Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-27
GEN, WOOD BELIEVES BUSINESS
MEMS CAMP FOR TRAINING IN
WAR CAME IS BOUND TO CROW

New York, Dec. e6.-In nearly every
large city in the country hundreds OF
business and professional men, among
them some of the best known bank
ers, lawyers. brokers. merchants. ply
sicians and men in other walks OF
life, in their respective communities,
are undergoing a systematic course OF
military training. with regular army
and National Guard officers as their
instructors. The total number of men
so engaged in various parts of the
country is estimated at between TO-
900 and $1,000, of which number about
1000 are citizens Of New York City.
Estimate 1900 in Boston
In Chicago the number in training
is about 1900; in Cleveland about 500;
in Boston about 1900; in Philadelphia
about 1000; in Buffalo about 1900 and
in Baltimore about 1000. Other cities
in which larger bodies Of citizens have
taken advantage Of the opportunity to
better themselves in a malatary way
are Pittsburgh, Washington, st. Louis.
San Francisco, Providence, Denver,
New Orleans and many others.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, command
ing the Eastern department Of the
army. at Governors island Saturday
told of the increasing interest in wise
and conservative military instruction
now being manifested by business and
professional men. Gen. Wood had just
returned from a Western trip, in the
course of which he met the officers
who are directing the training work
in Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo. The
men, who are giving of their busy
hours to take the training, receive
instruction in state armories and 9TH
er places where there is a drill room.
Practically all of the instruction is
given at night. generally in two periods
of an hour or two each week.
Foresees Brigade at PIattsburg
Gen. Wood said Saturday there was
every reason to believe thae at least
10000 business and professional men
would attend the various training
camps that were to be organized next
summer. 1t was probable, he said, that
a full brigade of rockies would at
tend the camp at Plattsburg.
1t was announced that the training
camps which would be held at Fort
Og!cthrope, Ga. near Chattanooga,
Tenn, in April and probably in May
also, would he open to men from all
parts Of the country. and it was be-
! lievcd that the whole country would
be represented in the enrolment. The
first camp. it was announced Satur-
dav, would open or Monday, April g.
1916, and last four weeks, and if con-
ditiors warranted, it was said, sec
ond camp would follow the first. A
third camp for students of universities
and colleges would be organized at
OgIetnorpe on July next Pupils in
tie Senior classes of high schools will
, also be eligible for the students camp
Exrence Is $50 a Man
Tic expenses Of the camps at Ogle-
, thorpe will be about $50 per man fol
Ill" period Of four weeks. This includes
railway transportation from and to
points south of and including St
Louis and Washington. Transportation
for greater distances Will increase pro-
porticnately the total expense of thsse
who go to the camp from points in the
Northwest ard Southwest.
IN q bulletin issued Saturday from
Governors Island the following infor-