New Britain herald., 1916-07-26
C0. ! MENAGERIE ID BE BROUGHT HERE Captain Ladbury'S Collection in
 Charge Of Captain GriSWold MEN VACClNATED AGAIN

MEN VACClNATED AGAlN Tapping Tent Rope Gives Private
 Butler the Shivers and Brings Dis-
 aster Into His Tent-Other Notes
 From Nogales.
 Especial Correspondence by J. F.
 Conners.)
 Nogales, Arizona, July 20.
 This is "bing day" with Com /any I. If this column today reads moro vaguely than usual don't blame any thing but the 'bing" "Bing," it might be explained, is the army term for the typoid vaccine with which the men arc innOculated to protect them against the dreaded fever. Three different vaccinations at ten day intervals are required to render man safe and then he is safe for a year or two. We have all been vaccinated once and this is the sec ond shock. As a result of the visit of the medicos the men are having 1t easy today for it is essential that after being vaccinated they remain | fects Otherwise it will make a per son quite i'll. The vaccination gives a person that tired and drowsey feel l ing. so much so that it is an effort to keep awake. Aside from that there is no real bad feelings resulting. Sky CoIoring Indescribable. Sunrises and sunsets here continue to be things to marvel at Every new sunset displays new colors and com binations of cO1ors that heretofore the spectrum has never revealed to the eyes of the New Englander. Ari- zona sunsets have a reputation the country over, but mere words can not do them justice. The small hills and hummocks, rising gradually un- til they are lost against the back ground of the higher ranges shunt off in somber contrast to the riot of col or and bring Q welcome end to a day of intense heat and sunshine. The sunrises too, are wonderful and fit to perfection Shakespeare's Morn in Russet Mantle Clad" The extremi- ties of the day will always be firmly fixed for memoirs in the minds eye of the Nutmeg state sOldiery. So much for the aesthetic Now for the more personal elements of camp life.
 The present site of the First and Second Regiment is no longer termed Camp Holcomb. It's official title is Camp Stephen Little. This name IS in honor and fond memory of one Private Stephen Little of Company I, 12th United States Infantry. who was killed here last November during a brush with the Greasers.
 Butler Has Bad Dreams.
 Private Butler has found that this high mountain air is conductive of dreaming and were 1t not for the fact that Butler is known to be a white ribboner and that Arizona is a dry state we might be suspicious of him, judging from subsequent events At any event Buffers dreams, accompanied by cOntortions that make him at times a candidate for the padded cell, are fast making him famous His antics, it must be stated, are not conductive of sound slumber for his sleepy tentmates after they have done guard duty and looked upon dirty Greasers and YaQui In dians up to the hour of retirement Last night a loose guy rope in his tent lightly Tapped against Private Buffers body and he awoke with a startled yell, shouting Snakes, snakes I'm all bit up.' This, ac- companied by violent waving of arms aroused the other men and Private Garfield Mercy, who occupies the next cot left in such haste that he broke his cot and now uses rope to hold it together.
 Hardtack now is but memory. Mess Sergeant Edward Prior and Cook Tom Dyson have been supplying the men with choice menus, that is, choice for this country.
 The old camp was quilted because of surplus amount of water. Un- less something happens soon this one will have to be quilted because of a dearth of equa pura. As yet we haven't seen drop of water during the five days we have been here that hasn't been carried in by hand. Those in charge have failed to get even enough drinking water for the men and a bath-that word exists only in the dictionaries as far as we are con- cerned. That long promised pipe line works our way very slowly.
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 Captain Ladbury has a little men, agerie of his own and 1t is open for daily inspection. It is a mystery where he finds his specimens. 4Today the cage contained five tarantulas, a green lizard, ten inch centipede and a crazy looking bird. The captain has earned quite a "rep' about camp and his fellow officers have appended such names as "animal trainer,' s'bug artist,' etc. to him. There was a little tragedy enacted in the menagerie this morning when the big centipede got real peevish and just to show who was boss devOured threc little tarantulas and a little baby cen tipede. The bird got peeved too, but like lots of human beings when they get that way, went "up in the air."