Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-24
PAY DAY IN THE CAMP
VARIES THE PROGRAM
District ArtilleryTs Last Day at
Tobyhanna-Routine Duty
Is Over.

JOINT CAMP OF ARTILLERY IN
STRUCTION, TOBYHANNA, Pa, Au-
gust 24.-Today, the last in camp for
the LIST Battery Field Artillery N. g.
D. c., is the most important in the
minds Of the enlisted men. This is pay
day. This afternoon the men will be
mustered and lined up before the pay
master to receive their money for their
service here. The rest of the afternoon
will be spent in turning the horses and
guns back to the regular batteries.
A mounted gun drill on Sherman
Field was the program of the morn
ing. The men cheered as they left the
field for the last time. Tomorrow
morning at o'clock the battery will
entrain for home, and should arrive
about dark. However. they. will not
be allowed to go straight home, for
they will be required to have their prop,
erty checked up and sgin the pay roll
for the District pay.
Camp Quiet Yesterday.
Sunday was a quiet day for the bat
terry. An inspection was held in the
morning and the rest of the day was
devoted to rest and sports. A good
many Of the men washed their cloth
ing, preparatory to the return home.
Quite q number obtained permission
to visit Scranton. and a riding party,
commanded by Lieut.. George Bonnet.
took a long ride over the roads to
Pocono. returning in time for supper.
Chief Cook Young and Cook Collier
baked biscuits for supper last night and
got into an argument as to who sup
piled the best dough. They will set
tie differences this evening by engag,,
the cook shack. Young has forty
pounds on Collier, but the latter still
insists that even II he is beaten he can
bake the best biscuits. Roast beef.
mashed potatoes, green peas. tomatoes.
cocoa and sliced bananas and cream
was the menu for the MONDAY meal
Sunday.
District Boys at Feast.
Battery of Binghamton entertained
the District boys at a feast in their
mess hall. During the afternoon SYRIA
cuse and the District artillery played
a ball game on Sherman Field, in
which the latter were beaten in
slam-bang affair. to Z. Breslin,
pitching for the District allowed but
two hits, but bad support caused his
downfall.
from the surrounding towns, and the
church services at the Y. NJ C. A. were
well attended
Plans Largest Artillery Field.
Maj. Summerall. commanding the
joint camp Of instruction, will be re-
lieved on September l by Maj. Snow.
Maj. Summerall will go on duty at the
Army War College in Washington.
However. he will not relinquish the
Tobyhanna post for good, for he will
have charge Of the Improvement of the
reservation. He has made wonderful
progress since last year.
In a talk with The Evening Star
correspondent Mai. Summerall said
that it was his ambition to make Toby
hanna the largest maneuver field for
artillery in the United States. Last
year he had eight militia batteries here
for instruction, while this year twenty
attended. He expects to have the camp
equipped for forty by next summer and
he said that he expects to see artil-
lery maneuvers by the regiment and
brigade before a couple of years.
Men who have travelled the Philip
pines and Mexico say that Tobyhanna
has them beat for artillery work. The
rough trails, while hard on the men.