The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-18
MINER WRITES
OF CAMP LIFE
Part of Company Funds
Used to Provide Floors
in Tents
SOLDIERS STRIP AND
ENJOY HARD RAIN
eBelieves Troops Will Be on Border at
Least Until After Fall Elections
Schedule Showing Daily Routine in
Camp

Schedule Showing Daily Routine in
Camp.
Mrs. Roy B. Miner, wife of 2d
Lieut.. Miner of Company /, Y. Y. c.,
now on border duty in Texas, has re-
ceived several interesting letters from
her husband, extracts from which she
has allowed this paper to publish.
Lieut. Miner writes that a part of
the fund raised for the company in
Brattleboro has been used to provide
board floors in the tents of the men,
raising them from the ground OH
which the men have been sleeping
since they went into camp. The Off
GERS have had board floors and cots,
but the men were not provided with
them and the scorpions, tarantulas
| and other poisonous insects that
crawl at night on the ground are not
pleasant sleeping companions. Ice for
drinking water also is being provided.
for the water, as it flows from the
pipes, which are laid on the ground,
is hot in the middle of the day,
He writes that it seems queer to
them to read so much peace talk
with fresh troops arriving on the
border almost daily.
The third battalion, of which Com
TanE ! Is a part, was on outpost and
guard duty the night of July 6, the
mea sleeping on their arms without
| even removing their rolls. Across
| the river McXicans were seen in the
| bushes, but nothing happened out Of
| the ordinary except some signaling
| that went on between people i'll Mexi-
can houses in Eagle Pass ana the
Mexicans across the border
He writes that he has taken the
| typhoid treatment again, although
| his time since taking it in Science
| of the New York National Guard, has
not expired He did not wish to
| take any chances of becoming i'll.
| lie describes severe rainstorm,
which the natives told him was the
| first heavy rain since September,
1914. The men stripped and ran out
| into the company streets i'll the
pouring rain, enjoying the deluge.
| The sand was Immediately turned in
| to a slippery, sticky mud and the
men spent some time in sliding in it
| One man of the regiment who had
not followed the bathing rules regu-
! larly was plastered with mud and
| then washed off with a hose and the
| process repeated to make up for some
| of his previous failures.
| He wrote that he had found Fred
Howard with a high fever and had
| given him his cot and was sleeping
on the floor of his tent until Howard
! RECEIVERS from what has been dag
noscd rs lumbago
Writing under date of July 10, he
said that the troops drilled the great
er part of the morning with the mer
! curry at 125 and at 6 clock marched
out from camp and cooked their
evening meal. getting back at 8
0 clock drenched from another hard
rain. As there are only 20 shower
baths for the entire regiment the men
were not all able to get the use of
them after their return
Lieutenant Miner, to make up for
his lost opportunity in the showers,
used one so long the following morn
ing that he was suffering from bad
case of sunburn. to the extent that
he had been unable to sleep. He had
been given relief by the application
of glycerine i'll the hospital. His
back, he wrote, was the color of raw
beefSteak. He had finished a wooden
floor for his tent just before the sec
ond hard storm. They have received
information that there are 900 cots
ON the road for the use of the regiment,
SO that they will be more comfortable
in the future than they have been
since arriving there.
The opinion there is that the
troops will be on the border until the
fall elections at least. in spite of the
talk about peace. When in the town
July 10 to get lumber for his floor he
wrote that teams loaded with edibleS
were crossing the international bridge
into Mexico which is a sign of peace
full times. 1t is when they begin tc
cGme out of Mexico that the inhabi
tants Of Eagle Pass look for more
strife between factions in Mexico
While the service the regiment is OF
is ''no picnic, he writes that there
is no complaining among the men OF
the LIST Vermont regiment, while the
Kansas regiment is constantly com
planning of conditions.