Evening star., 1924-08-07
TROOPS TO SOLDIER.
. IN De LUXE STYLE.
Engineers Will Have Com
forts of Home in Camp at
Fort Humphreys.

Some of the hardships in the life OF
a soldier in the field will be foregone
by members of the 121st Regiment of
Engineers. National Guard OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, Col. John W. Och
mann, commanding. when they so into
camp at Fort Humphreys. Va, next
Sunday for an active training period
of two weeks.
The traditional army cot will be left
at home and the authorities at the
fort have provided real white iron beds,
with soft, felt mattresses for theSe clti-
strenuous days of drilling. building
bridges and destroying breastworks.
The engineers will have their camp as
homelike as possible.
Neither will they have to sleep under
the hot flaps of an army tent, on which
the sun has poured down its rays each
day, nor will they have to awaken In
the middle of the night in the event or
a storm to see that their homes are
secure. For they will rest in recently
renovated barrach buildings, screened to
save nightly battles with mosquitoes
or daily contacts with the flies.
Early tomorrow morning motor
truck caravan, commanded by Capt.
f. II. Grove. quartermaster. Will leave
here with detail of 25 enlisted men
tachment will put the finishing
touches on All otherwise homelike
camp. 1t will include technicians OF
all branches. Weeds near the build
ings will be cleared away, to improve
sanitary conditions; electricians Will
go over the electric lighting system
in the buildings to be occupied by
the local troops, and plumbers Will
overhaul the pipe lines-for these
troops are to have showers with hot
and cold water-so that everythine
will be in the best of shape by the
time the troop special arrives in
camp Sunday shortly after noon.
Will Leave Sunday.
The members of the regiment have
been instructed to be at the armory.
472 L street. at 7:so o'clock Sunday
morning. Prepara ations will be made
for the departure. and promptly at
$50 o'clock the column, headed by
Col Oehmann and the regimental
band. will head for Union. Station.
The line of march will be east on L
street to New Jersey avenue. south
on that thoroushfare to Massachu-
setts avenue and thence east to the
Union Station.
A special train will be on the
tracks there, and the troops Will be
Immediately loaded. 1t will leave the
station at 1890 o'clock and travel
over the main line to Ac,otink, Va:
where one of the camp engines Of
Fort Humphreys will take il right up
TO the section assigned to the Dis
trict troops. 1t is expected that it
will get into the camp shortly after
noon, when the troops will be
promptly assigned to barracks and
the remainder of the day consumed
in settling down in their homes Tor
two weeks. The following day the
strenuous drill program which has
been mapped out by the Regular
Army instructors assigned to the
local unit will be started.
Col. Oehmann announced the fol-
lowing enlistments at the armory
Tuesday night:
william E. Chnault, James Leroy
Pumphrey Bernard p. Sellers, Charles
B. Douglas, Wallace D. Simkins,
Earle b Wheeler. Robert William
William P. Pstnam: Herbert N. Kei-
sey, Julius Amdral, Julius Morris, G.
r. Wina1, Howard Gibson, John p.
Smith. c. II. Patterson. William NJ.
Buckner, Roy l.. Lon ganecker, t. z.
Hudgeon, L. B. Sterne, NJ. NJ. Davis.
Louis S W. Williams, ". W. Day. A.
Smith, william A. Murray, Joseph
Turco, a. L. Semple, William Lerch.
G.. E. Rinehart, J. G. Afford. J. Glove,
r. l.. Stewart. John Giovi and George
l. De MGtt.