Putnam patriot., 1916-07-21

Hartford--A letter from Nogales. Arizona. gives the following interest ing account of the life Of Che Con- necticut boys in camp;
 The Connecticut boys are now en- camped on a high plateau overlooking the town and the old camp site is deserted. The First battalion, of the First Connecticut started the process of camp moving.
 By squads the men made blanket rolls, folded their cots, packed squad bags and struck the tents. Then all the impedimenta were taken to the head of the company streets and load. ed on the new army trucks which had arrived at the camp. The cooks and the kitchen dunnage had the right Of way and was loaded on the first trucks.
 It took two hours for the trucks to make the round trip and return to clean up the balance of the company baggage. And a hard time of it they had too in the deep sand and the stiff grades from the old site to the new
 The second battalion got under way at II o'clock and it was not until o'clock that the third battalion's bag gage started on the uphill climb to the newer camp. The baggage detail went on the first truck of each con- pany.
 The old camp is now nothing more than smouldering ineinerators. the new buffers shack and the bath houses. It is a solitary, sun-haked plain to which the boys were happy to bid farewell
 The companies marched out of the old camp with the route step in alpha betical order for the dusty and hot hike across the suburbs of Nogales and passed the camp of the Twelfth Infantry. of the United States regu- lars and along a sinuous ascending path, that led over graveily gullies and up a narrow, short valley to the high upland plateau. that Is surround ed by steep sidehills that are deep scanned by the everlasting sun.
 The only sign of vegetation about the plateau are a few discouraged scrub oaks and the stunted mesquite that seems to be scattered about in a promiscuous fashion all over the Arizona scenery hereabouts.
 The Field and Staff were early in their moving, both glad to leave the old and to reach the new. They are ft,la f. ing themselves on the new location.
 Cooks Mccullough and McCarty of Company M captured the "eats" rec ord on moving day, being the first to dish up a hot dinner at the new site. They passed out a fine stew. coffee and bread to their boys in jig shape and it was appreciated by the Com pany NJ boys while others looked. on with envy, while they waited for their cooks to do likewise.
 There is no water supply at the new site as yet and this had to be brought from the old camping ground. The city water halts at Walnut street. a half mile from the camp but work is progressing on getting it to the new site. It is to pass the new mili- tary base hospital that is being built and then gain the camp over a pre- cipitous hill and then across a steep and deep valley and then up ragged side hill.
 Lieut. Hastings, Company E, Is off cer of the day and he was fully busy with his duties in the new camp site and a strange locality near the border.
 Across a bold shelving valley from the camp and half way up a rocky many scanned hill is cavern that has a most sinister and black and ugly mouth. The natives have been joyful ly telling us that the cavern is fairly alive with rattlesnakes and some fif- tyseyen other varieties of reptiles. Capt. Coughlin took a long and inter- ested look at the suspicious looking entrance (from across the valley to be sure) and then christened 1t Sub marine Cave but announced that the naming was subject to later revision.
 Mayor Clagett of Nogales said he was particularly well pleased with the Connecticut men. He said he had met q number of the officers and found them intelligent, faithful, enthusiastic and earnest. lie said that intimate friends of his had met a large number of the First Infantry boys and were high in their praise of them. His partners son. E. A. Titcomb. Yale graduate, had found number of his college men and classmates in regi- ment. Mayor Clagett said: "The Con- nectieut soldiers are mighty fine bunch of loyal boys"
 President Bracy Curtiss of the Chamber of Commerce. said he was especially gratihed with the Conneeti- cut troops. Being originally from Massachusetts he had been an early visitor to the camp 10 observe the men from his old neighboring state. He has made the acquaintance of Colonel Goodfan, Captain Curtiss and Chaplain Berg. He paid these men some very high compliments in my interview with him. He has also made the acquaintance of Lieutenant ,~.1.-- ou4 Corgcant ruffar pf Troan