Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

High praise for the manner IN which
the 12lst Engineer Regiment was
moved aboard The steamer from this
city to Norfolk during the recent en-
campment period was contained in
letter received by Lieut.. Col. j. S.
Upham. adjutant general. from the
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company.
On Sunday. August 16, 1881" the
letter says, Eve had the privilege of
transporting on our steamer District
of Columbia from Washington, D. C.
TO Berkeley Va. the National Guard
Of the District Of Columbia, numbering
approximately 492 officers and men,
en- route to the Virginia State Ride
Range at Virginia Beach, Va.
The facility with which this large
body of men embarked on our steamer
and were assigned to their respective
quarters gave every evidence that the
movement of these men had been care
fully and intelligently planned by the
commanding officer. While en- route
their conduct was excellent. and no
damage whatever was done to the
steamer or its equipment"
With the return to the city of all the
units which took their annual training
period, the various armories became
DuSy places again. DIS ILIC OLSdIllZd llOIlo
began their new armory drill year
Recruiting was begun again by some of
the units. which do not have the num-
bers allotted to them. and the medical
center began functioning with renewed
activity, under the direction of Maj.
George Joseph Allen, director, and
senior medical officer of the local
guard.
Under the new scheme Of things all
of the armory medical work is done IL
the medical center, leaving the organi-
cation medical units free for drill
work number of recruits were eX-
amined last Tuesday night. and
scores of men came in for their in
jections Of typhoid serum.
Maj. Allen, on whom rests the re-
sponsibility of keeping the troops in
healthy condition. has always insisted
that all members take the typhoid
serum as soon as their are enlisted,
with the result that when the organi-
cation goes to camp none of the men
can take time out from drills because
Of sore arms due to injections while
in the camps.
While the encampment season for
1881 has just closed, plans are already
being discussed for the places which
will be used next year for the training
of local troops, it was said at the bri-
gade headquarters. 1t also was indi-
Gated that the decision as to where the
encampment will be held will be made
by october i. next.
The matter of training camps was
discussed during the week by Maj.
Gen Anton Stephan, commanding the
prising the militia organizations of
oil ond tho Ctatoc of Morylo1d
and Virginia and who also is COM
mander of the local militia brigade,
with Maj L. NJ Sylvester, U. S. infan-
try. who has been detailed as senior
army instructor of the District of
Columbia Militia. and as instructor
of the goth Division Staff. Mai. Sill
vester relieved Lieut.. Col Charles B.
Elliott. infantry, who was ordered to
duty at the tank school at Fort George
G. Meade, Md.
While the camp sites have not been
decided upon. there is some discussion
of sending the l21St Engineers next
Summer to Camp Albert C. Richie at
Cascade, Md. This has proved one of
the most popular camp sites with the
enlisted personnel as there are num-
Der of Summer resorts nearby which
the men may visit when they are off
duty in the evenings. The Virginia
Beach camp site is not looked upon
with much favor, because of the loca-
ton on fiat land. and it was said that
the State of Virginia is considering
abandoning the site.
The Maryland camp is located in the
Blue Ridge mountains and, the State
has spent considerable money in build
ing it as a permanent militia camp.
To the State funds have been added
thousands of dollars from the Federal
Governments militia appropriations.
Construction now going on at the camp
is for the purpose OF providing an area
large enough for the camping OF
brigade, so that all of the Maryland
units may take their field training at
the same time during the Summer.
Pvt. William C. Hammett has been
ordered promoted to the grade OF
corporal in Company A, l2lst Engineers.
The following promotions have been
made in Company A. 12lst Engineers,
upon the recommendation OF the COM
pany commander:
Corp. Olaf w. Christopherson to be
sergeant and private, first class; Ernest
J. Ogle to be corporal.
Private, first class, Caspar M. Roamer
has been ordered transferred from the
active to the reserve list of the 18th
Division Military Police Company on
account Of business interference with
the performance of military duty.
The following officers have been
granted Federal recognition by the
militia bureau: First Lieut.. Harold w.
Kinds, V29th Division Aviation, Balti-
more: First Lieut. Richard H. Baker,
chaplain, 10th Field Artillery. Balti-
more; First Lieut.. Wylie M. Faw, jr,
Medical Corps, Fifth Infantry, Balti-