The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-05
FIRST LEVY OF
NATIONAL ARMY
GOES TO CAMP
Men From Shops and Farms
Leave Home To Be Sol
diers.

O1Ox De
CHICAGO, Ill. Sept. 6-War gr1pped
the homes OF the nation today.
Answering Columbia's call, 1850
men-Ave percent of the 251,s65 men
chosen In tho selective draft from the
fifteen states In the central depart
ment OF the army-began reporting
at six huge environments to start train
ing that win send them into the world
war.
They came from the city and the
farm-from desk and profession to be
moulded into soldiers for the new ma
tional army. The types OF men re-
porting for military instruction affects
everything and everybody: Some were
statesmen, others farm hands. All left
everything behind-their jobs, riches,
mothers and sisters and some of them
wives and children-for a suit OF kha-
XII and a rifle and a course of training
that will change them into important
cogs of the American war machine.
Location Of Cantonments
Locations Of the six environments In
the central department, the number OF
men to be trained at them, and the
states from which they were drawn
are:
Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill--3S,S 95
men. Illinois will send 31,714. and
Wisconsin 1851.
Camp Dodge, DesMoines, Iowa
45,165 men. illinois will send 1856
men. Iowa will send 1919, and Min
nesota, 17,77s, and North Dakota.
5,272.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich
1886 men. Michigan will send 5O,29l
and Wisconsin 5,695.
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky.
-42,319 men. Illinois will send 1878,
Indiana 1850, and Kentucky 1926
Camp Sherman. Chillicothe, Ohio
43,OS2 men. Ohio will send 3S,173,
and Pennsylvania 4,3O9.
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas.
--46,51S men, Missouri will send 49,
eco, Nebraska S.1S5. South Dakota,
2,717, Colorado 4,753. Arizona 3,472,
Kansas 6,4S9 and New Mexico. 1882.
Forty Percent Sept. 10
The war department plans that in
addition to the five percent OF the
above quotas reporting today. forty
percent shall report on Sept. IL, q sec
ond forty percent on Oct. 3. and the
remaining fifteen percent as soon as
possible thereafter.
Training will be started immediate
ly. According to the general program
the soldiers will he drilled forty hours
a week. with Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoons off for recreation.
Those, however, who fail to keep step
with the march OF instruction, will be
obliged to give up their two after
moons of play.
OGcials pointed out today that Ari-
IONA and New Mexico are the only
two states outside the central depart
ment of the army that will send troops
into the department for training. They
will be quartered at Camp Funston,
Fort Riley, Kansas. When New Mex
ico's quota is complete, it will have
sent 1892 men into camp, and Arizona
will be called upon to send 3,472.
Army officers do not expect that
all of the men called in the first five
percent of the states quotas will reach
camp today as a hve-day period has
been set aside for the movement OF
the men. AS some of the men will
have TO travel several hundred miles
to reach camp, 1t is regarded as pos
sible that the entire first quota will
not be in camp until Saturday or pos
sibly Sunday.
Can Be Moved Easily
Railroad officials anticipate that the
men will be moved to their respec-
tive camps without the slightest inter-
ference to military or normal traff1c.
The program for transporting the men
was mapped out weeks ago, Officials
figure that within the next few days
approximately 35, 200 men will be
transported to the sixteen canton
ments scattered throughout the ma
ton When the next quota starts for
camp Sept. 10, however, the railroads
expect to transport about $4,000 men
day for five days.
Sites for the environments were Sc
lected with regard to water supply,
sanitation and transportation necessi-
ties. There is a general similarity to
all environments. Eeach camp covers
approximately 1900 acres and has
training grounds to permit maneuvers
of all military units.
The barracks in each of which $50
men will be CHARTERED, are two story
structures, The second floor will be
used for sleeping and the first for
mess and assembly halls. All of the
environments, with the exception OF
Camp Taylor of Louisville, will be
steam heated and equipped with iron
beds, shower baths and lockers.
Already most Of the camps have the
appearance of modern cities. The
number of buildings in the canton.
ments range from $50 to 800. The
structures include general headquar
tiers, brigade headquarters, officers
quarters, barracks for soldiers, hospi-
tai and animal and artillery sheds. In
addition. there will be huge rifle and
artillery range. Long marches and
difficult drills will not be started until
the men become hardened to their
duties.
MISS SMITH COULD TAKE