Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-01

are still working without an ihtervAi
rest
Can't. Justus of the 9TH Infantry, with
n r1egaphone in hand. bossed the land
ing of fifty enormous special trains an
night long His great trouble is the
veterans from the country, who are USED
to going daily to the station TO see the
one train day pull in.
There must be 1O0o of this class in
camp. and all of them want to see the
sight of more trains in an hour than they
usually see i'm a Week. Regulars had to
be pressed into driving these sightseers
away.
Gets New Supply of Blankets.
When it became known early that the
veterans would reach to 5000 the blan-
ket and bed question became a terrihc
problem Mai. Normoyle in soft voice
called up Maj. w. S. Scott. depot quarter
master at Philadelphia, and said few
words The result was that at q o'clock
this morning 2Jooo blankets came in by
a special train from Philadelphia. other
crises were handled in just such gentle
but efficient ways. Army officers at head
quarters sat all night surrounded by tele-
phones which seemed to spit trouble at
them.
Every jansle of a bell meant that a
thousand or so blankets were needed In
some impossible place. Hundreds of men
We're taken to camps where their state
leaders failed TO show up.
Besides these problems en- masse there
We're a thousand and one personal troub-
les Old men cried because they were
lost They tainted from exhaustion ana
some of them wandered about all night
long. Yet they would not admit they
were taxing themselves
The sentiment of being here overbal-
anced the danger And then the incoming
crowd cleaned out the kitchens last night
They ate up all the food which had been
distributed for today's breakfast. ana
before dawn this morning that thing had
to be Strengthened out And 1t was
an absolutely immovable situation 1t sim
ply moves 1t out of the way. That's all
Endured Terrible Labor.
No one can describe the MOL and toll
of this morning and last night 1t was
a murky pit of dust and sweat along
the row of tents where the quarter
master has his office Men shouted and
cursed and swore. and old men hobbled
along. some sick. some In pain. all Of
them needing care-and very few Of
them finding the men whom their states
had sent here to care for them.
1t came near to breaking up the care
full preparations the War Department
had made for them. II anything like 1t
happens tonight there will be trouble In
plentiful measure before morning: but 1t
appears that the backbone Of the sttua-
ton Is broken and there would be no
more trouble.
Gen. Liggett sent Lieut.. Buckner to
Baltimore late last night to bring Secre-
tary of War Garrison here In an auto
Other guests who arrived today. most
from Washington. are Gen. ]. w. Barlow,
Gen. ]. Thomas Brown. II. g. Harding.
Representative Mondell. Representative
Howell. Gen. James w. LAtta, Gen.
W. Mumford and Gen. E. o.
Shelton.
Men Who Run the Camp.
Gen. Liggett. as commander-in-chief of
the khaki-clad boys Of 1913, acts In the
capacity of big brother to the boys In
blue and gray Of 1888 Mai. ]. E Nor
moyle. Quartermaster and chief magician
of the camp, is responsible for nearly
everything in sight. He makes huge
quantities Of supplies appear where none
appeared before, tells elegant stories IN
between times and drives an automobile
like an Arabian Night genii-
Then there Is Maj. Hess. a medical
officer. in charge Of the provisional field
hospital A man can't get headache
without Hess hearing about it. Maj. Pat
erson has charge Of the Red Cross ar
rangements. Mai. Samuel II. Wadhams
Hospitals are on every side. They have
made every provision for an emergency OF
accidents or illness
The task Of feeding the multitude one
might think would be on the shoulders
Of q br1gadier general. at least But no;
q plain. ordinary, capable captain brings
three meals day to this hungry army,
which totals at least $4,000. He Is Capt.
W. B. McCaskey. And he knows his job
Then there is a Chief,
who ought to get the praise of every
housewife in the world. He ought to be
placed on a pedestal and worshiped by
every family head who has gone through
the nerve-racking experience Of going
out into the kitchen to fire the head OF
that department. This hero is Capt
Stuart And what is his task? Moth
ing much, except that he Is directly re-
sponsible for the work of 1.6O0 cooks
Look After transportation.
Capt Huget and Lieut. Burdette have
charge Of camp transportation All the
trucks, motor vehicles and running
around with camp property in this over
night city of 10000, is handled by those
two officers. The answer to the camp
question mark is Lieut. Bagby. who has
charge of the many information booths.
Two army officers who will be remem-
bered IN every big newspaper ofiice east
of the Mississippi are Lieut.. E. Q. Saun-
ders and Lieut.. Simon Buckner, In charge
of the press camp. Lieut.. Buckner was
assigned to the I'd Infantry. n. G. D. c.,
at the annual encampment at Harpers
Ferry last August.
They are in charge of the comfort of
the grandest aggregation of sob writ
ers ever gathered together under can
vas. They answer fool questions all day
long with smiles. and treat the green cub
who comes along with an armful of copy
paper and dozen new pencils exactly as
If he were a war correspondent of long
standing. The press camp has but one
rus: That no writer shall use the terms,
thin blue line of heroes and "grizzled
veterans"
The boys of '63 turn out early in the
morning.. Some benfghted heather blows
loud bugle at ) o'clock am, and about
three minutes later a swarm of @. A. r.
and Confederate youngsters Of seventy
five or so are out in the company
streets fully dressed and ready for ac-
ton. Some of them criticise the way the
army of today puts up tents. They say
the modern tent cannot be pegged for a
good blow. meaning that a strong wind
would blow them all down. Maybe So
maybe so. II would ne grand mix up IL
they all did tumble down, and the obJur-
gated speech and furious peevishness arts
ing from beneath those fallen tents would
outclass anything seen since Bull Run.
Layout of the Camp.
The layout of this camp Is something
on the order of vertebrate animal suf-
fering from curvature of the spine Long
lane is the name of the spine. 1t is the
II II is an inch, with a slight curve in it,
The vertebrate are the cross streets, and
the comp Of Washington veterans is on