Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-29
LARGER BASE HOSPITAL
PLANNED FOR CAMP LEE
Several Two-Story Buildings to BE
Erected, With Accommodn-
tions for 800 Beds.
MORE PERSONNEL BARRACKS
Nurses Also Will BE Provided With
Additional QuartcrS-Ccntral OH
GERS Training School Untouched
by Spanish Influenza.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
CAMP LEE. VA. September 2S.-Ap-
proSimately 100000 is to be expended
IN charging the base hospital TO NEE.
the needs OF this rapidly growing
camp The plans for the Improvement
have been submitted by the construc-
ton quartermaster. and it Is planned 10
start the work in the near future
The additions TO consist OF a
number OF new buildings for patients.
which will provide accommodations for
about>So0 additional beds. These build
ing, ing, are to be two stories high and OF
stucco and wire lathe predomina,ing
in the contemplated style OF structure.
These new buildings will be located
Immediately east OF the present hos
pital area.
Seven or eight additional barracks
are TO be erected to house the enlisted
personnel employed at the hospital on
the ground south Of the present hos
pital buildings.
y number OF new buildings will also
be built TO quarter the nurses. stationed
at the hospital, near the recently built
nurses recreational building.
Al present building operations, in
volvins moro than 100000 are either
under way or will soon be, according
ter Major Scott. who recently succeed
cd Captain Hooks. In addition to the
hospital extension, these operations in
cludc the increase in the size OF the
central officers training school and the
building of the individual huts 10 take
care of the newly arrived recruits.
Fourteen hundred candidates for
commissions in the United States Army
will enter the central officers training
school here October 10. Eighty per
cent of the October class will he com
posed of men selected from the enlist
Cd personnel CT the army. The remain
ing 90 per cent Will he men who are
either in class ] under the Selcct!ve
Graft act. or those who make applica-
a.
tomary military channels
The candidates. VINO VIII be enrolled
next month. Viii come from the same
section which has heretofore been rep
resented here, including the Eastern
States and the Panama Canal Zone
The next graduation will also take
will receive commissions as second
lieutenant. On November u. n class
of about 1000 men will be graduated.
This class represents the men who first
enrolled after the school was es;ab-
lish>l here, three months ago.
The central officers training school
is the only organization At Camp Lee
influenza This is supposed to result
from the splendid physical condition OF
the men and the fact that rigid quar-
antine has been established there since
the outbreak of the epidemic.
Major George g. BussinG, former
commander OF the Eleventh Company.
Central officers Training Camp. has
Teen transferred to Camp Sheridan. Ala.
Major Charles r. Mcdonald. OF FL
Paso. Texas, has arrived here TO assume
the position of chief surgeon OF the
central officers training school.
In response 20 instructions from the
War Department that all depot bril-
gadcs shall display ccloTs IN ieoni OF
rnsiF h its appearancc this week in
front of camp headquarters for the
One Hundred and Fifty-ffih Depo,
Brigade. This is The hrst tune an OH ,
cial flag has foated on its stan be
fore the headquarters here: McitheT
the Eightieth Division nor the lhirty
seventh Division displayed SCcA mays
while being stationed at TINS canton
New orders have been issued TO the
commanders of all units. requiring
OF fitting al troops properly Win SHOES
and socks II has been found that one
OF the most frequent causes OF men
falling to stand up under long ana haru
Every effort is 10 be made 20 give
men shoes that fit comfortably ana
foot -measuring machines VIII DC useu
10 see that this is done. ,
About October !, schoo! i9r sol o.,
dicrs. under the direction OF Saddler
7. Eccles, will be opened al the re-
mount station. This school Viii accom-
modate ten men. y course OF trainiins
In harness repair work viii require
about thirty days. The equipment for
the school has been purchased and IN
Sergeant c. r. Mckinney, well-known
{, theatriral circles was married sew
crai DAYS ago n Kew. Gork City to Miss
I,cota Trade sraughter of Mr. AND
Mrs Erncs, Trader.'of Mckecsport ia
Sergeant, Mckinney was in New or
on a business trip in connection Win
the erection of the new thcatcr IN tne
replacercnt section OF the cantonment
The n.w PLAYHOUSE will seat about 3.uot
men. i, is announced, and Will book the
leading plays this season.
RAW g. Baird, former COIN
rnandrr of the Third Battalion, Infantry
Replacement Camp has been promote
10 the rank OF Northumberland anu
transferred to another camp
William J.. NcFadGcn, former crac
long distance run I,cr and boxer OF the
pittsburgh IyCeUn. is now stationed
nj Cann-I Lee He entered the runnin
game years ago. and lined up with the
les, modified marathon runners in his
day.