Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-21

| reception tonight and tomorrow of the
large number of friends and relatives,
including mothers, wives. sWeetnearts'
sisters and brothers, who are expect
| ed to arrive on the steamer St Johns at
1880 tonight and 2:30 tomorrow after
noon. Big meals are being arranged by
the company cooks, and the men Will
| entertain many of the people in camp.
| Chicken dinner will be the order gen.
orally throughout the camp, and hun
dreds of squawking fowls were brought
| into the camp grounds during the DAY.
ready for the big slaughter which Will
| occur tonight. :.
|. The boys are taking great pride in
their tented homes now, for they want
to show the home folks what KIND Oh
housekeepers they are: ,
| Next week they will do little IN
dividuaI kitchen work in the. field,
when each man, it is proposed, VIII
| cook his own meal. II one ever se,s
| the feeling that he would IKE TO De
the Just like mother used to make
kind, it will be then. for over open
fires with the smoke blowing in about
every direction of the compass, cnans-
| ing its course every minute, ana seI
| ting into the eyes, and into the food,
there probably will be little appetite
| for the food, but it will give good
boost for mother and her home COOK
i ing.
Brigade Review Tonight.
The big brigade parade and review.
! one of the most impressive sights of
military encampment, will be held this
evening at 6 o'clock. 1t is the first OF
about three such parades which Will
be held during the encampment. one
to be given tomorrow afternoon IN
honor of Mai Gen. George H. Harrles'
D. c. militia, retired. Al plans 1o or
the reception of Gen. Harrles nave
been made and he is expected 70 ar
rive in the camp about o ciock w.
morrow morning,
Col. Richard d. Simms, n. u. u. =.
retired, former commanding oficer OF
the former 2dt Regiment of infantry, Is
expected to arrive in the camp tonlsh''
He will be the guest of Gen: Harvey.
First Lieut.. Charles D. Snifhn mas
been designated as post exchange ON
Lieut.. Col. Anton Stephan has been
apnointed summary court officer. and
there are a dozen or so cases awaiting
his attention. The men are IN tne
euardhouse for various minor lnfrac-
tons of military discipline.
Army officers Inspect Camp.
There was a grand series of intel
lectual events in camp yesterday, which
resulted in giving the men rest from
the usual afternoon drill. Capt. Horace
and non commissioned officers into the
cial relation to infantry attacks and
defenses. from the viewpoint of the
regular army.
Three officers from the general staff
corps of the War Department visited
the camp yesterday to make an inspec-
ton. They were Maj. Andrew Moses.
Coast Artillery Corps; Capt. William
Mitchell, Signal Corps. and Capt.
Moore.
Capt. Mitchell gave the officers and
non commissioned officers an illus
trated lecture on the way they are do
ing things on the battlefield
The pay Office, under Capt. Louis c.
Wilson. is one of the busy places about
the camp these days A great many
pay rolls are being made up by the
company clerks for the payment of the
500 or so officers and men attending
this encampment.
While the pay Office does not make
up these rolls it has the very important
duty of going over them in detail to
complied with. The troops. however,
will not be paid until the Tuesday
evening following their return to the
city. w. J. W.
Breaking In New Horses.
Followers Of the equestrian art could
have found many pointer for their
notebooks had they been on the field
Thursday while the officers and men
were going through the somewhat awk
ward process of breaking in new horses
and mules to what were new duties to
both horses and men. The horses and
mules, all gathered from the farms
hereabouts, many of them never having
run across a military uniform in the
road before. to say nothing OF getting
which is loaded on them. or a chance to
listen to the rattle of musketry, the
fare of trumpets and the booming OF
drums and guns, furnished the thrills.
All the mounted officers in the camp
were assembled today into a small
sized cavalry troop. They went gallop
ing from the camp grounds, stirring up
some of the dust for which this corpor-
alton is famous. to say nothing of the
not had a chance to dry up after the
heavy rains of several days ago. The
officers were under the command OF
Lieut.. Homer NJ: Grolinger. 9Th Caval-
ry, stetioned at Fort Myer. Va. Lieut..
Gronin2er Is in the camp as instructor
for the new machine gun company.
Coming from the mounted service.
where one ia taught to be as much at
he showed the District officers some
stunts that fairly opened their eyes.
Not that the District men were not
game enough to try them, but 1t was
question OF SettlHS the HoIses u go
through them.
Over Fences and Hedges.
After a little baking and some rear
ing in the air, the District officers
showed the horses that they could be
tanned, by the aid of a few pairs OF
sharp spurs used to good effect for
urging purposes. Then the big ride
was on. Out over threefoot fences.
over hedges, mud puddles, rivulets-in
fact, everything about the country~to
Jump over was tried by the scholars in
this school of equitation. But almost
every one Of them is willing to admit
that it Is not as easy job to train
horse as it is to train some of the
rockies who are in camp for the first
time.
Gen. Iarvey fully appreciates the diff
fculty of training these horses into
the rigors of military drill If his
command should perchance be called
into active service within the next
year ne is going to have the very
horses and mules which now are
trained or near-trained into hardships
that go with such exercises in the
fields.
To the near war correspondents yes
terday he unfolded some of the war
plans which he has In mind for getting
the National Guard quickly into the
field with an efficient outfit of horses
and men, particularly the horses-for
the men are more easily handled
ness make their services necessary.
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