The Yale expositor., 1922-07-20
A PLEASANT TRIP
Battery B., R. o. T. C. Camp
Fort Monroe, Va, July 2, 1922

elective WOrk during MS junior
and senior year is required to
spend one summer in camp. | was
sent here to Virginia, and thought
a short description of my trip to
camp and of camp life as | find it,
night be interest.np !, readers If
t. e EXpositor.
| enjoyed ali of my trip here
immensely for we passed through
some Of the most beautiful and
picturesque country / have ever
seen.
We left Lansing at 10 a. M,
Saturday, June "a, our gang"
numbering twenty-five, and arriv-
ed in Washington at 800 a. m,
Sunday, June rs. after % hours of
steady riding. The government
furnished transportation, and we
all occupied the same Pullman.
This is very similar to Michi-
gan, except that in central and
eastern Ohio are terraines-long,
low ridges with horizontal lodges
of rock outcropping wherever a
cut is made through the terraine.
Just at dusk we passed through
Akron, the tracks leading right
past the Firestone Tire factory.
At about 900 p. m. we crossed the
border into Pennsylvania, the last
large city in Ohio being Youngs-
town. Here | saw my first steel
mills, and they are surely fasci-
mating. The blast furnaces are
huge cylinders about 80 feet high,
with automatic elevating buckets,
controlled from the ground, for
charging the furnaces.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the river
for miles is lined with steel mills,
belching forth sulphurous smoke,
so that the air is heavy and op-
pressive at times. The city is sit
uated on the mountain side over
looking the Ohio river, and the
lights rise row upon row in huge
arc, presenting the prettiest night
scene on the whole journey,
Sunday morning when | awoke,
we were descending the mountains
in Maryland, racing along about
so to go miles an hour. The
mountains are surely wonderful.
Snug little cabins are snuggled In
the valleys and sinuous roads
wind from one valley to the next,
The mountains are almost verti-
cal in some places,-layers Of sol
id rock, some horizontal and some
nearly vertical. AT Harper 8
Ferry we paused long enough to
obtain a few snapshots.
We toured Washington and Ar
lington, Va, Sunday morning in
a taxi, visiting the Unknown Sol
dier's Grave, Lincoln's monument
which was dedicated May 30, %
and many other places of interest
Washington is very picturesque,
with buildings typically southern
some old palatial residences
and some modern mansions.
We journeyed from Washington
TO Old Point Comfort Sunday
night on the steamer Northland
and the trip was surely wonderful
The cool sea breeze kept US com
Portable after our roasting hot
day in Washington, We kept ev'
eryone happy CD until 10:3C
with college songs, after which
all was quiet.
We arrived at Old Point Com
fort early Monday morning, June
&c, and after being assigned oui
quarters we took our physical eX-
animation and drew our equip
ment. They rushed us right thru
so We had everything in shape and
stood parade in the afternoon.
Every morning we have infan'
try drill in o. d. uniforms, ther
change to fatigue for couple OF
hours work on the big guns OF
on the motor vehicles. This first
two weeks Battery B has beer
practicing on the IL in. mortors
firing sub-calibre (l8 ID. she'll
ammunition the first week anc
regular 700 to 1850 10. projectiles
the second week. The schedule al
so includes two periods of equi
tation, which we received last
week, M. A. c. men showing VI
very we'll as riders.
Every afternoon from $3.50 tt
500 we go swimming in the sal
water of Chesapeake Bay, which
is surely the life. Salt water has
fresh water beaten a mile fol
swimming purposes. The tide
sets up very strong currents a.
times, so a portion of the beach il
roped in and no one is allowed
outside the ropes. Also, everyone
must have a partner, or buddy