Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-27
BEST DRILLED MEN
AND HARD WORKERS
Battery A, Field Artillery, D. C.,
Wins Distinction at An
niston Camp.
SANITARY UNITS KEPT BUSY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP MCCLELLAN. Admission. Ala.
August 21-More than 100 officers and
men of Battery A, Field Artillery, N.
G. D. c., had celebration today. After
having won the name of being the best
drilled and the hardest working OUTFIT
in camp. they made merry because they
were told the other units of the Dis
trict National Guard, assigned to this
camp. will join them the LIST of Septem-
Der. when they will move their camp to
one of the very best locations on the
entire site of the cantonment.
Maj. Charles L. Dulin, the construct
ing quartermaster. has reported to Col.
I. W. L;ttell, quartermaster in charge
of all cantonment construction under
the War Department in Washington.
that Camp Mcclellan will be completed
by September /. that more than 600
buildings will be finished and more
than 700 others will be nearly finished.
BY August so there will be buildings
enough for ten regiments OF ln1antr!
and three regiments of field artillery,
and two days later there will be &C
commoda lions for additional infantry
regiments. Five hundred more mechan-
les are needed. Maj. Dulin also report
ed that there was imperative necessity
to apply some sort of top dressing to
the camp roads to keep the dust down.
The health Of the camp requires this
measure.
Sanitary Detachments Consolidated.
The Sanitary Detachment of Battery A,
under command of Lieut.. Lyle c. White.
has been united with the Maryland SAM
tary detachment, and has been working
hard in making the cantonment ready as
regards sanitary precautions for the big
National Guard army that Will begin to
arrive next week.
District OF Columbia soldiers have found
one-half miles from the camp. an ex-
pensive pleasure. as the titney drivers
have been charging them so cents for
the round trip. Complaint was made to
the cantonment officers and Maj. D. John
| Marley Of the Maryland guard was
chosen as speaker to address a meeting
of the local chamber of commerce. He
recommended that they solve the prob
lem Of transportation between the camp
and the town by establishing a line OF
buses to start where the car line ended.
Now the Camp Mcclellan Transporta ton
Company has appeared. in the form Of two
big passenger trucks that nearly fill the
road from side to side.
"Soda Pop" Under Ban.
A. an indication that the health of
the soldiers is not to be flirted with.
even soda pop" Is banned at the camp.
Il don't like such stun, and I don't
like bottles" Maj. Gen. Morton, camp
commandnnt, told Admission citizens and
division officers today. in discussing the
canteen and roadside refreshment store
situation. In consequence, soldiers in
training here will get no soda pop''
from their own company canteens. for
its sale will be prohibited. and they
will not be able to purchase it at the
little shacks outside the reservation
for they are to be closed.
Gen. Morton told delegation of An
niston citizens who called on him yes
terday that If the shacks were not
closed he would station guards around
the road between the town and the
camp. Some are rather elaborately
constructed. with little porches and
shingled roofs. The buildings and
their stocks represent Investments of
several thousands Of dollars, but Gen.
Morton is determined to run no risk Of
injuring the physical condition of his
division.