Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-30
Camp Doniphan Is Ready to
Receive Missouri Soldiers
With Arrival of Contngens From Neghborng States Fort
Sill Will Be City 25 O0O Schedule Of Sporting Events
Being Arranged. rv.

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title, are members of Battery II, Mis-
souri, field artillery.
A number OF well-known semipro
ball players are in the ranks Of the
Misrouri supply train. G.. T. Kennedy
and Sergeant Goshen, former Kansas
university men, and Private Walp Of
Cornell, are members OF Kansas Field
Hospital No. l., Company y. First
Missouri infantry has "A champion
ship baseball team of the Missouri
Infantry league.
Among Sports Schedule.
Under the direction of Harry Lam
sing. former football captain of The
Missouri university team. tourna-
| ments, track meets. football. baseball
and basketball schedules viii be arr
ranged. This work is done IN conncc-
! ton with the committee op training
| camp activities and has the support
| of the war department
The principal competition no wis
| baseball, several games are played
each week and challenges are being
| hurled right and left.
SIX regiments Of Missouri troops
viii arrive this week -Four of the
regiments saw service on the border
| last year and two were recently or
| ganiZcd.
Tho Camp Douiphan, with the cx-
/ ception Of the field hospitals, is COM
! pleted and ready for occupation, II
vast amount of construction work Is
! being carried on. About five thou
sand men are being employed and
| there Is work for many more
Twelve regimental field hospitals
with a capacity Of SO beads each, are
I heing built In the center of :he horse
| shoe formed by the mess nalls of
Camp noniphon. TWenty-tour quar-
1 termaster supply houses, two for each
regiment, are also being built. The
latest addition to Camp Donipnan is
the ordnance detachment, which will
require five buildings.
The aviation schO,a is nearing com
pleuon. 1t includes the following
buildings Twelve hangers, each
housing six planes; ten sets of bar
racks, with accommodations for loo
men each; ten sets of officers bar
racks with accommodations for sly
officers. mess halls for each set OF
barracks; house for the commanding
/ officer; officers club building ad-
ministration building, hospital build
| Ing, post exchange building, two ga
| rage buildings, three storehouses
/ powerhouse, bakery, machine shops
| luilding aero repair shop and school
| house. The present plans for the
school for balloon observers include
! eight, buildings, but enlargements
/ will undoubtedly be made. when
completed this training school for
aerial observers win be one of tho
| largest one of its kind In the country.
| IL is not an aviation school for the
| training OF flyers. The courses Of
| fered are principally for observers,
who will direct the firing OF artillery.
| big RcmOunt station.
The remount station rs Il big thing
In Itself. yet II is only one of the di-
visions OF the bag military plant of
about SIS acres and include buildings
and shelter for ten thousand animals
and the detachment of 29S men who
perform the duties pertaining TO the
station
There will be ten plddocks. each
I able to accommodate one thousand
animals. A paddock includes a four
ucrc corral with shelter and feeding
troughs for the an|Llls. The shelter
shed is six hundred feet long and "a
feet wide, II is merely shed with
/ out stalls or fixtures of any kind.
| Each paddock has six hundred feet
of feed trough, sin hundred feet of
hay racks and forty-foot watering
trough.
There are two sets of officers bar
racks and two sets of barracks for
the detachment. Zach set of bar
racks has mess hall Four store
houses. three hundred feet In length
and ninety feet wide are necessary for
the storing of the feed. There are
! hospitals for the animals. Each OF
/ these has 1875 stalls. Wagon sheds
! and storchouses for the pack supplies
l are included. A loading platform
two hundred feet in length has been
built Then there Is an office build
Ing, guardhouse, several biacksmith
shops, school building Tor horse
shocrs and a school building for
L packers and teamsters.
Consume Much Feed.
In addition TO the work of caring
for the ten thousand horses and
mules, a school with courses in con
nection with the work of the station
is maintained and n supply train de-
partment Is attached TO the station
The estimated amount or feed re
uuired for one month at the statioi
is two million pounds of oats and flN,
million pounds of hay.
II Fnlargemcnts at the school OF fn'
will cost Sl,00O,000. Part or th'
| work is under way, but the greate
| part has not begun yet. barracks
| mess halls storehouses' school build
| inys, to accomm odate large numOe
| of men are planned.
| The building campaign VIII con
tinue several weeks, and II is NOR
/ than ukelN that new building pro