Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-30
COLONEL SKERRITT
MAKES INSPECTION
OF CAMP STUART
Conditions at Fair Grounds
Being Steadily Improved,
Despite Heavy Rains.
SECOND REGIMENT is
MUSTERED INTO SERVICE
First Will Take New Oath of
Allegiance To-Day and
Await Orders.
SIN CARLOADS OF SUPPLIES
war Department, After Many De-
lays, Furnishes Outfits for
Newly Enlisted Men.
SECOND REGIMENT is
MUSTERED INTO SERVICE
SIN CARLOADS OF SUPPLIES
War Department, After Many De-
lays, Furnishes Outfits for
Newly Enlisted Men.

Smoke from hundred fres lifted
laz!ly TO clearing skies last night in
Camp Henr" c. Stuart. and $500 men
soldiers. rockies and raw recruits
slep, in quictor comfort than they had
known since the day the first tent vas
unfurled. One regiment having been
mustered IN. slept ready for the call to
join the colors. The other will so sleep
tonight. The Field Artillery. camped
In Sherwood Park. was completed by
the arrival OF the Richmond Howitzers
who after week In close ar.nory
quarters. were glad 20 reach the open
For the h,st time al, fhe ORGANIZATIONS
ordered upon the hrs, cali we-c in
camp In the frs. line. reaching from
end 70 end .. the center he!d OF the
Fair Grounds, stretched the conical
tents Of the two regiments Beyond the
bar-icade lying IN the shelter OF the
trees Of Sherwood Park. inc artillery
men OF tour batteries snored behind
their suns. Away TO the west. . short
distance nor,n OF Hermitage Road. the
Field Hospital Corps dreamed OF in
ocglation and ptophy!axis
Tattoo TO- the camp sounded from
I brigade headquarters, ;wo reg!mental
from the Headquarters
or the Field .i.,ll,ery and from the
headquarters o: tie Field Hospital
Corps AZ gi5 O'Clock. II is tne call
which summons every man not on duty
TO his tent. Fifteen minutes later the
buglcrs sounded lights out" and
candle, lantern and incandescent we're
darkaned Thereafter there was no
sound save the seutiurIs call and the
cry OF a lonely field lark circling above
Sherwood PARK, wondering whence this
strange army had come and whittier II,
WAS going
WOMEN FOLK BRING
FOOD i'..t SOLDIER SoSS
All through the ioul day women had
crowded tent and Held some TO seek
release OF their sons. fathers and hus-
bands. others TO bid them farewell if
they were 10 leave in the morning. and
TO wish them safe return. y thous-
and came 10 ask their men folk pa
theticaiiy If they wanted something 10
cat. y thousand brought little deli
cacics ard bag of Numbered shirts.
collars and underclothes.
40 woman thinks that another can
care for her son so we'll as She even II
that other be the United States govern
ment.
1t headquarters and at tho head OF
every company street. that there was
10 be no private dining in tent. SO
those who were fortunate enough to
have mother. sister. sweetheart or wife
near enough to bring them goodies
went out of camp TO MUNICH from the
packages brought them. The boys from
Eastern Virginia, from the Northern
looked on with vain and earnest long
ing. They, too. had been accustomed
10 cake and pie, the sort which mother
makes. and the sight OF others receiv-
ing such kindly care brought to them
only longing and a tightening Of the
throat. So many of them are only
boys-boys who have but lately played
marbles in a dusty village street or
humble peg in the field behind the
stable. They had expected all the
panoply and glamour OF war. a hur-
red call to arms. n dash to the front.
an engagement from which they would
emerge heroes. Instead, there was the
dreary routine of examination. swear
ing to new oath, incubation and
mastering in-enough to quell ambition
for the moment and to cause patriotic
impulse TO falter.
70 HOLDING BACK FROM
NEW FEDERAL OATH
But this stern business Is practica lily
nnished. and beginning to-day per-
haps. the men will be taught the art
OF war. Their first duty is to obey
orders. and this they are learning well.
There has been no holding back from
the administering of the Federal oath
there has been no f1inching from the
surgeons needle. Considering what
the weather has been. the strangeness
to many Of camp life. frequent attacks
of nostalgia and the nightly dreams Of
home these $500 men are a cheerful
lot. From them there has been prac-
tically no complaint. Even the recruit.
to whom q gun is strange and fear
some thing and uniform on.s pic
tured dress, looks upon camp life as
the beginning of a greater novelty, an
opening door to wider adventure.
A few, perhaps, of this varied assem-
bIage, tgill wonder at the restrictions
placed ppon them and at the orders
under Which they must work. Every
: mothers son Of them must take n bath