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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

of Commerce named a committee to
confer with the State Road Commits
sioners and, the Board Of Freeholders
to have the road between Little Silver
and Oceanport, past the environment,
paved.
Long Branch has a postoffice in the
camp, known ns Signal Corps, Long
Branch, while its Red Cross chapter
has been sending equipment 10. the
cantonment for the use of the men.
Major George 5. Mitchell is working
TO have the camp one of the most
sanitary in the country. A big septic
tank was started to-day. Until IL is
finished each company will have its
own incinernting plant. SINCE the
middle Of June hundred barracks
have been built. and yesterday the work
Of spending $4,000 in permanent roads
was started
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26
Germany Aided Lenine

NJ Lenine, the Russian extremist, was
in London some years ago with Maxim
Gorky, Kerensky and Tseretelli. Politi-
cal events rendered 1t necessary for Le-
nine and the latter two men 20 leave
Russia. but Maxim Gorky came from
America. After some months sojourn in
England, Lenine left for Switzerland.
where he remained until the German
government offered him facilities for
return after the Russian revolution.
Lenines brother, il will be remem-
bered, was executed some years ago for
taking part in an attempt on the life
OF Car Alexander III.-Dundee Adver-
tiser.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

mess hall. Sergeant Isternerl, march
this company over to mess"
Sergeant (saluting)-Yes, sir. 60
us)-Fall in!
The Eggs Gave Out
The cereal and milk were good,
the coffee was cold and the eggs and
bacon gave out just as the plate
reached me. Well, | thought, as soon
as we reach barracks I'll slip away to
the canteen and purchase a sandwich.
But, no.
Fall in," says the cap.
We marched over to the Q. NJ. stores,
signed our lives away and drew indi-
vidually:
2 comforts 4 sheets
. pillow cases ! poncho
2 blankets j shelter hall
Fall in" We marched back and
made our beds. | was just leaving the
company street for the canteen when
| heard the sergeant say, Fall in"
We marched over to the ordnance
stores and drew one rife, belt, one
bayonet and scabbard, one pack carrier,
one canteen, etc, etc.
We fell in again and marched back
to barracks. / slipped off and started
for the canteen. Passing regimental
headquarters | met Captain --. We
had quite a talk. While | enjoyed my
talk with Captain ---, it cost me my
cookies. | just had time to beat it
back to barracks to fall in again. Well,
after many vicissitudes, we had dinner
at 80 o'clock. 1t was good-Stew,
bread, butter, coffee and rice pudding.
This afternoon our captain and his
assistant gave US a little informal talk
on the lessons of the last camp. They
aren't regular captains, you know; just
reserve officers, who ultimately will be
assistant instructors when our regular
army commander arrives. They are
amiable lads, and | believe We will get
along fine together. They know the
drill and the mechanical end of it.
Life History Demanded
From this little lecture We marched
to our classroom, which is fitted with
desks. Here each man filled out a
lengthy form covering the activities of
his entire life and going into the ma
tivity and nationality of his parents.
1t took an hour to complete this auto
biographical task, after which we fell
in, marched back TO barracks, fell out,
and beat It 10 the hut.
After retreat is evening mess, then
conference, | think. Oh, yes! In my
nasty resume of my first day as a
humpy SOLDIER | forgot to tell that
we drew clothing:
pairs breeches, pair shoes,
l blouse, belt,
| overcoat, pair legglns,
hat and hat cord, pair shoestrlngs.
All fitted but the shoes. Too large.
Traded them. New shoes too small.
Just returned from mess-boiled
ham, spinach, boiled new potatoes, hot
tea. canned peaches and prunes. As
good a meal as we had at Shanley's, ex-
cept that there weren't any ladies
along.
So ended the fiyst day of Student
Officer -. Everything favorable.
have been sizing up my company COM
rades, and | see none who have any
thing on the undersigned, except sec
ond campers. who know the manual,
etc, but that is incidental.
must close and get into town to buy
saddle soap and comb--yes, | forgot 1t!
Then will return and shave and battle,
as | hardly see how | will have time
for it tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

SPARTANBURG. S. c., Aug. %
Camp Wadsworth is ready for the ousi-
ness of preparing New York GUARDS
men for the battlefelds of France. NOT
that the work of camp construction ana
arrangement is fully completed, but
enough of the stage has been set TO
accommodate at least two brigades OF
infantry, and by the time these nave
arrived and are settled in camp quar-
ters for the remaining two infantry
brioades and one artillery brigade in
the 9th Division, U. S. A., will have
been put in order. The progress made
n date in the work of construction and
the present status of the work may De
summarized as follows:
The buildings required for the ac-
commodation of the thirteen regiments
of infantry are seven-eighths COM
pleted. Quarters for the three artll-
lery regiments are two-thlrds done
Water supply sufficient for three bril-
0ades is available. The buildings IN
the regimental group include 300 mess
houses. 1873 by 20; 800 shower bath
buildings, 35 by 10; 800 latrinos, Il oy
-. 10 main storehouses, log by oV; 80
ra,imentaI storehouses, SO by 20; Is
reSimental infrmaries, 24O by 20; l
ammunition train, ! engineers tram l
sanitary train, supply train, l mead,
quarters train, signal battalion and
aero squad. ) brigade headquarters, l
postoffice building and two 2OO,OOO-gai-
lon water tanks. There are 81 build
ings to each infantry regiment and 81
to each artillery regiment.
Work on Hospital Delayed
The greatest task now facing the
is that of building the
large s450,000 hospital, plans Tor
which were received from Washington
only a week ago. SO far the work OF
clearing the ground of stumPs and
transporting material TO the site is
all that has been accomplished by the
Fifty-eight buildings Will
be comprised in the hospital group, m
Guiding sixteen ward units, loiXZ4,
eight ward and lavatory buildings, each
3l4x24. a large administration build
ing, officers quarters and ward, nurses
quarters, operating pavilion, ear and
throat laboratory, neuro-psychlatric
ward. six barracks, three isolation
wards, five storehouses, mortuary, guard
house, chapel, kitchen, mess halls,
garage and several other structures.
The pretentious character of the plans
indicate that Camp Wadsworth will
be made a permanent base hospital To-
cation.
Work on the railroad spurs to the
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Job with his engineer staff of eighty
the camp site had not even been sur
veyed Somewhere in the jungle were
II 900 acres of it, impossible, partly
swampy, virgin, peopled by millions
and millions of mosquitoes so tremen-
dous Of size and Industrious of habit
that, given the intelligence of the docile
elephant, they might have been trained
to some useful purpose.
Survey lines, then, had to be chopped
through. A Typographical map had
TO be made, for there was none in exist
ence; and when it was made the whole
camp had to be moved, on paper, 1000
feet west of the intended site. After
that came the labor of clearing, with
the men fighting off mosquito counter
attacks at every step until they could
get to the breeding places and doctor
them.
From the first the problem Of hold
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complement of single company under
the new organization. So naturally
the man who is used to calling for his
room and bath when away from home
can't very well be accommodated. He
will find his bathroom not even on the
same floor, but in quite another build
ing.
Private Room for Sergeant
In barracks the top sergeant is to
be the only privileged person. He gets
tiny sleeping room to himself, which
by day will serve as his Office.
Officers quarters and hospitals
there are, incidentally, to be fifty-eight
buildings provided for the Medical Ad-
ministration department, in addition to
the big base hospital-will be heated
by steam. The base burner stoves that
are TO heat the barracks haven't ar
rived yet and no one knows what will
be their dimensions; so it can't be pre-
dicted just how cold the dormitories
will be toward the end of the three
month training period. Certainly they
won't be warm, even by the standard Of
the most unblushing Of. city landlords,
for this end of Long Island still gets
the old-fashioned winter.
The barracks, of course, are the key
buildings to the whole structural horse
shoe of the reservation. If the bar
racks weren't there, none of the rest OF
the LOO buildings would. have any. ex-
cuse for being. Therefore 1t is on them
that the labor is now being concen-
trsted. The auxiliary buildings will
include. when the engineers get around
to slap them together, a mammoth
u.b oh
be used for lectures and the exhibition
Of motion pictures of evenings; a post
exchange, ten great warehouses, two
smaller warehouses for each of the
conscript regiments, bakery, laun-
dry, fire stations, wagon sheds and a
remount station where 1900 horses
may be cared for.
Labor More Plentiful
Work on all these, with the last
of the natural obstacles surmounted. IS
going along swimmingly. Labor is be-
coming more plentiful, and between
now and September l the engineers ex-
pect TO bring the construction force to
its "peak" with a strength of 10000
men. Before the coming of the last in
crement of the first National Army, in
the middle of October, IT is promised
that the last nail will have been driven.
There has been some complaint from
military authorities that Camp Upton
is too near home 10 make an ideal
training cantonment for the men from
New York City. But those authorities
don't know the Long Island Railroad -
or Long Island. Especially on It's para
doyically-nsmed main line" which
for the most part is single-tracked,
the railroad is one Of the most lei
surely institutions extant; and the man
who takes a day off and travels sixty
miles along the "main line" cannot be
any stretch of the imagination regard
himself as in the neighborhood Of his
home.
Nor is the scenery around camp
reminiscent Of Central Park. Except
for the absence Of cactus and the
bitter cold that is coming. the drafted
men well might imagine themselves in
field service on the border; or for that
matter in the African jungle that the
surrounding are patterned after.
There simply isn't any order~to It.
Cleared 1900 Acres Of Jnngle
When the war Department Eurys-
theus put Major o'Kelly Myers on the
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on the right of way calling: It'll
New York, fall in here"
We FELL and were marched to bar
racks, where we reported singly and
had our partial pedigrees registered
Then we were turned over TO a flock
Of cuartermasters' men, who began
measuring us for clothes.
About 8 O'Clock the captain came in
and remarked:
"By the way, have you men had
breakfast"
mo. SIR said |, saluting, because
was nearest him.
We'll" remarks the soft-hearted cap,
".just drop whatever you are doing. and
the sergeant will march you over to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

to-day turning its Golfers into Long
Branch, though in different way. The
Signal Corps of the army is there, six
teen hundred strong, a detachment Of
five hundred arriving yesterday.
History is repeating Itself, the I'M
expected having happened when Melvin
r. Van Keuren few weeks ago leased
the sever. hundred acres to the govern
ment as a cantonment. Within that
short time, Oceanport. which put on
sackcloth and ashes after the fall of
racing. is again in the limelight and
booming, while Long Branch, two miles
away, thinks so much OF the Signal
Corps boys that it is furnishing enter
tainers two or three times week. To-
day the Greater Long Branch Chamber
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26
PLATTSBURG. August %.

It's now 3:45 p. m.-by the war
watch you gave me-and | have until
1920. when | must rustic over to the
barracks and fall in for retreat.
Fall in / have done that just 6e4
times since, at 7.30 this a. m, the train
slowed to a numbering halt abaft the
camp and | heard raucous voice out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26

camp storehouses is progressing rapid
Is. Four Of the six tracks required TO
link the storehouses with the Piedmont
& Northern electric line have been
laid and are now in use. The South
ern railroad spur from the mair line
to the camp, distance of three quart
ers of a mile, is about so per cent
complete.
Cost at a Minimum
The Spsrtanburg camp undoubtedly
will be one of the least costly canton
ments of its size and character in the
country. Seventeen and half cents an
hour is the prevailing wage received
by the camp laborers, Carpenters,
white and black. receive from $3.50 to
$3.50 a day, according to their ability.
All labor is on the government basis
of an eight-hour day and time sae .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26
Signal Corps Quickens
Life at Long Branch;
1000 Men in Camp

LONG BRANCH, n. j., Aug. 25.-
Twenty-Five years ago Monmouth Park
was pouring in it's dollars into Long
Branch. The races were the big attrac-
ton, and the hotels, boarding houses
and cottages were filled. Vacant houses
were unknown. Then came the fall, and
while many would be glad to see legit-
innate racing installed, the old track is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26
100 Buildings to House
Yaphank's Citizen Army

mitories. There are two more dormi-
tories, not so large, on the ground
level; a mess hall and kitchen built
in a lesn-to.
Each company will have its meals
alone-and that is the beginning and
end of privacy for the rank and file.
Two hundred and fifty men will be
quartered in each barracks-the war
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
THROWN OUT OF U

The case of the State vs.. B. T. Will
hanson, a negro physician, charged
with violating the law when he re-
fused to sign a death certificate of a
negro woman and died with tubercu-
losis, was thrown out of court this
morning by Justice R. H. Hicks. The
Ease was set for trial yesterday after
noon but because of other cases on the
docket was not called until this morn
ing.
Williamson was not the attending
physician in the case and according
to the decision Of the court, could not
have signed the certificate. He did
know, however, that the cas- existed
and in failing to report to the city
authorities violated a city ordinance.
He explained this by the statement
that he did not know such an ordin-
ance existed.
Williamson has been in Greenwood
for a number of years and this is
the first time that his professional
integrity has been questioned. He
has the respect of a large number of
the white citizens.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
A

They say that we're short on . nat
ional song;
They're calm on genius to hustle
i, An make up a piece thatM startle the
throng
An give the old-timers a tussle.
III recon our folks must be clean out o
That is, if we're lodged by the nan
ner
In which we're accustomed to all con-
gregate
A-singin' 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
"oh, long may it wave!" When we git
to that part
There's somethin' more to it than
singin''.
It's a prayer that devoutly goes forth
from each heart
As the chorus is risin' and ringin'.
So mother an me an gals an the
boys
Gathers round our old-fashioned
pianner,
And whatever Of talent each has he
employs
A-singin' 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
The source of the tune doesn't worry
me none.
l eve ask, "Where did they git
it,"
1t was destiny if, when the writin' got
done,
The music was waitin' to fit it.
An / feel that it echoes from sea unto
Whenever our youngest that's
Hammer
Strikes a chord deep and full SOS to
give us the key,
An we jine in 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner"
Washington Star.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
FIVE STATE NORMALS ARE TO
TO HELD.

Five state normals will be held this
summer in Mississippi for the benefit
Of our teachers Of the state. The most
competent instructors available have
been employed to teach in each Of
these schools.
In N the normals in addition to the
work usually given there will be
strong courses in domestic science,
manual training, hygiene and santa
ton and agriculture.
The schools will be held at the fol-
lowing places and will open on dates
as indicated:
Hattiesburg, Pres, Joe Cook. Direc.
tor, May %.
Blue Mountain, DR.. w. T. Lowrey,
Director, June 1.
Oxford, Dr.. J. G. FAINT, Director,
June 4.
Clinton, Dr.. J. W. Provine, Direc.
tor, June I.
Starkville, Dr.. J. c. Robert, Direc-
tor. June III.
For any further details in regard
- the npfmals, information may be
sbkaihed ~ writing W. F. Bond, state
sspssinssndsnt u sducaticn.
TNe E 4NtNNn F4
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
CHICKENS VS.. GARDEN AND
FLOWER YARDS.

The following article from the es-
teemed Clarksdale Daily Register is
so applicable to the need of a chick
en- ordinance in Greenwood, that The
Daily Commonwealth reproduces it in
order to give the sentiments voiced
therein our most emphatic indorse-
menst-and We hope u city author
tiles will promptly adopt the chicken
nuisance, and also have the ordinance
against stock and cattle running at
large more rigidly enforced:
"We need a city chicken ordinance
in Clarksdale" said one of the club
women in this city yesterday in dis
cussing the matter of civic improve
ment and the making of the town
beautiful. "How can we have pretty
yards, when our neighbors' chickens
are allowed to run Wild" she said.
According to the women who have
charge of the civic work of cleaning
up the city, they are met everywhere
with this argument. With the begin
ming of Spring, the making Of gard
ems and the planting Of flowers, it
imperative that If the town
is to be beautiful, legal steps along
this line must be taken. It would try
the patience of Job to say nothing Of
discouraging the women Of the town
in the clean-up-movement to have
neatly made flower beds and carefully
planted seeds uprooted by the negli-
gent neighbors' chickens. All citizens
who have been careless in this matter
and who have been letting their chick
ems run "wild" should take the city's
best interests at heart and remedy
this evil. Most cities have an ordin-
ance providing for those who either
willfully encroach upon the right Of
others or who c~arelessly do so. Clarks
dale is progressive and should pass a
city ordinance which will do much to-
ward lending aid to make the city
more attractive.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford's Black.Draught.
tIopyright.I

McDuff, Va.-'I suffered for several
years." says Mrs. ]. B. Whitaker, o.
This place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
rhedfofd's Black Draught, which | did,
and ! found it to be the best family n1edi.
cine for young and old.
keep Black Draught on hand all the
lime now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and Il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell Of sick
Tess il our family, since we commenced
ising Black raught."
Thedford's Black raught Is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu-
ate weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
ieve indigestion. collie, wind, nausea,
ieadache. sick stomach, and similar
tymptoms.
It has been In constant use for more
han 10 years, and has benefited more
han q million people. o
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black raught. Price only 25c. Get a
tscka2e to-oay. N. c IA
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
0 BELLA COMING.

1scAu Wudt Vic NSW OAIC0Io ASSAIl
of Feb. Goth has to say about Flora
Bella.
"Flora Bella" this weeks attrac.
tive offering at the Tulane theatre
sounds a new note in musical comedy.
It is entirely different from anything
seen here in years, adele" being the
only thing which we can recall which
ever vaguely suggests the same class
of entertainment.
In the first place "Flora Bella" has
a coherent, intelligent plot which
could have furnished the basis for a
comedy even if it were not the back
ground for a musical production. On
the other hand it has a big chorus of
pretty girls, lively comedians, beautiful
gowns and all the good features Of
the less dignitied musical shows.
Florence Weber, who is fondly re-
membered here in Naughty Mariet-
ia" and "The Climax" is the prima
donna, and she not only sings well but
knows how to act. Her protrayal Of
"Flora Bella" ia notable bit Of act
ing.
Sundays nights audience was fas.
cinated by the colorful production and
the general opinion was that the mu-
sic was the best heard here this sea-
son. It is by Charles Cavillier and
Milton Schwartzwald. Some Of the
especially excellent songs are "Give
Me All of You," "Love 10 q Dream"
Blossom Of My Heart,'5' and "Creep,
Creep, The World Is Asleep"
Coming to Greenwood Theatre,
Tuesday, March 18th.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
TWO NAMES OMITTED FROM
HONOR ROLL.

On account Of illness in the facul-
ty two names were omitted from the
7th Grade Honor Roll Of Jefferson
Davis School, First Term, recently
published in this paper. Robert Pol
lard and Robert Dickins both made
an average Of 90 during the FIRST
Term.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03
WHERE THE CHURCH SOCIETIES
MEET MONDAY.

The Guild and Auxiliary of the
Episcopal church will meet with Mrs.
Monroe McClug.
The Ladies Aid Of the Methodist
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
C. A. Walker.
The Earnest Workers of the Pres
byterian church will meet with Miss
Lucy Mckay in Congress Heights.
The Methodist Missionary Society
win hold their regular monthly bust
ness session in the parlors Of the
church.
The Baptist Ladies Aid will meet
Is usual in the parlors Of the Baptist
church.
The Jewish Ladies Aid Society will
meet with Mrs. Robert Herman.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-03

The Kings Daughters held their
regular monthly meeting yesterday
1t the Memorial Building. Notwith-
standing the rain, quite a large at
tendance was present. A lot of bus
mess was transacted and all the re-
ports Of the different committees
showed splendid wor. The Exchange
that has been carried on at the Kan
dy Kitchen by this organization was