Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-22
PLANS FOR MOVEMENT
OF ALL THE TROOPS
Greatest Ever Scheduled In Coun.
try's History.
ASSEMBLED AT 1881 POINTS
Some Conception OF Magnitude Of Task
Confronting American Rail-
way Association


following:
Plans for the largest troop movement
ever scheduled in the history OF this
country are now being perfected by
the American Railway Association at
the request of the United States
Government. Altogether, 6S7, 900 men
will have to be transported 10 the
various contonments that the govern
ment is building to house the new
National Army. The movement VIII
start September 5th Between that
date and September 9th the railroads
will complete the entrainment of 2OO,-
, 900 men, or approximately 80 per cent
of the total number scheduled to be
moved TO the various training camps.
II is expected that a second move
ment of approximately 100000 men
will begin on September 18th, con-
tinuing for four days thereafter. and
a third movement of the same size
on October 3rd.
Some conception of the magnitude
| of the task confronting the American
Railway Association in preparing
| schedules that will assure the safe
and prompt transportation of these
armies without interfering with regu-
| lar traffic may be CLEANED from the
| fact that to cover merely one field
| army of 10000 men requires 6,229
| cars, made up into S66 trains, with
| as many locomotives and train crews.
Il vI.t I'D -
| the 1000 recruits for the National
| Army. the railroads have been asked
Il to supply transportation for the $780,
| 600 members of the National Guard to
| their training camps This National
| Guard movement has already started
and will continue in increasing vol
l ume until all have been moved.
| A bulletin, covering the movement
| of the National Army to the training
| camps and explaining the plans which
! the government wants carried out,
has been issued for distribution to the
n various railroad officials of the coun-
1 try. That bulletin is as follows:
I Assemble At 1881 Different Points.
| THE citizens selected to form the
j National Army will begin to move to
| their respective training camps on
| September 5th. The number to be
selected stands at present at $4,000
| men,
-Four thousand, FIVE hundred and
thirty-one points in the United States
have been designated by the Provost
| Marshal General as points of local
| concentration, at one of which each
individual will be required to report
| at stated time and from which the
parties will proceed by railroad to the
cantonment to which they have been
| assigned
| THE Provost Marshal General,
| through the State authorities (the
| Governor. Adjutant General, etc.
| will retain control of these men until
| they are placed upon the trains desig-
/ mated, and will designate man in
each party to be in charge of it from
| each local concentration point to des-
| tination
| 1.-THE American Railway Association
| has been directed to prepare sched-
| ules for the movement of each OF
| these parties from originating points
| to destination. These are being pre-
1 pared by the Passenger Association
in conference with representatives of
| the Operating Departments They
| will show the date and hour at which
trains, either regular or special, may
| be expected at each point of local
concentration to receive the men de-
| parting from such point, together with
| schedule through to destination in
| each case.
| When these schedules have been
i approved by the Quartermaster Cen
eral, they Will be furnished from this
Office to all railroads and others in
terested in the movement
THE first movement will consist,
| approximately, of 80 per cent from
each local concentration point, to-
tai of about 100000 men. 1t will be-
gin on ednesday September 9Th, and
entrainment is to be completed on
Sunday, September 9Th
Meal Tickets For All Recruits.
1.-THE individual in charge of each
party will hold tickets for each mem
Der of such party and will also be
furnished with meal tickets. each hav-
ing the face value of sixty cents, suf-
ficient in number to provide for the
food of all the men under his charge
/ in preparing schedules, due re-
| gard will be paid to the necessity for
| providing for the feeding of these
men at convenient points, either by
/ use of eating houses, dining cars, or
by furnishing box lunches on the
train The meal tickets are redeem
| able al their face value on presenta-
ton to the Department Quartermaster
at the headquarters of the department
| in which they are used.
Eating house proprietors at desig-
mated points, dining car employees
and others concerned should be fully
| informed.
The American Railway Association
will place a qualified official of the
Passenger Department in the Office
either of the Governor, or of the Ad-
jutant General, as may be deemed
most suitable by the State authorities
in each State. This official will keep
in touch with the State authorities in
any emergency which may arise and
viii assist them in carrying out the