Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1917-12-06
NEWS OF THE week !
FROM CAMP SEVER [ |
eAYoNEr SCHOOL FOR THiRri.
9Th DIVISION oFFicERs sEs
GINS This WEEK.
ENLISTED MEN FOR, OFFICERS
Department. Awards Contract for II
brary Building Construction
at End.


net school for officers OF the Thirtieth
Division is TO be started this week
under the direction OF Capt. G. Bach.
elor Of the British army. Two COM
missioned and two noncofhmfssioned
officers from each infantry battalion
and others from other organizations
will be required to attend the course
Of instruction, which will require two
weeks to ,mplete.
A course Is being lar out in the
field In front OF divisional headquar-
ters. The men will be taught to go
"over the top" OF a dummy firing
trench with bayonets fixed, charge
across few yards, cross some brush
covered distractions, leap into the
enemy" trench and jab their bayo.
nets into dummy Germans.
Those who have tr1ed II say that Il
isn't the easiest thing in the world
to stick ones bayonet into dummy
on the fly and that the dummies have
an unpleasant way Of coming back"
at the attacker.
A series of meetings on the method
Of selecting enlisted men for the OIL.
cers' training school, to be opened
from January to April s, 1918. has
been arranged. Officers OF the ytiiffer.
ent organizations In camp met with
I. l.. Hansen, who has been sent here
by the war department to explain the
method of selecting the men for the
training camp. About 800 men from
Camp Sewer are to be selected for the
training camp. The North Carolina
College of Engineering and Agriculture
and Clemson College of South Carolina
will also send 20 or more selected stu.
dents to attend this school, The In.
structors for the school will be sent
from the war department, while few
will be supplied from the Thirteenth
Division. @
A contract for construction of the
camp library building has been let by
the war department and the building
should be ready for occupancy some
time next month. r. p. Emerson,
camp librarian, has been here for some
weeks and has placed small sets OF
books in the Y. M. G. A. buildings,
where they may be withdrawn by the
soldiers without charge as soon as the
quarantine is lifted. The main build.
ing will be of frame construction, AZ
by 93 feet, with skylight and sheathed
side walls. 1t will contain living quar-.
ters for the staff of two Shelves will
be provided for the stock of books
which will number several thousand.
Private j. w. Warren, formerly OF
the Fifth Field Artillery, but trans:
ferred to the Thirtieth Division, be.
came i'll while on his way here and
was taken from the train at Fort Nc.
Pherson, Ca, where he died.
The Red Triangle series Of enter.
tainments at army camps has been sus.
pended, due to the heavy losses, which
the war work council of the Y. M. G.
A. did not feel that 1t could continue
to sustain indefinitely and instead of
these entertainments the council and
the war department commission on
training camp activities will operate
jointly an entertainment to be known
as the Liberty Program" This will
be put on here as soon as the uuaran.
tine is lifted.
Completion OF all authorized con.
struction at.Camp Sewer Is now well
within sight and should be accom-.
plished within the next two weeks.
All three regimental infrmaries In the
field artillery brigade and that at the
engineer regiment are finished as are
by far the greater part of he stables
and blacksmith shops. Two large
garages. one for the motor trucks of
the supply train and the other for the
ambulances OF the, sanitary train. are
well under way. The three concrete
ammunition magazines and the one for
high explosives, used by troops being
trained in the art of demolition were
finished some time ago.
w. G. Gorgas, surgeon general of
the United States army, recently Wis.
ted Camp Sewer, coming to inspect
the camp site and sanitary conditions
generally, his visit having no connec.
| tion with the quarantine for the re.
cent measles epidemic. When seen by
representative OF the press General
Gorgas stated that he thought the site
OF Camp Sewer ideal, and that he had
found conditions here fairly satisfar.
tory. The epidemic had been handler
in thorough and efficient manner by
the camp medical authorities, he
thought.
| Fifty field telephones OF a new
model designed by Maj. ]. @. TAYLOR
divisional signal officer. and adopted
by the army. have been received at
Camp Sewer for practical tryouts ami
will be installed in place of regular
phones Oh the rife range and else.
where. The new telephone, the chief
advantages Of which are It's HIGHT
weight, only IL 1-2 pounds. its effici.
ency and its compactness, Is known
as camp telephone, model "A, ana q
intended principally for infantry nae
In trenches. II is OF the hand AZ
type. with receiver and transmitter q