Evening journal., 1917-11-06
EVERY PIRATE HAS
ARMY comfort KIT
Wilmington Red Cross Sees
That Boys at Camp Dix
Have Comforts
MEN ALSO GET
WARM CLOTHING
speeIal 70 ThE EvENINd JOURNAL.

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CAMP DIX. wrightstown, N. j.
Nov. every Delaware man In the
301th Machine Gun Battalion the
crack organization ia this cantonmcnt,
now has comfort kit, a big supply
having arrived at Major Becks head
quarters as a patriotic donation from
the Wilmington Red Cross. the
government has also been generous TO
the Delaware boys and yesterday COM
pleted the distribution Of wooden uni
forms so that frosty mornings on the
drill grounds have lost their terrOrs
for the pirates"
Ten thousand new recruits, repre-
sonting the FIRST section OF the balance
Of the initial draft, are expected at
Camp Dix within a week, the vanguard
probably arriving within the next three
days The quartermastcr's depart
ment Is rushing arrangements for the
reception Of these men, who VIII come
from New Jersey, New York and Della
ware. After various delays The orders
for their movement TO the training
camp arc understood 90 have been
speeded up probably fortnight
through the intercession Of Governor
Edge with the War Department on be-
half Of the thousands Of Jerseymen
who, under orders TO be ready TO re-
port within "a hours notice, gave up
their positions and have been unable
90 procure other work because Of the
uncertainty.
BY the reimbursement OF barracks as
slgnments begun this morning, through
which each infantry company Is TO
have one and a half buildings for its
$50 men, arrangements have been COM
pleted for the absorbing Of the great
influx Of rockies" directly into their
future companies. Quarters and equip
fnent for 10000 Of the new men Will be
practically ready within AZ hours.
Captain c. j. Kalberer, Of the Bakers
and Cooks School, Is prepared TO man
the extra kitchens needed In feeding
the additional men and cots and bed
ding are ready for the dormiiories.
Contractors are speeding up work
on every unfinished section OF the
camp, where the building materials
specified by the War Department have
arrived. The contractors had planned
TO have the new 40 per cent. of the
oantonment completed this week, but
labor troubles and lack Of building ma
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finish the work.
The 5000 Camp Dix men picked for
service with another National Army
division at Atlanta. Ga, whose trans
fer has been delayed for two weeks, re-
ceived notice today that they viii go
South early next week. This announce
ment and the news from the western
front OF an actual clash between Amer
lean and Hun troops In the trenches
stirred the zeal OF the entire camp to-
day for early service lover There"
The 5000 picked for the transfer have
been considered rather as unfortunates,
IN that they were to be divorced from
this division, from which the men have
developed a remarkable loyalty, but in
view OF the fact that they are likely
TO get 60 Europe several weeks ahead
OF General kennedys men, they are the
envy OF thousands OF their strenuous
compatriOts.
Arrival and distribution. OF the FIRST
assignment Of the new Enfield rifles
today added another lit 20 the enthusl-
asm OF the infantry for battlefront
service Each OF the infantry COM
panies got 65 Of the new guns, sufn-
oient for them to use in the rifle prac-
tice which win open on the new
division range next Monday.