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Show Busy Days Are Ahead at Fort 3 $ S o n& i Commander Issues Routine Orders MAJOR WILLIAM C. ROGERS, commanding officer of the new Forty-second infantry, and Captain Robert J. Bin-ford, Bin-ford, yesterday appointed regimental quartermaster for the Twentieth. ! i s SCTZJ; fel rftfSiSggrSvrSa 1 ;f - V III fjmms&M& If J - H Work of Whipping Regiments Regi-ments Into War Service Shape Begins Tomorrow. REAL work of preparing soldiers for war service on the European battle front will begin at Fort Douglas tomorrow. With the first call of reveille, intensive inten-sive training will be inaugurated that will keep the hundreds of officers and men now garrisoned at the fort busy from the break of day until dark every night, except Sundays and holidays, from now until the brigade organization organiza-tion is completed to war strength and trained sufficiently to move forward to a concentration camp in preparation for dispatch to the front. Orders issueu yesterday ov Colonel Alfred Hasbrouck, commander of the Twentieth infantry and brigade commander com-mander at the fort, provide work of the most intensive sort for officers and rqen that will occupy every minute of their time. It is to be dril, drill, drill from 7:30 to 1 1 o'clock each morning and from 1:15 to 4 o'clock each afternoon every day save Saturdays and Sundays. Saturdays Sat-urdays will be inspection days, when the men, the barracks and all equipment will be carefully inspected by the commanding com-manding officer of the fort. On Sundays Sun-days the soldiers will be expected to attend church at 10 a. m. and 7 p. m., but during the remainder of the day they will be left to follow their own inclinations as far as is consistent with military regulations. Busy Days Are Ahead. Already the officers assigned to the new regimental organizations designated designat-ed as the Forty-second and Forty-third infantries are preparing for the. organization organ-ization and drilling or their commands, i The actual division of men to form the j " skeletons ' ' of the new regiments has not been made, but this is to be done just as soon as practicable, and then the work of recruiting up the companies to war strength and teaching the ''Tookies" to be soldiers will be taken up under company, battalion and regimental regi-mental organizations. Major W. C. Rogers, the new commander com-mander of the Forty-second infantry, and Major Lawrence B. Simonds, commander com-mander of the new Forty-third infantry, infan-try, are planning the details of their organizations so that all will be in shape for real hard work just as snon as the division of men can be made and recruiting can be gotten under way. By an order issued yesterday by Colonel Hasbrouck, Captain Robert J. Binford. Twentieth infantry, is made regimental quartermaster of the Twentieth, Twen-tieth, to succeed Captain A. O. Seaman, Sea-man, who has been transferred to the new Fortv-seeond infantry. Captain Binford has assumed his new duties. Colonel Kasbrouck has ordered that guard mount be changed to 5 o'clock each afternoon. To the general public the change will be welcome, as it is more convenient to visitors to get to the post to witness guard mount in the late afternoon than at 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning. Under the changed order, or-der, guard mount will be followed by evening retreat, which affords an opportunity op-portunity for visitors to see all the soldiers gathered together for the ceremony cere-mony of firing the sunset gun and lowering low-ering the flag for the night. Prepares Busy Programme. Just how busy the boys at the fort are going to be can be judged from a perusal of the service call orders issued by Colonel Hasbrouck. Work will be: gin with the firt reveille call at 5:15 in the morning, followed by march call at 5:25 and reveille and assembly at 5:30. Mess call for breakfast will come at 5:50, followed bv stable call at f.i:2f, sick call at 6:30, first, drill call at 7:20, assembly for drill at 7:30, recall from fatigue at 11:30, first sergeants' call at 11:45, mess call for dinner at 12. fatigue call at 1, first call for drill at 1:05, assembly for drill at 1:15, stable sta-ble call at 4:15, recall from fatigue at 4:35, first call for guard mount at 4:35, assemblv for guard mounting at 4:50. first call for retreat at 5:25, assembly as-sembly at 5:35, retreat at 5:37, mess call for supper at 6, tattoo at fl, call to quarters at 10:45, taps at 11. This means everybody in bed anil lights out. On Saturdays, which will be inspection inspec-tion days, the first call will be at 8:20 in the morning and assemblv will be at 5:30 for the inspection work. On Sundays church call in the morning morn-ing will be at 10 o'clock and at night at 7 o'clock. On Sundays and holidays there will be no reveille, and mess call will be at 6:45 a. m. This gives the boys a little longer to sleep on Sundays, Sun-days, after the hard "grind" of drill work during the week and turning out of bunks at 5:15 every morning. A school for squad leaders will be conducted each afternoon from 3:30 to 4 o 'clock, and during this time the squad leaders will be given Bpeeial instruction in-struction by their officers as to their important work in tiio training of squads. Many Are Accustomed. The programme of work outlined is not new to the members of the Twentieth, Twen-tieth, who have been following this daily routine of intensive training for more than three years on the Mexicrrti border, but to tho new recruits who will be gathered in to fill up the new regiments it won t be any vacation affair. af-fair. These are wa r times, however, and under the call of the president for men to go to France to fight advantage advan-tage of every moment of daylight has to be taken" to prepare the vast war army of men which will go to the battle fronts in Europe. Today at the fort will bo a quiet day and everyone will have an opportunity to rest up "and prepare for the strenuous strenu-ous work of tho week that lies before them. The tnsk of straightening: out supplies sup-plies and equ ipmont in officers ' quarters quar-ters and in barracks lias not been finished, fin-ished, anil some will hfivo to work today to-day gnttiiu: their quarters straightened, but there, will be no real "war work" at the fort todav. |
