The Washington herald., 1912-08-11
BLUES AND REDS
READY FOR FIGHT
First Battle in War Game Win
Begin Tomorrow
Morning.
RIVAL ARMIES TRAMP
TO THEIR POSITIONS
Aeroplanes and Wireless Tower to
Play Part in Weeks
Maneuvers.

Maneuver Headquarters. Stratford.
Conn. Aug. 1o.-The fearsome foe from
Never-Never Ldnd 10,co0 strong Reds,
have not yet begun their forward move
ment which is TO devastate New York
City and loot the subtreasury and do
more shooting on Broadway. than dozen
Sam Paul gangs-if they theoretically
get there The gallant defenders, 10000
Blues, have not yet been called upon TO
Put their guns to their shoulders or draw
their blades in defense OF bowling
Green and Harlem, or to shed single
drop of hypothetical blood But Reds
and Biuese are pretty nearly ready. and
Monday morning, boom. boom Of field
guns. crush and rattle from the small
arms, hammer. hammer of hoofs. whirr-
whirr of aeroplane propellers, clickety-
click of moving picture cameras, dropping
G: sappositicusly slaughtered soldiers.
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All day Connecticut swan in n haze OF
dust and thrilled in an ecstacy of patriot
ism, both caused by the passage along
her roads and through her towns OF COM
panies, regiments, battalions, squadrons.
and other sections of soldiery heading for
the front. Some were Reds. some were
Blues. When they met to-day they
swapped finecut and compliments. little
reckoning that perhaps by Monday noon
they will be lying side by side In some
lone copse.
The Red Army.
The opposing armies will be constituted
as follows:
Reds-71st N Y, 7th n. Y, 18th N.
Y. esth N. Y, I'd Mass, 5th Mass, 6th
Mass, 7th Mass, 10th United States Cav
airy. 1st and I'd troops, n. ]. Cavalry. I'd
Battalion u. s. Field Artillery, I'd Bat
TALON N ]. Field Artillery. I'd Regiment
Of Engineers Of n. Y, LIST Signal Corps OF
n. J., Brig. Gen. Frederick A. Smith.
commanding.
Blues-Fourteenth New York. Twenty
third New York. Forty-seventh New
ond Cavalry of Brooklyn. Battery A OF
the Bronx, Fifth United States Infantry.
Second Company Signal Corps. of New
York; First and Second New Jersey In
fantry. Fifth Company Battery A OF
New Jersey. First and Second Signal
Corps, New York City; First and Sec
ond Connecticut Infantry, First Sepa-
rate Company of Connecticut, Second
Maine, First Vermont, Brig. Gen. Albert
The Reds are about the following
towns:
Orange, Oxford. Huntington. Monroe.
Seymour. Wilton, Fairfield, Danbury,
Redding, Bethel. Newton. and Wood
bridge, mostly north OF the Housatonic
River.
Blues Near Milford.
The Blues are near Milford. Soratford.
Huntington. Long Hill, Derby, and other
points generally south of the Indian
named stream.
Gen. Mills headquarters is at Nashua
Hill. near Trumbull That OF Gen.
Smith near Orange. In several places the
camps of the Reds and Blues are within
less than a mile Of each other and they
know 1t. '.'
All the New York regiments are to-
gether They have an ideally hidden To-
cation about an hours march out OF
New Haven. Their camp Is within
stones throw of little railroad sta
ton, and yet it can't be seen until one
walks right upon it.
Here at Stratford is located the field
headquarters of the umpires in command
of Brig Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. There are
more than 100 umpires, a group being as
signed to each branch Of the service
and to each army in general The camp
is prettily laid out on great level
field, its streets of khaki tents contrast
ing beautifully with the green of the
foliage.
Sells Spring Water.
A Yankee woman owning a splendid
spring of clear. cold water has rented
it out to the umpire soldiery for $50. An
other owning an equally good water sup
ply came along and offered 1t for $40.
when it was too late.
ANY piece of bric-a-brac that crashes
to the floor, any window that is smashed
during the heavy artillery fire will be
iah foil n the
lot of Provost Marshal Col. John A. Hull
Maj. Joe Wheeler, jr., Mai. John Sarratt
Capt. ]. J. Hays, and his aids, Col. A.
Kronkhite and Maj. A. B. Shattuck. Their
pockets bulge.
A group of big white hangers at one
end of the camp grounds here Is the
greatest point of attraction. These now
house two, and will later house four, BIZ
planes, to be used for scouting purposes.
Capt. Hennessey Is in command OF the
aerial squadron.
Complete Wireless station.
Here, too, is a complete field wireless
station in charge Of Lieut.. B. d. F'ulois.
the first officer Of any army who ever
went aloft In an aeroplane.
Tomorrow afternoon Gov. Dix and
members Of his stan arrive and 60 into
tents on the field here. Also numerous
Senators and Assemblymen, who may do
the tent stunt or on the other hand,
may take their rigors at the eight-story
Hotel Stratfeld In Bridgeport. Col. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt also is to arrive and
&c on duty with Mai. Gen. Organs
staff.
Society being suggested, there viii be
one picturesque contrast In this horrible
war The crack and exclusive cavalry
men oc the First Cavalry of New York
and the Second of Brooklyn will have
as their opponents the Tenth United
States troop. The Tenth. 1t may be men,
toned. Is exclusive, too. 1t is exclusive
ly coal black. But such is war.