The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-09-15
AMERICAN LAKE IS
NATURAL BEAUTY SPOT
Located On a Refreshing Lake In
Al Young Forest of Christmas
Trees

oOO 600 training camp for the select
i've service heroes of Western states
is open for business here to-day.
Camp Lewis or any one of the Is
similar cantonments scattered over
the Nation, offers convincing proof
that democracy is at war.
A tangled forest of Christmas trees.
a slightly, refreshing lake and 10000
acres of land as level as a kitchen
floor. And by the elbow power of
thousands of workers. pioneer city
of bright. new unpainted wooden
buildings, disappearing in the dis
lance in a seemingly endless line.
That's the sort of home the Gov
eminent has prepared for the $4,000
boys from Alaska. Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming.
Utah, Nevada and California.
The wonderful beauty and novelty
of it all will chase away homesickness
of the past few weeks and mountains
of chow" prepared by the best
army cooks in the West. will tickle
hungry stomachs almost as much as
the famous food that mother used
to make"
The scant green" line-the first
FIVE per cent of the draft quotas
already in camp. There are about
2500 of the boys.
Numerically, they didn't even
make dent on the surface. What
are $500 men compared, for instance.
with 10000 workers who tumble off
their own special train every morn
ing at the camp and swarm like ants
over the various phases of uncom-
pleted construction
When the entire 10000 finally ar
rive, however, these soldiers-to-be
will occupy the center of the stage.
The thrill of Camp Lewis grips
you in Tacoma. l6 miles away-Ta-
coma full of officers and soldiers
hurrying, quickstep. on their i'm
portant errarfds. or sauntering by
threes and fours, off duty. seeing the
new sights of the city.
You are drawn irresistibly to the
auto station, from which fleet of
cars operate a ten-minute scedule to
the lake at "four-bits one way"
You get the whir of the big business
here before you reach the reserva-
ton.
There are countless vehicles of all
calber, from flivvers to heavy, cum
cersome trucks, whizzing along the
asphalt highway. Speed laws are
shattered, and it's days wonder
that something hasn't happened.
You pass Camp Murray, four miles
from Lewis. 1t was home for regu-
lars, guardsmen and engineers before
they left for Somewhere" and it
still retains fair-sized quota of men.
waiting at the call.
At the entrance of Camp Lewis
abig sign tells you: This is a
reservation under military control.
Sentries are on duty. You should
halt on command. You promise
Yourself that you will do just what
the sentries tell you, with no back
talk A sentry with bayonet fixed
90 capable looking weapon. is no
man to get foolish with.
A dash down the entrance lane and
halt before the administ ration
building. You gasp at the amazing
slze of operations here and wonder
u you could ever walk over the whole
camp.
Some Oampl" is the involuntary
cry of every newcomer. And some
camp it is. It is worth a day or a
week of any mans time TO see the
splendid enthusiasm, the seriousness,
'ne speed and the vast organization
OF Lewis.
trains with long strings of cars.
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