The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-06
CONNECTICUT SOLDIERS SPEED THROUGH KANSAS HEAT, TOWARD
 MORALES ON MEXICAN BORDER

moving camp.
 Volunteer decorators have chalked monograms and pictures and legends on the side panels of the troop cars.
 ''Who put the Man in Manchester % a soldier of G Company wrote in white chalk. A moment later he answered his question by writing: D e."
 The boys are ready to be communi- cative to the world at large. They proclaim in letters of white on the car sides the identity of their com panies. One company wishes its me- run to include Villa. It is desirous of eating Villa alive.
 In rear of the ninth troop car you find Pullman tourist sleeper with a state room and twenty-four berths in the open, a total of twenty-six berths. Major Purcell and the commis- stoned officers sleep in it. Soren P. Scott, known by all the Connecticut National Guard as a battalion ser geant-major never surpassed in this or any other world also hunks in it.
 That car is a hive of industry. From it Maj jor Purcell rules a, barony of 300 encased in wood and steel for sew enteen car lengths. Engine added, his barony> reaches nearly a quarter mile. From the Pullman table in his state room invisible figurative wires reach to the engine and to every car.
 The captains, cool and capable, sure of themselves and their men, are at work in the sleeper when not in a company car. Their two lieutenants, right and left bowers, work in like manner. The first lieutenant has more to do with drill of the men and instruc- ton. The second supervises the work of the quartermaster and mess ser- geants. When they might otherwise be idle they study Infantry Drill Reg ulation, Guide Duty, Field Service and Small Arms Firing Manual. Sew eral of them are plugging away at Spanish. There is any amount of hard work in that car.
 The train stops five or six times a day for four minutes. One officer or another immediately steps to a tick ct office and obtains time tables and railroad maps and newspapers. One officer in 8 company keeps record for company archives or history.
 I have been on this train for four days and in that period no officer has played poker or any; game of cards; not that such is reprehensible, but I merely mention the fact, I have not seen an officer take a drink. not that such is reprehensible. I have seen them turn in at ten and rise at 5:30 or before.
 The old days of feathers and fuss, of tin officers and human tanks and pink teas, of poker carnivals and of tent floor "cellars' went out ten or twelve years ago. The officers of the Guard in Connecticut are now studious and industrious. They are educated in military and love their work. They have advanced by hard study and hard work, as well as ability.
 Both Connecticut and the country may we'll be proud of them. In the train work they have the skilled aid of c. A. Moore, travelling passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway system. MT. Moore will travel with the battalion to Fl Paso, where the train will take the Southern Pacific rail to Benson, Ari- zona. Then the train will take a San ta Fe line to Nogales. What may be- tide the battalion there or along the border or in Mexico it is yet too ear ly even to conjecture.