Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-07-06
CAMP LINCOLN
CYN0SURE CITY
Large Crowds Visit State
Mobilization Camp at
Bismarck.

Bismarck, July Camp Lincoln
yesterday was a populous little tent
city. Estimates as to size of crowd
vary from 1000 to 1000. Automo-
biles lined all Of the main thorough
fares on the south side of the
grounds and many were parked in
the field. Besides hundreds came on
the Mandan-Bismarck special
The parade grounds were fanked
on one side and an end with human
ity ten to twenty persons deep. A
goodly bunch sought out the porches
of the barracks as a better place
from which to view the dress par
ade.
Constant Stream of Autos.
Before O'Clock the crowds be-
gan to arrive. From; then until 500
p. m. there was constant stream of
automobiles, some. seven passenger
cars carrying II persons. Speeding
was not tabooed. The roads were
ideal and there we're many thrilling
brushes when cars attempted to pass.
The special arrived over the spur
at 3:45, with a capacity load evenly
divided between Bismarck and Man
dan. The train was met by boys
| from the companies of both towns.
Last Day at Fort.
That day before yesterday was
the last Sunday the regiment would
spend at Camp Lincoln was the gen.
eral feeling and this was doubtless
what brought the thousands of
friends and relatives out, despite the
scorching heat that drove many in
to the shade of the poplars that some
far-seeing man had planted about
the driveway. There they remained
until it began to ,Rcool, about S
o'clock,
The dress parade was preceded by
the guard mount.
Governor Hanna, Major steedman,
his military secretatv; General Tha-
ralson, adjutant general; Col. J. H.
Frame, the colonel's staff and the
majors reviewed the regiment.
A vast change was noted in the
men. Many went out week ago
with apple blossom compilations. The
1;co ~ ~. troooo ofton ouovod until
it was nearer crescent than a
straight line. But yesterday line af-
ter line, straight as an arrow of men
tanned like Indians passed before
Gov. Hanna.
Three Faint.
| The parade was a severe strain on
the men, who had been inoculated
with anti-typhoid serum; three
tainted and were carried from the
field on stretchers by the hospital
corps. Two others became exhaust
ed and were borne from the field on
the arms of two of their comrades.
An extra, by request, was the
blanket-tossing carnival. Rockies
were first given the pleasure of the
trip heavenward, but when the sup
ply became exhausted the captain of
the blanket squad offered to take up
anyone in the audience. Several boys
got an excellent birdseye view of
the grounds in this way. Then lit
tie terrier was honored. He didn't
like it very we'll, but he didn't make
the fuss about it that Bill, the bull
dog mascot of Co. H of jamestown
made when the boys initiated him.
He barked like drove of coyotes
and wouldn't make up with his mil
Iitiamen for some time. Yesterday
he was reported warming up.
Band Concert Pleases.
Immediately following the parade
the special left, but a thousand or
more persons remained for the band
concert by the Lisbon band, a first
class musical organization that plays
both popular and classical compost
tions we'll.
Father John Halloran, recently
ordained to the priesthood, said
mass at the old hospital building.
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