Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-04
300 NEW BARRACKS
TO GO UP AT DIX
Indications Point to Popula-
tion of $4,000, Making Ma
tion's Largest Cantonment
EMBARKATIoN CENTER
Quarters May Become General
Clearing House for Troops
Going Abroad
CAME DIX. Mrlrhtstown. n. j.. Oct. 4.

CAMP DIX. wrightstown. n. j., oct. 4.
The first definite figures Of the exact num-
ber OF new buildings that are TO be erected
at Camp Dix under the recent orders for
enlarging the cantonment became known
yesterday when IL was learned from one
OF the officials Of the contracting Arm here
that 900 new barracks were to be finished
by the first of November Lowest estl-
mates of the additional accommodations
thus provided would be placed at $4,000
men. The construction Of the cantonment
as originally pinned will be finished Sat
urday The original plan called for the
training here Of AZ 900 men. The recent
orders Increased the accommodating space
of the camp 80 per cert. This would be the
same as utilizing tho original quarters to
accommodate about 20, 900 men. This would
mean that Camp Dix win eventually house
about $4,000 men and gives support to the
persistent rumor and gossip that Camp
Dix will eventually have a soldier popula-
tion OF $4,000 men and that 1t will be the
largest cantonment in the country, and also
10 the belief that the camp will be an
embarkation camp where troops from other
cantonments viii be concentrated.
Construction Of the remount station
which is TO accommodate about $4,000
horses and mules, is again under way after
having been discontinued for several weeks
so that more men could be put on the build
ing OF barracks.
The remount station will be one of the
most picturesque spots In camp when COM
| pleted, for the purpose of remount station
| is to break horses for military use and to
| act as supply depot from which trained
| horses can be supplied at a moments notice
| for service. Although the cavalry Is vir-
| tualy an obsolete arm of the service so far
| In this war. there are many military ex'
| perts who believe that the time is coming
| when cavalry will be invaluable In the
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here will not be trained so much with this
| IN view as It will be to train them for the
artillery and ambulance work and for Of
! fcers' mounts. The horse does not play the
| important part in war he formerly did, but
| there are times when motorized batteries
and automobile ambulances have to give
way to the faithful horse who can clint
| and travel over roads and fields that are
| impossible to motor-drawn vehicles, and a
such times none but trained horses are OF
| any use.
atmosphere of the wild and wooly Yves
| of yore. There will be cOrrals, real cow
boys and broncho5 clusters from the Wes
I to break in these unframed horses. II
| order to harden the animals they will bC
/ stabbed out Of doors. A staff of veterinarian
| officers are already at the camp, and these
will have an enlisted personnel of severa
hundred men under them to take care Of
the animals. There will be two hospital,
and equipped with operating rooms and two
| convalescent stables for rundown and indis
posed horses. Shipments of mules have al
| ready begun to arrive.
Yesterday being the Wednesday half
holiday, thousands of visitors swarmed into
the camp. The inadequacies of Wrights
town as a vacation and amusement center
are never quite so apparent as on Wed
nesday afternoon, when the little villag,
fairly bulges with rockies. who wander aim
lessly around in an addressed up and no
place-to-go" manner, looking for some ex
element and some place to spend money
About the only vice that they indulge In
Is an orgy of near-beer. and one bottle gen
orally suffices even the most bacchanailar
OF rockies.