Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-11
CTTY'S BIG MEN PLUNGE
INTO WORK OF TRAINING
AT MILITARY CAMP
Spirit of Hard Work and De-
mocracy Animates Plattsburg
Grounds Where Volunteers
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From a star Correspondent

BUSINESS MEMS MILITARY IN
sTRUCT1oN CAMP, Plattsburg, NJ r.
Aug. 11.-Mayor John Purroy Mitchell,
auartered in tent with two New York
policemen and with the manager Of the
Princeton Glee Club of two years agoI
That is the typical spirit Of the great
military training camp for business and
professional men which opened here yes
terday. and which scores of prominent
| Philadelphlans are attending. The polioe-
men are in the tent as members Of the
| camp, and in nothing Whatsoever of
| 'copper" capacity 1t Is simply the
! chance Of the allotment of six men to
each tent in the order in which they pre-
scented themselves to the registration Of
hcers.
General Leonard Wood arrived in camp
late last night and talked to the men
between the first and second drill periods
this morning. Captain Dorey, Of his
staff, Is commander of the camp, but
it Is expected that General Wood will
make frequent visits to supervise the
work as much as possible.
The camp is one day old. but most
of the 1900 men who hope to be some-
what efficient soldiers in months time
are quite sure today that they have been
here a week. For most of them yester-
day was the longest day of their lives.
At least half tumbled off the train at
$50 o'clock IN the morning, about the
earliest they had been up since they
were UP so late and until taps" sounded
at 10 o'clock in the evening.
HARD WORK AHEAD.
There was scarcely second that was
not devoted to strenuous labor of some
sort. -..
Nor did the work seem hard, perhaps
because many of the men here are ac-
customed to using their brains and leav-
ing manual labor to others,
A hundred different trips TO various
camp centres for different portions of
equipment during the morning. with |
two-hour drill in the manual OF arms In |
the afternoon and similar drill in the |
evening made even the sturdiest ones ad- |
init at the close Of day that they had |
had all they cared for.
The camp itself is composed Of eight
double rows of 13 tents each housing
six men. The company streets run four
on each hand, with the quarternaster
and mess tent kitchens In between. In
front are the officers tents and about
200 yards beyond the supplying waters
tie city by itself, for in the rear are
tailor and barber shops, a general store,
numerous other little counters on which
are displayed about everything a man
may have forgotten TO bring with him
There Is no canteen, for the camp is to |
Be a dry camp, and even private supplies
OF liduor in tents are forbidden. In the
Y. M. c. A. tent are located the camp
postoHicet numerous writing tables and
magazine files. 1t is thronged most of the
time and is the relaxation centre
DRILL ARoUsEs INTEREST
One of the features at the camp has
been the success of the medical examina-
lions. Ninety-nine per cent. of the men
have been found to be physically sound
and but a few sent home as detectives.
A majority Of the men have been or are
planning to be inoculated with the anti
typhoid serum,
The drill yesterday afternoon opened
he eyes of even the officers In charge
AS a whole. the would-be soldiers | {
Caught on" to the manual of arms even l
more readily than the college students {
nave been able to do In their camps.
which have been held from time TO time ]
Turing past summers. The enlisted men J
we're enthusiastic. One remarked, "For a
lunch of rockies they have got me guess- I
ns; they have got more In their heads !
II an hour than we can push In the aver S
lge recruit In week. I
The drills have Afforded much amuse- \
nent In one way or another. Ham" S
.lsh former Harvard football captain
rot bad crack on the head when son,o
ealous student of things miJitory,
tarted practicing Shoulder arms" win. y
ut looking to see who was behind him 4
mother student knocked himself verv
early unconscious when he hit his GUN
cad with the rifle after he had been in
tfue'ed @ oy his officer not to duck his p
cad when he shifted his rife '''' r
The regular work of the camn haze, r
ms morning with reyeillo at 8 o'cIocE D
rom now ON there will be no lets,,T 80 nm !,
i the camp closes on September b