The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-13
WHAT CAMP DEVANS WILL OFFER TO TIE.
 NATIONAL ARMY MEN
Contingents Arriving Today And Hereafter Will Be
  Surprised.

Camp Devans, Aver Sept 13-As- signments of officers to their various regiments and brigades of the Seventy sixth Division has been completed, with a few exceptions. Erstwhile Plattsburg units have been broken up by war department orders which have been coming in thick. and fast. By these orders officers not needed in lregimental quotas have been assigned either to depot brigades, authorization points, soon to sail for France or to schools in Canada for machine gun training in connection with airplane service.
 Under newly adopted tables of or ganization an immense amount of de- tail is involved in transference of of ficers from post to post. For instance the nine New England Infantry com panies at the first Plattsburg training camp furnished sufficient officers for nine regiments under the old tables of organization used by our army, whereas, under the new tables of or ganization the officers supplied by four Plattsburg units is spficient to man the infantry regiments of the Seventy sixth Division. Thus those officers of five units had to be given other as- signments. 5t It will be a matter of several days before transfers are completed and officers are settled in their new sta tions. As many from Connecticut are concerned in the general shakeup those who have been sent elsewhere have left forwarding addresses with postal authorities so that their mail will eventually reach them. The Twenty-sixth Division under command of Major General Clarence R. Edwards has had IFS graduates of the first Plattsburg training school assigned to it, including two from Hartford, one from West Hartford and one from South Manchester. Sec ond Lieutenants Lew Allen fN. A.) of Hartford. and Clarence E. Bissell Sof South Manchester and Robert 1T. Kane (N. yA.) of Hartford, have been assigned to the 104th and Fourth In- fantry; and Second Lieutenant Her. | bert C.. Bisse1l (N. A.) of West Hart ford has been assigned to the 193rd Infantry.
 A number of other Connecticut men are included among the ITS who have gone to the Twenty sixth Division | AC AldhOuP O1 IflC fOONCHIy -oAAIll Division of the National Army is as follows: Four regiments of infantry, the 3O1st, 302nd, 303rd, and 304th three regiments of field artillery, the 3O1st, 302nd and 303; the 301st regi- ment of engineers; the 151st Signal Corps battalion; one regiment of heavy lfartillery, sanitary and, an ammuni- tion train, besides small army of doctors, dentists, chaplains, staff of ficers and a special detachment of the medical corps.
 Each of the 213 barracks will ac- commodate 200 men, who will sleep on new sanitary steel spring cots., and will not have to forego the luxury of sheets and other bed linen. ! @The sick lame and lazy will be ac- Icommodated at regimental hospitals, each equipped with from fifteen to twenty beds. A hospital is now being rushed to completion which will ac- commodate 1000 beds.
 | An officers school is now being or gAnized and under the able tutelage of veteran colonels of the regular army the new officers here will re- l ceive a course in intensive training ] to fit them for their strenuous duties. ,Connecticut's drafted smen need have no fear about their material and physical comforts at this camp
 Rations Plenty.
 Rations sufficient for 43,000 men for one month are tucked away in the
 commissary warehouses and Lieuten- ant Colonel Dalton, Division Quarter master, has contracts for many months
 ahead, so that ones months rations fare cOnSta nf1v Strea ming in
 More than 200 high-salaried cooks have been hired, through the help of the Hotel Mems Association, and the 1 Council of National Defense, to teach the fine art of culinary sreprisals to l the cooks of the drafted army. An idea of the vast amount of supplies
 necessary for the feeding of the 76th l Division is gained by scanning the
 following list of what is required here for just one day:-
 33,275 pounds of fresh beef.
 8,540 pounds of bacon. l 42,750 pounds of. flour.
 | 190 pounds of baking powder. | 2,S50 pounds of beans.
 1900 pounds of rice.
 1900 pounds of fresh potatoes. | $500 pounds of fresh onions. l., 2.S67 pounds. of tomatoes. I ,910 pounds of prunes. | 10000 pounds of jam. r.
 2,70O pounds of coffee. I 1900 quarts of milk.
 l. 5000 pounds of butter.
 [ ITO this list is added thousands ot pounds of dried fruits, spices flavor ing extracts and canned goods.
 Draft army members will sit al tables prepared with the use of the
 most modern ranges and kitchen equipment.
 Ready for immediate issue by the division quartermaster for the physi- cal comfort of the 76th Division are: 100000 campaign hats.
 100000 olive drab service shirts. |. no nlln khaki blouses