The Washington herald., 1916-08-28
Notes Of Camp OrdWay
BY WATSON DAVIS,

Nearly every infantry company now
has its valet. He is usually a little
curly-haired negro who chops wood or
performs queer antics in the company
streets for the boys at night, to pay for
the few pieces OF food the cook hands
out to him. In Company A he is known
as Fritz Handsome" and in another
company farther down the line his name
is SNOWFALL" These colored boys also
shine the officers shoes, and do other
small chores for a few pennies
good soldier can lie down with the
earth as his pillow and say to himself.
at o'clock in the morning I wake up"
And he does. Sergt. w. B. Long, OF
Company A, according to the testimony
CT his terminates. awakes regularly ten
minutes before the bugle orders the SOL
diers out of bed in the morning, and Is
dressed and about his duties before the
other soldiers are awake.
Sergt. Willis S. Bryant, OF Battery A.
and chief of the fifth section Of scouts
and signalists, has served in the regular
army and seen service in the Philippines
chasing the Moros. He has served with
the light artillery. the mountain artil-
lery, and when his battery was in the
lower Islands Of the Philippines fighting
the Moros he played sailor The bat
tery mounted their three-inch guns on
several small steam launches and the
artiuerymen acted as sailors.
Every soldier after his days work Is
done likes to listen to the strains OF
music from a phonograph. In nearly
every company there is a graphophone
and liberal supply OF records mostly
martial songs. In tent OF Company NJ
there Is phonOgraph that Private W.
B. Langley has brought to camp.
sergt. Ned Tannsiu. Of the Third Infan-
try Band. has been elected by popular
vote Of the band the father of the kin
dergarten. The other evening he gath
cred about him all the young members
OF the band and took them to the reli-
gious services IN the Y. N. c. A. tent,
Then he took them to the canteen and
gave each an ice cream cone. He allowed
them TO look at the movies" until 9
O'Clock. and then took them back to
their tents and tucked them in bed.
When the general court is in session.
Company K is practically officerIess,
Capt +. E. Sharpless and Lieut.. Francis
Martin are both on the court, and Lieut.
Chester Reich is detailed to oversee
fatigue duty OF the Third Battalion.
In celebration Of the advent Of the bay
fever season with its days Of joy to those
VINO love yellow pollen, Lieut.. J. H Nc
Intyre, OF Company I. recently presented
Recruit Instructor Vance l. Richmond
with a beautiful bunch OF goldenrod,
fresh from the fields near Camp ord
way, Richmond. whose favorite flower
IN the hay fever season is not the gold
enrod. thanked him profusely in French
and Spanish, languages in which he Is
proficient
There was not a 'Joust" In the drills
Saturday afternoon in which teamster
knight on mule charged another knight
OF an equally well trained mule. The
men Of the supply company, lead BY
First Sergt. Benjamin H. Streeks, had
planned such stunt, but the powers
that be, ruled it out as ''unmilitary,"
When the field day Of athletic events is
neld IN week or so the supply company
knights will have their fun charging each
other mounted on mules.