Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-16
CAMP MEADE TO
HAVE SIGNAL CORPS
Government Preparing to Spend
$4,0OO,OOO on Outfit.

Camp Meade, Admirsl, Md, Aug. 10
Meade is to have the first out-and-out
Signal Corps camp in the United States
and 1t will be tho most modern thing in
rs line in America. -Four million dollars
will be spent on it. Camps, heretofore,
have boon built with the idea that soldiers
can drill in all kinds of weather, regard
less of their health This is to he changed
entirely. When the weather is unfavor-
able the signal men in the camp Mt kelly's
Crossing will be drilling in their own
armory. which will have one of the largest
floors In the country.
The Barracks, generally, will bc 20
feet long, just about one-haH the length
OF the buildings in the "old'' camp
Four s'Y'' huts will be built for tho
new section. The camp will he about
one and one-half miles long and perhaps
\ mile wide in certain parts Many
buildings have bcen completed already
and lumber and other material Is coming
rapidly; In fact, at a rate OF about 100
carloads a day, so that $40 buildings now
planned will be finished In short order.
Connections with the regular camp
water systems have been made. Sewer
age pipes are now being laid. There will
be complete system of roads including
gravel and concrete, connecting with the
main camp and the Baltimore thorough
fare
Many OF the student nurses who are
being enrolled throughout the country
will be trained AZ this camp. Facilities
have been provided for them in three
large buildings and more construction
is under way
The American Red Cross is erecting
q pretty bungalow for the nurses on the
brow of hill overlooking distant farms
and pine woods, with no barracks or
other suggestions of camp IN view. The
heating plant of the base hospital is
being enlarged and the system Is beng
changed from low pressure TO high pres
sure to insure comfort for the nurses
and the enlisted force, as well as Tor the
patients. Under the old system the
wards were kept warm, but 1t was some
times only by enormous consumption
OF coal and then with less heat for officers
and Others.
The student nurses will find here
force OF young women graduate nurses
eager to make them welcome and to
make their services count from the start
Practical work in the base hospital will
he an important feature of the training.
The number of student nurses Is expected
to grow steadily after the first recruits
arrive next month.
ORDER FOR NEW DIVISION.
The first official order Of the llth
Division was issued this afternoon by
l3rigadier General Joseph A CASTOR.
the acting commander II was counter
signed by Lieutenant Colonel ]. 4 Barry,
then CIV division adjutant and the acting
chief of staff The order gave the names
of the members of the division staff who
have already reported for duty
They are Lieutenant Colonel John 4.
Barry, division adin;ant; Lieutenant
Colonel Henry G. PlllSbury, division
surgeon; Major Merdcl L. Smith, judge
advocate, Major William 7 Downing,
division ordinaoe officer; Captain Ralph
P. Malendy, division gas officer; Second
Lieutenant John s. Dunn, assistant gas
officer; Captain Franz g. Edwards,
assistant division adiutant Captain Forest
c. Noble, division personnel adiutant
snd Second Lieutenant Max Enelow,
assistant division personnel officer.