The Penn's Grove record., 1913-07-25
FIRST REGIMENT
BREAKS CAMP
Local Guardsmen Benefit by
Weeks Duty at Encampment
READY FOR REAL SERVICE
Acting Governor Fielder and Members
of Staff Wave Goodbyes from Yer
andas of Little White House
at Sea Girt.

marched away from the State encamp-
ment at Camp Fielder, Sea Girt, and
its place vas taken by the Fifth Regi-
ment of Paterson. With their colorS
flying and the band playing the sol
der boys who have been there for a
weeks vacation in army maneuVres,
marched from the camp grounds to
the railroad station. Acting Governor
Fielder and the members of his staff
waved their goodbyes from the Yeran-
das of the Little White House. Long
before noon the tents had been low
cred, bundled up and packed on the
freight cars preparatory to being TAX
en- back to the regimental armory at
Newark. The troops, following a rec
o~rd-breaking camp strike, lounged
about, waiting for the departure or
ders, or held farewell talks with
friends whom they have met during
their stay. The camp has been the
most instructive in, the history of the
First Regiment, according to the regi-
mental officers as well as the SOLDIER
boys who have gone through the
work. AS Colonel John D. Fraser said
hard work which will fit them for
genuine service should they be called
to the front through any necessity,
and not for the brass buttoned cere-
monies that have been the retarding
factor in the National Gurad for many
years.
Tests in Field Work.
From the time of their arrival in
camp the officers and men have gone
through tests in field work that were
gruelling, to say the least. In all the
heat they have marched out into the
surrounding country where tactical
maneuvers have been conducted for
their instruction. The heat was sup
planted one. day by driving rain that
soaked the boys through to the skin
and made the marching and filed work
little short of hardship. They have
gamely stuck it out, however, and re-
ceived the praise of Acting Governor
Fielder, Brigadier General Dennis F.
Collins, Colonel John D. Fraser and
others who have witnessed their work
here this year. This has been the
best camp we have ever had in every
respect, including the field maneu-
vers," said Colonel Fraser just before
he departed with the troops. And
this is so for the reason that the Off
GERS who up to three years ago were
not qualified to act as instructors in
training the troops properly for war
fare have now gone through a two
years course in theoretical work, and
be able to put into practical expert
ence the schooling which We have
had. There is no question that we
would be able to take up any work
with the regular troops if we had
three weeks in which to be instructed
along the lines of this weeks instruc-
ton. In case of war we could fight
side by side with and as efficiently as
the regular troops"
Complete Hospital Service.
The maneuvers for the most part
have embraced problems in rear and
advance guard duties. They covered
q territory of country over a radius
of twenty miles In all directions from
the encampments reservation, through
fields and over dusty roads, over
marsh land and through beach sand.
The work of the first field hospital,
which was encamped with the First
Regiment, has been watched with no
little interest by the officers of the
guard. New Jersey being one of the
five States in the Union with the field
hospital as an adjunct, the work car
ried on there during its first encamp-
ment was not overlooked in the gen.
eral summing up of the efficiency dis
played at this first weeks encamp.
ment. In the hospital were accommo-
dations for 108 patients with as full
facilities for operations of every ma
ture as a city hospital. Major Harold
Carbusier and his staff of surgeons,
together with the t~hirty-two enlisted
men as aides, showed by their work
that, though the minimum number al
lowed to such a corps, they have new
ertheless ably handled the field work.
Change in Commission.
By the change that will be made in
the personnel of the State Efficiency
and Economy Commission, in accord
with the latest opinion of Nelson B.
Gaskill, assistant attorney general;
John P. Murray, of Hudson county,
the counsel, will be relieved of further
service in behalf of the commission.
The change smacks of the doctrine,
ito the victors belong the spoils," and