New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15

ranges to fire over, and our encampments are, as
a general rule so arranged TO offer opportunity
for the engineers to construct pontoon bridges
erect earthworks and otherwise to apply pract-
cally the theoretic training of their corps
This theoretical and practical course of train
ing for infantry, cavalry and engineering corps Is
being carried on week in and week out and con
tnues until such time volunteers for active
service overseas are called for Volunteers for
the overseas force must pass most rigid med
ica examination to prove their fitness for active
service though the examination is not now quite
so severe as at the beginning of the war, when
a man was refused account of defective teeth
and protested that ~ don't want to eat the
bloomin' Germans, want to shoot emf"
Such volunteers are passed by the medical
officers taken in hand by the General Staff
and their appointees at one of the concentration
camps. In the case of the first contingent only
one concentration camp was established, that at
Valcartier, in the Laurcntian Hills of Quebec
where $4,000 men lived under canvas for about
six weeks, establishing their camp on ground
entirely unprepared, save that it had been cleared
of standing timber. The camp at Valcartier, being
high in the hills, was decidedly cold and the men
encountered practically all the rigors of actual
campaigning for the six weeks or so before they
set sail for England In spite of the hard work
and the possibility of discomfort, however, the
militia regiments in Canada are positively en-
barrassed by the number of volunteers Offering
themselves for the second contingent, which is
to number 10000 men.
DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR
IN TORONTO.
During the early days of the war the armories
in Toronto, which have floor space of more
than two acres, were simply packed solid with
clamoring to enlist, and even now, three
months after the outbreak of hostities and
with the realization of the probable severity of
the coming winter campaign, the recruiting ser
geants busy until nearly midnight. All
regiments are overstrength, in spite of the men
who have gone to the front, and it has all been
done without posters calling for recruits without
advertisements in the newspapers nothing but
the general sentiment of the people to call the
men to the coors.
1t is worthy of note that men of all classes
have answered the call. From Montreal three
millionares' sons left with their regiments. In
Toronto millionaires gave up his COM
mand in the first contingent in rider that he
might instruct class Of officers for the second
overseas force, which class included the Corpora
tion Counsel of the city of Toronto, well
half dozen Of the most prominent men of the
city.
An exempifcation Of the feeling of Canada
came under my notice when the first detachment
of the Queens Own Rifles left for Valcartier
An old lady, nearly seventy years of age, stood
before the armores watching for her grandson,
her only living relative to out with his
company. When his file swung through the great
doors she stepped alongside and announced that
she going to walk down to the station with
him. The large and bushing private protested,
quite unavailingly that she should not walk