The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-09-22
Big DEMONSTRATION
FOR COUNTY BOYS.

army, the school children, and citizens
in cars and afoot. 1t was the biggest
procession the county has ever seen.
The following young men left yester-
day:
August Kemppinen, L'Anse.
Emil Keskinen, Covington.
Victor Lappalainen, Pelkie.
Egnus Wadaga, Baraga.
Ernest D'Aoust, Pequaming.
Emil Ferdinand Jackson, Coyington.
John McCauley, Marquette.
James Joseph Burns, Baraga.
John Brynolff Saari, Pequaming.
Nuel Wallace Vassar, Florence, Wis.
Thomas R. Edwards, L'Anse.
Michael Voak, L'Anse.
Russell Markle, Baraga.
Henry Bartonsn, Pelkie.
Claude Van Abel, Pequaming.
Athel HUM, L'Anse.
William Mielke, L'Anse.
Telesphore Decormier, Skanee.
Alex Wirtanen, Pelkie.
William F. Fleischut, Detroit.
The site of Camp Custer at Battle
Creek, where about fifty Baraga coun-
ty young men will spend the greater
portion of the winter, is a marvel of
appropriateness and natural beauty.
The Kalana azoo river runs past it and
afford the necessary outlet for its sew
age. Near its banks eight artesian
wells have been run down through the
Bedford rock, only 200 or 300 feet, and
a copious flow of the purest and coolest
water has been obtained, amounting to
500 gallons a minute from each well.
This is pumped to the highest point in
the camp, on top of Lone Pine Hill,
where four tanks with capacity of
200. 900 gallons each are building.
Sixteen miles of water mains and as
many more of service pipe into the
buildings, with 200 fire hydrants, leave
nothing to be wished for in the way of
water supply. Twenty miles Of sewage
piping provide for wastage and drain
age.
When it comes to the buildings, their
mere enumeration indicates the vast
ness of the problem, for there will not
be less than 1.099 of them, as the plans
now stand. There are 203 barracks,
each housing 200 men, and more than
half of these are already completed.
Ninety-seven Office buildings house the
administration, including all company
officers, with ten more for division
headquarters. The change in army
formations, whereby two brigades of
two regiments each will form divi-
sion, instead of three of each as origin
ally intended, will cause some change
in the plans in this respect.
With $50 stable and forty-seven re-
mount stations, including veterinary
hospital for ailing animals, the troop
trains will be cared for. The hospital
buildings, to cost $500, 900, number fifty
nine and are intended not only to care
for the camp during its occupancy. but
as base hospital for the coming casu-
alties of war. These are grouped about
Eagle Lake, a beautiful body of blue
waters many miles in extent, all within
the cantonment grounds. Gull Lake, a
few miles distant on the interurban
trolley line, will also be used for recrea-
tion, regattas, boating, swimming and
skating in the appropriate seasons,
water carnivals and the like to afford
the soldiers recreation.
Showers baths in every company bar
racks. which also contains mess rooms,
and has we'll ventilated sleeping rooms
on the second story, and 2S6 lavatories
provide for the comfort and cleanliness
of the men. Nine bakeries will supply
their bread and pie, and there are fifty
eight buildings with miscellaneous uses,
three fire stations with steam fire en-
gines and chemical engines mounted on
automobile chassis among them.
Delay in delivering lumber from
Michigan and Wisconsin has kept the
work from going forward, and at the
beginning all material had to be hauled
over heavy sand roads. Now that the
railway has made its spurs into the
camp with more than two miles of
trackage, everything is going in rush.
Nearly 5000 workmen::wsre employed
at the close Of last week. and the num-
Der increases with every day. With
the aid Of Calhoun county and the state
of Michigan, excellent brick and cement
roads are building from Battle Greek.
and are nearing completion.
The barracks, as such. are builts ac-
cording to the war department stan
dard. and are comfortable and roomy.
In winter thev will he heated bv steam