The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-26
NO DANGER OF WATER POLLUTION AT CAMP U. S.Army Officers and Men, Camped at Huntington,
 Are Cautious FARMER MAN SHOWN HOW DANGER IS OBvIATED Greatest Care Taken to Pre- vent Contamination How
 Offal Is Reduced
tspecial to The Farmer )


 Huntingdon, July 26.-That Captain wildurr Willing of Go. B, 1st Bat talion ! U. s. Engineers, stationed at Camp Walter H. Lee near Hunting ton Center. knew what he was talk ing about when he informed the Park Commissioners that there would be no pollution of the water supply in Beardsley Park reservoir if camp was located there for the foreign military attaches, who are to watch the coming war game, was proven yesterday When a representative of The Farmer visited the camp and was shown the arrangements made there for the prevention of just this danger.
 The camp is. ideally located on a -ridge at the foot of which is a run ming mountain brook which is capable of furnishing ample water supply for ten, times the number of men now uuartered there. The brook has been damned about two hundred yards north of the camp to provide for drinking water A sign nailed to 3 tree about twenty yards from the dam announced that visitors are not allowed beyond that point and a. guard is stationed there to enforce this regulation. It is his duty to permit only one soldier at a time to obtain drinking water in canteens. etc, and to see that none is wasted and that the utmost care is used in taking it up so that the brook will not become muddy Further down the stream at 8 point near the cook shed another, dam has been erected which makes a pool from which the water used in cooking is taken: Still further along another dam has been made at which the horses and mules yond that another pool has been pro- vided for bathing purposes and the washing of clothes.
 < Every scrap of garbage and camp waste Is burned in an if1cinerator made by Keeping circle Of stones at a white heat by burning logs of wood on them night and days Gsar- stones is rapidly reduced 70 that af- ter a time not even any ashes or resi- due is visible. Not the slightest 0dor except the pleasant one of burning chestnut wood, was apparent. A col lapsible sheet iron incinerator is also hot stone reducer is entirely SatiSfac- tory and can be erected anywhere wood and stones are obtainable.
 No waste or garbage is buried so there is not the Slightest danger of pol1uting the water supply from that source. Tt was stated, however, that to save burning large quantities of wood, which is quite expensive, that some of the garbage is given to farm CTS in the vicinity but the receptacle for it is specially constructed barrel with clamped lid and it must be talk en away by them every day or it is dumped into the incinerator and con- stunned. The soldiers are all excellent specimens of physical manhood, show ing the result of their previous train ing and discipline in their depolt- ment. their. camp is in excellent or- der, the sanitary arrangem ents per- feet to the last detail, so that from the regular army troops at least Gas it will be found that the same ar- arrangements will be made in all ths camps laid out by them) not the slightest apprehension of the danger of pollution of water supply can be entertained.