Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-16
No BANANA
Feelings At
CAMP lincoln
Three Weeks Since Mobilization !;
Grounds Are in Perfect
Condition.
NO DISH WATER
THROWN OUT
Soldiers scrape Their Own Dish.
es; Garbage and Refuse
Burned.

i INC 13SH9suSS w wv oP~S"'
trains which will carry tho First
North Dakota regiment to the Y
front will arrive today.
n General Funston, who knows
personally many Of the officers Of
the officers of the regiment, and
who fought beside It in the Phil
ttppines, teIegraphed yesterday to
Capt. Stacy asking the condition
Of the troops. The federal officer
replied that they were in extra
good shape, fully equipped and
only waiting for the engines and
the orderSto move.
Two more baggage cars were
loaded yesterday. Each man has
packed ~ Of his things. All that
Is necessary to strike camp is to
take down the tents and take
them 10 the waiting baggage cars.
The boys can take the field at
once. They are taking with them
two carloads OF ammunition.
What modern science has done to
make the lot of the soldier healthier
and happier is illustrated at Camp Lin
coin, where, although more than a
thousand men have been in camp for
three weeks, the sanitary conditions
are today perfect.
Col. Hunter, camp inspector for the
United States army, declared, after a
'pafhstaking inspection, that no camp
which he had ever visited was in bet
ter condition and few as good.
4 No Disease.
No disease like typhoid, due to
unsanitary conditions, have develop
ed single case. The only sickness
has been that caused by the innocula-
tion against smallpox or typhoid.
Major T. G. Patterson of Lisbon,
head of the hospital corps, is in di-
rect charge. DR.. T. M. NacLachan of
Bismarck is the sanitary officer. DR..
Neal Mclean, Kenmare, is also with
the hospital corps. There are "a
men in the hospital corps.
Burn Garbage.
All garbage and all refuse is burn
ed@in crematorfes Each man scrapes
his own. dish. All Of the dish water
is carried off or poured underground.
No horses are allowed inside the
picket lines. No man is permitted to
throw any water anywhere in the
camp and no one may take food into
his tent. Flies do not find anything
to feed upon and the camp is there.
fore not popular place for them.
Mosquitoes Bother.
Mosquitoes, however, are quite a
pest This was especially true Satur-
day morning, because the shower
drove them into the tents. The hos
pital quarters are now equipped with
cots and mosquito bars covered with
netting. The other cots are packed
ready for transportation to the border
and when the regiment arrives there
every man will have an outfit like the
hospital has now.
Gov. Hanna yesterday delivered
$500 to DR.. Patterson for the use or
the hospital
No Swimming.
Orders not to permit the boys,
just vaccinated, to swim were is-
sued yesterday because some Of
those who enjoyed the cool waters
Of Apple creek Friday evening found
the next morning that it had aggrav-
ated the vaccination wounds.
The men do not have time to think
up schemes of how to keep COOL They
are kept out in the field for eight
hours day in active maneuvers and
they get the benefit of the full sun
In the evening B. v. DIS and trous-
ers have become quite popular, and
stocking feet to rest tired lower ex.
tremities.
Band Hard Hit.
Physical denominations hit the
band pretty hard, much to the regret
of all in the regiment. The daily
band concerts had become one of the
features of the camp. They are still
continued, but with IL men missing
Attempts are being made, however. to
recruit it up to its full complement of
%.
Ten per cent of each company are
given passes daily to come to Bis
marck.
No orders have been received at
the camp regarding entrainment, but,
as it has been for the last week,
everything is ready.