The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-16

With their tents pitched on the rocky fields of the Botsford farm in Huntington, 145 enlisted men in Go. B, First Battalion, United States en- gineers corps, are acquainting them selves with the environs of the vicin- ity preparatory to the big war game which will take place in this part of Connecticut next month. Captain Will durr Willing is the commanding offic- CT in charge of the company and H. E. Beck is the first sergeant.
 Within three weeks other troops will begin to arrive and for ten days Bridgeport and vicinity will be the seat of a mimic war with Uncle Saln'S regulars and militia troops from New England states trying to capture New York city from other regulars and troops of militia from New York and New Jersey. Co. B., First battalion arrived, unannounced, in Bridgeport last Friday. from Washington, D. o., where they are regularly stationed at Washington Barracks. A special train of five cars pulled into Bridgeport with the soldier boys and unloading was in the lower freight yards. There were two car loadsaof horses and army mules, wagons and other equipment, camp.
 Captain Willing had preceded the company to Bridgeport and had se- lected the site for the present camp. The men marched from Bridgeport to3 Huntington immediately after upa and arrived in camp late in the af- ternoon In less than A hours the camp was established; the tents pitch ed, and all was in readiness for the work of the Co. .
 Captains Willing named the camp af- nr ET IT T,An a 1- mate and classmate of his at West Point. Mir. Lee finished his West Point training in 1901 and went 70 the Philippines where he was killed three months later at @Bpa. Batangas province. He was second lieutenant ok engineers at the time of his death and had a promising military career. Captain Willing greatly admired the young man with whom he had come SO. closely in touch during his West Point days and decMed to name the camp in Bridgeport in his honor.
 With Captain Willing is First Lieut.. T B. Scott. medical corps. U. s. A.. and First Lieut.. B. H. Marks. The other officers are First Lieut.. J. M. Wright, Co B, and Quartermaster Ser of this company will be to establish camps for the 10000 troopers who will invade the territory for the war game. Camp Lee will be headquarters for the engineering corps.
 z When a reporter for The Farmer visited the camp near mess time last evening Captain Willing was resting at his tent, after having travelled 25 miles into the country Three other officers had made trips of similar length. This is in line with their work of drawing up maps for camp sites, containing military features of the country and selecting locations for the different camps which will be established when the troops begin to arrive.
 The first troops will reach Bridgeport and Camp Lee or whereabouts, on Aug. 8 and from then on until the 11th the country will be invaded by the soldiers who will carry on the warfare. The war nnaneuvers will begin most any time from the time the troops begin to arrive and will last until the 18th. when the soldiers will begin to leave.
 Co, has just come from the tar get range camp at Edsall, Va, which is five miles from Alexandria, Va, and 15 miles from Washington. D. C., and where practice work has been in progress.
 From the time the war begins some thing will be going on all the time. The actual fighting will take place durings the days and an aggressive campaign for the capture and for the protection of New York will be Waged. l the Connecticut maneuvers Troops will participate in the attempt to capture the ecity,. from Maine, Yer mont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and other states of the East.
 Two airships will be used during the maneuvers,, and are now on the way from College Park, Maryland. There will be four army officers to operate them and as they will be in camp near Bridgeport it is expected that they will soon be seen flying over and about the city
 Bridgeport merchants will profit by the location of the camps in this vii cinity. Co. brought a ten days sup ply of foods and provisions with it from Washington but other supplies are necessary from stime to time and these will be bought in New York and in Bridgeport. ? A feature of the proposed game of war will be the participation in it of two batteries of artillery (Which will arrive from Fort Meyer, Va It is believed that the territory between Stratford, Milford and Long Hill will be occupied mostly by the soldiers when the camps are established A regiment of calvary will be included in the troops; also a regiment of in- fantry. and a battery of field artillery.