HOME-READING COURSE FOR
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.)
This course of thirty lessons is offered to the men selected lot
sen ice in the National Army as a practical help in getting started
in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt tog.ve
binding rules and directions. These are contained in the lanous
manuals and regulations of the Tnitod States Army, to which this
Course is merely introductory.
l.ESSON NO. 20.
CI.OSK-OltDKK MULL
Close-order formations are seldom
used in aetual lighting; nevertheless,
they should be thoroughly mastered.
They have been worked out during
centuries of experience as the best
prompt and unhesitating obedience
trol. The fact that you and your com
However, close-order dri wi ■'*
yield these results—it will be worst'
than useless—unless it
thoroughly anti practiced wv.u snap
drill. It is one of the most essentia
steps in your training,
drills with enthusiasm,
a distinct improvement every day.
tirades ot Close-Order Oriil
the position of the soldier, which has
already been explained in lesson 4,
then you will be shown, among other
things, how to tace to the light 01
left or about in a soldierly manner,
how to salute properly and how to
march.
The Manual of Arms takes you a
step further. It teaches you how to
handle your rifle properly. It does not
however, include practice in tiling
In the school of the squad you will
execute all the movements learned in
the school of the soldier; in addition
you will learn to keep youi collect
place in ranks, to stack and take aims,
and to march as a squad. 1 he school
of the squad includes also some prac
tice in extended-order drill.
The school ot* the company carries
you still further in your training. In
the close-order drill you will he taught
-execute a number of simple but very
important movements. Most ot these
movements are by squads; that is to
say. they simply apply to a number
M* sq* ads working together, the same
commands and movements already
learned tr the school of the squad.
School of the Battalion
The school of tire battalion in turn
applies on a somewhat largei Si.ih
the movements you have learned in
tin* school of the company. The com
mands of the major will be repeated
to \ oil by your own captain, or th *u
him l y your platoon commander.
The battalion is the largest unit in
which an officer can make his com
mand heard and clearly understood bv
all the men; hence, it is the largest
There are four sections or grades ot
close-order drill which are ca1
school of the soldier, school of the
squad, school o' the company, schoo
of the battalion. The word “school
of training.
First of all, you will get the train
ing included under the "school c the
soldier.** This training is in turn di
vided into two parts: Instruction with
out arms and the Manual of Arms.
The very first thing you will learn is
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dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Seward. Alaska.
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South
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HERE
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unit in which there is instruction in
dose-order drill. Regiments, brigades,
and larger units are controlled thru
orders given to jommanding officers
which they carry out by issuing other
commands or orders to the officers or
men immediately under their control.
a very short time—you need have no
fear of the complicated movements of
the school of the company and the
school of the battalion. In reality,
these movements merely look more
complicated, because they are carried
out by larger bodies of men.
It can not be too strongly impressed
on you that the closest attention to |
your training during the first few days
A very important thing for you
to e.mmber is that this progressive
training in the close-order drill is all
based upon some very simple move
ments which you will learn in the
school of the soldier and the school of
the squad. If you get these basic
movements right so that you can per
form them exactly and promptly—and
i you ought to be able to learn this in
_
will make your whole period of ser
vice much easier and more satisfac
tory. Don’t lose your grasp on this
thought. It is of the first importance.
Put it into practice arid it will help
you to get ahead.
FIGHT HUNGER AND COLD
IN FAR NORTH 58 DAYS
NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 22.—After
battling with horrible death on the
frozen north, while marooned on a
frozen island off the northearn coast
of Alaska for fifty-eight days, E. H.
L. Mitchell has arrived here. He came
to help Uncle Sam light the Huns, but
was rejected because his feet were
I frozen.
Here is his story as he told it him
j self:
e<i them from their holdings and then
dragged them shoreward. And then,
as the last straw, the engine failed
and the boat piled up on a rock.
“But from that position I was able
to throw Hansen a box of matches,
with which he built a fire, and so
kept himself from freezing. When
the tide receded 1 managed to get
Hansen aboard with me, to help sal
vage the food. We had piled the
food on the top of the deck house
1 when the tide began to come in again,
and 1 swam ashore with a line, by
means of which I dragged Hansen
, after me.
“Three other men anil myself left
Seward, Alaska, on the gas boat Suc
cess, for the scene of a new gold strike
at Cold Bay, 450 miles to the west
ward. Charles Hansen, owner of the
boat, was oO, a Norwegian. John Lar
sen, whom he took along to help, was
well along in years, and also a Noiwe
gian. The other man was my part
ner, Tom Campbell, 45 years old, and
an experienced prospector, loin in
tended to marry a girl in Minneapo
lis. following this stampede. And
| there were two others—Tip and Top—
dogs. The boat was ud feet over all,
! and housed four in the forecastle
Dogs Were Seasick
“The waters we attempted to nav
igate are the roughest in the l’acitic.
Campbell, Larsen and the two dogs
| were constantly seasick. W hen we
i started to cross Afognek Island we
struck open water; it came on to blow
great guns and the dying spray troze
several inches thick on the weather
side of the boat. There was but one
thing to do—make for the nearest
i shelter as quickly as possible.
“The nearest shelter was Barren
I Islands. There is no holding ground
j for anchors, nor could we lind any
; leg under the largest of the islands.
| The wind was blowing eighty miles an
hour. In a short time boat and men
were sheathed in ice. ^he boat kick
ed and pitched; we were forced to keep
i the engine going full speed ahead al
| ways.
Feet Were Frozen
“It is from this point that our real
sufferings began. The island is 2b
miles from the mainland, and rough
and uninhabited. We erected a little
tent which had drifted ashore, and
set about picking up some articles that
had come in on the beach. These con
sisted of some flour, some tobacco,
and other things.
“Hansen’s feet were so badly frozen
that from that time until we left the
island, fifty-eight horrible days later,
he was unable to walk. My own feet
were frozen in places. On the third
day the tide cast up the bodies of Lar
sen and the dog Tip. There was no
place to bury them, so 1 made them
fast to driftwood by means of ropes.
On the fifth day the corpse of poor
Campbell came ashore.
“Each night the waves would tfrag
the bodies loose, and each morning 1
would be forced to drag them up on
the beach and make them fast again.
“After spending some time on the
beach l took advantage of some al
most windless weather, and rowed
myself and Hansen, with our outfit
and supplies, to the other side ot the
island, where we flight see the ships,
passing at sea, and signal them. Wc
sawr the smoke smudges of two, hut
we were never able to attract their
attention.
“The next morning we discovered
good Holding ground in the lee of West
Amutilla Island. Just a month after
we had started the weather moderat
ed, and all in the party except my
self, went ashore in the skiff. Hut by
noon the wind was blowing strongei
than ever, and directly on shore, and
! after I had eaten something I set my
j self to watch for the return of the
small boat. It was about 2 o’clock
1 when they got into the skiff and put
back, one man in the bow, another
at the oars, and Campbell in the stern.
I noticed presently that they were in
difficulties. '
“We erected a cabin of driftwood,
and when we had crawdled into it for
the first time, the gale knocked it
about our heads and nearly killed
Hansen. For the next two days and
nights we lay in wet blankets, with
out shelter of any kind. For three
weeks after that we slept under the
overturned skiff, which we had to lash
down to keep it from blowing away.
When we were not asleep, we s:*.t hud
dled before a roaring fire !> keep
warm.
“In this manner the weeks dragged
on. We had little to eat, the cold
pierced us to the marrow. So we killed
poor Top, and made a meat olf him.
But this was only justice, for l dis
covered him one day devouring the
body of Larsen.
“I made two fruitless endeavors to
reach the mainland. It was three
months after our start that I decided
to make my next attempt to cross to
the mainland. I knew that it was con
sidered impossible in a 1‘2-foot boat,
but it was death either way, and I
thought 1 had better die in a hurry.
I wanted to leave Hansen there until
I should come back with help, but he
insisted on going.
Two Were Drowned
“One of the oarlocks had broken. I
tied a rope to an empty cask and al
lowed the cask to drift toward them.
As I was paying out the line I heard
| a chorus of the most horrible yelling
! imaginable, mingled with the howl
ings of the two dogs. I looked and
saw the skiff upside down, with the
I men clinging ot it. I yelled to them
j to swim to the cask, but they stuck
* to the boat, and even as I looked the
skiff turned over and over like a
thing alive. Campbell never came up
again. Larsen, Hansen told me later,
managed to reach the boat and cling
to it until it had nearly reached the
beach. Then, numbed by the cold, he
dropped off and was drowned. Han
sen and the dog, Top, were the only
survivors.
“I started the engine going in the
hope of getting to Hansen, but could
not free the anchors. I therefore buck
“After six hours of continual bat
tling with the waves and the wind and
the tides we reached Dog Fish Bay,
were taken in by an Indian family and
fed.”
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(EraSOUSH WITH
BLISTERED FEET
MANY a miner who lui9
groaned and suffered
for years with hoots that
made his feet feel like a spe
cial punishment, has sudden
ly found that he has pretty
good feet after all, when lie
wears "HIPRESS” Roots.
Just the other day we got a let
ter from a man Inside” telling us
he hadn’t had boot comfort for
years until he tried “HI PRESS.”
There isn’t another boot made
like “mPRESS.” It’s welded
into one piece without a seam and
it outwears any other boot on the
market. **
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I'll STANCH TABI.K on
ALASKA UOl’TKS
A large number of people traveling i
to and from Alaska ports, particular
ly those making the trip for the first
time, are interested in knowing the
exact location traversed, points ol in
terest passed and features of the scen
ery. The following table showing the
distance in knots from Seattle north
ward, will prove of value. It can up- j
ply to both American and Canadian
steamships but passengers reading
same will have to divide the number
of knots given in the table by the rate
of speed of the ship as given in knots
per hour, the result giving the time
in hours and minutes required by that
ship for making the trip between any
of the important points designated.
Knots
Between Petersburg and Juneau
Patterson and Sumdum glaciers.
Between Juneau and (.'ape Spenc
—Mendenhall and Brady glaciers.
Between Cape Spencer and Yakut
—l.u Perouse and Yakutat glaciers.
Between Yakutat anti ('ape St. Kli
—Malaspina glacier.
Between Cordova and Valdez (
lumbia anti Slump glaciers.
Between Latouche arul Sewaid—1
eelsior glacier.
Between Seward and Ft. Grahar
Bear glacier.
Seal Rocks—36 knots from Sew
Between Soldo via and Anenoraf
Iliamna volcano.
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SURE, IT PAYS TO ADVERT!
BUCKSPORT, Maine, Sept.
Anna Cagley, answering an off*
wed in a matrimonial magazirn
cause of the man’s many fine pi
found it was her divorced hua
They were married for the h
time this week. Mrs. Cagley saj
never knew till she read the i
tisement what a fine man her hu
was, of they never would have J
in the first place.
Seattle to Active Pass. 93
Active Pass to Seymour Narrows 112
Seymour Narrows to Alert Pay.... 75
Alert Pay to Queen Charlotte
Sound .*••• 40
Queen Charlotte Sound to Bella
Bella .’. 79
Bella Bella to Mill Bank Sd. 14
Mill Bank Sd. to Dixon’s Entrance 194
Dixon’s Entrance to Ketchikan.... 42
Ketchikan to Wrangel Narrows.... 98
Wrangel Narrows to Petersburg.... 18
Petersburg to Juneau.... 108
Juneau to Douglas.
Juneau to Cape Spencer. 108
Cape Spencer to Yakutat. 139
Yakutat to Cape St. Elias. 149
Cape St. Elias to Katalla. 25
Katalla to Cordova . 117
Cordova to Valdez . 77
Cordova to Ellamar. 53
Valdez to Liscum . 3
Valdez to Ellamar . 25
Valdez to Latouche... 84
Ellamar to Latouche. 65
FISH PRICES
Price at noon, Sept. 18th
Seattle, as reported by the
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 15%c.
Sable Fish 4tec.
Red Snapper, 2tec.
Pickled Sable Fish, $14
bbl.
Pickled Herring, first g
$16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, i
per bbl. ^ i
Latouche to Seward. 62
Seward to Pt. Graham . Id8
Pt. Graham to Seldovia. 15
Pt. Graham to Kodiak... 106
Kodiak to Seward . 1^5
Seldovia to Iliamna . 60
Seldovia to Kenai.. <6
Kenai to Anchorage . 62
| Anchorage to Goose Bay. 9
| Anchorage to Kodiak. 255
Glaciers and Points ot Interest
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