The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-08-14
Base Hospital at Camp Dix

A great base hospital is to be erected
at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, in addi-
ton to other hospitals that are requir-
ed for the care OF the soldiers who will
be stationed at the encampment The
order for the erection of this hospital
was received last week and was sur
prise to the army officers in charge at
Wrightstown. 1t will provide accom-
modations for 1000.
The hospital will be erected at the
Wrightstown end of the cantonment,
along the Browns Mills road. In addi-
ton 10 the main buildings, there will
be dormitories for physicians and
nurses and numerous other buildings
The enterprise, in fact, will be a
small city in itself. AS the canton
ment will have it's division hospitals,
and no needs of the camp would be
likely to require an institution of such
size, it is the general belief that wound
ed soldiers from European battlehelds
will be brought here to recuperate.
There was some excitement in the
camp on Wednesday night, caused by
fire inside the cantonment limits. A
barn and COW sheds on the Eugene
Danley farm, we're destroyed by fire, of
unknown origin. The camp fire patrol
prevented the flames from reaching
the farm house. The buildings de-
stroyed were old, so the loss was not
heavy.
Fire apparatus, which is urgently
needed in this city of wooden construc.
ton, has arrived, and consists of a
motor pump engine, chemical engine
and ladder truck.
Ten large warehouses are being con
structed along the railroad spur, six Of
them completed. Vast quantities OF
food supplies are already arranged for,
in preparation for the army of con
scripted soldiers that is to be encampeC
here within short time. The quarter
masters department has ordered these
supplies shipped here and some OF the
warehouses are already filled. Tit
floor space in these houses is lis, 00C
square feet.
| Camp Dix is to have a "hostes
house" The government has approY
ed plans for building on the borde
of the camp under direction of thu
Young Women's Christian Associa
ton, where mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts of the boys in camp can NEE
them under pleasant conditions.
| During the past week there has been
more activity than heretofore in tn
construction of the water supply sys
tenn. The two boilers to furnish steam
for the pumps have been placed o.
concrete foundations erected along tn
banks of the creek near the New Lis
bon railroad station, and masons ar
J constructing the necessary brick walll
fire boxes, etc.
Owing to the non-arrival of tn
necessary pipe, no work was done for
week on the sinkingof the experiment
! al artesian we'll at the side of til
s pumping station. This ten inch we
7 is furnishing good supply Of pul
3 water at a depth of 200 feet, but it
8 intended to go still deeper to ascertai
the number of water strata availabl
s On Saturday some pipe was delivere
7 and work on the well has been r
o sumed.
] The trench digging machines, thr
6 in number, are doing their work co
< siderably faster than the water mali
. can be laid and the joints loaded. II
g laying of the 16-inch main is near
Il completed from the pumping static
. to the camp ground.
10 1t is very likely that the police for
"a around the camp will have to be
Is creased. There is much drunkenne
81 and it is not safe to be on the ro
q after dark. Saturday night there We
&c six holdups between Wrightstown al
So the freight buildings on the Earl far
81 There is a crowd of men who evident
~ watch when the others get their p
SO and they hold the fellows up.
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