Bomb . Engi igC amp In ihe wee sma hours on the morning subsequent to the 1921 final ball a noble little band of thirteengathered at the Lexington terminal and began a never-to-be-forgotten journey. Wild Bill Drewryand another soldier—Old Taylor—led the contingent, and under the able guidance of these two thestudent engineers reached Camp Humphreys as per schedule, and carrying suit cases upside finally become oriented, they were assigned to quarters and other things. From then on it was nearly all work and no play. A. A. Humphreys is situated about seventeenmiles from Washington;

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Bomb . Engi igC amp In ihe wee sma hours on the morning subsequent to the 1921 final ball a noble little band of thirteengathered at the Lexington terminal and began a never-to-be-forgotten journey. Wild Bill Drewryand another soldier—Old Taylor—led the contingent, and under the able guidance of these two thestudent engineers reached Camp Humphreys as per schedule, and carrying suit cases upside finally become oriented, they were assigned to quarters and other things. From then on it was nearly all work and no play. A. A. Humphreys is situated about seventeenmiles from Washington; it covers ten square miles, lies six feet in dust, and is shaded by thousands ofinvisible trees. A more ideal spot could not have been found for an engineer camp, however; Humphreysis very close to the office of the chief of engineers, any size and kind of river craft can dock there, afour-mile spur connects with a main line railroad, the Washington-Richmond highway skirts the northernedge, there is

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