Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-05

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"CRTHER efforts will be made to-
l. day by a board of officers Of the
National Guard of the District
of Columbia to locate suitable
camp site for the local militia.
| This board, composed of Lieut. Col. A. L.
Parmerter. L. S. A, adjutant general. D.
c. Militia: Maj. c. Fred Cook, N. G. D..
c.. adjutant generals department: Lieut..
Col. Luther H. Reichelderfer. n. G. D.
c., medical department: Mai. E. H. Neu-
! meyer, n. G. D. c.. subsistence depart
ment: Maj. Alfred P. Robbins. n. G. D.
c., quartermaster; Capt F. NJ. Nevis,
quartermaster's department, and Maj Le-
roy Heron. inspector general. is sched-
! uled to leave this morning at o'clock
| for Colonial Beach, Va. where they will
look over a camp site of approximately
325 acres offered by the steamboat COM
pany whose steamers ply between that
resort and Washington.
| 1t is probable that a decision on one
| site or another will be announced during
| the week. In view of the first selection
| of the Virginia Beach site. the War De-
partment has published its orders for the
regular troops and officers to proceed to
Virginia Beach to take part in the camp
with the local National Guard. How
ever in view of the inability to obtain
| rates of transportation which were salts
factory to the guard officers. it is prob
able that the regular army orders will
have to be changed.
The following-named enlisted men have
been ordered honorably discharged from
the NG-.Jnal Guard: His own applica-
| tion-Private Larry D. Snead, Hospital
Corps. and Private Robert Fletcher. Com
pany B. LIST Separate Battalion. Re-
moval from the District-rri vate James
r. Johnson, Company B, LIST Separate
Battalion: Private Benjamin Morse, Com
pany B. LIST Separate Battalion, and Pri-
waite c. D. Landvoigt, Company L. I'd In
fantry.
The following-named enlisted men have
been ordered discharged without honor
from the National Guard on account of
being continuously absent from their
command for three months: Private
James G. Dyer, Company D, LIST Infantry;
Private William A. Beiligk. Company D.
LIST Infantry: Private James H. d. Ket-
ner. Jr., company D, list Infantry, and
Private Frank Scagnelli, Company D.
LIST Infantry.
Activities at headquarters of the Ma
tional Guard of the District of Columbia
during the week were confined principal
ly to the consideration of several camp
sites offered for the 1914 encampment. A
board of officers was kept busy by Brig.
Gen. George H. Harries. commanding the
District of Columbia militia, visiting
places around Washington in the hope
of obtaining site which would be suit
able for an encampmeilt and at the same
time a place to which the guard could
get satisfactory transportation rates for
| both men and baggage.
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| Monday and remained until the latter
part of the week. He held a number
| of conferences with members of his
staff and officials of various trans
portation companies. both rail and water.
Early in the week a board of officers
! went to look over several camp sites
in the vicinity Of Annapolis.
| The principal matter with which the
guard officers had to deal in the selection
of camp site was the cost of transporta-
| ton. The local guard gets its allotment
| from the War Department, and If it uses
| 1t up in expensive transportation it has
| to suffer in other ways the remainder of
the year. The decision of the officers was
| that it would not be good military policy
to spend the money merely for ten-day
camp and then go without clothing and
| other necessaries the remainder of the
| year.
While the officers were delighted with
| the site offered at Virginia Beach never
| theess they could not see the way clear
| Tor paving the rates charged for the
! transportation. This was the stumbling
block IN the whole proceedings in con-
nection with the selection of a camp site
High tribute to the officers and mem
| bers of company h, I'd Infantry. was
paid last Wednesday night by Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Mills. chief of the division Of
militia affairs Of the War Department
who visited the command. The COM
pany was lined up in NICE clean khaki
uniforms and put up q snappy drill. Gen.
Mills complimented the command upon
its appearance in general and also on
Inadequate armory inconvenienced the
large attendance to a certain extent. but
Gen. Mills told them that the company
should be proud of its reputation and Of
| what II has accomplished in overcoming
such an obstacle as an improper armory.
At it's fourth outing near the Chain
bridge last Saturday night and Sum-
| day. Company K, and a number of nom
CONS of the LIST Regiment. heard very
interesting and instructive talk on rifle
shooting by Lieut.. Whelan. U. s. A.
This officer is an expert in this line.
and it is declared by members Of Com
pany X that his suggestions relative
to holding. sighting and firing rifle and
the rifieman's various positions are GER
tsin to bring up the scores of those
who follow them.
| Lieut.. Whelan will drill Company X
in extended order the evening of July
Is in order to perfect the organization
| in this branch of drill
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Capt. Lucien B. Ernest will hold an
| inspection of company K next Wednes-
day evening to make certain that every
man is properly equipped for camp.
|
| Corp. ". H. b. Lietch of Company
II has been transferred to Company
K, and Private Robert Watts of Come
pany X to Company II.
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Plans are rapidly being completed for
the trip of Company X to Colonial
Beach for camp July IS.
Next Tuesday evening there will be a