Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-07

Terminal from a. m. until midnight
each day, and it is probably that IN
the near future they will have a table
in the station from which they will con-
duct their work.
The reception squad assigned to the
Union station is composed of Captains
w. S. Hatch and w. c. Wingo and Sec
ond Lieutenants Pierce, Bond, House.
Haygood, Palmer and Greene. AS the
selected men came into this station they
, we're escorted to the Terminal station
and placed aboard the trains for Cham
blee. The squads at both stations ow-
ing to the long hours, have divided up
the time in two-hour shifts, half the
number working during each shift
READY FOR 10000.
The buildings already completed at
Camp Gordon have a capacity of shell
tering 5000 soldiers. So far $40 build
ings nave been constructed, while there
will be about fifty more to be built with
in the next few weeks.
OF the buildings so far completed,
sc are company barracks for the Sc
lected men; So are layatories for the
enlisted men; 80 are buildings to be used
for officers quarters, and SO buildings
are TO be converted into lavator1es for
the officers. Nine administration build
ings, six medical buildings, tour store
houses, five warehouses, one bakery, one
telephone exchange ard a postoffice are
the other buildings completed.
Thirty more buildings for troops are
yet to be constructed and 20 more for
officers
Most every barracks for the enlist
ed men will house 200 men, although
there are a few that have a capacity
for only 167 men. There will be Is Of
ficers quartered in each of the build
ings assigned as officers barracks.
The base hospital which is now being
built, will have 3S houses when it Is
completed in about two weeks.
1t was announced that there are now
enough buildings to house, twenty-five
per cent of the men summoned in the
first call. The work on the remount
station will be completed in about
three weeks. The cots, tables and
shower baths in the various buildings
all have been installed.
An order wost posted at General
Swifts headquarters Wednesday morn
ing stating that owing to the mass OF
work on hand it would be impossible to
give the new men choice os to service
and that transfers could not be consider
ed until after all men had been trained at
the camp had been mustered in. This
order also explained the rules and reg
ulations of the camp and expressed the
hope that the men would keep the camp
clean of any violations of these rules
The counties sending in their first
men Wednesday follow: Appling, two
men; Bacon, one; Baker, two; Bald
win, FIVE; Banks, three; Barrow three:
Barlow, ten; Ben Hill, three; Berrien,
?; Bibb, 8; Bleckley, five, Brooks, ten;
Bryan, one; Bulloch, ten; Burke. IL:
Butts 3; Calhoun, 8; Camden, 2; Camp
bell, 4; Gambler 4; Carroll. IL; Catoosa,
3; Charlton 2; Chatham, 6: Chatta-
hoochee, 2; Chattooga, and Cherokee
Z.
Augusta also was to send in her first
six men
The men ordered 10 report Thursday
are from the following counties:
Clarke, 8; Clay. 2; Clayton. q Clinch
o; Cobb, 9; Coffee. 8; Colquitt, 8; Column
bia, b; Coweta, IL; Crawford. 4; Crisp,
a. Dade, /; Dawson, 2; Decatur, 10;
Dodge. 9; Dooly 10; Dougherty, 6: Doug
las. 4; Early, 6; Echols, 2; Effingham. 2;
Ebert, s. Emanuel, 9; Evans, 2; Fannin,
%; Fayette. 4; Floyd, IA; Forsyth, 4, and
Franklin. 6.