Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-09-07
CLYDE GLENN WRITES
 FR0MCANP LEACH, WASH.
Clyde Glenn of Chloride writes Camp Leach, Washington, D. c.
 CAMP LEACH

CAMP LEACH
 Washington, D. C..
 "We to do everything on schedule here. We get up at 6:15, go to roll call at 6:3O, to breakfast at 6:45, then in drill formation at 500. We usually drill until II and from one to APO, stand retreat at o'clock and to supper at 5:30. We never called into formation after supper except for something special, of course these drill periods are not strictly adhered to for there are other things to attend to, for instance, they brought us in at nine o'clock for medical inspection. We all had to strip in the barracks and the doctors passed through giving each man the once over. Our bunch are inspected every morning by a lieutenant and every Saturday we have personal and equipment inspec- tion by our Captain. We had lots of fun yesterday afternoon getting our packs packed and marching our about a mile and pitching cul little shelter tents. It was the first time some of us had done this and it was a picnic to watch some of us trying to pack about wagon load of junk in a,small pack to carry on our back but we got through with it after a fashion. The Y. M. c. A. is the popular place after supper for that is where most of the tovs go to write that letter ba'6 home. Then the Y. M. c. A. has some kind of entertainment (free) for the boys most every evening. They have a large amphi-theatre in a grove of large gum trees situated on gently sloping hill side with q large stage built at the lower side, making an ideal place for an enter taiDment these warm summer nights. Last night we had a 27 piece string orchestra, mixed male and female and there were a number of vocalists a;ncng them SC we had fine even- ing's entertainment. We have some thing nice every evening. One even- ing this week there was a chorus of twelve young ladies of Washington came out and sang number of songs for us. Camp Leach is built in American University Park and is small compared to other cantonments as there are only about 5000 men here. There are several Arizonans but I haven't met any who enlisted from Kingman or Chloride. Our friend Bill Holt, who enlisted from Chloride has gone to France and the talk is that this company will go over about the last of this month or the first of next. Our grub is good and some days better than others. It is served to us cafeteria style, only we go them one better, we use our own dishes (field mess kits) and we wash and take care of our own kit. We have four big tubs of hot water tC each two hundred men-two to wash them in and two to rinse them in. We do not use the etiquette of set ting at the table until every one is through eating but the first man through eating is the first to get his dishes washed. Every fellow does his own laundry, as they term it in the army. They have long troughs and rubbing boards in each com pany wash room with hot and cold water faucets every three feet. The rubbing board is wide smooth plank on which we lay the clothes and scrub them with brush. In the bath room of each company there are six showers with hot and cold water built over a smooth concrete floor which drains to a common center. We often take our dirty clothes and throw them on the floor and tramp on them while we are bathing so there isn't much work on them with the brush. We don't have any way to press them so we hang them out so they will dry as straight as possible.
 CLYDE GLENN
 "D" Co 27th Engineers, Camp