The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-04
Will Probably be Completed by
Next Saturday.
Telephones Located About the Camp
Grounds No Intoxicating
Drinks To BE Sold.
THE CAMP NOT YET NAMED,

The principal work being perform
ed at the encampment grounds at
Wallace park now is the excavating
for the crematory and the stringing
of wires for the telephone service.
Thirty-two negroes are employed on
the crematory which will be ready
for use by Saturday. Surgeon Gener-
al A. r. Mccormack stated to a Sun
reporter that he had trouble in find
ing stone boulders out of which to
build the crematory. The
stones were procured from the city.
which had them piled on the rear of
the Carnegie library lot. These
stones are laid over the large exca-
walton and a fire heats them. The
garbage is poured over the stones
and is consumed almost Instantly
The street car company has hauled
several hundred ties to the camp
grounds to be burned in the ere
matory.
Each kitchen garbage can is es-
pecially constructed for this depart
ment. They hold 40 gallons and the
contents are burned every three or
four hours.
Surgeon General Mccormack said
while the grounds are in good sani-
tary condition they would be much
better when the soldiers left
Manager A. l.. Joynes. OF the East
Tennessee Telephone company. has
allowed the officers all the tele-
phones needed, which will be eight.
They will be placed as follows: One
at crematory, two at general head
quarters. one at the corral. one at
partment, one at regifnental head
quarters, one at the corral, one at
the brigade hospital and one at the
rifle range. There will be a switch
board on the grounds operated by
the signal service corps, who are
under Capt Donaldson They will
also have the long distance service.
Some of the equipment for the sig
nal service has not arrived and very
little work on il is being done to-
day.
"Wigwags" will be used for sig |
mailing. They are about the size of
an ordinary flag and the signals are
made from one hill top to another |
by dipping the wigwag to the right |
and to the left. indicating certain
A receivers puts down the |
numbers which spell words The sig |
nal service corps is a new adjunct |
to the state guards and Capt. Don
aldson says they will need much |
practice to get the signals down To
perfection. Lanterns will be used at
night
Orders were issued today by In
spector General Noel Gaines that no |
drinks shall be sold
within or near the camp grounds, /
which includes all of Wallace park. |
Under the state guard law General |
Gaines has authority in the territory |
one and one-half miles surrounding
the camp. One person who conducts |
A stand near the grounds refused to
abide by the order, claiming he had
A government license and would sell |
what the privilege permitted. He
was informed that If anything intox-
cating was dealt in that guards |
would stand duty around his stand
md not a soldier allowed to patron
lie him. He finally agreed to obey !
he order. Surgeon General McCor-
mack said the officers and governor
desired to take the same care of the
soldiers as their parents would, as
hey come from the best families in
he state. The laws governing the
state guards are also different than
hey used to be. The troops are UNI
Ter the u s. army officials and the
avs governing them are very strict.
Today several thousand rounds