The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-08-14
CANTONME ENTSTO
Training Expected To Be
Same AS AT Officers
Camps
EACH ARM OF SERVICE
TO BE REPRESENTED
Plenty OF Amusement, In
door And Outdoor, To
Be Given Men
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tBy Associated Press to The Bannerl
CHICAGO, Aug. 11-Some / time after
the first of September, at great camps
somewhere between the Rockies and
the Alleghanies," more than a quarter
of million Americans will begin the
training which will change the boys of
the factories forests and farms of the
territory covered by the central depart
Rent OF the army into soldiers of the
new national army of the United
States.
More specifically, 243,014 men chos-
en- In the selective draft from IL states
In the central department assembled
In six immense cantonments, will de-
vote all their energies to becoming sea
soned soldiers of America ready to
share the fortunes OF war with their
comrades from the other sections of
the country.
Sites for the cantonments where the
future soldiers will be trained have
been selected with regard to water
supply, sanitation and transportation
necessities. Camp Sherman, near
Chillic0the, o., will train 1853 men
from Ohio and West Virginia; Camp
Taylor at Louisville, Ky, Al $50 men
Nfrom Indiana and Kentucky; Camp
Custer near Battle Creek, Mich, 3d.
9S2 men from Michigan and Wiscon-
sin; Camp Grant near Rockford, IL,
37,364 men from. Illinois; Camp Dodge
near Des Moines, Ia, 44,529 men from
Iowa, North Dakota. South Dakota
Minnesota and Nebraska; and Camp
Funston at Fort Riley, Kas,, 1880
men from Kansas, Colorado and Mis-.
souri,.
There will be Il general similarity in
all the cantonments when completed
though local conditions will necessi-
tate n different grouping of barracks,
parade and training ground. Each
camp covers approximately 1000 acres
sufficient to permit of all the military
units there. The barracks which at
most OF the camps are nearing compile
tf0n, are two-stOry structures, the sec
ond floor being arranged as sleeping
quarters for the men and the first for
assembly and mess halls. Particular
attention to the comfort OF the soldiers
was paid in designing the barracks.
All OF the cantonments with the eX-
ception OF Camp Taylor at Louisville
viii be Bteam-heated and all will be
equipped with comfortable ironbeds,
ample shower baths and in addition
each soldier viii have his own locker
When completed each cantonment
will have the appearance OF moder
ate sized city with this important diff
ference, at the camps there will he nc
tenement district, no section squalid
and unattractiye, not to say unSan
tary. All viii be spick and span and
army discipline can be depended upon
10 keep them so, for one of the first
lessons which the embryo soldier will
be taught will be be to police the
camp" which in civilian tongue means
TO clean up barracks and grounds, at
tend to sanitary details and III The
camp for rigid inspection.
Buildings on each camp ground vii
include: General headquarters. bri
gade headquarters. officers headquar
ters. barracks for private soldiers, hos
pital and animal and artillery sheds
Near general headquarters viii be The
parade ground sufficient In area tt
accommodate the entire command
More extensive maneuyering fields vii
be laid for actual drilling and. mos
important from the soldiers view
point. the rifle range and artiller!
fields will give opportunity not Onl!
for direct fire In view OF the target
but for indirect fire and harrage o
modern rifle permits indirect small
arm fire, thing impossible with The
old musket. and the soldiers viii b'
instructed in eleyating the rifle 30 tina
an intervening hill would not preyen
the destructive effect OF the vOlley.
There will be sufficient men under
arms at each cantonment to form a
least two divisions of 10000 men, a'
employed In France and Belgium, ant
intensive maneuyers with the Euro
pean division as a unit will familiar
ize officers and men with conditions
such as they probably will meet on th'
battlefield and In trench warfare.