Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-07-06
About $500 Men Being Fitted for
the Navy at the Great Lakes
Station.
EVERY MINUTE IS OCCUPIED
Keen Determination to Make Good Is
the Prevailing Spirit Of the Camp
plan to Make Station Larg-
est of Kind in World.

Great Lakes, Ill.-About $500 men
are being fitted for fighting In the ma
TONS first line of defense at the Unit
ed States naval training station here.
Not unlike that in a big college
football camp is the routine of their
training. Chief petty officers are the
coaches who drill the men up end
down the fields in the final days If
preparation for the big game-war
Every minute is made to mean son'e-
thing. On a dozen fields the air IS
filed with the authoritative commands
of the officers and the pounding of
thousands of heavily-shod feet on the
turf. Commingling Is the blare of the
bands, which are directed by Lieut..
John Philip Sousa, famous bandmas-
ter, who now has 242 musicians in
training and expects to develop the
finest military band in the world.
But the spirit of the camp is as seri-
Gus as that In a football camp. And,
as evinced by the last days of Novem-
not meant lightly. Everywhere about
the station the sentiment seems to be
to stick to the team and make a good
showing In the eyes of the coaches
that permanent place may be OBJ
tanned in the greatest game of all. G.
G. Smith. captain of this years foot
ball eleven at the University of Michi-
gan, expressed this when he said:
''We are going In with everything
we have. We are going to win and
make the commandant, Capt w. A. !
Moffett, proud of us when we go to |
sea or be ground to pieces trying"
To Train 10000 Men.
Plans are under way to make the |
station the largest of its kind in the |
world. Preparations have been made
TO train upward of 10000 men during
the summer. The navy department, |
upon the suggestion of Captain Moi
felt, has asked congress TO .appropri-
ate funds for this purpose.
Constructed originally for 100 men,
the war and the resultant influx of re-
fruits has necessitated the springing
Up of white, tented city on the reser-
atAOl anu doJOihAbS ACdoCd lump
Paul Jones, lying Immediately to the
North of the station proper has been
ully equipped and shelters 5000 men,
lmong them the naval militia from the
states of Michigan and Missouri.
1t is believed that the station will
o the navy during the war. Recruits
rom practically every community in
he middle West are expected, men
rom Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
Minnesota, North Dakota,
,outh Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis- ,
ouri, Iowa, Kentucky and parts of
Their states being sent here to learn !
he business of a man-o'-warsman. !
Men of Every Station.
Virile young Americans, from the ]
olleges, offices, farms and factories
f the middle West. the men at the !
tation seem to be trained for almost I
nything. Here one may see a civil Q
ngineer, enlisted as an apprentice
canaan, using his transit to make c
ench marks, while over there on the f
1rner of the reservation are the two 4
ender, 400-foot wireless towers from
hich man is sending a wireless mes
ige to the government station in Ar II
lgton, Va. In the heterogeneous per-
,nnel there is a representative of al f
ost every trade, profession and bust a
sss.
Inconsistencies is a disease that has II
tile place at the station. There is C
1t time for it. Lying in the sun