Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-09-13
CAMP DODGE ARMY
AFTER KAISER BILL
Breezy Letter From Iowa Can
tonment Describes New Sol
dier's Sensations.

Lit mere all -. X. Friday night and
have been here ever since, expect
to stay some longer. I'll have to
admit I rather like it, altho there
isn't man in this barrack l have
ever seen before. Eugene Wathter
is in the building across the street,
however The grub is plain, good
and plenty.
This sure is some camp, over four
miles long, with everything modern,
one paved street the full length and
those graded streets that are finish
ed are oiled.
Bertel, Peterson and l hiked out
to the north end this afternoon,
climbed the hill and gave the camp
the once over. For the first time
began to appreciate in small way
what old Kaiser Bill was up against.
This. one of sixteen camps, follows
the foot of hill or rather bluff
and all we could see was roofs,
roofs, roofs About mile from the
north end and to the west are the
stables for the cavalry and artillery;
little matter of eighty acres.
The place has a complete sewer
and water system, using in the sew
ers tile up to thirty inches in diam
eter and the water system is of steel
wood-stave pipe; the largest pipes
have seen are ten inches which are
pretty good size water mains.
Less than one-quarter of the
1,,xsI Ixr
tho the majority are very nearly SO.
1t has been an undertaking wor-
thy of anyones notice all right. Up
seven thousand men (civilians) EN-
average of one hundred cars of ma
terial every day and the pay roll
ran somewhat over $25O,000.00 per
week. AS yet we have no heat, but
this is being looked aftel "as fast as
alone, according to the newspapers,
you look are ditchers, steam rollers,
concrete machines, steam engines,
and. graders, brick >. layers :carDen-
| ters, plumbers, muckers and every
| tradesman connected with the build
1
say action, l mean some action, top
speed, in fact.
| forgot to mention that at the
north end of the camp to the west Of
the buildings down on the fiat is the
material yard. should say about a
mile and half or more long and
about half or three quarters OF, a
mile wide. Lumber, roofing, sewer
tile, water mains, steam pipe, every
thing for building piled in great or
derly RANKS.
Between the stables and the ma
aterils is little country town,
dwarfed, absolutely dwarfed. 1t
seems to be shrinking in sort of
fear from all the noise and excite
ment going on around it.
| The men that came on the first
bunch are a mighty fine looking
bunch of fellows and none of them
are grumbling as one would expect.
One of the prominent young attor-
neys from Minneapolis was policing
streets this morning. I've forgotten
what his name is, but it is one that
you have heard of, am sure. Also
John w. Gates son is washing his
own dishes along with the rest of
us. So it is really no disgrace to be
a private after all.
/ haven't seen any of the James
town officers as yet, tho. Geo. Russ
Of the Bismarck Bank, is captain of
the supply company of the 352nd
Infantry. OF the fellows who came
with me there are five in the Artil-
llery, one in the signal corps and two
in the engineers, as follows:
Durkin- Artillery, Battery D.
| Broten-Artillery, Battery E.
.Bertel- Artillery, Battery F.
Peterson Artillery Battery F.
Clawson Battery F.
9Th Engineers Signal
Corps.
Merkle- -313th Engineers Com
pany. B.
The order of the day is, for the
engineers, as follows:
First call-6:00 A. M.
Reveille, Is calesthenics m $3.50
A. M.
Breakfast 700 A. M.
Sick Call-7:4O A.. M.
School Of So1dier-8:00 to $3.50
"A. M.
l.11:3O A. M.
Dinner-12:OO M.
School Of Soldier or Conference
1890 to 800 P. M.
Recall-3:O0 p. M.
First Call Retreats 40 P. M.
Assem- $50 P!4 M. & s; d
I$ Retreat-5:5 p. N.
Il Supper---6:OO: p. N.