Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-25
|MENOF NEW DRAFT NOW
ARRIVING AT CAMP LEE
Thirteen Hundred Virginians Came
In,Ycstertlay, Total Movement
~ Being $4,000.
IN NEW PLAN
Soldiers Hear of Action of Southern
California Automobile Club, Which
Makes Rule for Member, to Fill
Seats by Picking Up Soldiers.

.Especisl to The Times-Dispatch.l
I CAMP LEE. VA, June 24.-Thirteen
: hundred Virginians arrived at Camp
Lde this afternoon the advanced
Z guard of $4,000 draftees, who will ar
/. rive within the next four days. In
ciudcd, In the number was Richmond's
contingent of over 500. All of the men
arriving to-day were assigned to the
setond, section OF the depot brigade. OF
which. Major Alfred Dockery Is the
commanding officer. The crest OF the
: movement will be reached tomorrow
and Wednesday, when the full ship
ments from West Virginia and Penn
sylvania will have begun to arrive.
\ Pennsylvania is furnishing 5000 on the
present movement. and Virginia and
West Virginia 5000 each. Included in
the Pennsylvanians are the quota from
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The
Pi.tsburghcrs on the last call were
4 sent to Camp HUMPHREYS. Va.
For about two weeks the men will
be. kept IN the depot brigade where
they will be vaccinated and equipped
prior to transfer to the replacement
troops.
Sunday was moving day. at tho
camp. Thousands OF the men picked
up their baggage and beds and walk
ed" Some times the walk was only
few blocks. Sometimes 1t extended
over a mile. One company would be
fed IN barracks for breakfast and
would then move. Before night
another set OF cooks had started sup
per for another company. who were fed
and slept in the barracks vacated by
tho outgoing company. 1t was all done
without disorder. 1t was occasioned by
s the reass!Gnment of locations for tho
depot brigade and replacement troops.
RICHMOND MAN Is
!, SECOND LIEUTENANT
Howard Scott. OF Richmond. MEM
Der OF base hospital No. As. tStuart
Mcclure Unit. was to-day notified OF
his being commissioned a second lieu
tenant. He is a civil engineer OF ex-
perience and has been assigned to
duty with the construction quarter
master.
Soldiers stationed at Camp Lee are
interested In the plan that is being
successfully worked In Southern Cali
fornia, by the Automobile Club OF
Southern California in allowing SOL
diers and sailors to take advantage OF
empty seats in the automobiles OF
+. r@rrberS VI that association. The plan
worked IN that section is to have GER
tain signs on the wind shields of ma
chimes and men in uniform feel at
liberty to hail any machine CARRYING
this sign. II such policy was pur-
sued by the motorists who visit this
section It would be the occasio CT un-
told benefit and pleasure 20 the men
wearing. the uniform. Il is indeed rare
mat passerby picks up soldier and
gives him a ride
INSTRUCTORS ARRIVING
FOR TRAINING SCHOOL
The central line officers training
school, which is to open within another
week, will he located between Thirty
seventh and lortieth Streets. which is
IN the Prince George Courthouse end
OF the camp Instructors have already
begun 10 arrive and the organization
Is being perfected. The instructors in
ciude oficerS, who are being returned
from the American expeditionary forcee
TO teach the candidates for commission
the latest arts of warfare. Practically
wlhout exception these men have seen
service in the front line trenches and
some nave participated in the recent
T battles. in which American troops were
used.
"A live vaudeville program and a
nVc-reel film, The Man Who wok.
7 op' attracted large audience to the
. , main building OF the knights of Col
uihous tonight. Chorus singing was
ieu pF Pop DriscoN The enter
tainment was thoroughly enjoyed. Next
Mohaay's MIN attraction Will be "A
!. teu headed cupid" There will also
ne vaudeville entertainment
ms Is big wor,i Ito the fellow.
\ who has spent his life in "A DUET coun,
Ut! community. practically within sight
or the house he was born in, md then
one day finds himself some hundred
miles distant in a big training camn'
ana surrounded by thousands ~
strange faces. To those who are so
2 unfortunate 10 he under the addi-
! tional handicap OF not being able 70
READ or write the new conditions are
more man puzzlinS They can't un-
derstard H.
Where are the Germans-' asked q
draftee from the mountains OF Western
virginia Of his lieutenant the other
DAY Il have been in this camn a
Week and haven't seen a German vet
ahey told me | was coming here to
Hsht Gcrinans. There are no, Ger
mans here my lad" replied The lieu
tenant you are still in your native
ota'e' Nifsinla' and this is a train
ing camp 10 prepare you 20 ngh, the
Germans. who's armies are in Eurone -
ven stated the rookie" we tray
eied so long to get here I though, 7
was already in Europe"
illiteracy is one of the most dif1cui,
) conditions encountered in the training
OF the soldiers. With every draft a
huinoer arrive ~ camp who can neither
read Or write. These men are ar .
great disadvantage To overcome ~; &c
+ AS far as practicable. schools for In.
structon in the rudiments Of English
4 are conducted by army chaplains and
3 officers IN the barracks, and in eyery
building similar classes are hejne
taught at night by capable jnstruc.
= tors The men appear eager TO learn
!, ana , IN many instances show remark