Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-07
PLEASURE TRIPS TO CITY
!. PROHIBITED AT CAMP LEE
Order Will Not Prevent Necessary
business Intercourse Between
Richmond and Cantonment.
THREE OFFICERS PASS AWAY
Several Nurses Dangerously nl-No
Telling How Long Epidemic VIII
Last-Make Addition to Base Hos
pital.
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Especial 20 The Times Dispatch
CAMP LEE, October 6.-Orders were
'"sned from camp headquarters to-day
prohibiting the issuing Of passes 10
h'Heers and men OF the command TO
Visit Petersburg and Richmond except
on business. This is being done upor
elders from General Hcdekin. who was
guided in the decision by the recon-
mrndation OF Colonel Brownlee. camp
5Grreon. 1t is done as a part Of the
neht against the spread OF Spanish IN
nuenHa Tie civil physicians are un-
abie u prevent patients from returning
10 work or TO their civil pursuits inn
medatclE after they have passed Inc
Lave not passed the stage of con
taeion. 1t Is thought that with the
Er2tt amount of influenza existing in
pleasure Of seeing the, bright lights
advisable TO pronibit these visits
rs bnrine no' ns usual bs
Will visitors be denied admission TO
'nv s, reserx nat II is not tnGula,sd
whose wives and families reside in
Petersburg, from using such passes as
may nov be issued. II merely prevents
passes solely for social and pleasure
PURPOSES.
Medical officers and nurses who have
labored SO faithfully in fighting the
dea.:i that resulted from influenza Wis
o: FIRST Lieutenant Philip NJ. Kyser.
Of "iaeapple, Ala. WHO was a in.'nh>!'
eflcer who died is First i.i.r:eEcnt
BENJAMIN. \. CoEdill. whose wife re-
aidei at s,1 West Washington Street
Petersburg. Va. First Lieutcna At
dental corps. died Friday night T':e
erlr line officer to ;ucc',nlb to the dis
sunderman. Of Cincinnati, Ohio. a
line. are now seriously iii.
-, Several nurses are dangereusly III
Ge.n,antown. Philadelphia Pa.
one l'eh medical officer was asked
denlj would exist, Ills answer, was
Your guess Is as good as mine. Pre-
v:ods experience is that similar cpl
innnrhs. This is somewha, different
from ,he epidemic Of grippe about
twenty-five years ago. You can see,
therefore. that it is hard for ms to esti-
mate the duration OF this epidemic"
JUDGE PHILIP &. COOKE
GOES TO wASHiNGTON
Judge Philip c. Cooke, of Asheville.
y. c.. of the L,epartment Of Labor at
W ashinstom ' Mhere he viii pro6a
remain until additional draft quotas
arc forwarded to tho camp. These have
boon stopped upon orders OF the pro,
OF the influenza epidemic.
Judge Cooke has been the natura.iza-
ton officer in charge of all natura!iza :
tion exercises held at this camp. ar
Prince George Courthouse and in Pc
teTiouTs since the pstlra ii2ation law
FOR men and women in the service Of
the United States was passed.
Twenty nationa Titles have been rep
resented among the Gas. soldiers who
have become American citizens. Prac-
t:caiiy every European country was
represented. though there have been
none from the Asiatic OF. South Amer
lean countries More than 200 Ger
mans foreswore allegiance. 10 the
Kaiser. accented the constitution of
are now hshiing TO uphold IT,
other countries represented arc Rou-
mania Austria. France. ireland. Can
ida, England Scotland. Turkey. Italy.
Belgium. Sweden. Spa in. HOLLAND Eul-
garia and Norway.
Work on the addition 10 the base
hospital is expected TO begin within
will cost Approximately 100000 and
will include accommodations for 500 al .
d:tional beds. The buildings will be
OF sem!permanent nature with con-
mate in the construction. y number
of barracks are to be erected for The
enlisted personnel and additional build
ings will be erected for the nurses.
Wednesday, at $40 in the evening one
half OF the troops in the command pass
=, ~ rev,eH before one Of the colonies o.
az the same hour the reTa inirG hal:
OF the troops pass hatcrc the rcvi.w-
ing stand. They are generally nit-
messed by large crowd OF sold q 5