Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-10
WEAK HORSES GIVEN
STATE ARTMLERYMEN
AT INSTRUCTION CAMP
Officers Severely Criticise
Adjutant General T. J..
Stewart for Poor Equip
ment Furnished Guards
men at Tobyhanna.

TOBYHANNA, Pa, Aug. 10.-Horses
that are unfit to do the liehtest hauling
have been given Battery A, N. q. p, to
drag the cannon in the maneuvers which
are being held at Sherman Field. This
charge has been brought against Adju-
tant- t-General Thomas j. Stewart by Of
fcers and enlisted men Of the battery
some Of these horses are hardly able
10 stand much less pull cannon said
CAPTAIN Thomas II. Cole, al stable call
this morning. "Thc adiutant-general has
sent us the scrub Of the state"
This is not the only complaint which
has been registered against preparations
made for real work at tho artillery school
of instruction. other officers and the en-
listed men, as well, are complaining
against the absence of the regulation
blouses Battery A men are appearing
in mixed uniforms, hoping the while that
a complement of blouses will arrive before
camp breaks.
The inferior quality of the horses and
the lack of uniform equipment are only
two reasons why Battery a, which comes
from South Bethlehem, did not make as
good an impression as did Battery c, of
PhoeniXville, this morning. The Phoenix
willie men have been in camp week.
while Battery y arrived only yesterday.
The thermometer was down to 80 de-
grees wnen the maneuvers opened this
morning. Batteries \ and c were put
through the PAGES of extended order drill
under Major Alanus McCloskey, U. S. a.,
while Battery b, of Pittsburgh, and Bat
tory y, of Willamsport, spent the morn
i,,,r IL, ,Ig ,J "a
noon. the order was reversed. Signal
practice was added
The formation Of an efficient artillery
corps as an integral part of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania is the purpose Of
the Tobyhanna instruction camp accord
ing to Brigadier General Christopher 7.
O'Nef, of Allentown, commanding the
4th Brigade, who, with Colonel Howard
Trexel, visited the Tobyhanna camp yes
terday afternoon. The officers stopped
for two hours and then proceeded to In
diana by motor to attend the infantry
encampment there.
The battery officers, heretofore, who
were fortunate enough, might spend a
week or ten days at a post, and absorb
in that time a few details of artillery
maneuvers. Then it befell them to re-
member the maze Of commands and inn
part them to the enlisted men.
But this year all is different. A new
scheme is in vogue. 1t has been intro
duced by the War Department, and is
already disclosing a reformation in the
instruction of the arts and crafts of ar
tillery warfare
The new system is known as pairing"
Whenever militia battery comes into
camp the commanding officer directs one
of the United States field artillery bat
teries to pair its equipment with the cit
izen soldiery Each guardsman becomes
the bailee of a regulars horse, harness
and ammunition, which he keeps until
camp breaks. The guardsman /. con
stantly associated with the regu!L. and
step by step he apprehends the mrcnan-
ism OF cannon fighting. The system thus |
followed has proven far superior to any
previous methods.