The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-17
N. Y.CAMP FOR
$4,000 YOUTHS
THIS SUMMER

New York. March 17.-The Nation
al School Camp Association, organized
| to promote the military training OF
| schoolboys of IL years and upwards,
| announced yesterday that plans were
| being made for the encampment OF
| $4,000 New York school boys next
| Summer on Staten Island, or at some
| other nearby place. The camp will
| be under the supervision of Major
| General Leonard Wood and other ar
my officers, and will be held during
July and August. The statement is
sued yesterday by the association from
| it's headquarters at 1 Broadway reads:
fEThis association was organized last
Summer and laid a plan before Gen
eraI Wood that met with his heartiest
approval. Briefly, it proposes to Or
ganize all boys of II years of age and
upward for military and industrial
training. Boys who are still attend
ing school will be organized as student
cadets. Those who have been COM
PEELED to quit school will be organ
lied as apprentice cadets.
''The association is arranging with
employers to place these boys in po-
sitions where they will 1earn-thor-
oughly 1earn-trades at which they
may earn lucrative wages when their
time they will devote two evenings a
week to study and one to military
training. When their five year ap-
premiership is completed they will be
thoroughly trained tradesmen.
1.-The organization of the boys will
begin next Saturday morning. The
armories of the Twenty-third Regi-
ment at Bedford and Atlantic Ave
nues, Brooklyn; the Firty-seventh
Regiment, Thirty-fourth street and
Fourth avenue, Manhattan; the
Eighth Coast Artillery, Ninety-sixth
Street and Madison Avenue, and the
Twenty-second Regiment of Engineers
at 168th street and Fort Washington
avenue, will be used for gathering in
the boys. They will be asked to
meet at these armories at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning. Officers from the
staff of General Wood will be at the
armory to talk to the boys and tell
them what is expected of them and
what is to be done for them. Nation
al Guard officers and men of the
PIattsburg training camp, who have
volunteered their services. will also
be on hand to assist in enrolling the
embryo soldiers.
1.-THE boys are to be drilled in the
armories after school hours one or
two days a week until the Summer
vacation opens. Then they will be
taken to camp. It will cost each
boy 20 cents a day for subsistency in
the camp and he may stay as long
as he desires, but not less than two
weeks. They will be fed on regular
army rations, which will be furnish
ed by contract to the. Quartermaster' 5
Department now being organized, and
will be trained and treated as vo1un-
teer soldiers during their life in camp.
THE United States Army is up
against it for tents and is unable to
furnish enough to shelter this army
of schooIboys. But that problem has
been solved by circus side show tents,
a number of which will be rented for
the two months the camp is to be
held. 1t had been hoped that Con-
gress would be foreTanded enough to
provide for these school camps in the
military bill. but that is deemed for
Iorn hope now SO the projectors of
this movement are going to sleep the
boys in dormitory style, only under
canvas.
Every boy will be expected to pro-
vide his own uniform and mess kit.
These will be bought by contract and
will not cost more than $3.50 or 81
for uniform and mess kit. The mess
kit will consist of white enamel ware
and will be contracted for by an en-
anel ware company. The total ex-
penses for a month at camp, including
uniform, transportation, and subsis-
tence is fixed at not over $40. Boys
of the school vacation will be accom-
modated at the contract rate of 20
cents a day. An army ration to-day
costs about Is cents day.
This week 1000 circulars print
ed in red, white and blue will be dis
tributed among the schools of New
York, particularly those in the vicin-
ity of the armories at which the work
of enrolment is to begin. AS soon
as those districts are thoroughly work
ed other armories will be taken up
and other districts organized. The
plan is to have at least a company in
every school. and organize the districts
by regiments and brigades.
although the National School
Camp Association is beginning its
work with the boys of the grammar
schools, it will not confne itself to
them. The several organizations of
high school cadets which have been
formed in this city will be asked to
affiliate and participate in the big
camp. The boys of Jersey City, Ho-
boken, Bayonner and the metropolitan
district generally will be welcomed if
they care to join.
cit is intended to make the move
ment a national one, but this years
effort will be expended in making
model organization in New Y ork. Next
year it is hoped to extend it from coast
to coast. The main idea of the asso-
citation is the industrial training of
boys to replace the depleted ranks OF
skilled workmen in the country. The
national association through it's dis
trict branches will become high class
employment agency for boys, and will
not only secure them positions, but
will look after their welfare and see
that they are properly trained in the
line they select"
PRISONERS WHO
ESCAPED TO GET AWARDS