The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-25

There were no casualties as the re-
suit of the test. Some of the men
complained of feeling the elect of
gas slightly after the test was over
Many of them were badly fright
ened. They will be required to be
exposed to two kinds of gas before
considered experienced enough TO
stand an actual gas attack such as
the men abroad are subject to.
The men must first be exposed to
lachrymatory gas and then to as
pnyxlating gas. The actual contac,
with gas is the most dreaded fea
lure OF gas defense training, but ey-
cry man in the Dixie Division must
pass through these chambers.
Officers expected some of the men
to fail on the test, and for this rea.
son prepared for every emergency.
However frightened many of them
may have been, they stood tho tes.
line. Those who passed through the
lachrymatory gas chamber yesterday
VIII pass through the asphyxiating
gas chambers next Wednesday.
A Permanent Camp
Another order, Gen. j. L. Hayden,
commander of the Dixie Division
has just received from the War De-
partment indicated that Camp
Wheeler is to be a permanent armv
station.
General Hayden has been ordered
10 proceed with the construction of
a large general repair plant at the
camp like those erected at all per-
manent environments throughout tho
ohited States. There will be mo
'or section, blacksmith department,
harness making department, cob
piers section and various other do
partments, where government nron-
erty cannot only be repaired but
made.
me new plant will afford an ok.
cellent opportunity for the mon 70
learn various trades. Expert auto
mobile mechanics will be placed in
charge OF the motor section, and will
ne given a class of helpers to train
lnese men will be instructed how 70
repair motors and other parts Of an
tomobiles. In the blacksmith tbe
men will be given a thorough course
Another indication that Camp
wheeler will be used for an army
station in future years is thu con.
struetion of a sewer system from the
DESC hospital. This improvement is
10 cost more than $4,000. The
sewer Will be nearly a mile long.
Just what the new repair plant
and its equipment will cost is not
known. Work will begin in a few
days, General Hayden has an
nounced.
Nearly 5000 Florida, Alabama and
Georgia officers and enlisted men
took part in the second divisional
athletic meet Wednesday afternoon
Cash prizes had been offered the
winners in a number of the events
by the division athletic council.
There was tug of war for en-
listed men and a tug of war for Off
GERS. They contested for fifteen min
utes' There were thirty officers to
eacn side and fifty enlisted men 10
the side,
o'her events on the program were
the relay race, broad jump relay. on.
mile race for time, grenade throw
ing for distance, accuracy and speed
running high jump and the cane
spree. The camp will be thrown on
en- to the public during the after.
noon, and hundreds of people from
the city will enjoy another first class
athletic meet.
Some officer in the 121st Infantry
formerly Second Georgia regiment
Will be promoted to the rank of mai
or and will succeed the late Major
Augustus P. Gardner, who died last
week of pneumonia. Capt. Jas. A.
Fort is acting commander of Major
Gardeners battalion. He was former
ly stationed at Fort sill, Okla.
Major Gardner was the man who
gave the Thirty-frst Division the
name, Dixie Division" which will