Evening star., 1916-08-09

ing for the hospital men. had to report
back to camp and Signal Corps man
took his place. The score at that time
was to in favor Of the hospital
team. The Signal Corps men took a
bracer. and when the game ended they
had eight runs to their credit. But the
Field Hospital men also had chalked up
eight runs and another game will be
necessary to reach final decision.
The temperature this afternoon was
flirting around the 80 mark. Had it not
been for slight breeze conditions
would have been quite Objectionable.
About o'clock thunderstorm broke
over the camps here in Warren. An
hour later the temperature had dropped
so that the militiamen donned heavy
sweaters to keep warm.
At the Field Hospital camp the drop
one of the men. Soon a scrub" game
was in progress in the company street.
A tin pepper box that was supposed to
be empty was the ball" In one of
came off and c. B. Dugan, star half
back of the Crushed Violets." received
a generous quantity of it in his eyes.
1t was necessary to bathe his eyes with
milk to relieve the pain.
Doc" Amoroso of the Field Hosrital
has been granted permission by Mai.
Bowker to obtain the use of shotgun
and try his luck with the rabbits and
quail that abound in this locality. Doc
says that if he is given plenty of time
and ammunition he will be able to keep
the Field Hospital mess supplied with
game. In addition to being a good
shot with rifle and shotgun, Amoroso
is crack" with a sling shot.
Next week the Field Hospital men
are to start on litter drills. Thereafter
practice with the litters will be in
having ambulances at hand. the men
will use the outfits escort wagons for
ambulance drill practice.
officers of the Field Hospital say that
several days ago Capt. Hudson received
by mail a package containing a nail
buffer and a quantity of nail rouge
and polishing powder. Capt. Hudson
says these articles were sent to him by
mistake, but nevertheless he keeps them
ing box. 1t is rumored that he uses
them every day.
Signal Corps men are beginning to
think that the Field Hospital used
Tommy Holden's head on which to
practice bandaging. Several days ago
Holden fell off a horse and received
cut on his head. He was taken to the
tleu Hospital for treatment. When
the doctors finished with Tommy his
head was almost completely covered
with bandages.
Holden remained at the hospital for
several days and each morning a diff
ferent kind of bandage adorned his
head. Each morning the bandaging
grew less until finally nothing but a
piece of adhesive plaster remained. The
Signal Corps men had expected to see
a horrible cash on Tommys head and
that their campmate had escaped with
put slight injury. Tommy is on
deck again just as bright as ever.
Cute little ground squirrels that have
long whiskers and big ears have been
added to the collections of pets in the
Field Hospital and Signal Corps camps.
Private Dyer of the Signal Corps cap
tured one little fellow the other day
in novel manner. While washing
out some clothes Dyer saw the little
animal cut down hole in the ground
nearby. He poured a bucket of water
in the hole and up came mister squirrel
Dyer made grab for him. The water
receded so fast that he missed him.
He then tried second bucket of water,
but had the same experience.
Dyer called a campmate and three
bucketfuls Of water were poured down
the hole in rapid succession. This
time he was able to capture the squir-
rel. which he later turned over to
Supply Sergt. Crandall.
officers Of the Field Hospital have
been attending a number of operations
in the hospitals at Eisbee. Each of
the big mining companies has hos
pital there. Several difficult opera
tions were witnessed by the doctors
of the Field Hospital outfit The other
day Capt Began of the Field Hospital
was the anesthetist at an operation
at one of the hospitals. 1t was a
delicate abdominal operation and re-
quired the services Of an expert in
the administering of anesthetics Dr.
Began made speciality of this branch
of surgery in his practice in Wash
ington.
P. w. Vestal, surgical assistant Of the
Field Hospital. has dissected the body
of rabbit SO that 1t may be used
for demonstration purposes when lee
lures on anatomy are given members
of that command. By utilizing the
body of the rabbit the Field Hospital
mep are given a better understand
ingS as to the location and nature of
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