The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-27
Expects to Have Cantonment Ready
Close to tho TIme for Sending
SoIdlers In
ootohSr.
CARPENTERS LACKING
Expect to Have Enough Bofsaol<s
Ready, However, to Take Caro-
Of Men II They
Report

Although Adjutant General Logan
has sent out an order to the effect
that the third installment Of men for
the Camp Dodge cantonment VIII be
delayed because the camp Is not
ready, the Des Moines on1c1als are
assuring the war department that
they will be ready, October 5. The
following is taken from the Register:
In all probability there will be
only few days delay in the sending
on OF the third increment men to
the following telegram was sent to
Governor w. L. Harding Monday aft
ernoon:
mo more men will be sent to Camp
Dodge from Iowa on October 8, be-
cause the camp is not ready for them.
AS soon as the camp is completed
and ready for the men. they will be
sent on. Crowder."
Officers in the construction quarter
masters Office estimated Monday that
80 per cent Of the barracks are now
completed, and that within the next
ten days all such work will have
been finished.
They also say that the base hos.
pital and remount station will be
completed within the next seven or
eight days.
Twelve divisions Of the cantonment
are already completed, and all plumb
ing work finished. Only eight Of
the divisions are occupied at the
present time.
Carpenters Lacking.
A shortage Of carpenters on bar
rack construction was due to orders
Inn a
late work on the base hospital and
remount depot. This caused the
transfer Of men from ordinary work
to the special buildings ordered.
The officer declared that even
though all the work is not completed
by October 5, enough barracks would
be ready, for occupancy by the 1000
men expected on the first day of the
arrival of the third increment men.
By placing all carpenters on the
additional barracks, construction
work could be kept just one day
ahead OF the arrival of contingents,
and in this manner all work could
be completed one day before the last
counties reported in their quotas.
All Contlngents Here.
The arrival, of $40 men at the
Hghty-eighth division cantonment
before noon Monday completed the
contingents. Since September 10.
1856 men have been registered and
assigned to regimental organizations.
Many counties sent more than their
scheduled 40 per cent, thus increas
ing the registration of the second
increment from the 1912 expected
to 1867. AS the first increment
strength was 2,3O9 men, the total
number Of national army men now at
the cantonment is 20,976
Registration officials are still on
duty at the receiving station, as a
small number Of stragglers are ex-
pected to report Two Iowa men re-
ported Monday, but managed to get
in early and thus saved Iowa's rec
ord in reporting all men present be-
fore other states.
Official figures given out on the
registration since the first day are
Sept. 10, $3.50 men; Sept 20, 4,514
men; Sept. p, 1854 men; Sept. %,
1929 men; Sept. %, 3,691 men: Sept.
"a, $40 men.
Minneapolis boards sent the ma
jority Of their men Sunday. timing
them so they would report Monday
seven men came in from that city,
along with 165 men from North Da,
kota.
Quotas from Minnesota reporting
Monday were assigned to the Three
Hundred FIfty-second infantry, with
the exception of Minneapolis men.
who went to the Three Hundred
ThirtS,seventh field artillery.
Dollar Day, Saturday, Sept. %
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