Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-23
MONDAY NIGHT To SEE
SECOND QUOTA IN CAMP
Train After Train Brings to Canton
ment Largest Number Arriv-
ing in Single Day.
ANfERICANIsM is EVIDENT
Many Pennsylvania Iron Workers
and Miners, Who Cannot Speak
Language, Bear Stars and Stripes.
Musical instruments Popular.
[From a stan Correspondent

CAMP LEE. VA, September 22.-
With Pennsylvania again leading In
the number of men sent TO the National
Army cantonment of the Eightieth Di-
vision. 3.615 men were received here
up TO about 10 o'clock tonight This
brings the total number of the 40 per
cent quota in camp TO about 1895. Al
the rate the men arc reaching the can
tonment tho entire second increment
of 1900 should be in their barracks
by Monday night. To-day's receipts
were the largest since the men got
under way last Wednesday.
| FirEinia's contribution to the camp
/ to-day totaied about et2. a biz increase
over yesterday, when only I37 were re.
ceived. Twenty-three counties were
| represented' IN the number of Vir-
Gin!ans reaching here to-day. and no,
more than ten are now to be heard
from. These. IL is expected. will be in
by Monday morning. when the second
quota of men from this State will be
complete:
1t was the original plan to put all
| Nirsinians i'll the Three Hundred and
seventeenth and Three Hundred and
| Eighteenth Regiments of Infantry, but
this was changed to-day to the extent
or assigning five counties to the First
training Battalion. Men so assigned
VIII be used later in assisting in drill
ing further contingcnts of selected men
There Will be one training battalion
| Tor each regiment in the camp The
men sent to the First Battalion are as
follows: Halifax. As; Roanoke, 28:
Prince Edward. IS: 3otetourt, 56. and
Bedford. 81. The officers are placing
the men wherever they consider them
needed. and the assignments are not
necessarily permanent.
Other Virginia counties sendina
quotas which reached here to-day are;
| For the Three Hundred and Seventeenth
Regiment - Dickerson. sS; Nottoway
20; Campbell, IL: Greene. 4: Pulaski
"a; Wythe. 54; Franklin, 20; Roanoke
ol' Washington, 81; Bland, IS: Wise
l46; Carol IS, and Floyd, AZ. For the
Three Hundred and Eighteenth Reg
iment-Princess Anne, 1S; Essex. 2.
Richmond. %. and King William, 1.
VIRGINIA's SECOND QUOTA
| RAPIDLY REACHING CANp
Up to tonight around 5000 men from,
virginia had been received at Camr
Lee on the second quota About 8. .O0C
VII! De required to make up the 40 per
cent from this State Virginia vii,
nurhish @ altogether 1875 men. abou,
90 or which were received at the
camp on September 5.
Practically all Of the men to-d.,
rom west virginia were for the Three
hundred and Fifteenth Regiment of Ar.
.ihery' winch will be composed OF
troops from the southern part of the
| Arct
reached the camp this morning and
during the day, SIS were received
Thirty-one men came In for the Three
Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment. yerr
nearly all Of the West Virginians have
been received at the cantonment.
Pennsylvania. which will have q
larger representation at the camp than
either OF the other States, occupied the
attention of the officers to-day consId-
erably. All through the day quotas
were arriving, the total for the State
reaching 2,057 This number was d.
vided among the various units as fol-
lows: For the Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Regiment. SOC: for the Three
Hundred and Twentieth Regiment
1,o3s; engineers. 20; machine gun com.
pany, 125, and ammunition trains, $50.
From the quotas received from Pitts
burgh. Captain Dawson selected twen-
ty-three men for his headquarters
troop. which completed that command
From the 10000 men already at the
cantonment, the members of the head
quarters troop represent the flower OF
the entire number, although of course
there are hundreds Of other mon in the
various regiments who are qualified for
| tho headduarterS command OpIv ms
men make up this unit, however. AL
most half Of the troop are Richmond
boys, but all three of the States are
represented
The mastering Offices and company
barracks presented lively. scenes to.
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