New Britain herald., 1923-08-04
HARMOMCASLEAD
 SOLDIERS AT DRILL
Captain Dunne of Machine Gun
 ners Goes Baspipe One Better

IS one OI lHt HoNtl iullONdLlouo lu-
 troduced by Captain E. P. Dunne of
 New Britain at Camp Templeton, Ni-
 antic, where the National Guards are
 camping. Captain Dunne is in charge
 of Co. H.. 1s9th regiment, machine
 gun company. The following letter
 from camp has been received:
 Despite skies, which augured bad
 weather for later in the day, Go. H.,
 this morning received instructions on
 the second days problems. They were
 on their way to Durfee Hill, a point
 one mile northeast of Durfee Hill the Boston school road, and Society road.
 Each of these points is situated in the
 woods and hills four or five miles
 away from the camp area and have
 all the requisites for field manouver-,
 ing. Company H, commanded by
 Captain B. P. Dunne has instituted a
 new and novel manner of elevating the spirits of the soldiers while on
 march, It is Captain Dunne's own
 idea. Half a dozen enlisted men in
 the front ranks are given harmonicas.
 AS the troops swing along they play
 popular airs in unison so that the
 men can keep step. After 8 morning
 of tactics and maneuvers the men
 were hot, tired and ready for bite to eat. The noon mess was carried in knapsacks and eaten on the field. Water carried in the canteen replaced the coffee which the men would have in the mess halls at camp. Half an hour after mess the order to fall in was again given and during the aft ernoon work on the problems con- tinued.
 Camp Templeton today came back to earth again after the excitlnent yesterday occasioned by the governors visit. Bootblacks, barbers and tailors did nowhere near the amount of busi- ness today they did yesterday, for the troops didn't care so much about being 'slicked up'' before their com pany commander as before the states chief executive and the rgimnt's conn., mandr, Colonel D. Gordon Hunter. Fully 1000 women and girls from all over the state were in camp to watch the review yesterday. Pine Grove and Sound View were well patronized last night. Officers attended a dance at the former resort, while the enlisted men graced the floor at O'Connor's pavilion in Sound View. The 169th infantry band gave 8 concert in Sound l View that drew large crowd of va cationists from resorts in the vicinity. |
 There is one thing that the men of | Go. H can say when they return home | Sunday and that is the food served | them at camp has been of the best. Tn fact many of the boys admit they | never did feed better Roast pork and apple sauce, mashed potatoes, peas, rice pudding and fruit salad Is just one example of the dinners that are served by our Mess Sergeant E. Toomey. A private in Company H. who was run down by a horse at tached to one of the machine gun | carts during the review walks with a limp today because of his experience. An elderly civilian was run over by 3 machine gun cart and was taken to New London hospital. His condi- ton is not serious. Criticism of the order to march on double quick time was heard yesterday after the horses had bolted. While on the walk the steeds behaved splendidly but as soon as tn order to run was given they grew nervous and finally bolted. Credit however, must be given to the men of Co. H, New Britain pride for pre- venting what looked for awhile like } stampede. Governor Templeton left his place in the reviewing party and ran toward the spot where a large crowd gathered about the prostrate form of the man who had been run over.
 The sergeants were fast asleep this and had to be awakened by ,ur little red headed bugler Gorge Beckett. George said never again, Iome kind sergeant threw pail of water at him.
 Co. H, was awarded with a trophy nice silver cup for shooting on the ,istol range. Some of the marksmen were, Sergeant Fred H. Suess. Ser cant Clifford D. Frost, and Private frank T. Bowry.