Evening star., 1917-11-03
Dc. MENAT MEADE
GO IN THE TRENCHES
First Experience at Soldering
With Picks and Shovels
Given Drafted Men.
FILL ONE ORGANIZATION
From q star Correspondent.

From q star Correspondent.
CAMP MEADE, Admiral Nd. No
vember 3-It was into the trenches"
for the District men yesterday. when
they had their first experience At SOL
diering with picks and shovels.
This work is to continue at intervals
during each week until all Of the men
have learned how to dig in and do 1t
quickly and properly. Last night
about every vocalist OF the three COM
panies of the 312th machine gunners
part of which goes:
Sergeant says my gun is rusty.
And guess that he is right;
He should see my pick and shovel,
They are always shining bright.
Omcers up on Tower hill have init
mated that they would prefer that the
correspondents put the soft pedal on
attempts at technical description OF
what is being done In the way OF
trench digging. bayonet Work ana the
like. Therefore anything that Is oeing
written from this camp In regard TO
these phases of the activities here is
necessarily sketchy.
Training to Be Broadened.
Beginning in a very short time now.
the men of this mans army are to be
started on night drills. exercises,
bayonet runs, going over the top, sig
mailing by means of flares, rockets and
colored lights, etc. It ID expected this
work will be started during the COM
ing week, as announcement th9t y
thing IL soon to be done usually is fol-
lowed Immediately by the actual
doing.
Il was also stated yesterday that
three-inch field guns for the Held artil-
lery will arrive here in few days.
and that actual artillery drills Will De
started as soon as the pieces are mere.
This will include training the horses
or mules of the batteries as well as
drilling and instructing the men them
selves very few OF whom. excepting
officers and a few non-commissfoned
officers assigned to the regiments Tor
training purposes, have ever even seen
a field piece.
The 310th Field Artillery. Of which
Col. Daniel T. Moore, the man who put
former President Roosevelts left eye
out of commission. was colonel, mas
made rapid strides in preliminary
drills and formations. and Is ready to
take right hold of the actual work as
soon as guns are issued. This regiment
is composed wholly Of Marylanders
from the southern part OF the state,
and every man In the command Is
proud of the regiment
"Non-Como Officers.
Following is a list of the non-com-
missioned officers of the regiment:
Headquarters company Sergeanta
N Langley. Thomas ]. Gautter. John
w. Bunker. Rudolph Kabelka (color
sergeant), James W. Hall. Emil Blum
fegular sergeant maJor), Nels An
way icoIor sergeant; corporals.
Frederick c. Numbers and John Henry
Waltz.
supply company-sergeants. F. Lord
Battery A-sergeants. W. swiney.
John W. Grande, Samuel ]. Monkhouse.
Clayton g. On1ey. Russell E. Mathews,
Thomas W. Mcdonald and Walter c.
James W. Gordy, Jerry L. Campbell.
Daniel R. Harp. William E. Gardner.
John S. WhaIey. James F. Davis,
Ralph shockley. Thomas ]. Earl.
Waller. Paul ]. Neff. William D. More
land, Charles j. Engel, Walter B. Dis
haroon, William H. Hynson. Samuel
H. Jones; corporals. Wilmer T. Collins.
Elmer B. Hignutt. William F. Lynch.
Walter W. Jones.
Battery "c''-sergeants. II. S. Mat
thews. jr.: Clarence NJ Dunbracco.
". Ohp
Henry A. Kratzer, BENJAMIN E. Rob-
bins. Walter B. Posey. William R.
Meyer.
Battery .D"-sergeants, $. J. Patrick.
Edward Hoyda, Elon Wilson Framp-
ton, Joseph Bernard Callahan. Addison
C.. Tarbutton. William A. Gemeny;
Sam ais,s1 Irast Fss Rsnss,n RryaR
Thomas. William E. burlington, John
W. Woolford.
Battery F. sergeants. c. Jorstad.
John NJ Mason: Herbert H. Reading.
Greenwell. jr.: Walter P. Hill. Charles
II. Keithley and Albert E. Newman;
corporals William N. Coursey. Thomas
] o'Neill. Elmer O. Jarboe. Samuel H.
Smallwood. George R. RinggoId, Will
liam S. Lane. Harry McPherson, Alex
II. Grollman, John W. Eckston and
Marion Gibson.
Elmer Mack Pussey. Nelson Robert
Coulborn. John James Tull. Ralph Nc
Greedy, Warren Burr Bozman and
William Schneider; Corporals, Frank
Alvin Alfred Ford, Edwin Parker Ford
and Robert Clark Oberry.
Selected men arriving in camp yester-
day totaled 1.sS0. all of whom were
+ from the eastern counties Of Pennsyl-
vania- Today's arrivals are from Phil
adelphta. f G. H
Ha1f-Holiday in Camp.
Regular weekly inspection of quar-
tsrs. mess halls. kitchens. ETC., took up
the greater part of this morning, with
short drill periods completing the pro-
gram. The Saturday haIf-holiday
from noon on took about 80 per cent
of the men away from camp for visits
In Washington, Baltimore and other
nearby points.
Lieut.. Dupont and Lieut.. Paul
Rochat of the French army reported
here today. the first to instruct in
grenade throwing and the latter In
structor In the use of the automatic
trench rife.
Lieut.. Thomas Ellis. medical reserve
from Camp Greene. Charlotte, N. c.,
reported to division headquarters to-
day to begin heart and lung inspection
work. which is to include practically
every officer and man In the division.
Trench mortar work is to begin Mon
day. when certain units are to re-
ceive first instructions in handling
these instruments of destruction Sc
lected men to the number of 4,212, an
from Philadelphia and the eastern
counties of Pennsylvania are scheduled
to arrive tomorrow.
The Camp Meade officers foot ball
team, twenty-five men. left at IL o'clock