Evening star., 1925-08-14
DISTRICT TROOPS
START FOR CAMPS
Local Units Moving by Water
and Land to Virginia Beach
and Monroe.

Catering of arms and accouter.
ments, the shouts OF officers and men
and the rumbling of big motor trucks
drawing their trailers, gave 10 por-
tions of Washington today notice that
her citizen soidiery was departing for
Virginia Beach and Fort Monroe, Va.
to make better soldiers OF themselves.
AT two Of the armories of the National
Guard of the District OF Columbia
units were making preparations Tor
the general exodus of troops, which
will begin 1T $50 o'clock this evening.
when the 260th Coast Artillery will
leave its armory,' at Water and q
streets southwest, in motor train
and head for Virginia by way of Wa
ter street ana the Highway Bridge.
The vanguard went today in two sec
tions. The truck train OF the l2lst
Engineers, commanded by Capt. sgd
neY Morgan. left the armory at 7;3O
this morning and headed for Virginia
Beach. The supply train of the 260th
Coast Artillery, consisting of trucks
and rolling kitchens, left its armory
shortly after 10 O'Clock for Fort
Humphreys. Va. where this organiza-
tion will camp for the night. Tomor-
row this group will form a part Of the
main body and will remain with it for
the rest of the trip. preparing the
meals as the troops roll along the road
in trucks and automobiles.
Equipment Is Loaded.
Scores of the engineers and mill
tary police assembled at the l. street
armory early today started breaking
from their storage places, where they
had been for a year. tons and tons
of heavy camp paraphernalia, con
sisting of tents. cots, mosquito bars,
mess equipment blankets and other
things required in the field and
dumped IL on the pavement in front
OF the armory, where ii was loaded
on the heavy trucks and transported
to the steamer Southland. This YES
sci has been converted into a troop
transport for the occasion.
There another large detail loaded il
in the hold of the steamer under the
direction of Capt. Gohegan. All OF
this equipment. which is in addition
10 the great number of stores which
went over the road in the truck train
will be loaded before tonight
Officers and top sereeants were
busy Strengthening out their field rec.
ords. so when the troops arrive and
make camp they will have a brief
respite on Sunday before starting the
intensive training program on Mon.
day which has been mapped for the
two weeks in camp.
Details Are Completed.
Col. John w. Oehmann. command
ing the 12lst Engineers and 29th Mil
itary Police Company. was at the
armory during the day. assisted by
Lieut.. Col. Harry Gladman, his ex-
ecutive officer, inspecting the trans
fer of property and cleaning up the
details for the movement of the main
body of troops tonight. Col. Oehmann
later went to the Southland. where
he inspected the quarters and the
loading.
The first Of the main body moving
will be the 260th Coast Artillery Re
naming at Fort Humphreys over
night, they will resume the trip after
breakfast tomorrow morning, with
Richmond. as the objective. A short
stop will be made en- route for the
I&Dn meal, and supper will be served
IL the armory of the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues After resting all night
in that armory, this organization will
proceed to its camp site at Battery De
Russy, Fort Monroe, where they will
go into camp for two weeks. firing the
big guns which command the entrance
TO the Chesapeake Bay between Capes
Henry and Charles.
Will Parade to Docks.
The second movement will be that
of the 121st Engineers and 29th Mill
tary Police Company. Instructions
have been issued to the officers and
men to report at their quarters at the
l. street armorY at Z o'clock tonight
There they will don their full field
packs and form for the parade. which
will start at $50 O'Clock. Col. Och
mann announced that the right of the
line will rest at Fifth and L streets
and the organization will proceed
along New York avenue TO Sixth
street, south on that thoroughfare tc
L Street southwest, thence west tC
the steamer dock at Seventh and
Water streets southwest.
Assignment of quarters aboard the
vessel already have been made, and as
each organization goes aboard it's men
will yroceed directly to the rooms as
signed-three men to a stateroom
This loading is expected to take but a
few minutes. Shortly after o'clock
the steamer will leave on the trip down
the Potomac River and Chesapeake
Bay for Berkeley, where the troops
will be unloaded at the piers of the
Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Capt
Geohegan said that it will take slight
ly more than u hours for the voyage
and he expected to arrive at the des.
morning.
Get Special Trains.
Special trains will be on the pier
and the troops will march directly
from the steamer to the trains, which
as soon as loaded, will head for Vir.
ginia Beach, where the troops will
arrive shortly after noon. The move
ment of these troops has been timed
so as to arrive in the camp shortly
after the departure of the Maryland
National Guard, which has been there
for two weeks.
This camp. which is the rife range
of the Virginia National Guard, fronts
directly on the Atlantic Ocean, and q
period has been allotted each day for
the men to go swimming, at which
time a lifeguard will be maintained
The camp is the rendezvous of the
29th Division, comprising the Nationa
Guard of this city, Maryland and Vir
ginia. in time of emergency, and it is
for the purpose of familiarizing the
troops with the locality that they are
having their annual encampment al
this place.
Mai. Gen Anton Stephan, com
manding the National Guard of the
District of Columbia and the 29tt
National Guard Division, will not
leave until tomorrow morning. wher
he will proceed overland in the 29tt
Division headquarters automobile