The Washington herald., 1912-08-28
CRUEL WAR ENDS;
CASUALTIES NONE
Camp 0rdway Is to Be Only a
Memory After This
Evening.
GUARDsMEN COMING
HOME AFTER CAMPAIGN
Who Won Is to Be Debated Out,
as the Umpires Refuse
to Tell.

1 Camp Ordway. Bolivar Heights, Aug.
:.-when the National Guard of the
District OF Columbia went to sleep at
| taps tonight, every man within the
brown tented city was ready to turn
out in the morning and take the dnal
steps toward Washington. Orders have
been issued covering the numerous de-
tails of the movement of the brigade.
and the three trains loaded with troops
will begin to arrive at New York
and Florida Avenues beginning at about
$50 O'Clock.
The first train will leave Harpers Ferry
| at 1:30 D. m. with the Second Infantry;
the second train with the First Infantry
will start at o'clock. and half an hour
later a Pullman car. eight coaches and
n stock car will start with the brigade
commander, stan and officers stan de-
partments. post noncommissioned stan.
orderlies and brigade headquarters clerks.
cooks. walters. and hostlers, and thirteen
horses.
The big movement is a responsibility
that rests upon the shoulders Of Maj.
A. p. Robbins and Capt. E. NJ. Nevils.
quartermaster department. Quarter
masters for each train have been as
signed as follows: Capt. Harry C..
Werlich, first section: Capt. William r.
McCathran, second section, and Capt. z.
| NJ. Nevils, third section.
The tented city will begin to dwindle
promptly after reveille, but the canvas
will not fall until the last note of the
| general which is the last bugle call
In camp. At this signal the loosened
canvas will collapse to the earth and
Camp Ordway will be Q thing OF the
past,
signal Corps Leaves.
The Signal Corps company left camp
| to-day tired out and feeling blue at the
| thought of making Leesburg. Va, to-
day. Capt. Terry held the men in camp
until they had lunch. although they were
| ready to leave after breakfast. The
signal men received considerable praise
from umpires In last nights maneuver.
| when the company was in charge of
Lieut.. Lands and Lieut.. McLennan.
Several men from this company were
left behind in camp under Lieut.. Nc
Lehman in order to take down the tele-
phone wires that have connected each
organization in camp.
Sergts. Bessemer, Wells, and Sche-
ing. the regular army instructors as
signed to the brigade, left the camp
for Washington to-day. Second Lieut..
George w. Tolson, quartermaster OF
the Third Battalion, Second Infantry.
has been detailed to assist Capt. Weir
! ich, quartermarter of the Second In
fantry, to unload property at Harpers
Ferry and Washington.
Gen. Harries sent kilograms to Col.
Lloyd NJ. Brett and Col. Samuel Z.
Smiley. former adjutant generals OF
the brigade to-day. They were mes
sages OF remembrance at the close Of
the camp.
Just who really won that night ma
neuver between the troops was not set
AZ - H. ~
tween the various officers is any indi-
cation. The Reds declare that tts
Blues did not stick to the rules. and
the Blues are Growing over their STRAIT
egy in moving out according to orders
early in the morning" calling one
minute past midnight, morning.
Captures FeIIow-omcer.
Probably the very sorest Red officer
in the entire Red army Is Lieut.. c. P.
Barnett. He is the cavalryman who
startled all Charlestown last night by
riding pell nell up the street. scattering
traffic in all directions in the pursuit OF
Lieut.. Fred Stewart, of E Battery, Third
Field Artillery. in command OF the Blue
artillery. These two are brother officers
at Fort Myer, and Lieut. Barnett was so
uckled when he captured Stewart on the
streets OF Charlestown that he swelled
mis- cneSt out ana ruSneQ 10 a telegrdpn
office, whence he sent this message to
, his wife:
'Hurrah. 1 have captured Freddie
Stewart"
But the cavalryman did not reckon on
the wiles of the artilleryman. BY the
time Lieut.. Barnett came back to gloat
over his captive, the captive had pushed
over his guards and had fed in the
darkness.
Shortly after Lieut.. Stewart rejoined
his command in the Blue Cap, Gen.
Harries gave the command to move out.
The umpires had handed out the theoreti-
cal orders which called for a change of
plans. Gen. Harries. instead of finding a
small force ahead of him, discovered a
large force closing in on him. The orders
from his theoretical commander-in-chief
were to get out by morning and get by
the Reds without delay and without loss
Considing 1901 o'clock as morning.
the Blue outfit trailed out and solved
its end Of the problem without firing a
shot. The Reds claim that they were
about ready to attack the Blues on two
sides and hold them back. and would have
done SO had the umpires on that side
ruled that the army must go to bed
and not operate until morning, their idea
of morning being daylight. The differ
ence of opinion between the various
brands Of daylight has made 1t impossi-
Bile to tell who solved the problem cor
rectly. The Reds are sore because the
Blues. under Gen. Harries. tricked them.