The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-07-17
Main Camp Will lbe on South
Side of Wallace Park.
Crematory for Garbage Ordered
Advance Detachment Arrives
Here August 4.
INSPECTOR GENERAL PLEASED

Inspector General Noel Gaines, of
Frankfort, and Col A. T. McCor-
mack, of Bowling Green, arrived this
morning to lay of the encampment
grounds for the forthcoming summer
camp of instruction of the Kentucky
State Guards at Wallace park. Both
are prominent state militia officers,
and spent the morning at the park
with Supt. A. s. Thompson, of the
City Railway company. selecting the
sites for the various sub-camps. This
afternoon they are again hard at
work and will return home tonight.
The encampment is to be a much
larger affair than generally suppos-
ed. 1t will cover large portion Of
the grounds surrounding Wallace
park proper, little of which will be
touched.
There will be the main camp-the
regimental camp composed of nine
company camps-a band camp, hos
pital camp, the brigade headquar-
tiers, signal corps and commissary.
In addition there will be a corral for
sixteen or twenty horses.
The regimental camp will be about
where the gun club grounds are now
located, on the southern slope of the
hill, and facing it will be the brig
ade headquarters. There will be In
the main camp nnie companies of
infantry, the band, and such things.
A small pond near the grounds is TO
be filled in Immediately.
The hospital will be located
around on the side of the hill to-
wards Mayor Yeiser's home and the
kitchens will be down near the bot
tom of the hill, near the main camp.
The commssary, where all stores
and provisions will be delivered,
will be in the northeastern corner
of the park, near the street car line.
The corrals will be over towards
the road This is a rough general
plat of the camp as it will appear
three weeks hence.
Inspector General Gaines is de-
lighted with the site. Today the
street car company gave orders for
the immediate clearing of the
grounds, and all changes necessary
to prepare for the coming of the
troops. Supt. Muscoe Burnett will
have an extension of water mains
made Immediately. The pipes now
extend to Wallace park, but connec-
tions will have to be made for all
nine of the company kitchens and
the band cuisine.
An advance detachment of about
dozen men of the Second regiment
will arrive August /, and complete
the camp in pursuance of the plans
made by Inspector General Gaines
today. These soldiers will have
week in which to do their work, and
it is believed week will be suif-
cient.
The encampment this year, ac-
cording to Inspector Gaines, is to
have something never before under
taken at a Kentucky military camp
"a garbage crematoy. Col. Nc
Cormack, who has charge OF the
hospital and sanitary departments
of the militia, said that since the
Russia-Japanese war began, great
deal had been learned by civilized
countries about warfare More men
have deed from disease than from
bullet or bayonet in past wars, but
the war now drawing to close has
fully demonstrated that 1t was all
unnecessary, and that sanitation will
save thousands of lives. For this rea-
son the military camps of the future
will boast of every possible sanitary
precautions one of the greatest of
which is the garbage crematory.
The incinerator for the state
camp here will be located down In
the woods and all the garbage from
the camp will be destroyed in II as
rapidly as It accumulates. 1t is ex-
pected that the camp this year will
be the healthiest on record. 1t
is the purpose of the OIL
GERS to make 1t so as near as possible,
at any rate. Col. Mccormack today
let the contract for the stones that
are to be used in building the crema-
tory, and 1t will be ready for use the
first thing when the Second regiment
arrives August z.
The state guard now has a fine