Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
CAMP LEE POPULATION
IS INCREASED BY 5000
Pennsylvania Furnishes Majority Of
Selected Soldiers Who Reach
Cantonment During Day.
swEETHEARTs ATTEND MEN
Goocliland Women Accompany Coun-
tvs Quota, and Only Leave When
Troops Are Sent to Barracks-AIl
Manifest Fine Spirit.
tt'rom STAFF Correspondent ]

From STAFF Corrcspondent1
CAMP LEE. VA. September 20
More than 1900 selected men were
added to-day TO the National Army
forces at Camp Lee. From all three
OF the States which are contributing
men TO the EiGhtieth Division. quotas
have been arriving all day, the ma
jority reaching the cantonment during
this afternoon. During the first day
OF the reception Of selected men they
were entirely from Virginia, but to-
day brought large numbers from Yves,
Virginia and Pennsylvania
Approximately 3.2c7 men reached the
camp UP TO O'Clock tonight or
this number. Sl4 were from Virginia,
Tl9 from West Virginia and the
largest total coming from rennsyI-
vania. about l.694 men from that State
arriving at the cantonment. In the
two days during which the second
quota OF selected men have been
reaching the camp, nearly $500 have
been received. which Is something
more than % per cent OF the total or
1900 which will be taken into this
division within week
Trains Of varying lengths brought
the men directly TO the camp. Some
OF them were from eight TO fourteen
cars. all OF which pulled directly into
the cantonment station, within "a short
marching distance OF headquarters
All OF the men are being brought over
In this manner, IL having been un-
necessary AS yet to resort TO the use
of the motor trucks and ambulances
which were used with the first quota
The men are arriving in larger num-
bers now. and they are being held In
Petersburg TO make up trainloads. So
rapidly are they coming IN that trains
are made up in Petersburg and sent
to the camp about every two hours
During the short wait i'm the city the
men are given lunch.
Some OF the quotas reacning the
camp to-day were on the ground as
early as o'clock. but in every case
the same accommodations awaited
them as IL they had arrived later In
the morning or during the afternoon.
The arrangements made for handling
the men are more than adequate. and
II takes a remarkably short time TO
complete their registration and have
them assigned to their barracks The
men are we'll pleased with their treat
ment. and no complaints are heard.
MEN FROM VIRGINIA
COUNTIES ARRIVE EARLY
This morning and early this after
noon the arrivals from points in Vir-
ginia were: Scott County. 70 men: Nell
son. 40; Buchanan. 80; Brunswick. 81;
Dinwiddie UncludinG Petersburg city),
l01: Elizabeth City, 6; Gloucester, 25:
James City, 6; Loudoun, 90; Warwick.
70: York. %. Those arriving later In
the afterTfoon and in the evening were
from Augusta County, with 81 men;
Allegheny. IA: Craig. 16; Fluvanna. 1s:
Rockbridge, 10; Middlesex. l2: Lancas-
ter, IL; Frederick, Sc; Madison. 26, and
Essex, II. or this total of S14. Ar
were assigned to the Three Hundred
and Seventeenth Infantry, and 4O3 to
the Three Hundred and Eighteenth
Infantry.
The arrivals from West Virginia
numbered 719. all of whom were as
signed TO the Three Hundred and Thir-
teenth Regiment of Field Artillery, and
the Three Hundred and Fourteenth
Field Artillery. All of these men were
from the Northern part of the State,
none arriving from the Southern por-
tion. These will be assigned to the
Three Hundred and Fifteenth Regi-
ment of Artillery on arrival. All OF
the men from West Virginia will go
into the artillery branch.
OF the 1854 from Pennsylvania only
ass were assigned to infantry, these
being from the city OF Pittsburgh, and
Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties.
The remainder were assigned to the
engineers and ammunition trains. $40
going to the former, while the latter
received $40. Only men from Western
Pennsylvania are being sent to Camp
Lee.
Up to about II o'clock there was
considerable activity incident TO the
arrival OF men at tho camp. but then
a lull set In until after midday. This
was broken by the quotas Of Nelson
County and the city of Petersburg and
Dinwiddie County, which reached the
cantonment about 1 o'clock. The Pc
tersburgers we're accompanied by mem
bers of the local board Of the city.
Captain ~ T. Patterson, chairman: T.
c. Clarke, clerk. and DR.. w. H. Crock
ford. medical member
Before tho men laft for the camp