The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-20
WITH WARRIORS
At FORT RILEY

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ed that her methods were unsanitary.
The observer observed a fly that
thought he recognized his meal ticket
in the shape OF can. He gave 1t the
once-over, ano fitted away to chew
on lump OF sandstone. because 1t
contained more nOurishment than the
''SOldier-iZed" tin can.
AS a rank outsider. the war corre-
spondent had no conception of the
business of the service school encamp-
ment. Having never attended one be-
fore, he was under the impression that
this annual soldier-fest was a kind of
picnic, wherein the Kansas Guard pic
nicked, women learned and demanded
their proper places according to rank
in the officers mess, and red-headed
governors cut monkey shines for adj
correspondents had given the public
the same impression. The serious
business of training state unit of the
great civilian army of the United
space to the social or comical news of
the affair.
War a Business.
Instead of being a picnic, the en-
campment is a school for teaching two
regiments of young men the business
of war and peace, health and SANTA
| ton and lot of other things that will
be valuable to them. whether or not
| they are ever called upon to shoot
! holes in an enemy of the government.
| If they will but put on the statute
books of their own homes the laws OF
sanitation taught them in camp. it
| would be worth the trouble, and the
! officers who devote their attention to
the instruction should feel that they
had performed a public service.
Regular Army Men There.
| The camp this year is under the
command of Col. HOratiO Sickel of the
regular army, who has been assigned
| by the powers at Washington to this
service. Other regular army officers
! on the job are Lieutenant-COlonel
Henry I. Raymond of the medical de-
partment, Lieutenant-COlOnel Waldo
f. Aver, Captain Walter c. Sweeney
and Lieutenants J. B. Delaney and
Robert E. Phinney. Captain Sweeney
has been assigned to the service school
at Topeka, and will move here in a
! short time with his wife and two chill
| dren. Another highly important per-
son from the regular service is Mr..
Lyons, the boss cook of the camp. He
| is a graduate of the school of cooks
and bakers at Fort Leavenworth. and
as he weighs about $50 in the shade
one might suspect that his own cook
ing agrees with him. He not only SUI
perintends the officers mess and puts
a perpetual hump on the squad of col
ored walters, but inspects the cookery
of the company chefs, and teaches
them the fine art of turning q certain
number Of ''rations'' into eats.
/ There are two hospitals-or infirm-
aries, as they call them now-One fol
each regiment There are also bunch
of soldier-dOctOrs on the job, but the
tents are empty and the doctors have
nothing to do but inspect. They are
eternal1y inspecting something, from
Major Carl Philips, commander Of the
hospital corps to the company physi-
| clans, they are on the job every min
ute. They look after the cleanliness
of the soldiers and the camp. The sol
| der is shower-bathed at frequent in
tervals, and the camp is systematically
frisked for anything that doesn't be.
long there.
/ At O'Clock each morning. bugle
call is sounded, and the men of each
company turn out and police" theil
company street. Marching in close for
nation, they scan every foot of ground
spearing every cigar snfpe, scrap of pa
per or other foreign substance il
| sight When they get through, the
camp is absolutely free from trash.
II A noticeable thing about the camT
is that there are no garbage wagon!
driving up the alleys collecting theil
malodorous spoils. The reason is tina
II all the garbage is burned in a pit fir
II or in the ash pit under the kitchen
stoves, and it is burned long before
II reaches the condition SO natural to tn
common or city variety of garbage.
General Satisfaction There.
II This is not gold lace encampment
| and only the necessary officers ar
II there. The only generals present, be
side General c. I. Martin. are Genera
Satisfaction and General Merchandise
| and all three are important factors ii
II the success of the game. A nice as
Il sortment of colonies are present Col
II Wilder S. Metcalf commands the Firs
II regiment and Col. Perry M. Hoising
II ton commands the Second. Col. r
Neill Rain is assistant adjutant-gen
eral, and Col. Jerry Springstead o
Il Topeka is paymaster.
iii A lot OF detail work rests upon thes
staff officers, but Col. w. J. Watson
II judge-advocate general. doesn't kee
II busy, because the whole bunch is s
II decent that his services in a court
ii martial are seldom required. Colone
II Watson is a vet OF the disturbance i
III Gu-Gu land. While with the TWEEN
tieth Kansas, said Gu-Gus inserted
iii large Remington bullet in his mani
IT bosom, and it is there yet. AS soon a
II he recovered from the effects Of tina
II token of affection, he got married
chased right back to the insular pos
= sessions, became a captain in the For
= tieth U. S. volunteers, and the littl
brown brothers again ported hin
That time they made such an i'm
preston on the fighting captain tina
his real war days were ended, but h
can still forgather with other fightin
men as an officer of the Nations
Guard. Meanwhile he is the hang
over postmaster of Pittsburg, Kan
and patiently waiting for the Demo
Gratis to agree on an appointee for tn
job SO that he may be tossed out.
Chasing the Enemy.
The princiDa1 soldering stunts rom