Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-26
CAMP LEE WILL HAVE
$4,000 MEN BY JUNE |
Work Started on Big Athletic Field
Which Will Have 1000 Col
lapsiblc Seats.
BIG LEAGUEns WILL PLAY
Construction Of Stockadc Begun.
Good Conduct Passes No Longer
Valid for Visits to Richmond.
John Maseficld Speaks.

CAMP LEE. May 95.-Twenty-threc
hundred FirGinians from the western
':nd southwestern part OF this State
arrived a Camp Lee this afternoon on
1.-TWO socciai trains. The were the
first Of 1892 se!ectives who will ar
rive at the camp from Virginia, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania within the
next I've days. Four special trains
VIII arrive Tomorrow with $500 Sc
lcctivce. Fifteen hundred OF these
viii come from Virginia and 200 from
West Virginia. Pennsylvania 5000
men will begin to arrive Monday.
In addition to the FOREGOING Sclcc-
tivcs. 1000 soldiers VIII be forwarded
10 this camp az replacement troops
from various environments In this gee
ton Of the country. These men will
he used primarily TO recruit the
Thirty-scventh OHIO Division to fun
war strength. Any men not needed by
This division will be placed in The
replacement battalion. The transfer
OF $500 members OF tho depot brigade.
principally pcnnsylvanians. into the
Thirty-scventh Division VAS begun to-
Gay.
Two hundred and fifty officer cam
didatos. graduates Of the third-iine Of
icers' training school arrived at camp
this afternoon from Camp PIKE. Little
Rock. Ark. The entire 1000 candi-
dates VIII arrive within the next few
days. Sixteen hundred students for
the veterinarian school will arrive
next week. BY June there will be at
camp Lee at least 5000 officers and
men. which is larger number BY
1000 than have ever been quartered
within the cantonnent al one time.
Work on Camp Lees mammoth ath-
le;ic field was begun to-day. \ sight
has been selected near division head
lnf, Il
ana Seventeenth Infantry drill field and
tho drill field OF the Three Hundred and
Fifth Signal Battalion. Two thousand
coilaps.ble seats have been ordered
which Will be the first equipment Of
its type that has been received AT the
camp. Heretofore it has been neccs
sary TO stand While witnessing any
athletic contest.
with the completion OF this athletic
field. Captain &. Il. Murphy. camp
athletic officer, plans 20 stage athletic
entertainments of various types several
times p week. y camp baseball team
w:!l be developed. which Will play
games on sundays with varit is profess
sional and amateur teams Of this Sec
ton. Frequently the teams OF the
Virginia League will bc played, but
II Is thought that more often the big
league teams. particularly those Of the
American League. when the! arc IN
Washington. will be induced TO come
here over Sunday. or course. If big
league ball IS started on sunday in the
national capital. games cannot be ar
ranged with big league teams with
great frequency. However. II Is be-
!ieved that the two Philadelphia teams
and the Pittsburgh Pirates will make
special efforts TO play series here.
as PITTSBURGH and Philadelphia boys
are now being forwarded TO this
camp.
Work on stockadc for the canton
mcnt was begun to-day. when details
OF Pennsylvania from the depot
brigade were assigned 10 duty TO COL
leci from the woods near their bar
racks the poles that are TO he used.
Work OF actual construction Will be-
Kin Monday The stockade is 10 be ESQ
feet sqUarc. and will have Enclosed in
II bath and quarters for prisoners.
These prisoners VIII be principally de-
Serters from various units of the army
who are arrested in this section OF the
country and are brought TO Camp Lee
The stockadc which is being con-
structcd i'm the second section Of the
depot brigade. OF which Lieutenant-
Colonel II. c. Davids is the commander
Viii have ten feet OF barbcd wire
around the entire Enclosure. The poles
on which this wire will be nailed will
DC fou: feet in the ground and ten feet