The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-05
MOBILIZE TODAY
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(COnt1nued IRON rage oue.J
1865 men, Illinois will send 9,366 men,
Iowa, 12,749; Minnesota, 17,77S, and
North Dakota, 5,272.
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich
1886 men. Michigan will send 3d.
Pei, and Wisconsin $685..
Camp Taylor, Louisville, ky--42,-
319 men, Illinois will send 10.573, In
diana 1870 and Kentucky 14.2s6.
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. O.
4s,oS2 men. Ohio will send 3S,77S.
and Pennsylvania 4,309.
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, KAN
$50, Nebraska s,1s5, South Dakota 2
TIT, Colorado Abb. Arizona, 3,472.
and New Mexico 1922, Kansas 6,4Ss-
Begin to Train at Once.
The war department plans that in
addition to the 5 per cent of the
above quotas reporting today, 10 per
cent shall report on September 10, a
second 40 per cent on October 8, and
the remaining IS per cent as soon as
possible thereafter.
Training will be started immed-
lately. According to the general pro-
gram, the soldiers will be drilled
FORTY hours a week, with "Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons off for re-
creation. Those, however, who fail
to keep step with the march of in
structions, will be obliged to give up
their two afternoons of play. td
N. NJ, Arizona, to Fort Riley.
Officials pointed out today that Ari-
iona and New Mexico are the only two
states outside the central department
of the army that will send troops into
the department for training. They
will be quartered at Camp Funston,
Fort Riley, Kan. When New Mexico
quota is complete. it will have sent
1892 men into camp, and Arizona
will be called upon to send 3,472.
7n nf a a
of the men called in the first 5 per
| cent of the states quota will reach
| camp today as a five-day period has
| been set aside for the movement OF
the men. AS some of the men will
have to travel several hundred miles
to reach camp, it is regarded as pos
sible that the entire first quota will
not be in camp until Saturday or pos
sibly Sunday.
$4,000 Troops in All.
| Railroad officials anticipate thai
| the men will be moved to their re-
spective camps without the slightes
| interference to military or norma
traffic. The program for transport
ing the men was mapped out week:
ago. Officials figure that within the
next few days approximately $4,000
| men will be transported to the siXteeT
environments scattered thruout the ma
ton. When the next quota starts fol
camp September 10, however. the rail
roads expect to transport about "a. 00t
| men a day for five days.
Sites for the environments were Sc
| lected with regard to water supply
sanitation and transportation necessi
| ties. There is a general similarity tt
all cantonments. Each camp cover.
| approximately 5000 acres and ha.
training grounds to permit maneuver.
of all military units
Barracks All Ready.
The barracks, in each of which PSI
men will be quartered, are two stor!
structures. The second floor will b,
used for sleeping and the first fo
mess and assembly hall. All of tn,
| cantonments. with the exception o
Camp Taylor of Louisville, will b.
steam heated and equipped with irol
beds, shower baths and lockers.
| Already most of the camps have tn,
appearance of modern cities. TIL
number of buildings in the canton
ments range from $50 to 900. TIL
structures include general headquar
tiers. brigade headquarters. officers
quarters, barracks for soldiers, hospi
tai and animal and artillery sheds
In addition there will be huge riff
and artillery range Long marche
and difficult drills will not be starte.
until the men become hardened t
their duties