Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-07
CAMP GORDON MEV,
FIRST FIVE HUNDRED,
GET DOWN TO WORK
SeIeCtmen See First Dawn in
Military Quarters and, After
Army Breakfast, Are Drilled
and Equipped
By WARD n1oREHousE.


ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU.
CAMP GORDON. Ga. Sept 6.-The Cor
donites. settlers OF a military metropolis
awoke Thursday in their new land; they
stared through big open windows. yawn-
cd and coptinued TO gaze fixedly upon
the bustling site OF war preparations
upOn the winding red highways. the
horde of carpenters. and the streets and
the ground upon which they will be
trained.
Thursday the first five hundred"
cav their first dawn at the cantonment.
They spent the night IN strange beds
and under strange roofs and Thursday
morning the old men"-those select
men who set foot upon the reservation
on the first day--joined in greeting the
men who came to the camp Thursday
Overnight a great change had taken
place al Camp Gordon. L. S.A., military
cantonment. The training camp student
is now an officer; the civilian. the soft
fleshed chap from the city and the of
flee, is row a soldier
The sclectmen got down to business
early Thursday morning. Drill was
held during the day and after sitting
down to one of Captain August jan
sens breakfasts they were given what
equipment there was on the place, the
same consisting of beds, mess kits.
blankets etc. The first five hundred"
we're also assigned to different COM
panies and placed under different COM
manders. all Of whom were military
men who reached the heights of officer
willie via the training camp route.
The open all night" sign was up at
the antionaI army receiving station
which lies in the hot sun near the rail-
road tracks, and near the SPOT where
jitneys deposit their loads
COLLEGE MEN REPRESENTED.
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick S. L.
Price. formerly one of the most popular
officers at Fort Mcpherson. who is IN
charge Of the receiving station, stuck 20
his post from early Wednesday morning
until the east was streaked with gray
Thursday. At a. m. Colonel Price
called Il a days work, took a BATH got a
bite to eat, and returned to his job in
an hour and half. The young officers
on duty with him at the receiving sta
ton are also doing valiant Service. and
those who were on duty Wednesday and
Wednesday night were relieved and their
places filled by officers from other or
CARNATIONS.
The business of receiving selecten, d.
recting them, signing them UP, question
ing them and advising them was con-
tinued Thursday uninterruptedly. On
81 rzsI af he
onel Price and his eager young assist
ants bent over desks, and on the OUT
side of the little house were grouped
the representatives of the different reg
iments who's businss II is to direct the
new men 10 their proper quarters.
From the pads of paper in this re-
ceiving station one can get a line on
the kind of men who will compose Uncle
Sans new army. After looking INTO
the eyes of 5O4 recruits who had report
ed up until Thursday morning, Colonel
Price remarked that Uncle Sans new
army would be a beauty"
Cdsege men are in the crowd. Eleven
Of the selectmen who were received at
the station on Wednesday, are graduates
Of various southern colleges, while 4
vast number of the Gordonites have one
and two years at college to their credit.
The majority or the men who have re-
ported have signed up as stenographers,
while there are large number of ma
chinists.
One minister appeared late Wednesday
night and was assigned to the artillery.
He was from south Georgia, and said
that he was an uncommonly good horse
man.
The officers detailed outside the re-
ceiving station Thursday were as fol-
lows: Captain Danforth, and three
lieutenants, Three Hundred and Twen-
ty-eighth infantry; Captain Noise, and
three lieutenants, Three Hundred and
Twenty-sixth infantry; Lieutenant
Hawkins. Three Hundred and Twenty
first machine gun battalion; Lieuten-
ant Hook and three lieutenants, Three
Hundred Twenty-seventh infantry;
Lieut.. Wilkens, and two lieutenants,
Three Hundred and Seventh engineers;
Captain Brown and four lieutenants,
Three Hundred and Tewentieth field ar
tillery; Lieutenant Hampton and three
lieutenants, Three Hundred and Twen-
ts--first artillery; Lieutenant Cochran
and one lieutenant, Three Hundred and
Ninteenth machine gun battalion; Lieu
tenant Burgess, Three Hundred and
Twenty-first machine gun battalion and
Lieutenant Hamilton, Three Hundred
and Twenty-ffth infantry.
OFFICERS on DUTY.
Those on duty on the inside looking
out" were Captain a. L. Uhler. Cap
/ tain 3. Castle, Lieutenant A w
Thompson. Lieutenant J. Fl. Ruckman
I Captain 2. NJ. Cleveland, Lieutenant
y. J Rogers. Lieutenant r. B. Leary.
Lieutenant F. T. May, Captain Lamar
Weaver. Lieutenant o. 5. Watson
Lieutenant H. II. West, Lieutenant w.
W. Hardaway. Captain NJ. ID. Smith
and Captain r. II. Bethea.
kilograms are pouring into the office
of Captain Price from different local
boards bringing information as to what
time certain men should arrive at the
cantonment from different points
All the men now reporting seem eager
and ready for any kind of work and will
in gtO be assigned to any sort of or
ganizatiOn. a number of them, how
ever. asked 10 be sent to the signal
corps, the quartermaster department
and the ambulance unit. These re-
quests were denied.
The officers in the receiving station,
the commanders of the regiments, the
company commanders, now have the
new men in hand. but in a few days
the doctors will take a whack at the
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