Troops Complain Of Camp.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 1, 1913:
Fourth Brigade Says It Is Quartered in Mosquito Marsh.
Special to The New York Times.
    GALVESTON, Feb. 28.— Officers and men of the Fourth Brigade, who have been camped at Texas City, complained to-day of the ground they are forced to occupy. The officers said it was marsh land and that the stakes of the tents would not hold in the ground, falling of their own weight a short while after being driven in. Mosquitoes kept the soldiers awake all last night, and ants started two stampedes among their animals, so that double work was necessary to keep the animals quiet.
    The engineering corps, under direction of Major Gen. Carter, commander of the Second Division, went to Galveston Beach early to-day to choose a suitable camping ground. They found one. Major Gen. Carter would not say he would ask for a movement of the present camp, but the officers commanding companies and battalions said they would join in making a protest against the present place.
    Gen. Carter was instructed by the War Department to establish division headquarters for the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Brigades at Texas City. The Fifth Brigade is camped near Fort Crockett, on the Galveston, side of the bay, and has made no complaint, having dry, high ground.
    No company of the Sixth Brigade has arrived here, and only 1,200 men of the Fourth are in camp.
    Gen. Garter said this afternoon that there was not enough water for the 1,200 men, yet the remainder of that brigade and another entire brigade were ordered to camp there.
    Between 350 and 400 members of the Fourth Artillery of the Fourth Brigade, who arrived at Texas City late yesterday to camp, started a disturbance in that place shortly after midnight. They damaged several saloons. Commanding officers rounded them up. A strong provost guard was thrown out to-night.