The Washington times., 1916-04-30
last OF TENT pegs
BE|NGDR|VENTODA
At WOMEN'S CAMP
Everything win Be Ready for
600 Students Due Tomor-
row by Nightfall.

Tho last OF the tent pegs are beinI
driven today at the National Tra'ninl
Bchooi camp. which will open tomorrow
morning with about 600 women students
District line In Maryland. In Connect
eut avonre. win by nightfail be entire
" pitched and In share for the infiu,
Of the women and girls.
At noon today all that remained to b
done was the erection OF n few tents II
the school unit"
When completed the camp viii con
sist OF q row Of headquarters tents
fronting on Connecticut avenue begin
ninx at Thornappis street and runninl
vc Underwood street.
Camp Proper Behind.
Behind "officers Row." In front Of
which the fiagpole and the bandstand
have been erected, stretches the caimT
proper. consisting OF sixty tents ar.
ranged in four company streets, with Q
huge mess tent and bath tents.
ACROSS Thornapple street TO the north
In another meadow. have been pitched
the tents Of the school units" These
are grouped In front OF a huge AS
sembly tent. seating 500 people. They are
occupied by the Red Cross instructors
and the lecturers.
Visitors were permitted about the
camp today, but the lid win go on" to.
morrow morning when the organization
OF the school begins.
The regular camp routine will be In
effect Tuesday morning.
The ROT ON raj rms, oftyAanfa mi raj
tomorrow morning at o'clock. and will
enter upon the course under strict dis.
cipline. with no social activities.
The routine OF the camp Will bs
broken at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
when President Wilson will deliver the
address of welcome to the students on
the occasion of the formal Rag raising
at $40 O'clock
At the flag raising Mrs. George Dewey
Mrs. Hugh L. Scott. and Mrs. George
Barnett will officiate. representing the
Mrs. Josephus Daniels. Nrs. Robert
Lansing. and Mrs, Champ Clark have
been named n special reception COM
miftee for the fiag-raising celebration.
~ Three Hundred Day Students.
In addition to the go camp students
there will be 800 day students. who will
not live at the camp During the day
IOWGNCT. tHCI Will NC NfDtndp.6 u I0t
strict routine Of the school.
The students will be indicted into tn,
routine of camp life tomorrow. Tn,
real work of the camp will begin Tues
day with a lecture course.
The public will be admitted to tn,
lectures daily between $3.50 and o'ciocl
The lecture course will open Tuesda,
with addresses by Franklin d. Roose
veat. Assistant Secretary of the Nav,
and Nine. Slavko Grouitz, wife of tn,
Serbian minister. Wednesday the speak
ers are to be John Barrett. director gen
eral Of the Pan-American Union, an,
DR.. A. . stimson Of the Public Heaitl
service.
Among others who will speak are Hen
~ Breckenridge. who recently resigne,
as Assistant Secretary of War; Charles
J. Bonoparte. Drexel Biddle, DR.. Nevi
M. Hopkins. Frederic Huidekoper, Judg,
sydney Ballou, DR.. 4. A. Grosvenor o
Amherst College. and Miss Mabel Board
man.
Will Live at Camp.
Mrs. George Barnett, wife of the com
mandant of the marine corps, Is to iv
at tins camp. and 1t to have a distin
guished woman of national reputation
as tent guest. whose name will not b,
announced until after the school ha
actually been started.
Mrs. Genevieve c. Thompson, daughte
of tho Speaker; Mrs. Henry B. JOY. o
Detroit. Mich; Mrs. Mary L. Tucker
and other prominent women will b
among the resident students. Mother
of sore of the younger students will at
lend as day students.
Mrs. Theodore North Mclaughlin
president of the District Red Cross.
to have Red Cross membership tent.
AffanAtnar hA Are
women from Massachusetts. Michigan
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and from as far distant as Georgia an,
Louisiana.
During the subsequent two weeks tn
enrolment will include eleven from Sa
CAL; seventeen from Savannah. Ga.
six II ON Portland. Me-; forty-five fron
Philadelphia; twenty-five from Boston
and thirty from Baltimore.
Official Routine.
The official routine of the camps--not
that only fifteen minutes is allowed 70
dressing-is as follows;
3 Reveille, $50 a. M. setting-up exer
else. 6:i5, formation; roll call. 1870 for
nation; breakfast. 1880; police call,
sick call. drill, 8, formation; classes
$50 to 1880; dinner, 1880 p. m. forms
tiOht NiaSSSSs lsou " SOW lcCluEts IA
sembly tent. $3.50. formation; recreation
8; retreat, 6:15, formation: dinner Ga
formation; entertainment. includin
music and illustrated lectures, 1880; rec
3, reation. $40; tattoo roll call, o; tapi
$3.50.
For the accommodation of the da
students who are not allowed In tn
mess tent, Rauschers has built lunch
con pavilion opposite the camp on Con
necticut avenue, where arrangement
ere to be made for feeding from 800 I
coo persons day.
The construction of the camp schot
hos been under the direction Of a CON
mittee consisting of Mrs. Hugh L. Scot
chairman; Mrs. George Barnett Mr.
Gibson Fahnestock. Miss Elizabeth
Poe, Col. Charles Doyen. Y, S, NJ. c.
Capt Thomas ii. Brown, u. IS. M. G.
Maj, George T.. Ahern. u. S. A., retired
DR.. Archibald NJ. Fauntleroy, y. s. n
George Oakley Totten, jr.. and Dl
William w. Davis,