Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-09-21
vERMONTERS ON The BORDER
Energy and Endurance Over
came Great Natural Difficulties.
Model Camp Finally Achieved with EN-
ccIIcnt sanitary Conditions--RcSi-
mcut's Personnel md Morale
of the Best.


For the purpose Of answering the many
injuries from relatives and friends sc
the Vermont regiment on the border, /;
seems cxpcdicnt to attempt 1t through
your valued paper as time precludes Inc
possibilitv of answering each separately.
trhn regiment arrived here 1T a season
when the thermometer reaches its mast
mum height, when all vegetation except
mesuuite and cactus, because of drought
of several months, had long become d
minus quantity with not sufficient shade
to hide "A Mexican flea and under pitiless
tropical sun. With the energy and persC"
vereure that has ever Charact cried Yer
mont troops and won for them the prefer
ence in the civil War when deeds of dar-
| ing and endurance were required, they SCI
! about making camp, overcoming many
! annoyances and difficulties that would
! have been dishearteninG to troops from n
warmer climate. our camp site was COW
cred by scrub and by mesquite and cut
up hv numerous deep arrOyas formed ny
the wash Of torrential tropical storms
| The brush was cut, the arroNas filled and
drainage bitches opened until to-day We
have q model camp, favorahlv commented
upon by the district sanitary inspector
| The labor has been arduous and constant
| but as is always the case, perseverance,
has conquered. EachI day has brought
It's difficulties TO he overcome, hut at taps
we have gone to our cots lzaving our
tasks to be resumed with the advent Of
| "Old Sol' feeling that sufficient to the
day is the evil thereof and not carrying
any worries from the old to the new day.
In addition our men have built large mess
halls with incinerators for each to destroy
waste Immediately. All this has been a.
complished besides taking our share OF
instruction, drills and outpost duty along
the border for about so miles. Co. \ being
at Lehman's ranch. II miles north OF Eagle
Pass. Co. Il at Bocker's ranch, 6s mile
south. CO. G at Indio and Windmill
ranches 20 and a. miles south and Co u
at Elm creek bridge, eight miles north. nil
these being on this detached service for a
month. The other companies have guard
ed the international bridges between this
town and Piedras Negras and the river
front section of the town, all acquittlrg
themselves with credit
The personnel of the regiment is ,r
splendid condition physically, as is also
the morale not a single case OF any con-
ia gious or infectious disease having oc
CURED in camp, the only Illness being
! more of the nature of a condition than
disease, due TO vaccination against ~.
phod fever and smallpox. with some cases
of diarrhea due to chilling the bowels b,
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the tep,nerature having ranged o,ar 10
degrees f. hut without humidity. and Will
cool pleasant nights.
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