Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-08-08
HOT, VERY HOT
At CAMP EDGE
Local Battalion Officers at Sea
Grit Believe Sherman Twist
ed His Meaning.

CAMP EDGE, Sea Girt, Aug. 7
Sherman wass all wrong. He should
hace said: This is a He'll of a war;"
When Satan dispatched Kaiser Bill
liam to this earth to bring with him
"a portion, IL not all of the Hadesian
domain, he sent three-quarters of
what he brought to Sea Girt and
dumped Ii down on the parade field
OF Camp Edge, where the State Mill
tia Reserve and the men from the
Second Regiment N. ]. Field Artillery
and the Third and Fourth companies
of Coast Artillery are attending com
missioncd and nom commissioned Of
ficers' school for a week.
To steal an old established quip, it's
119 degrees in the shade and Damn
little shade. III boy howdy. you
should see the Perth Amboyans at
this camp work. Judges, lawyers. doc
tors, Industrial superintendent and
others generally put in the influential
and. prominent citizen class go
through the tricks of h war trade
with all the aplomb of seasoned top
sergeant.
Whether they be captains or lieu
tenants of the Perth Amboy Battal-
as are the sergeants and ~corporals.
who lose their identity as such and
become ~privates.
AntiseH Commander.
Major Frank L. Antisell is the COM
mander OF our battalion. He has a
pippin OF a Job. though a dificult
one. Some of the others are, of course
erai of them being ~corporals and SER
geants. while not a few are super
numerary~ sergeants.
Monday wasn't SO hard. though we
all worked like the veritable trooper
with the accustomed profane and
forceful utterances that are usually
coupled with that profession. That
night there was little tendency to fall
to sleep Immediately at Taps. and
many hushed whispers and carefully
guarded laughs went floating under
the flaps of the Siveley tents when
the top" wasn't in sight. as late al
IL o'clock.
But last night. boy howdy, they
didn't hesitate at Topping long be-
blew that most beautiful and solemn
Of the army calls.
Yesterday was a most munifcently
warm and eXasperatfngly hot day. It
was q corker, hotter than the hinges
of Hades itself and we worked like the
proverbial ant from reveille to taps.
with little in between to rest us up.
You can imagine how some of the
men are feeling, those who go to work
when home at 10 o'clock, take two
hours of for lunch and close the ONCE
at 2.
Heat Comes Early.
Today dawned with q wonderful red
sunrise. But 1t wasn't greeted with
anything but a series of explosive ut
terances by the men here who recog-
nized In that magnificent aura a har-
binger OF more and warmer weather.
We worked this morning. worked
till the sweat. (can't use the polite
term p~erspired when you're in the
army literally rolled of us in
streams n down our shirt fronts
like a deep creek. Imagine our ut
terly gleeful surprise and admiration
when orders came from the C. o. that
drill was 70 be dispensed with this
afternoon and we were to do nothing
but attend conferences, where we
foregathered and listened 20 inter-
esting lectures and talks and fired in
Vulnerable questions at the officers in
charge.
Some Beds.
Sleeping In six-foot tents, about
two and one-half feet wide is fine for
some. But-mark the exception-foT
elongated specimens who measure well
beyond the fathom and for others
whose avoirdupois Is taken by the
hundredweight rather than mere cas-
ual figures well, it's great stun TO see
them in their frantic sndeavors to
wrap their length and width with the
rough shod army blankets and gain
thereby q certain degree Of comfort
Sleep In the army seems to be a
matter OF turnsl you tur in. just
about turn over. when some one turns
up and orders you to turn out. Tag.
you're ft-the goat.
Believe the story Of case hardened
soldiers who have been here all OF
three days. dress parade and retreat
are a tremendous inspiration. splendid
for morale and put every man on his
toes. It's inspiring IN high degree. 10
see the battalions march by the re-
viewing Officers In company front, the
band playing. the eolors being lowered
and other colors carried IN the parade.
We have II on the word OF the dis
tinguished Nap Bonaparte that an
army travels on it's stomach Wrong,
Nap, all wrong. II travels on It's
dogs and with brand new Munson
lasts ~encasing your sire ~elevens. pinch
Ing here, there and everywhere. all the