Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-09
Army Y.M.C.A. Has Advanced
With the Increasing Demands
of the Growing Hancock.
HutS Take the Place of Tents.
Personnel Almost Entirely
Changed. Moving Pictures
Improved. The Educational
Glasses Numerous
Peach Orchard Once Where M.
G. T. C. Headquarters is Now


Time in its FLIGHT orc - and ot1,ar
yvel1- l,,,,,,-,, .,,,,,,..,.i
N00'''''IS can not adequate
uePlel the changes that have taken
place in Camp Hanc0ak during tha ,,ast
,-aar ,,t,
f..,i.. - -" e.9o''"ei equlp" aht,
'''N ICES soidlerS and camp. Change.
change, change has been the continual
order Of thing. u-ns+ 4. -
tomorrow The car me, o rs soaay, IS h9t
scrub oak and brush. is now clean ana
smoothe. There was a fine peach orch
ard just about where the Machine Gun
| Headquarters is now located
.cY,, Reoan ,bji4h rt,a ,,3.
r,,,t H.,
,,u,iitit',,[. .P,u 0i"I!se III camp NE ana
y,bat L - no pGl'ef eXehplliied than
v "A - - 6eNptI eu III l5ie NE OF me Army
49,. ~, y, ~ "l lamp hancock. When we
,itl' -" W. olei dlloHs ABOUT the first
I,Ij,,i Ia ~ ptyilDSI ~ ~ T. under tie
mia In pr dGllIlilsoh' we mad
r,,'1 i' rl %pout .iNe dHierehl places IN
oo,, ,, ~ NE +Alll'leIy sectlon OF camp,
INV ", gil9 ~ oT4lice Was served by Build-
10 serve The needs of w91 SUPPRESSED
the Wheess road as far down as the
Quartermaster and down the ArfiIIey,r
road from the Labor Battalion to the
Base hospital No rs had one iob on itis
hands-and they did marvelously veil
under the load Today we have f,,,lr
units serving where only one existed
No. 23l, 234 237 238-are the '.Y'su sa.v
ing the boys that No rs attennted Ia III
Up along Pennsylvania avenue No
76 and rs looked after the boys strilng
atoms tttat thoroughfafe T0dsv We have
No 232 and 29g helpilfe to hear tie ri
inst Was once thrown 5n The Shoulders IN
those two units.
We have now units operating at the
RemOunt Rifle Range and NTachfua C.iIn
Range-aH established within inc last six
months
Change In Personnel
R;It with this increayo IL, ..Iyi, ,,.,i4 -
Hancock. the change of nersonn tsI's rs e
been inst as ranid 'i65ead II eoal's 4 i,a9
at times new staff annaars at H fs'es
cock Almost over mol nigbt appears AZ HAN
OF the orieGaI s5rn,,, of saora4a,to.
that helped to organize and start the
work, only Tracy. camp secretary Hail
kamp, building secretary of u.s. Prechtel
camp physical director, Hean. building
secretary of 239, and Griffin, physical
director of H. remain. This quartet Of
choice souls 1--WE are now sneatsire,
that elite group of secretaries that la
bored under so many difficulties last fail.
Eary Difficulties
And we had difficultioe too ,rha ,,.or,.
was new and strange to the majority Of
us. and we had to learn bv MANY hitter
experiences lust how ana what Ia foS.
and we are still learning. For the first
month we operated in tents, tents that
leaked and shed rain like a sieve And
the funny part Of it was that last fan
was a very rainy season This wear ~
course, it is exceedingly dry Then ma
terials were hard to get and very made
quate. The organization was new and
it took six or eight weeks before things
began to run smoothly All that tit9e
we were uD against it for s1lpDlfas and
equipment and all orders took weeks to
reach us
The tents We're Illuminated with oil
lanterns and later with gasoline torches.
The electric wiring ala not reach rs mil
the middle Of October The morning Job