St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-05-16
FIVE St. ]. men
FOR PLA7TSBURG
Receive, Orders To Report
Immediately For
Training

Five st. Johnsbury men are among
he ri VermOnters WIN have received
orders to report Immediately at the
Camp, Plattsburg. n.
Y. They are Leigh ]. Harvey, John S.
Barker, Noel Moves, George Human,
Ind Jutten Longnoore.
Longmoore, ass slant county clerk,
Ind Harvey, of the law firm of Por-
ter, Writer'S, and Harvey, will be the
first ST. Johnsbury men at the camp. |
as their orders are to report for duty |
withNthe first division, not later than
2 pm. Saturday, May IL.
Barker, foreman of the CALIFORNIAN
Company, is ordered to report with
the second division, which goes into
camp not later than pm. Monday,
May a.
Noyes, who is a student at Yale
returned home Wednesday,
upon hearing of his appointment.
Humans orders are unknown,
though he has been called. He is a
student at Amherst College, Amherst,
Mass.
The commanding officers OF the
camp issued the following notice to
Military Training Camps Association,
relative to the transportation of the
men. After stating that the first d.
vision would leave for, Plattsburg the
night of Friday, May II, and the 9TH
er division on the night of Sunday,
May 13, the order continues:
Men from Vermont will move from
Springfield.
Train leaving Boston pm, will
stop at Worcester sos pm, Spring
field $50 pm, Albany 1910 a.m.,
picking up men. from intervening
points; another train will start from
New Haven 755 pm, stopping at
Meriden $40 pm, Hartford pm,
Springfield $50 pm, where it will be
consolidated with the trains from
Boston. All trains will arrive at
Plattsburg between 6 and s am
Upon arrival at the camp, the men
will begin to work in real earnest, as
they are to be trained as rapidly as
possible. A strenuous campaign has
been mapped out for them.
The minimum days work, as
marked out for the men by the war
department, will be ten hours. The
officers-to- be will work five hours in
the. morning, three hours in the af-
ternoon. and give two hours each
evening to study.
The prescribed schedule for the av-
erage week will be carried out from
Monday to Friday, inclusive. Satur-
day will be used in bringing up to the
necessary requirement work which
has been interrupted by weather or
other unforeseen conditions, for vac
cinations, examinations and tests in
horsemahship, for which no time is
provided, and for additional instruc-
tons in such matters as the expert
ence Of the school renders advisa BILE
General Instruction First Month.
AS the officers o. the first contin-
gent are to be selected from the
$4,000 men who will attend the vari-
Gus camps, including that at Platts-
burg, company officers in charge OF
| the camps will be instructed to exer-
else the utmost pains to acquire prop
er data regarding the accomplish
ments Of each man. Upon this data
! will be based the recommendations
for commissions. During the period
from May Is to June 16 the instruc.
tons at the Plattsburg camp will be
the same for all students. At the
conclusion of this period and for the
two months following the student:
will be grouped into two organiza.
tons for more general personal in
struction. - .<
q. The applicants Tor commission:
will have a. comparatively easy time
the first four days they are in camp
Upon assembling the men will be dis
trlbuted. following which the mer
will be instructed in the arrangement
OF beds and lockers and in barracl
regulations. One hour each day will
I be devoted to practice marches with
out arms. The men also will drill
three hours each day. Part of tn,
time will be devoted to physical ex
ercises, the schooling of a soldier
sighting and semaphore signaling
Conferences will be held on the car,
of equipment, infantry regulations
manual of interior guard duty and OF
extract from the official bulletin OF
organization. Two hours each eve
ming will be given to study.
Drill Many Hours a Week.
Ten hours OF the second week, Ma,
21-26, will be devoted to evenin,
oluoy. DI1ll1IS Will De 0XIonQ6Q.
20k hours divided as follows: Physi
cal. two and half hours; school O
four hours: manual of the bayonet
two and half hours; manual of tn
saber, one hour; position and aiming
two and half hours: signaling, sem
the squad, close and extended order
aphore, five hours. Conferences OF
infantry drill regulations and o.
guard duty will occupy Is hours. TIL
men will be given a practice march
with. q light kit. for two hours.
The third day, May % to June {
will be a bit easier on the men, a
they will be allowed to rest Memoria
Day Eight hours will be devoted t
evening study. two hours to practic
marching, Is hours to drill and
hours to conferences. During thi
period the men will be drilled special
ly, 81. far as position and aiming ar
concerned, in DETECTION and elevation
Flags will be used for the first tim
in signaling. During the fourth wee
the men will be instructed in mount
, ing guards. Gallery practice will b
, begin during the fifth week Begin
ming with the sixth week, the ind
vidual instruction will commence
Change In Original Order.
. The original order issued by tn
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