Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-22

By MLISS
wrightstown, n. j., is on the map
You can get this fact better without
consulting one. You can get Il from
Wrlghtstown's oldest pipe-dreamer, he who
sits outside tho barber shop, which Il
Wrightstown's al fresco smoking club. and
dreams and smokes and charges the cluck-
ing hens in the piddle OF the road with his
far-reaching quids
You can get II from wrlghtstowns young
est barefoot boy. or you can get II from
the 1913 other folks who comprise tho jubi
liant population Of Wrlghtstown's zoo
once General Sherman said something
about war and folks have been repeating II
more or less ever since Wrightstown is
prepared 20 dispute that utterance
For II Il hadn't been for this hyar war
where would Wrightstown be?' And the
indignant screech OF an irate her testified
to the fact that as usual the charge which
accompanied this sapient query was deliv-
cred with the Same unerring precision. The
town sage had spoken.
War has come TO Wrlghtstown In the glo-
rious gulse Of innunerable khald-clad SOL
diers--majors captains, lcutenants and en-
gineers-who hop in and out Of more auto
bies than the Jersey town has ever seen
before, and who make the once quiet place
hum with the military crlspness Of their
orders and activities.
BECOMES ARMY CITY
For wrightstown is one Of the sixteen
cantonments that Uncle Sam has selected
as the site Of an army CITY," where the
great selectlve draft regiments arc TO be
whipped into shape. To this camp, II Is ex-
pected, win 60 some timo after Septem-
Der !, about so per cent Of the Pennsylva-
MIA men who are called. many New York
men and all Of the Jersey men,
II has been said by army officers, how
n1ya Nh,N aYt st.t-
than thirty miles from Philadelphia, the
plans for dividing the state are such as viii
send the Philadelphia men to the camp near
Annapolis Junction, Md
Nobody knows how IT happened to
wrightstown
There are those in the town who are Of
the opinion that when the army officers
were out looking for sites the train got
tired or paralyzed in the vicinity OF
Wrightstown as Il so often does, and the
experts stretching their legs, discovered
Wrightstowns possibilities
PANOPLY OF WAR
At any rate, something more than 1000
and less than 5000 acres Of beautiful rolling
country one mile from the town has been
leased by Uncle Sam, and United States
army officers, under the direction Of Major
II. c, Williams, and sixty engineers Of tho
First Battalion, New Jersey Engineer Corps,
under the direction Of Major +. A. Reimer,
are busily engaged in getting the place
ready for the advent of 5000 men.
Aero squads, balloon corps, base hos
pitas, supply trains, ammunition trains,
cavalry. infantry. artillery and field sig
nal battalions-all are coming to Wrlghts-
town. The men will be housed in two-story
barracks fitted up TO Withstand the in
clemency Of winter weather-200 men to a
barracks. Five million dollars is the esti-
mated cost of the camp. There will be an
administration building for each regiment,
and the Y. NJ, c. A. will have building for
each of the five brigades. A complete up-
to-date sewage system has been planned by
Uncle Sam, and the two and one-half mil
lion gallons of water needed for the men
will be got by boring wells.
Nine hundred acres of the land, which
stretches in a picturesque panorama three
miles long and two miles wide, will be occu-
pied by the buildings, the ensemble of
which will form a horseshoe The open
space within the shoe, 1000 feet wide and
700 feet long, is to be used for the intensive
training Of the troops and close-order drill
ing.
All this is what is keeping wrightstown