Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-14

Registration for the Plattsburg camp,
where five sessions will be held, has
reached 5000. and the committee is
confident the number of recruits will
be in the neighborhood of 10000. The
Plattsburg camp will be conducted by
the department of the East, U. S. A,
which also has charge of the work at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. The camp will
be open until August 8, three sessions
being held. There are about 800 stu
dents taking courses in the present
session, and the total enrolment for
the three is estimated at more than
5000.
The western department will have
charge of three camps. They will be
at Monterey, CAL; Salt Lake City,
Utah, and American Lake, Wash. One
session will be held at each of these
camps, the dates being set as follows:
Monterey, July 10 to August 5; Salt
Lake City, August 81 to September 16;
American Lake, August IA to Septem-
Der 9. II is estimated that IL 900 men
will attend the three camps. At Salt
Lake City 1000 students have been
receiving instructions from regular
army officers for more than a month.
Camps in Middle and Southwest.
The central department will con-
duct camp at Fort Benjamin Harri-
son, Indianapolis, Ind, and the south
ern department one at San Antonio,
Tex. Three sessions will be held at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, from July 5
to October 5. The middle West is
now taking great interest in the camps.
Business men in Cleveland, Detroit.
Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities
are working with the committees in
charge of enlistment, and from present
indications about 5000 men will attend
the sessions at Fort Harrison.
In view of present conditions along
the border, the southwest is also TAX
ing much interest in the training camp
at San Antonio. One session, running
from June IL to July 8, will be held
there. 1t is predicted that at least
$1,000 will enroll, with the likelihood
of the number reaching 5000.
Plattsburg. the original training
camp. will be kept open until Octo-
Der s. So great Is the interest taken
in the Plattsburg camp that many big
business houses and corporations are
allowing their employees to take a
month off with full pay If they enroll.
The same offer is being made by cor
porations in most of the big cities of
the country. Men from every state
in the Union will attend the sessions
at Plattsburg.
Every student who attends train
ing camp will have to deposit $50 upon
his arrival OF this IS is a deposit
on government equipment to guard the
United States against damage which
may be done to its property. The
other $25 is to pay for the recruits
board and lodging. The only other ex-
pense the recruit will have will be
$11.S0 for his uniform, exclusive of
shoes, which will bring the cost Of his
outfit to little more than SIS.
Men May Win Commissions.
Transportation expenses will also
have to be paid by the recruit. These,
with a few minor charges, will make
the cost of a month in the open ap-
proximately $50 per man.
The majority Of the men enrolling
for work in the training camps are
college graduates or students. and
army officers map out the courses OF
instruction so as to prepare the stu
dents for commissions in a volunteer
army in the event CT war. So sue
cessful was the intensive method OF
study at Plattsburg last year that
many army men hold the opinion that
those who took the course are fairly
we'll equipped soldiers now.
The first training camps were held
in 1918 and were started by under
graduates CT the colleges. The move
ment gradually grew until last year
the business and professional mems
camp at Plattsburg was attended by
1900 men. College men. professional