The Washington herald., 1916-07-09
CLOTHING TODAY
FOR GUARDSMEN
Much-Needed Shoes and Uni
forms at Last to Be Dis
tributed at Camp.

Shoes and clothing. badly needed by the
men OF the Third Infantry of the DIS
trich Organized Militia, will be issued
this morning at Camp ordway,
every man In the regiment has been
looking forward to getting new and
serviceable clothes almost as much as
TO leaving for Mexico. The clothing OF
the men, especially the Shoes has been
mixture Of civilian clothes and worn uni
fornns' and many Of the men have worked
ABOUT the camp wearing shoes without
whole soles
This issue OF clothes. beginning on Sun
dhy' when work is usually suspended. Is
taken by the men at the camp to mean
That the Third Infantry viii start for
the border when reasonably ready" as
original orders provide. The departure
or the troops is now set for the middle
OF next week, but the regiment must be
nlied to minimum strength before the
start can be made. The clothing issue
has helped to dispel a feeling that the
troops may not move.
Clothes Are Transported.
The supply company was at work yes
terday afternoon transporting the
clothes from the battery sheds at Fort
Myer to the regimental supply tents,
from which II will be issued today.
about $4,000 worth of goods will be issued.
Ihere are LOO pairs of army shoes,
thousand pairs of breeches, a thousand
shirts, 1000 suits Of underclothes, and
sweaters. hats, hat cords, belts and leg
gings for every man in the regiment. The
clothes that the men now are wearing
Will not be charged up to them. Capt.
VIII II. Chase and Lieut.. ]. Ralph Fehr
are officers in charge OF the issue.
The men will get the new clothes in
time TO dress up for visitors that will
travel to the camp. The camp will be
open all day, and there will be little
work for the Guardsmen to do. Sunday
Is always big day at Camp ordway.
The camp will present a changed face
to visitors today. Every soldier In camp
and about forty regulars from Fort Myer
were busy yesterday clearing every bush
from around the camp, and filing all
dltches and stagnant water holes. Every
kind of cutting instrument from bolo
knives and bayonets to the regulation
axes were used to slaughter the under
brush. At o'clock every twig or bug
harooring vegetation was removed. At
times the smoke of the brush fires hung
thickly over the camp and nearly OBJ
scured 1t. Because of this work, drill
was suspended.
hot fight was waged by one SQUAD
when 1t disturbed the home of a colony
Of bumblebees. The toll of American
wounded was one infantryman stung
Figures showing the loss of men in
the Third Infantry due to physical de-
fects have not been compiled yet. al
though 1t is probable they will be an
nounced late tomorrow for a part Of the
troops.
Battery B finished its Federal medical
examination yesterday, and part of Bat
terry A was examined. Unoficial figures
show that ll3 men OF Battery B passed
successfully out of 143, and that all five
officers passed. Only three out of the
thirty-five men OF Battery A. which were
examined, "fiunked' The examinations
will be resumed tomorrow and Troop A
probably will be reached
Clothing was issued to the cavaIrymen.
who were in camp yesterday, and many
Of the men sported the new cotton olive
drab uniforms to the dance at the post
last night