The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-14
MAKING SOLDIERS
OF raw RECRUITS
Will BEGIN SOON
AT CANTONMENTS
Six Great Cities in the Cen
trail Department Viii
Shelter $50, 900 Men
TWO DIVISIONS AT.
EACH OF THE CAMPS
All Arms of the Service Elk
cept Cavalry Will Be
Represented .

Chicago, Aug. 14.-Some time af-
ter the first of September, at great
camps Somewhere between the
Rockies and the Alleghanies," more
than a quarter of a million, Ameri-
cans will begin the training which
will change the boys of the fac
tories, forests and farms of the ter
ritory covered by the central de-
partment of the army into soldiers of
the new national army of the United
States.
More specifically 243,014 men
chosen in the selective draft from
fifteen states in the central depart
ment assembled in six immense can
tonments, will devote all their en-
ergies to becoming seasoned sold
iers of America ready to share the
fortunes Of war with their comrades
from the other sections of the coun-
try.
Sites for the environments where
the future soldiers will be trained
have been selected with regard to
water supply, sanitation and trans
portation necessities. Camp Sher-
man, near Chillicothe, o., will train
1889 men from Ohio and West
Virginia; Camp Taylor at Louisville,
KY, 41,560 men from Indiana and
tie Creek, Mich, 5000 men from
Michigan and Wisconsin,: Camp
Grant near Rockford. ILL.,, 1884 men
from Illinois; Camp Dodge, near Des
Moines, Ia, 44,529 men from Iowa,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Min
nesota and Nebraska, and Camp
Funston at Fort Riley, Kas., 1880
men from Kansas, Colorado and Mis-
souri,.
Are Much Alike. f..
There will be a general similarity
in all the cantonments when COM
pleted though local conditions will
necessitate different grouping of
barracks, parade and training
ground. Each camp covers approx
mately 5000 acres, sufficient to per-
init of manoeuvers of all the mill
tary units assembled there. The
barracks which at most of the
camps are nearing completion are
two story structures, the second
floor being arranged as sleeping
quarters for the men and the first
for assembly and mess halls. Parti-
cular attention to the comfort Of the
soldiers was paid in designing the
barracks. All of the cantonments
with the exception Of Camp Taylor
at Louisville will be steam heated
and all will be equipped with COM
Portable iron beds, ample shower
baths and in addition each soldier
will have his own locker.
3 When completed each cantonment
will have the appearance OF mod
crate sized city with this important
difference, at the camps there will
he no tenement districts, no Sec
.tion squalid and unattractive, not to
tsay insanitary. All will be spick and
span and army discipline can be de-
pended on to keep them so, for one
of the first lessons which the embryo
soldier will be taught will be to
police the camp" which in civilian
tongue means to clean up barracks
and grounds, attend to sanitary de-
tails and fit the camp for rigid in
spection.
What Camp includes.
Buildings on each camp ground
will include: General headquarters,
brigade headquarters, officers head
quarters, barracks for private sold
iers, hospital and animal and artil-
lery sheds. Near general headquar-
ters will be the parade ground suf-
flcient in area to accommodate the
entire command. More extensive