The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-05
FIFTEEN STATES
IN MIDDLE West
CALLED upon FOR
251,965 RECRUITS
First Call Sends 1880
Men To The Six Cen
tral Cantonments
WILL BEGIN WORK
IMMEDIATELY
Most of the Camps Have
Appearance of Mod
ern Cities
WILL BEGIN WORK
IMMEDIATELY
chicaEo, nly sept. 5.--EEar gripped


Chicago. Hlg sept. 5.--gEaT gripned
the homes OF the nation today -
Answe ering Columbia's call, 12,600
incentive per cent of the 251, ,965 men
chosen in the selective draft from
the fifteen states In the central de-
partment of the army-began report
ing at six huge cantonments to start
training that will send them into the
world war.
They came from the city and the
farm-from desk and profession to
be moulded into soldiers for the new
national army. The types of men re-
porting for military instruction at
feet everything and everybody. Some
were salesme en-, others farm hands.
All left everything behind-their
Jobs, riches, mothers and sisters and
some OF them wives and children
for a suit of khaki and a rife and a
course Of training that will change
them into important cogs OF the AM
erican war machine.
Locations of the six cantonments
in the central department the num-
Der of men to be trained at them,
and the states from which they We're
drawn are:
Camp Grant, Rockford, nI.-ss,s sos
men. Illinois will send 31.714 and
wisconsin 7,1s1.
Camp Dodge, Des Moines. Ia.--45,-
165 men, illinois will send 1856 men.
Iowa, 12.T49; Minnesota 17s77S and
North Dakota 5,272.
Camp Custer. Battle Greek, Mich.
$3.50 men; Michigan will send
20.2s1, and Wisconsin, 5,695.
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky.--42s-
ss1 men, Illinois will send 1858;
Indiana. 1850 and Kentucky, 1926.
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, o.
43.0S2 men. Ohio will send SS,173s
and Pennsylvania 4,309.
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, KAN
48,51e men. Missouri will send 49,
SEQ; Nebraska, S,1s5; Kansas. 6.439;
South Dakota, 2,717; Colorado. 4,753;
Arizona. S,472; and New Mexico, q
2s2.
addition to the Ave per cent of the
above quotas reporting today, forty
per cent shall report on Sept. 10. a
second forty per cent on Get. 3, and
the remaining fifteen per cent as
soon as possible thereafter.
Drill 40 Hours Weekly.
Training viii be started immed-
lately. According to the general pro-
gram. the soldiers viii be drilled
Forty hours b week, with Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons off for rec
reation. Those, however. who fail
= to keep step with the march of in
gtruction viii be obliged to give up
their two afternoons Of play.
Onicials pointed out today that
Arizona and New Mexico are the
oniv two states outside the central
department OF the army that will
send troops into the department for
training. They will be quartsred at
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan.
when New Mexico's quota is COM
pIete. IT viii have sent 1892 men in-
- camp, and Arizona viii be called
mpon to send 3s412.
Army officers do not expect that
All Of the men called in the first
ave per cent OF the states quotas
win reach camp today as five day
period has been set aside for the
movement OF the men. AS some OF
the men viii have to travel several
hundred miles 10 reach camp it is
regarded as possible that the entire
FIRST quota win not be In camp until
Saturday or possibly Sunday.
Railroad officials anticipate that
the men win be moved to their
respective camps without the slight
est interference to military or nor
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