The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-29
SUN BRONZED MILITIA MEN
 BACK IN CITY Fourteenth Company Leads In Craftsmanship With
 Perfect Score. SERGEANT HERMANN
 PRAISED BY REGULARS No Serious Illness Mared Ten Days Camp of Bridge
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| Bronzed from exposure in their 10 days encanpment at Fort H. G. Wright, and in the pink of physical condition, the members of the local battalion, Coast Artillery Corps. their band and hospital corps arrived home about s o'clock Saturday night. Officers agreed the encampment was the most successful thetcorps has ever held.
 At target practice on the big guns the local com panies made a fine show ing. The 14th company of Bridgeport led the entire corps with a perfect score. At Battery Butterheld, on the 12 inch gun battery, the 14th company, under the direction of Capt. L. J. Prague and Lieut.. Arthur LaRocque, at service practice, made three hits in three shots This record has nev-: CT been sequalled even by the regulars, who drill constantly on the big guns.
 At the mortar battery, Battery 6slin- ion the 4th and 11th companies who had service firing with combined range. land gun sections were not so success full. At first it was thought that all four shots. two fired by each com pany had been hits. Later the uTn- pire, Major Payne. decided that only one Of the shots fired by the 11th com shot fred by the 4th company had scored. This caused considerable dis. appointment for last year the 4th com pany made a perfect score and the 11th company gunners got one hit out of two shots.
 About 260 Bridgeporters are mem bers of the local reserve corps and the battalion went to camp with fulI- Ter ranks than 1t has had in some time Fdue no doubt to the enlistments which followed the recent war talk
 Calnped Ldke Regulars.
 The camp that the Coast Artillery made was little like the militia camps of 10 years ago at Mantle. Just like regulars. the men did everything nec- Eessary. pitching their own tents, cook ing their own food and doing every thing they would be required to do in the field in actual warfare. F The discipline maintained was equal to that in the regular army at least the regulart army officers SO declared after observing the conduct Of officers and men for a few days. The corps is now really a. part of the regular army and known as such New York state has four such regiments and the 18th of Brooklyn, N, r., came to camp at Fort Fl. c. Wright just as the Con- necticut men left. Lieut.. Col. Tay- Tor. the instructing officer for the New camp last Saturday. The New York reserves win occupy the camp ground until August 10. each regiment re- maining to weeks.
 All ofncerS or enlisted men of the Connecticut corps who had 14 drills or 50 days: service, prior to the en- camprnent. were paid by the U. S. gov ernrnent for their tour of duty at Fort Wright. The privates received pay at the rate Of SIS per month Tn addition to their rations, which are the same as those issued the regular army. Non-commissioned officers, gunners, gun commanders and others with special ratings, received the pay of the same grade in the regulars. Tn addition. the enlisted men will receive their state pay of g per day for the ten days.
 No Serious Illness.
 Strict rnles of sanitation were en- forced by Major F. J. Adams and Capt F. w stevens of the hospital corpss In consequence. there was not d sin gle ease of serious illness among the Bridgeport battalion members, al- though for many of the men it was their first experience in eating and sleeping out of doors.
 Much of the excellent showing made by the Bridgeport companies was due to the careful and. painstaking instruc- ton given them during the past drill season by Sergt. Richard Johnson, the regular army drill sergeant detailed with the Bridgeport and Danbury companies.
 < One of the pleasant things of the camp was the compliment paid Sergt