Evening star., 1916-06-28
NATIONAL GUARD CAMP NOTES

Recruits came in fast for the head
quarters company yesterday. More than
thirty filed their applications at the
regimental headquarters. The COM
pany reached minimum war strength
before o'clock last night and recruits
arc still coming. This recently was
one OF the smallest companies in the
| entire regiment, but 1t seems to be the
most popular one for enlistments.
Commissioner Oliver p Newman made
an inspection of the camp yesterday
being welcomed and escorted about by
Brig. Gen. William E. Harvey. The
| Commissioner said he was proud OF
the type of men he saw In the National
| Guard, representative of the citizenship
Of the District. He remarked upon the
seriousness observable in the camp, en-
| tirely different from most mintia en-
| campments. Commissioner Newman
| met prominent men from various sec
| tions of the District with whom he Is
| personally acquainted and compu-
mented them upon the spirit of patriot
| ism with which they are answering tho
call of their country.
Rockies were engaged in getting
supply tent all day. For more than
six hours the clerks were busy giving
out uniforms, blankets. ponchos ana
other property. and for more than 1ouT
hours they were engaged in checking
up carloads of property received IroIn
| the general storehouse OF the Natlohai
| Guard In Washington.
First sergt. Henry F. OMalley OF
Company has served twelve years IN
the National Guard. He is the Eood
friend of all the rockies. steering
| to
tire company and is himself enthusi-
astic for the service. Even II the men
| from the navy yard are called PACK the
sergeant says he will go Win ,ne resi-
| nation, His spirit is contagious, ano
many Of the navy yard men Will follow
! his lead.
There were three band concerts IN the
camp yesterday. The first was at :oo
pm. in the Y NJ c. A. tent. the next az
s 80 in front Of Col: Glendie Young s
Y. NJ c. A. tent at o'clock. The last
two were listened to by hundreds OF
guests. At the final concert there were
more than 800 persons in the !. M. =. a
tent and several hundred outside
Louis Mike" Walsh is tho champion
trench digger of Company g.
Companies D, l., NJ and the machine
gun unit received their muster rolls last
evening and the officers were busy last
night filling them out. The camp guests
tant clerical work. This indicates that
these will be the first companies to be
mustered in from the Sd Infantry.
Col. and Mrs. c. Fred Cook were guests
at the camp yesterday afternoon. In COM
pany with Col. r. d. Simms. the chief re-
cruiting officer. Col. Cook is retired He
was adjutant Of the guard. Col. Simms
Id all
with which he is carrying out his assign
ment to recruit the District guard to war
strength.
Resimental Color Sergeant c. W.
Moore has two sons in A Company. The
sergeant has been recalled to the camp
from detail to the District armory. He
shipped out to the camp 81 wagons,
wagonloads of ammunition and truck
loads of equipment.
All members of Company G had leave
last night because they were on guard
duty all the day and night before. At
guard mount Company G made a fine
showing and was complimented for the
way in which the rockies have been
whipped into shape by the ex-regulars
who are enrolled.
The Y. NJ. c. A. tent is letter-writing
worth of postage used each day in this
tent and more than $500 sheets of writ
ing paper have been utilized.
A. L. Smith, the Y. NJ. c. A. secretary,
is going to the border with the ma
tional guardsmen
Mutt the tallest man in Company G,
is grieving over the fact that "Jeff' Is
in the guardhouse. They are both
planning for interesting times when
they cross the border. Mutt" was very
| strict in his injunction that his diminu-
f.:-
The new pay station booth telephone
in the Y. NJ. c. A. tent is such popular
place that in twenty-four hours the
telephone slot became clogged up six
times with nickels.
Walter C. Rathbone of Company L
was host at the first banquet in camp
last night. AS he Is. detailed as a bri-
sade headquarters clerk. his spread was
honored by the presence of several bri-
gade officers.
Gen. Villa" the little mongreI cur.
has been transferred from G Company
to H Company as mascot Gen. villa"
| couldn't get along at all pleasantly with
Gen. Carranza," so he was given his
| passports and safe escort.
| A delegation of T. NJ c. A. officials
{, inspected the Y. NJ. c. A tent and tho
camp in general yesterday. In the
delegation were two who know mail,
of the young men in camp--W. II. Nor
| rfs of the international committee and
Secretary Angel of Baltimore. They
were getting pointers for similar work
| in the Maryland camp in Laurel
First Lieut.. c. Earl Smithson of the
! Sd Infantry voices the sentiment of the
navy yard men IN camp. The announce
ment made in last nights papers that
these men had been called back to work
caused much comment. Lieut.. Smithson
said: There isn't any chance. I'm here
and L am going right through with the
outfit. l don't believe any of the men
| viii withdraw from the regiment to go
back to work" This opinion was ex-
pressed generally among the men.
Capt Edwin D. Fullam, adjutant of the
"a infantry Regiment. was in District
court today answering a habeas corpus
summons in the first case. to test the
right OF the War Department to enlist
into the service boys under twenty-one
years OF age without the consent of their
parents Capt. Fullam was served with
habeas corpus warrant the day the
regiment left for camp, calling for the
delivery Of John B. Brockman Brock
man is nineteen years old. He wants to
go with the regiment. but his family is
strenuously opposed. The case is before
Justice Ashley M. Gould.
William L. Tidings. second lieutenant