The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-08
HARD AT WORK AT pLATTseURo
Ten Hours Of instructions and Study
the Program for "Rookies."

Ten Hours of instructions and Study
the Program for Rockies"
Washington. May S--Col. Paul A.
Wolf who will command the officers
training camp at Plattsburg, which
will be attended by $500 men from
New England, will be assisted by a
corps of able officers, appointed by
the war department. Capt John
athan NJ. Wainwright of the First
Cavalry will be the adjutant of the
camp, while the senior Instructors
will be Maj. Merch B. Stewart and
Maj. Edgar T. Collins who have been
instructors at previous Plattsburg
camps. Both are On the infantry de-
tached officers list.
Many days of hard work are ahead
of the men from New England who
will attend the training camp Of pa
triotic citizens who will be among the
first 10000 to officer the initial nation
al army of half million men who
eventually will go to the trenches in
Europe to assist the some of England
and France in the war of democracy
against autocracy. The minimum
days work, as mapped out for the
men by the war department, will be
ten hours. The ofiicers-to-be Will
work five hours in the morning. three
hours in the afternoon, and give two
hours each evening to study.
The prescribed schedule for the
average week will be carried out from
Monday to Friday. inclusive. Satur-
day will be used in bringing up to the
necessary equipment work which has
been interrupted by weather or other
unforeseen conditions, for vaccinations
examinations and tests in horseman-
ship for which no time is provided,
and for additional Instructions in such
matters as the experience of the
school renders advisable. Il is eX
pected that at least five hours of each
Saturday viii be devoted to those
purposes Whether the men will have |
a half holiday on Saturdays will de-
pend on the needs of the camp as
they develop from time TO time.
The original order issued by the |
war department for the establishment |
of the camps has been revised The
order when issued April % provided
for the establishment of IA individual |
camps; the revised order provides |
for the establishment of 10 single |
camps and three double camps, thus
forming 16 camps located at 13 geo
graphical points, instead of IA camps |
located at 13 geographical points. |
One of the double camps will be at |
Plattsburg-fo the New England !
states and for the first 26 congress
sional districts in New York state. !
The camp for the remaining New
York districts and for the Tenth, |
Eleventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six
teenth, Twenty-frst, Twenty-iifth and |
Twentieth congressional distrFts of |
Pennsylvania will be at Madison Bar
racks, New York.
The course of instructions in all |
camps will begin May 10. The camps |
will be ready for reserve officers |
about May and candidates for com
missions on May IA. Those who are |
examined for admission to these |
will be notified to that effect; others |
not notified need not report at the |
camp. The citizens selected for ad |
mission will receive transportation |
subsistence, and uniform at the eX
pense of the government, although it |
is believed that most ofthe men will |
have their own uniforms in advance !
Other articles Of equipment will be |
issued at the camp. The question of |
pay is under consideration by Con |
gress. Undoubtedly Congress will |
grant reasonable compensation. Citi- |
zens must be duly enlisted for the |
three months period of the camp, but |
this enlistment obligates them merely |
to serve at the camp and not else
where. The enlistment includes, how |
ever. an agreement to accept an ap-
pointment in the officers reserve |
corps at the end of the camp period |
if such appointment is rendered by |
Secretary of War Baker.