Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-11
i IEUTENANTS PLACED
An HEAD on BATTERIES
IN INSTRUCTION CAMP
Junior Officers Given Oppor-
tunity to Command Men in
Active Maneuvers at
Tobyhanna
BArrERY c,s REooRD
phoenixville Men Have Made Best
Showing in Work and Health Of
Any Of State Companies


ToBYHANNA, Pa, Aug ii.-This ls
senior lieutenant Day with the Militia
bdstefios at the Artillery School Of In
sffuction. and these officers assumed COM
mand OF Aeir respective batteries at
rcveilie. First Lieutenant r s. swier Of
Battery c. Inspected tho men. horses and
equipment early. and was drilling out on
sherman Field BY s o'clock
second Lieutenant John O. Failor. Of
Battery c. Is serving the whole Militia
Battalion ne officer Of the day. Captain
charles II. Cox in company with the
other Battery captains, who were de-
throned today in favor of their First
Lleutenants. was aulzzed by the Engineer
Corps officers OF the army on ways and
means OF constructing telephone and tele-
graph lines
with the signal squad Of Battery
CAPTAIN Cox established telephone COM
rninIcatlon between headquarters and
Battery + hill, a distance OF four miles
In aomething less than two hours Survey
work done by the captains was the Sc
1ecting of positions for the conduct OF
FIRE. which maneuver Will be participated
IN by the whole battalion, probably Fri
LOCATING THE ENEMY.
Precision and accuracy are the two
words that are drilled into the com
unlasloned officers OF the National Guard
by the regular army Instructors a
position for defense was chosen on
grassy hilltop. approximately two miles
from the camp. With field glasses the
battery officers made diligent search
for brown and gray speeks, barely
a. -. an
are canvas targets and represent the
batteries OF the enemy in position for
fring, and are moved from place to place
BY the enlisted men.
By the aid OF telephone connection
between the officers at headquarters ana
the men In charge OF the targets, smoke
bombs are set off. When the officer To-
Gates one Of the targets, message is
dashed across tho valley to the target
carrier, who sets off the bomb, and the
cloud OF smoke arising therefrom de-
notes the accuracy OF the officers vision
IN the attempt to locate an assumed po-
siton In this exercise the officers OF
Battery show marked proficiency.
Not one member of Battery has an
swered sick call which sounds Mt 1880
o'clock each morning. This is a record
which no other battery has touched. The
Phoenlxville men appear to be immune
from any OF the petty ailments ordinarily
attendant upon camp llIct ana none mas
as yet suffered from the cold weather
which came into camp Monday night
Battery D. from Williamsport, lost two
of It's members yesterday, one by reason
OF Illness and one by urgent business
Private Lam3on became III OF qunsy
and was sent home by Captain Reilly.
Corporal Ryan was summoned 10 appear
Ia the Lycoming County Court as a Wit
nhEs In a criminal case In which he, as
ono OF the county detectives, was the ar
resiing officer. y
STILL NO BLoUsEs
Captain Thomas H. Cole. OF Battery A.
r. still In distress over the assortment
Of horses at his command and the ap-
pearance Of his men In mixed uniforms.
The other militia officers are none too
sympathetic. and declare Captain Coles
predicament 10 be "Rll in a years en-
campment." However the South Beth
lehem captain continues his denuncia-
tion Of the State guard officials whom
he blames for the unkempt appearance
OF his troops And to think" he said,
t'The Bethlehem Steel Company offered
TO buy the shirts at cash"
The Bethlehem battery Is maintained
at tho expense OF the Bethlehem Steel
Works, and each batteryman is paid for
attendance at drill But there was a
alip-up In the orders somewhere between
the State Capitol and South Bethlehem.
and half OF the Battery A men are with
out the regulation houses