Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-01
ARRANGEMENTS
FOR joint CAMP
OF INSTRUCTION
Every Officer and Army
Headquarters Satisfied
With Preparations
Monday the Ten Days of Siren
uous Duty Begins at the Au-
gusta Muster Field-Officers
the Pick of Department of the
East-List a Splendid One

All arrangements are completed and
| everything is in readiness to start
operations the minute the troops of
the I'd Infantry, n. 6. S. NJ, arrive
on Monday. August 3, for a tour of
duty at the Joint Camp of Instruction,
for period of 10 days in this city
and vicinity.
Every officer and individual con-
nected with the work of preparing
4 this great camp of instruction has
iabored diligently and with excep
tionally good results, and army head
quarters are thoroughly satisfied with
conditions and ARRANGEMENTS to date.
This city has never had the pleas
ure of having so many regular army
officers in it's midst at any one time
before, as will assemble at this camp
of instruction. The officers are the
pick of the Department of the East
and are assigned to duty here because
of their high rank of intelligence and
as capable instructors. The list it
self will reveal this
Col Charles G. Morton, 5th Inf,
| Plattsburg Barracks. \. Y, viii be
Camp Commander His eoterie of
efficient subordinates will be: Capt.
Thomas A. Roberts, Adj, Fort Ethan
Allen, Camp Adiutant; Maj. Watson
P. Chamberlain. Medical Corps,
Plattsburg Barracks, n. Y. Sanitary
Officer.
Assigned to battalions as instruc-
tors are: LIST Lieut. Chas Hunt Gun
assigned) LIST Battalion; LIST Lieut..
Gordon R. Cats, West Point, I'd Bat
talon; I'd Lieut., Thompson Lawrence,
Plattsburg, n. Y, Sd Battalion.
Another officer well and faborably
known to the officers and men of the
Guard is Capt Particle, who will be
present with his officers LIST Lieut..
Rutherford and I'd Lieut.. Bartholf, to-
gether with Co. B, 5th Inf. Platts-
burg, \. Y. This crack company has
just finished maneuver work in
Massachusetts and Vermont. complet-
ing $50 mile hike to Fort Ethan
Allen. VT.
This company after completing it's
tour of instruction a this camp will
return to the barracks at Plattsburg,
\. Y, after taking UP another $50
mile hike and proceeding the re-
mainder of the way by rail.
Another novel feature of the camp
will be the Field Bakery, one unit of
the I. s. Army Bakery a menu
! This bakery will make and bake 1000
/ loaves of fresh bread daily on the
grounds. This bread is relished by
the men who have eaten it at other
| maneuver camps The flour used in
this bread is of the best obtainable
and must pass a rigid test before it
is accepted by the Government. This
bread is scientifically made and baked.
everything weighed by set standards
and baked accordingly.
Another innovation will be instruc-
ton in Craftsmanship and fiding.
Capt. Roberts being a cavalry officer
and an expert in Craftsmanship will
conduct the instructions for the
mounted officers.
Lieut.. Edwin Butcher. Inspector in
strueter for the regiment will have
/ general supervision of the instruc-
tons, compiling the instructions and
experimenting the execution of same
The point determined upon for
bivouac, on the practice march, Au-
gust 6, I and s. will be a field on the
Horace Sturgis farm, about miles
out on the Vassalboro road.
A considerable amount of the sue
cess attached to completed arrange
ments for the reception of troops is
due Capt. Walter Singles, Coast Artil-
lery Instructor at West Point who is
assigned as Camp Quartermaster.
Capt. Singles is a genial and efficient
officer who has firm grasp of the
knowledge of his work in hand. He
Will also supervise the issuing of
/ oi
Dougall of Fort Mckinley. who also
has had considerable experience in
this department, having acted in this
capacity in the Philippines and Cuba,
as well as at the Fort.
That this camp will be a strenuous
one is evineed by the general orders
whlch call for service uniforms, with
extra stockings, shoes and under
eiotnes, and the minimum weight al
ioWed IN baggage. The men may
Well make up their minds for a taste
oI regular army discipline and any
ENLISTED man that can't see the idea
OF dlsclpline while in his home armory
VIII be shockingIy impressed and
thoroughly imbued with the idea
Wnen ne returns. This happily APP
pies to only very small percentage
OF the enlisted men of Names only
regiment of infantry
one of the greatest things that
stimulates interest and creates an
| esprit de corps at these camps of in
struction, is the day set aside for
| athieties. The schedule as prepared
| by Capt D. l. Gould. Co. G, Athletic
olncer, Is an exceptionally good one
! containing II events that would do
| creoit to any college meet. The list
| includes: 100 yard dash trials, shell
yer tent pitching contest, rescue race
| loo-yard dash emi-f1nal, fat mems
race equipment race, hat and shoe
| race, 100-yard dash final tug Of war
| Cor Battalions) three-legged race,
2zo-yard dash, tug of-war champion
snip, 22O-yard dash semi-final, sack
race and many other interesting fea-
| lures.
Adj General Albert Greenlaw is
thoroughly well pleased with the de-
Velopments to date and enthusiastic
Tor the work to begin and hopes that
MS soldiers will maintain the earned