The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-04-07
Employees Are Excused Thirty
Days to Enroll in Summer
Schools Of US.
$4,000 EXPECTED TO JOIN
More Than Fifty Banks, Trust
Companies, and Other Firms
Encourage Movement.

NEW YORK. April More than half
q hundred OF the leading banks. trust
companies, life insurance companies,
Industrial. and public service corpora
lions with centers here, have made ar
rangenients for their employees to at
tend the military training camps being
arranged for Plnttshurgh. Chicamauga.
and other places. without losing any OF
their salaries.
This move on the part Of the various
corporations. which other companies
rapidly are joining. means that mere
than 1900 young men will get intensive
military training this summer.
The Military Training Camps Asso-
citation, made up of men who have aH
tended training camps supervised by the
War Department. yesterday announced
campe will he held In nine places.
Besides the camps at PlattsburE.
there will be consecutive monthly camps
AZ Fort oglethorpe. Ga. Ochickamaugs~;
san Diego, Cal: Monterey. CAL: Fort
GEORGE Wright, WASH: Fort Harrison,
Ind: Fort Sheridan, H.. San Antonio.
Tex. and Galveston Tex. More than
10000 men are expected in the camps
In the Eastern Department. 100 In the
1000 in the far Wes;. More than $3.50
already have enrolled for one or other
of the Plattsburg camps. The training
VIII cost each attendant about $50.
Corporations Excua, Men.
Among the corporations which have
agreed to give" their employ ss a month
on with pay this coming summer are:
The National City Bank OF New York,
]. p. Morgan a Co., First National
Bank OF New York. speyer q Co, Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce Of New York,
Chatham q Phenlx National Bank the
Chemical National Bank Of New York.
the Hanover National Bank of New
York, the Fifth Avenue Bank OF New
York, Northslde Bank OF Brooklyn. Ir-
wing National Bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
The National Park Bank of New
York. the Bank Of America. the Citi-
zenF Central National Bank OF New
York. the National Butchers and D-ov-
ers Bank, Bank Of the Metropolis. lin
coin National Bank. Battery Park Ma
tional Bank OF New York, Union Ex-
change National Bank of New York,
Mechanics and Metals National, Bank,
TIE National City Bank OF Brooklyn,
tie MarketsandS Fulton NationaI Bank
lyn; sherman National Bank of New
York. New Netheriand Bank OF New
York, Union Dime Savings Bank, the
New York Savings Bank.
Banks Among Them.
Guaranty frost Company OF New
York, Columbia Trust Company, the
New York Trust Company. the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company the
Equitable Trust Company OF New
York, Commercial Trust Company of
New York Hudson Trust Company.
bankers Trust Company. franklin
Trust COMPANY. Lincoln Trust Com.
pany. Metropolitan Trust Company OF
the City of New York. Broadway
Trust Company. the Peoples Trust
Company. Central Trust Company Of
New York. Unite d States Trust Com
pany.
The Mutual Life Insurance Conn
rany of Now York. the Equitable Life
Assurance Society OF the United
states, New York Life Insurancs
Company, the Travellers Insurancs
Company OF Hartford Conn.
United states Steel CORPORATION.
Standard Oil Company. of Now YORK
the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany. American Telegraph and Teis-
Ehone Connany. New York telephone
company. W. r. Grace & Co., Rogers
Feet a Co.