The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-06
CAMP FUNSTON A
REAL UNIVERSITY
FOR DRAFT ARMY
Men Are Going to School There
To Learn War Game.
CantOnment Is Run Very Much
Like a City.
Y. NJ. C. A. IMPORTANT FACTOR
Recreation of the Men Being
Given Attention.
Sewers, Lights and Laundries
Make Camp Comfortable.
Men Are Going to School There
To Learn War Game.
CantOnment Is Run Very Much
Like a City.
Y. NJ. C. A. IMPORTANT FACTOR
Recreation of the Men Being
Given Attention.
Sewers, Lights and Laundrie>
Make Camp Comfortable.

Camp Funston. by orders from the
war department already carried out
and others yet to be executed is to-
dav the largest university OF modern
warfare in the United States. In one
sense. it may also be described as the
largest military municipality IN
Am erica. for the monster cantonment
is no more than a school OF war mod
eled in construction and governed
like a modern city that is under mill
itary law.
The camp today has every depart
meut Of a modern city. A police force.
memb ers of which are distinguished
by "a blue sleeve ribbon marked with
the letters M P" which stand Tor
military police. keeps laws and order
Organization Of two paid fire depart
r.ents. fully equipped, motorized and
manned by experienced fireUen. has
been completed A sewer system has
been constructed thruOut the camp
now occupied and VIII he extended as
the building spread over larger ter
j. tory. A modern waterwOrks system
las lsO been completed. 4 garbage
Generator has been installed as one
q the sanitary units, Indispensable ln-
the campaign TO keep the camp
healthful for the men in khaki
Construction Of a light plant Is
being figured on An ice plant with
capaclty Of forty tons Of ice day
as recently finished A laundry FOR
Y u
o. men is up and in operation The
-re1t camp is governed not unlike
.odern city. Men who have entered
amp Funston from civilian life and
SpcCted trouble in getting in aCcor-
lance with army routine ana reSula-
{ ons and military law have found
them extraordinarily easy 10 drop into
r he government, in truth, may be
ISencd TO a city's mayor and council:
General Leonard Wood, commander Of
Ie camp. acting as mayor. and his
6 aft and officers as cOuncilmen OF
cum uissioners-
Y VI. c. A. in Big Work
Social advantages or. better say.
~pssibilities Of the camp are not being
,gleeted. When the first troops came
-7tO Fort h-les the Y VI. g A went
with them. Today. in walking thru
TIE cam ps a Fort Riley and Funston,
one may count fourteen buildings, /
a. stinguished from the government
l1ildfugs. by their greenish color.
'.aey are the 7. II. c. A contributions
TO the social lie at the camp and a
! rye percentage Of them are COM
IIeted today, It is also officially an
bounced that the recreation of the
en- is to receive attention and ap-
l-soval by the government in addition
to that OF the Y. NJ. g. A. Permission
{, establish what viii be known as
concession zone in Camp Funston
J. oper has been received by the com
-anding Officers. This zone viii be
leased or set aside for concessions to
] q constructed by private enterprises
II under EovecnM ent auspices. Two
vaudeville theaters. shooting galleries.
owing picture theaters and a dozen
a. more Othr~ adjustments VIII be
Included in the zone program. The
zone Will be in operation as soon as
possible, il was announced. In addi-
Jlon to IL. of course. will be the social
activities in Army City. Manhattan
and Junction Guy
100 New Buildings.
capt. Fred J. German. constructing
Quartermaster at Funston, has an
bounced a list Of 100 new buildings to
be erected in addition to those already
under construction and provided for
In tbs list is a geenral field hospital
for the caUtonmeut The plans call
for "a building which. when combined
To additions TO the present post hos
p.tal Will care for d per cent of the
SO, 900 to 100000 men soon to be sta
toned at Funston. Not counting the
second 40 per cent quota of selective
service men. Camp Funston already
has nearly $4,000 men well under
training. The new hospital, il is an
rounced, vii be located just across the
tracks and east of the present post
hospital Plans also call for remodel
inE Ct the barracks in the artillery
post for use as hospital wards These
hospitals Will be equipped with the
most modern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
thing about Uncle SANS military
camps will be modern. In time. it
even may be that the roads at the
camp which now are seas of mud and
water after rains viii be converted
into rock highways. a rock road, IN
doubleday the finest in the state, is
being completed between Fort Riley
and Funston
Men coming to Camp Funston have
been reassured that their training is