Evening star., 1916-08-18
NOTES OF THE CAMP.

Private Pat Burns Of the Signal
Corps has opened a shoe-shining par1or
| and is doing a rushing business. It
consists Of a soap box for a chair and
| a cigar box for his equipment Capt
Terry was his first customer. and
Burns assessed the &C. O." for his
shine.
Private Cox OF the Signal Corps has
asked permission to open a barber shop
under spare tent fly, and there is no
It The Signal Corps company will then
nave a shoe repairer, a barber. a shoe
Shine" and a laundry within it's ranks
sergt Surles Of the Field Hospital re-
| ceived a painful injury to his right
arm yesterday afternoon when a horse
he had just mounted tripped and fell.
Surles' leg was pinned under the an
its efforts to get on its feet again the
horse brought one of its forefeet on
Surles arm and the sharp heel of the
shoe made a deep laceratlon, the flesh
treated the injury in the hospital, sew
eral stitches being necessary to close
the wound.
VINO was confined to the hospital at
Fort Myer when the first units of the
District National Guard started for the
noroer, accompanied Battery B from
washington wa and this morning Joined
his company again. Sanford had con-
siderable trouble with his eyes while
at Camp Ordway at Radio and the
fleio Hospital surgeons thought it best
to have him treated at the Fort Myer
hospital.
Every day sergt. Cady of the Signal
Corps company receives a bundle of
W ashlngton newspapers from his ia
ther. The race horse dope" and other
track news on the sporting pages al
ways are missing. Mr.. Cady does not
approve OF this kind of reading matter.
Doc Amoroso of the Field Hospital,
who conducts a barber business at odd
moments, is endeavoring to locate an
infantryman of the 22d who ran up a
sixty-fve-cent bill with him and has
not "come across"
of "Jim Hickey" but there is no such
person in the 22d. Some of the Field
Hospital men are of the opinion the
man said Gin Hickey and that Amo-
roso did not "get wise"
Mai. Bowker. commanding the Field
Hospital. today received about hun
dred copies of the New Testament in
pocket size from a Miss Brainard of
Brookland and some of her friends.
The major distributed the testaments
to the members of his company and
sent over some to the Signal Corps.
Twenty-seven men of the Signal Corps
took their horses out for a ride today to
the Warren ranch. about six miles south
of here. Lieuts. Lands and MacLennan
also went along. 1t was the largest riding
party that has left camp since the new
horses arrived. All of the horses behaved
nicely except that ridden by Private
Kluge, which bucked and threw it's rider.
Kluge was not injured.
Mai Bowker used talcum powder on his
new riding horse. The animal has a slight
cut on it's forehead, and to keep flies away
from it the major sprinkles the injury
frequently with the talcurn powder,
which he finds is just as effective as the
regular dressing powder manufactured
for this purpose
Lieut. Pelzman OF the Field Hospital
lost His brand-new hat and gold and black
hat cord last night at the dance in the
plaza The lieutenant laid his hat on
bench while he danced, and some one
Today he attempted to obtain one of the
regulation campaign hats from the supply
sergeant. but could find none that would
fit him. The best he could do was to get
a hat that is about three sizes too small
for him. Lieut.. Pelzman rigged up a
spare officers hat cord on 1t and will try
to make 1t suffice until he can get a hat
at one of the stores at Bisbee.