Evening journal., 1918-02-04
Girls TAT GET MAPS
AID DIX hARKSNEN
Philadelphia Art Students
Huge Panorama Pictures
Show Landscapes
BRITISH TANK
IN CANTONNIENT
Special 70 THE EvENING Io1RNM

cpecial 70 THE t\fNlNAT .itl IN NJ.
CAMP DIX. Wrightstown. y. ]. Feb
4--Young women art studen's in Phia-
delphia are aiding the South Jersey men
in Colonel stokes 3iiih Infantry to win
recognition as one Of the quickcst-nr-
ine. substituting regiments in the
National Army by providing for the
regmenial and battalion rifle schools
huge panorama pictures fer target des-
ignation work The idea, while it has
been worked out with roughly sketched
maps OF rife instructors. has never be-
fore reached the stage Of perfection de-
veloped among the South Jersey men
under direction OF Lieuten0nt-COlonel
Myer aided by the Philadelphia stu
dents.
The work on the target range. whore
the men. handling rifles, automatlcs and
machine guns, fire across a level stretch
Of Jersey sand barrens at regulation
targets. is only the beginning Of the
system devised by Colonel Alyer, but
serves 10 give the "doughboys" an ele-
mentary knowledge OF handling their
rifles in straight shooting The desire
20 bring TO the men while still in the
training camp a thorough education In
the science OF shooting under all con-
ditions brought the picture plan 10 the
front
The pictures are from twenty to
thirty feet long and five or six feet
high. The various canvases show Vir-
tually every type OF landscape over
which any army could be called on to
night
There are seashore scenes, ports.
forts. ships and every likely feature Of
a shorelino ba tie vista with points that
would be vital targets. The scenes
range from this up 90 mountain peaks,
such as those on the present Italian
front They are in true perspective and
their size gives the rifle students an
opportunity 70 study the whole Of the
front before a sector Others include
airplanes and "Zeps" and are for use in
demonstrating defense methods against
an aerial attack.
Ono Of the ADVANTAGES Of the use Of
these panoramas, officers point out, is
the feet hat they present the natural /
color schemes A good marksman must
be able TO pick his target against a I
background OF any color In new and I
highly successful range finding and tar /
get desicning work devised by American /
officers these picture maps are doubly /
helpful
Among the young women who are /
contributing their art TO help win the /
war and who have prepared the nano- /
rama targets now in use are Miss May /
Butler Miss Margarelta Hinchman, Miss
Blanche Ballaye, Miss Katherine Barker,
Miss Helen Shand, Mrs. Toering. Miss
Anna Hinrhmsn and Miss Edith Elmer
son
The newest type Of recruit here is the
volunteer conscript." He Is arriving
in continually increasing numbers He
represents a class OF young men who
have tlred Of waiting for a call to the
colcrs and have sought the permission
Of their home exemption boards to go
into service without further delay
There will probably be hundreds Of
these volunteers" in camp before the
formal call is issued for the thousand
Of men expected from New York, New
Jersey and Delaware,
News reached headquarters yester- !
day that the tank Britannia reached !
Camp Dix this morning for its week OF
demonstrations and instruction work /
during which II is to give the spectacu-
lar demonstration Of It's power by
plowing through one Of the abandoned
fRrmhouses on the reservation Major
Davis has asked that the strongest-built
house available be selected, and pre- |
diets that his big iron pet will amhle |
through Il without an instant's heslta- |
ton
Private Edward X. Miesch. OF Cam /
den, won the only warrant for a non |
commissioned offlcer's rank awarded
by Colonel Stokes, Of the Siith, at this /
weekend He is appointed a corporal I
N Headquarters Company.
Sergeant Knew His Business.
The new Delaware Pioneer REGIMENT
Of Infantry in the process Of mobillza-
ton here has a sergeant who IS
stickler for military decorum on all oc-
casions. His greatest ambition is to
have his company turn out In force
on all Official and special occasions and
70 have 1t preserve proper dignity un-
Ger all conditions. Under the quaran-
tine regulations in effect in the camp
an gatherings that would necessltate
an intermlngling OF troops are prohib-
tied. This applies to religious services
es well as entertainments As the men
have been unable 10 come to church re-
ligious leaders in the camp have taken
the church to them and services are
held every Sunday IN the barracks of
signated to arrange for the FIRST of
these services in his company. BY dlnt
OF hard work he rounded up 30 priyaics
and he was proud ''non-com" when
be presented this congregation 10 the
clergyman who came 10 conduct the
service.
u was an interesting little meeting
and the men were engrossed IN the
chaplain's talk when. right in the midst
Of the most serious Part Of the SER
mon, there was a racket OF the door.
Two empty buckets clattered through
the half-open portal and fell 10 the
floor. A shovel followed them, and an
instant later a big swedish recruit, as
signed as janitpr OF the barracks, ap-
peared Juggling a full coal scuttle. He
picked up the empty buckets and shovel
and trudged across the floor, his hob
nailed shoes shaking the very windows,
to tho great stove, In front Of which
the SKY pilot had his pulpit Tho
speaker glanced at him in surprise but
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