Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-10
THREE RICHMOND men
NOW NONC0M. OFFICERS
John 81. Williams Becomes Sergeant,
While @. w. Roper and Nathan
Tatarsky Are Corporals.
GO ON SLX-MILE HIKE IN RAIN
Captain Crum Leads Company A on
Jaunt-A. w. Harding on Bylaws
Committee OF Athletic and Social
Association--More Men Arrive.
GO ON sIx-MILE HIKE IN RAIN
tFrom a STAFF Correspondent.

CAMP LEE. VA. October s.-Three
additional Richmond boys have won
recognition in Company F, Of the
Three Hundred and Eighteenth ReSi-
ment. announcement having been made
to-day by Captain John Crum OF their
promotion to noncommission ranks.
John II. Williams. of Richmond, won
s>rgeantcy. while Charles w. Roper
and Nathan Tatarsky were made cor
porals. w. ]. DcrieuI, of King and
Queen County. also was made SER
geant.
Company F. otherwise known as
Rich mond company, because of the
largn number OF men from the capital
serving in 1t. have started operations
In every direction looking to tho ad-
vancament OF the command along So
cial and athletic lines, as we'll as bat
ting a high average in their military
duties. Captain John Crum, a man
who IS a war veteran and still less
than thirty. knows the military game
like a book. and from his own varied
and thorough experience Is giving tho
men ,.tof hts company much valuable
mid. in other words. he is mapping
plans and procedures for the men such
as his experience indicates will be the
soldiers inclination.
And all OF the men are glad to have
Captain Crum for their leader. There
is not a single one that wouldn's swear
by what he says. for they know that
he has cuIled his knowledge from
actual military experience, and he
knows what he is about when it comes
to things military and what is best
for a soldier.
BILLY sI1'rERDING AIDS
IN RAISING ATHLETIC FUND
The men In the company held a
meeting for the purpose of arranging
for their military activities. and ap-
pointed a committee composed of A.
w. Browning, c. w. Roper and w. H.
Sitterding, all of Richmond. for the
purpose of collecting an athletic fund
The officers of the company contributed.
| and each man was asked to give some
| thing. be 1t one cent or fifty Of them.
There are many things that the men
| need In the way of medicine balls.
footballs and like articles. and they
also want to get piano. Up to this
time there have been no dividends
! from the regimental post exchange.
but they Will be coming INTO the COM
|
ever, do not want to wait for this,
hence the special collection. To-day
being rainy. there was only a lecture
held this afternoon and the committee
consequently had time to 20 about its
money gathering mission.
| 8 yet their is no musical instru-
ment in the company, and Captain
Crum, who has travelled the length
and width of Scotland and doubled
across again. has a longing for bag
pipe for his command. The captain
served with the British army in the
present war, and he knows the music
the bagpipes make-in fact, he says
there is nothing like marching to the
| tune Of the Scottish classic music
maker, and 1t wouldn't be surprising,
therefore. if the captain shortly has
a bagpipe in full operation and his
men doing their PAGES to the tune of
THE Campbells Are Coming"
This morning, while the rain was
young, and had developed into moth
ing more than drizzle, Captain Crum
had the Richmond company out for a
six-mile hike. This put the fellows in
fine trim. They sang all the way out
and all the way back, and when they
returned they said they could have
done 1t again, because it did not seem
any distance, when every fellows
mind was way UP with their voices,
and there was no time or inclination to
think about what the feet were doing.
RICHMOND MAN MAKES
REPUTATION AS SINGER
While the Richmond company has not
a piano. music box or other mechani-
cal entertainer, they have one of the
best singers in the camp. 1t is not
believed that a tenor voice in Camp
! Lee compares with that of Alexander
w. Brown, who lives at 507 Mosby
! Street, in Richmond. The mon like
nothing better than to have Alex sing
for them, and he is obligine enough to
favor them frequently. Last Sunday
the young man sang for one Of the
Petersburg churches, and the congre-
cation was so pleased that Captain
Crum to-day received a communication
asking that he be allowed to sing again
Sunday. y. ~, 4 a
Brown is from Scotland and, aside
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