The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-04-16
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The 3O9th, 310th and 311th Regi
ments of Infantry and the 59th Pho
neer Regiment, composed Of Delaware
men, will take part in the big dem
onstration planned for Philadelphia
Saturday, April 81 Their bands will
accompany them. The 312th Regi
ment will parade in Newark on that
day.
Records were set by the regiment
when the men under their officers SUI
Ipervised the erection of two large OBJ
servation towers on the new artillery
range. Aided by men from the artil-
lery regiments only eight days were
needed to complete the work, only four
days needed to build the smaller one.
This included the cutting of the neces-
sary timber in the forests and the cart
ing of it to the scene of operations.
The towers will be used by the artillery
officers in determining the range for the
guns and also noting the accuracy of
| the fire.
The Jewish Welfare Board is plan
ming to erect building at Dix for the
men of Hebrew faith of whom there
are about 800 in the National Army
in training here. Up to the present
time Cyrue Janover, who has had
charge of the welfare work, has been
working under handicap as he had
no central building in which to meet
the men of his faith and he has been
using Y. M. Hut No. 2 for the re-
ligious service every Friday night.
The work here, however, increased to
such proportions that the Welfare
Board, which has its headquarters in
New York and branches in nearly
every community, decided that an ad-
ministrative building should be erect
ed Camp Dix and although no site has
been selected as yet plans have been
drawn for the structure and the COM
mIttee is now obtaining estimates on
the construction work.
Three deaths were reported at Camp
Dix on Friday, to the division surgeon.
One of the victims died from spinal
meningitis. He was Private Irving
l.. Davis. of Company d, 18th En-
gineers, who enlisted at Fort Slocum.
N. y, on March 10, and was transfer
ed here. His body will be shipped to
his home in New Britain, Conn. The
other two deaths we're from pneumonia,
the victims being men who came down
here in the last movement of draft
med. They were Private Edward A. |
Roag, Company Z, Depot Brigade, at
tached to Company H, 311th Regi- |
ment whose home is at East Eden, N.
T., and Private Philo J. Deytcher,
Company Is, 153d Depot Brigade, at
tached to Company X. 312th Infan-
try His home was at SOB Wood Road, |
Soloway, N. Y.
Officers and men at Camp Dix will |
oe treated to spectacular sight in the
near future when trestle tower, 40 feet
high and fifty feet long, will be erect
ed and afterwards blown up bv DOW.
erful explosives. The men of the 3o3d
Engineers, under Col. Edward Mark
ham, will have charge of the work and
1t will be part of their training. The
building and destruction of the trestle
bridges is an important part of an
engineers work and it is to give the
men first-hand information that the
colonel and his officers have decided
upon this plan. All the lumber that
will be used in constructing the trestle
will be cut in nearby woods and haul
ed to site near the base hospital
which has been selected for the pre-
posed structure. Then the bridge
builders will get to work and under
their skilful hands a section of a large
structural bridge will be built. This
done the next step will be to show the
methods that are to be followed when
the bridge is to be destroyed and a
large quantity of powder will be placed
in the necessary places and the whole
structure raZed.