Evening star., 1915-06-27

| little trouble in getting enough men tG
! make them. Three times the number
+ of men allowed to make each cruise
could be obtained, the division officers
say.
! Commander Joseph A. Dempf, COM
| manding the battalion, together with
| Ensign Harold Crawford, acting navi-
+, gator, and Lieut.. F. l.. Nudge, en-
| GERS who started on yesterdays cruise
We're Lieut.. Frank w. Sigourney, ex-
ecutive officer and commanding Off
Ger of the Sd Division: Lieut.. Paul V.
! Thompson, 1st Division, and Ensign
Charles S. OConnor, Sd Division.
Lieuts (junior grade) Frederick L.
Nudge, Paul V. Thompson and William
| r. Hoefer have been commissioned
| Practically all of the details for the
embarkation of the local naval militia
a board the L. S. S. Kearsarge next Sat
urday morning have been completed.
Every man in the battalion Is ready
with his full equipment of clothing
and hammock. What few details re-
main will be completed next Friday
morning, when the battalion Is ordered
to report at the armory to remain for
| the day.
Lieut.. John Lane Johns, paymaster
! of the Naval Battalion, was busy last
Thursday night issuing clothing to men
|
ment of these men was delayed by the
! late arrival of the clothing.
The preparations for the movement of
| the sailors from Washington to Old
| Point Comfort aboard the Norfolk and
Washington stea mer has been completed
by Paymaster Johns. who is also busy
| making out pay rolls for the men,
| Nex- Friday morning Lieut.. Johns will
i make inspection of the clothing
equipment of the men. it is announced.
i yurt,.
! articles with which they are charged
will have the amounts deducted from
| their pay rolls.
| Friday Will be a busy day at the bat
TALON dock. When the men report in
the morning. according to present plans,
they will be allowed to attend to any
little details which remain to be done.
and following tae inspection they will
be put through some drills. In the aft
ernoon they will take their hammocks
and bags to the steamboat. where they
will be slowed in the staterooms Late
in the afternoon the entire battalion
will be marched to the steamboat, where
the men will be served with supper
They will not thereafter be allowed to
leave the steamer while she remains at
the dock
The battalion will arrive at Old Point
Comfort about o'clock the morning of
July 3. They will there merely have
to march from one side of the dock
| to the other. where the small boats of
| the Kearsarge will be awaiting They
will go immedia tely to the ship. where
breakfast will be served and the men
assigned to their stations Following
| the arrival of the North Carolina naval
militia aboard a tug from the Norfolk
navy yard, the Kearsarge will start her
voyage out through the Chesapeake
capes and up the coast to GARDENERS
bay, at the eastern end of Long Island,
thence to Newport, r. l., and New York
/ city. The battalion will return to
| The following orders for the local naval
militia to proceed on its annual cruise
were issued at brigade headquarters of
| the National Guard in The Star build
ing during the week:
.In compliance with instructions from
the Navy Department contained in COM
munications Of April "a, June and June
10, 1915, the annual cruise of the Naval
Battalion, N. G. D. c., will be made on
the L. S. s. kearsarge from July to
July Is, 1915, both dates. inclusive
The Naval battalion will proceed from
Washington, D. c.. to Norfolk, Va, July
2, 1915, and be reported to the com
manding officer U. s. S. Kearsarge the
morning of July 8. 1915 On completion
of the cruise the Naval Battalion will re-
turn from Norfolk. Va, to Washington.
D. c.
''1'he Naval Battalion will assemble at
its armory at o'clock am July 2, 1915.
THE necessary pay rolls will be pre-
pared by the paymaster Naval Battalion
Two enlisted cooks. one assistant cock
and four mess attendants will be paid the
difference between their pay as enlisted
men and So for cooks, and s150 for as
sstant cook and mess attendant, Der day
each.
Commissioned officers will settle their
own mess bills.
Chief petty officers assigned to chief
petty officers mess will settle their mess
bill in excess of the allowance Of 80 cents
per day.
.'Enlistedo men will be rationed by the
pay officer of the u. s. s. kearsarge at
navy rates. and the Quartermaster Corps,
n e. d. c., will settle bills presented on
account of rationing such men from funds
appropriated for that purpose.
1.-THE Quartermaster Corps, N G. D. c.,
will furnish the necessary transportation
and subsistence from Washington, D. c.,
to Norfolk, Va, and return, including
berthing accommodations and transporta-
ton of baggage.
Government employees will be fur
nished certificates of service from July
2 to July II, 1915, both dates inclusive"
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