Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-26

go their Spanish War friends a few
better by engaging in actual brushes
with the MeXicans.
Wedding En- Out
So they have taken to routine of
camp in splendid spirit, having done
a lot of hard work on Saturday and
being put through courses all day yes
terday which were utterly unlike any
thing they had ever experienced on
Sunday in a National Guard camp.
The wedding process has been
started and the only fear these young
Pennsylvanians have is that the lynx
eyed, keen-earned regular army sur
geon and his assistants may spot some
defect or catch some heart action not
'ust what they consider suited for the
trying service on the border. The men
started to go up before the doctors
yesterday and there were some down.
cast ones last night.
| saw one fat man who had a dozen
or two pounds Of surplus adipose tissue
hiking up and down yesterday and he
was at it again to-day. 1t seems that
he has been told the doctor may
throw him for being to fat. He be-
lleves 1t. and as he has not much time
until he must go up for examination,
he is doing all the work of the camp
and wishing for real hot weather.
Come to think of it, this camp is
calculated to take off any extra flesh.
Even visitor or a newspaperman
must be impressed with that. Just
suppose the Capitol is where Major
General c. NJ. Clement has his head
quarters and whence he rules over all
with benefice1t If strict, sway Down
around the business district you would
find the Second Brigade, then farther
down town the engineers and the quar-
O Frha - at Ia.
corps is the location of the burden
bearers, a very businesslike place,
which resembles the burned out force
of steel works, temporarily in tents,
but running the mills just the same.
1t is facetiously known as the corpse"
because of the inquiry of a Lebanon
county farmer boy pressed into service
as a messenger and who strolled into
the tent of Colonel II. c. TreXler, man
of millions and chief of the corps, and,
not being gifted with much discern
ment. asked the drab-clad man sweat
ing over a table of figures, Say. man,
where's the headquarter corpse?'
The Layout
But. continuing the layout, suppose
that, retaining the Capitol as the di-
vision headquarters, you so up about
Hoffmans Woods, you will find the
Philadelphia troops, out toward Cole
brook, if that will help those who
know the lay of the Gretna land. Then
at a distance approximately that of
DR.. Orth's summer resort from the
Capitol you would find the Fourth
Brigade, with the dapper General c.
T. ONeil in command, and our own
Eighth Regiment lined up close by.
The cavalry is not so far away, but
far enough if you cannot commander
one of the rare Gretna jitneys or are
unable to browbeat the man who fixes
the price.
The men who came in with the
Eighth on Saturday got their first taste
of active service. They came from a
city where all was decked to bid them
farewell and where the spirit of pa
triotism manifested itself in pleasant
ways. They landed here in broiling
sun and had to help unload baggage
and cart it to camp or else to put up
tents But they did it in record time
and had a few hours left for First
Sergeant Charles w. Thomas, late of
the Telegraph composing room, to put
a bunch of Captain Frank E. Zeigler' S
rockies" through some hot-footed
work that made them ready to eat the
service ration with as much relish as
though it contained planked steak,
soft-shelled crabs and strawberry
shortcake. Tho Governors Troop was
Just as busy as it arrived yesterday,
and in Captain John T. Bretz's infan-
try command they say they worked
harder than at any brigade camp.
But it is all in the days work in
this camp. There is a spirit of deter
mination, of realization of serious days
ahead. and of confidence that Pennsyl-
vanians are going to make good no
matter who's around. A B. H.