Evening star., 1916-07-27

are IN. s. E." and stand for master
signal electrician" but Church main
tains they could also stand for master
steak eater" He declares that Lans-
ford recently has given some fine ex-
h1bitions of steak eating in restau
rants It Bisbee.
Top sergt. Hart of the field hos
pital took his first horseback ride to-
day since arriving in the border coun-
Try. 1t was on good old-fashioned
sort OF horse, guaranteed to stand
Welghts up to one ton. Sergt. Hart is
not small man and it takes an able
bodied horse to accommodate him.
Hart Is built close to the ground and
is of the type termed excessively
AS riding companion he had with
him Sergt Serle. another big man"
OF the hospital outfit. Serle outweighs
Hart. but he has several feet more in
height than the genial top" of the
Officers of the Signal Corps turned
carpenters this afternoon and as the
result they will eat their breakfast
tent Both units of the District
Guard encamped here had been both
cred recently by swarms of flies. 1t
has been impossible to obtain any
crude oil. and as the result the fly
killing measures that usually are
practiced in most military camps have
been missing here
At meal time the flies are "some-
thing awful" Requisitions for the
lumber and wire screen necessary to
iuclose the kitchens and mess tents of
the men have been made, but there
has been some delay in getting the
gat desperate today at lunch and he
swore that before sunrise tomorrow
he would have the officers mess tent
at the Signal Corps camp screened in
and fyfess
While he was purchasing lumber at a
lumber yard near the camp, Lieut. Ian
dis bought a screen door and a roll of
wire screen. About o'clock in the aft
ernoon they started to work. and. with
Private Bentley. soon had the frame for
the screen in position. BY dinner time
the whole tent was screened in. They
made job that Capt. Terry says would
be credit to any real carpenter. At
dinner time a few flies still remained
within the inclosure. but Capt. Terry is
determined to have them driven out by
the time breakfast is served tomorrow
morning.
Oficers of the field hospital have
tent screened in early next week They
visited the Signal Corps camp this
evening to get pointers on the cost of
such an undertaking and were delight
a
nine by nine" tent had only cost S1O
Capt Terry has heard that about
10000 horses for army use recently
were quarantined at Ell Paso, and that
this is the reason the allotrnents for the
Signal Corps and field hospital have not
reached camp. The majority of the
horses were brought to Ell Paso from
San Antonio, Tex. Disease broke out
among them and the whole bunch was
placed under quarantine A few days
ago the quarantine was partly lifted
and soon Capt Terry hopes to receive
the horses which his company is to
use.
Lieut.. MacLennon, in charge of the
Signal Corps exchange, has Instituted
system Of tickets instead of handling
cash and credit accounts at the COM
pany's miniature store. Books of twen-
ty tickets each are sold to the men for
81 and these are used instead of cash.
By this system less bookkeeping is
necessary and nothing can be obtained
on tick"
Both the Signal Corps and the field
hospital have been promised inciner-
ators. in which to destroy all refuse
from the kitchen, including dish water
and the like. They are badly needed
Tor the makeshift incinerators now in
use are not effective.