The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-02-26
Camp Dix.

of Clara Louise Kellogg, who won
thousands in New York by her mar
velous voice, gave an entertainment
on Wednesday evening in Y. NJ. C. A.
hut No. l. Miss Ethel Costello, also
of New York, entertained the men on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The minstrel troupe of Company E,
3llth Regiment, will present their en-
tertainment at the X. of c. Hall on
Friday evening and at the Borden
town Military Institute on March s.
The players will likely appear in Tren-
ton the latter part of next month. The
3llth quartet, which takes prominent
part, is composed of Trenton men.
New York and New Jersey cannon
niers of the 153d Field Artillery Bri-
gade were the center of interest on the
big parade ground Wednesday afternoon
at one of the snappiest reviews yet wit
messed at Camp Dix. The men who
have studied the big-gun game were
inspected by their commander, Brig
adler General c. c. Hearn. The bri-
gade is composed of the 307th field
light artillery, 30Sth field artillery and
the 309th heavy field artillery.
Reorganization of the method of
equipping and supplying men en-
barking for France has been instituted
by Quartermaster General Goethals.
Under the new plan, men for overseas
service are going to camp Merritt, near
New York, where they are fitted out
to the last button, and sent to ships.
Similar equipment stations will be
opened at Camps Stewart, Dix and
Meade, or Lee.
Camp Dix soldiers can again eat
chocolate candy without fear of ground
glass, as Federal investigation of the
suspected pilot to poison men in the
training camp has shown little cause
for alarm. ''We ate the samples and
are still alive" is the reply of members
OF the surgeon generals Investigating
board. Pieces of glass found in the
candy, officials believe, might have
been accidentally introduced by the
breaking of a jar or container.
A contract has been awarded to a
Paterson firm to erect about rs adj
ditional buildings at Camp Dix. The
buildings will include barracks, hos
pitfalls, etc. The capacity of the base
hospital will be doubled. The new
hospital buildings will be two stories;
the present ones are all one story. 1t
is supposed that these buildings will be
used as convalescent hospitals for the
care of wounded soldiers from France,
as the present base capacity is suffici-
ent for the needs of Camp Dix.
st. Georges Club on the Pointville
road was formally opened on Wednes-
day with appropriate exercises. 1t.
Col. Harry N. Cootes, chief of staff, rep
resented the division, and other
speakers were Bishop Mathews of Tren-
ton; Bishop Stearly of Newark, and j.
F. Carson, chairman of the Presby-
terrain Board on War Work, and the
Rev. j. f. Walsh, Catholic post chap
lain. The Rev. DIR. Karl NJ Block, the
pastor of st. Georges Church. is in
charge of the club and his assistants
are the Rey. f. l.. Cook, of Hamburg,
n. j.; Edmund l.. Coyt, secretary of
the Brotherhood of st Andrew;
Charles I. Wright, of Haddonfieid
and Mrs. t. E. Craven, of Philadel-
phia, who is the house mother. She
was formerly in charge of the social
service work at the Gimbel store.
Combining practice with accom-
plishment, engineers of Camp Dix have
begun the erection of "a big bridge over
deep gully that now cuts off a sec
ton of the cantonment occupied by
the division trains from direct We
hicular communication with the main
camp. The span will prove time
saver to drivers of mule teams and
auto trucks, but far more important
from the military standpoint it will
demonstrate the splendid progress
made by the men of Col Markham's
regiment in structural bridge building
The bridge will be erected under con-
ditions similar to those the engineers
will find confronting them in recon-
struction work in Europe. All the
timbers for the structure are being cut
from woods on the camp reservation,
hewn and sawed into shapes needed
with a small portable sawmill the en-
gineers will carry with them in the
field work. The span will be built
under direct supervision of Lieutenant
Frank Perkins, of Company A, an
officer in the bridge section of the 303d.
The bridge will be wide and strong
enough to carry the heaviest loaded
truoisS two abreast