The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-06
ALL UNITS ARE
NOW Modified
Work at Camp Bartlett Now
Consists Largely of
Transfers
VERMONTERS FOR
10TH INFANTRY
Balance Of First Vermont With First
New Hampshire, Eighth and Sixth
Massachusetts Form Depot Brigade
New Supplies Issued.

WESTFlELD, Mass, Sept 6. - Prac-
tically all of the units which will use
Camp Bartlett are now modified on
Hampton Plains. The outfits compris
ing the sd brigade of the Goth division
are practically complete in personnel,
those of the attached divisional units
are likewise, and the various units which
are to form the nucleus of the depot
brigade are clustered at the extreme
right of the camp site
The work remaining to be done con
|sists largely of a gathering up of the
loose ends, completing the transfers of
men and property, finishing the in
oculation necessary before the sol
diers take the field, and putting the
necessary finish on the drills for the
men before they embark for foreign
service. This will be done within few
days.
There are still transfers of men to
be made from the franks of the First
Vermont infantry to the l04th infantry
to replace men who fail to pass the
f! physical and mental tests NEGOTIATIONS
were IN progress yesterday throughout
the camp for typhoid and paratvphoid
and officers and non commissioned of
/ ticcrs from the l03d infantry were busy
! checking up and inspecting property in
the l04th infantry. This has alreadg
! bcen done in the l03d infantry by of
ticers and their assistants from the
Eighth MaSSac huSptts
/ Supplies are being received and issued
gradually. Yesterday trench shoes.
THE kind with hobnails and iron heels,
were given out. There has been a
plentiful distribution of underwear, ex-
ira clothing and the latest issue has
been overcoats. These were received
with whoops of JOY for the nights have
been cold and the men have suffered
as the temperature dropped on the high
i plains after ssundown. Most of the
companies had their overcoats packed
III boxes. since there has been no cal
to use them since late in the spring
They were shaken out of the camphor
and guards Were CARRIED in the lone
WOODEN coats last night
, Khaki is being replaced gradually by
the olive drah wooden garments. EacI
: man had an extra suit of wooden cloth
ing, and the cool air and hracins
breezeS Of the last three dags have beer
sufficient to cause them to shake thei
: cotton cloths.
1t was a case of drill and then dril
some more, both in the morning anC
: afternoon. The men who were to oc
cupy the prison stockade were out I'm
der guards doing the necessary repa
) work and building military road
through the camp site. Roads are
y necessity with SO much heavy teamin;
and traffic to and from the differcn
units.
The camp now stretches in an I'm
, broken line. There are no gaps All
/. the spaces have been filled by tn
coming from Aver Of the remainder 0
> the Sixth Massachusetts. In the cen
ter Of it all is brigade headquarters
! across the wide parade ground fror
J the l03d infantry
On the extreme left are the seve
: company streets of the Divisional An
! munition Train. Next comes the d
visional Suppl Train with six con
; panies, the l03d Machine Gun Bal
| TALON of the sd Brigade with tire
company streets and the 103d Infal
try. This completes the list of con
mands on one side of the car track
This has commonly come to be know
as the Maine side = of the camp. O
the other is the . Massachusetts side.
Here are the l0lth infantry an
e stretching away at an angle from tt
J. head of the infantrymen is the Fiel
n Bakery Company
At right angle from the 104t
4 infantry comes the First Maine heav
artillery, which Gen. Edwards said wi
:. soon be known as the l04th heavy a
u tillery On their right is the Hea
l. quarters and Police Train, composed
lie picked troops from the Sixth Massach
sctts. On their right are the two troo