The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-13
431,8OO RECRUITS
NOW IN TRAINING
Thirteen Million Articles
Have Been Supplied to
Growing Forces
SECRETARY PRAISES
OUR BUSINESS MEN
Says They Have Made Deliveries in a
Way Which Few Weeks Ago Seemed
Impossible - Shipments Keeping Up
with Arrival of Men.

with Arrival of Men.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-The first
detailed statement showing the cloth
ing and sleeping equipment furnished |
to the sixteen national army canton
ments, as issued by Secretary Of War
Baker, shows that nearly 100000 ar
ticles have been provided The total
number Of men in these environments /
is 431,1SO.
The figures given out tonight show
that the men are in need Of bed sacks, |
wooden hreeches, cotton coats, wooden
coats, overcoats, and heavy wooden
4 stoc kings For the 431,ls0 men only
lI2.975 heavy wooden stockings have
been provided to date, but more than
100000 light wool stockings have been
4 distributed. The number of articles
sent to the sixteen environments are as
follows:
Bed sacks, 1872 $40; blankets. l,402,-
800; cotton breechcs. 436, 40; wooden
brooches, 259, sos; cotton coats, 267.579;
wooden coats, 204,72S; summer drawers,
9l2,272; winter drawers, I0l7 $50; hats
Coz ,a74; leegings, 1880; overeoats.
2S9,7l3; flannel shirts. 797,997; cotton
stockings, l,6o6,532; light wool stock
ings. l.276.o23; heavy wool stockings.
:. 1870; cotton undershirts. 1919 sol;
wooden undershirts, l,023, o93; shoes,
937,13i grand total, all articles, T.
/. 974,ll1.
shipments of clothing. said the
Secretary announcement, care keep
ing pace with the filling up of the can
tonmentS. The manufacturing industry
of the country has made wonderful re
Spouse TO the demands of the War De
partment. Deliveries have been made
that seemed impossible 4 few weeks
ago. 1t should be considered that, with
the outbreak of the war. the manufac-
turing establishments Of this country
had no large reserves, owing to domes-
Tie consumption and large foreign or
, dcrs. These industries were organized
quickly for our own needs: additional
looms, spindles and other facilities have
been provided, and there has been a
remarkable mobilization in manufac-
turing.
practically upon it's own resources in
the equipment of a new army. It was
impossible to call upon the nations as
ISOLATED with us, although previous to
our entry into the war. other eoun-
tries might avail themselves Of Amer
lean goods. The United states. with
limited reserves and an initial lack of
extraordinary facilities has made a
1.at ,I-.l, To,
are considered. We have not only
equipped the army at home. but have
fitted out an cXpeditionarv force with
IN the short period of six months Our
industries are now surprisingly mo-
bilized and their future output promises
to be steady and ample =
The detailed figures show that the
5000, mp TO Oct .. received: bed sacks,
4 10000; blankets. 63,9G5; cotton breech-
es, $1,000 wooden breeches. s., S65 /:
cotton coats, 10000; wooden coats %
4 O29; summer drawers, 66.2l0: winter
4 34,55S; overcoats, - go: flannel shirts,
4 drawers, 90,673; hats, II, 35S: leggings.
4 1915; cotton stockings, 2j.IIo: light
& wooden stockings. S5.6S4; cotton under
shlrts, $50: wooden undershirts. 81 :
jJS; shoes, 1861.
At Camp Meade, where there are %
$50, these articles were distributed:
bed sacks, 10000; blankets, s0.532: cot
4 ton brecehes, 1906; wooden brooches.
4 Il 20: cotton coats. l6.9Gl: wooden
coats. bliss; summer drawers. 5O.SI1:
] winter drawers, llG.9ll; hats. 42,062
: leggings, 2l,lll; ovcrcoats, - .034: fan
4 mel shirts, 1896; cotton stockings, Go
y SIS; light wooden stockings, 4i4j3;
cotton undershirts, 4S,3l5; wooden IN
dershirts. - ,695; shoes, 36.642.
The 5000 men at Camp Devens have
Il received: bed sacks. 81 ,S63 blankets
4 l2o,Ss9; cotton brooches. Bill: wooden
hreechcS, 42,llS; cotton coats. 1f.o25:
WOODEN coats, -. 1876 summer drawers
1919; winter drawers, HISS: hats
3o,1o3; leggngs, 1882; overcoats. 10,
94S; flannel shirts, 1929; cotton stock
! ings, 90,633; light wool stockings. So,
4 224; cotton undershirts, 1870: wooden
q undershirts, l69, COS; shoes, 1926.
The articles distributed Mt Camp Dix
u y. j., where 1868 are in training are
4 bed sacks, %, 200; blankets, 81. $50; cot
ton breeches, II, no; wooden breeches
Il 1908, cotton coats, 1876; wooler
u coats, 2.504; summer drawers. A. ,2q2;
y winter drawers, 52,503; hats, 2S,l6l.
a leg9lnSS, -, To-; oNercOatS, 22,oS4, Han
4 mel shirts, 63,5S4; cotton socks, SO ,764
4 light wool stockings, s3,s46; cotton IN
q der shirts, 4S,l62; wooden undershirts
n Io.34o; shoes, 26,432.
q Camp Funston in Kansas, has the
B greatest quota of men of any of The
j camps, its number being 50 ,533. Cam
q Lewis, in Washington State, is SECOND
z with 39,l7l, and Camp Devens, Massa
a chusetts third, with SO 900. Camp Eos
\ ter, Michigan, has the smallest number
q 1913.
The number Of men at or ordered t,
the other camps follows; Camp Dix
& New Jersey, 1865; Camp Dodge. Iowa
2O,324; Camp Gordon, Georgia, 2,5O7
Camp Grant, Illinois, 25,502; Cam
jackson, South Carolina, 24,975: Cam
" Lee, Virginia, 27,06l; Camp Meade