orders were issued to prevail only today. There was considerable blast | ing being done at the camp, it being necessary to clear the aviation field of | large boulders and rocks which are scattered through it. The blasting was carried on throughout the day and as it was much in the open II was considered unsafe for the public to be admitted to the camp. There were many more visitors today than on previous days, but they all went 1 away disappointed, unless they had | credentials