Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-07
CAMP LEE POST-OFF|CE
WILL HAVE NEW BUILDING.
Handles From 10000 to 80. OuO
Pieces OF First-Class Mali
Every Day.
REMOVE OBJECTIONABLE ROOMS
Works OF Paciflst aud Pru.German
Authors No Longer on Library
Shelves for Uncle Sans Soldiers
to Read.
Especial to The Times-T

lSpecial to The Times Dlspatch.l
CAMP LEE, VA, September SIX.
tensirG improvements a the Camp Leo
post office 10 provide adequate facilities
Tor tho cver-increasing mail handled ~
TINS camp. was begun to-day. These
extensions include an addition tn ,hc
building and also barracks for tho
| thirty-one civilian employees stationed
AZ the camp post office branch of the
contempatcs the handling of the al.
both incoming and outgoing, by tho
PoSt-ohicc Department.. and its distri.
| button from the post office by the mil
itary authorities. There is d detail OF
thirty-one soldiers on duty al the post.
Office under Lieutenant Clarence l..
in charge. ~
The post Office handles from 10000 to
$1,000 pieces OF hrst-ciass mail every
day. OF this there are 1l2 special de-
liNcrieS In addition. there arc over
! 10000 papers and other pieces OF See
ond -class mail handleo every day.
The removal or destruction OF a num-
Der of books by we'll known authors,
which have been on the shelves of the
result OF an order OF the Secretary OF
| War. Although there was a long list OF
authors and books mentioned in the
number. in the local library.
The list includes work from the pen
| OF John w: burgess, formerly a pro-
! Harris the late Professor Hug"
Muenstcrberg, OF Harvard: Aicxanuer
bcrhinstn. the ANARCHIST, now in the
Federal Prison. in Atlanta, having been
| found guilty Of obstructing the draft
Scott Nearing. INDICTED for conspiring
German weekly Faiherland; Emily G.
Baich. formerly OF Wellesley, and !,
| wcll-known paciiiSt; sven Hcden the
Arctic explorer: Frederic Z. Howe com
missioner OF immigration at the port
at New York; James *. Mcclure, form
sriy Mayo, Mayor Of Syracuse; Margaret
! RcVcutlow.
The library now has a collection. OF
! main building, and the other in the
/ seventy-ive branches and stations To-
| Gated at convenient points in the camp.
| The work Of cattlosing the coIIcc.
4 ton OF books is progressing under the
direction OF Miss Alice Pcdde Miss
reddle has been. loaned by her own
4 library To the National Library War
Service Tor August and September.
An unusual program WAS presented
at the big ~" hut last night. when
James Branton, from the depart
| meut for the spread OF patriotic propa-
sanda among the colored men OF the
country. gave a demonstration oe negre
songs, with Il crowd OF about 800 scuf@
orcd men He led the men in some of
their old religious camp songs TO show
ton was thoroughly enjoyed by l.SpJ
or more white soldiers, who were
! present. After this otto Berg. OF Phtla-
I dclphia, the champion Dag puncher. or
I Pennsylvania, and wcll-known at camp
gave an excellent exhibition OF his skill
h i:,, Berg and Bob Drake also sof
stunt in the evening, are old hands In
| the show business, having Travelled
with iiarnum X Bailey and other shows
| Drake Is unusually versatile as he
does an acrohatic, stunt and Il mono-
ioGuc act as we'll as being a mono4
walker. Ills three small children, two
boys aud one girl, whom he has trained.
Will appear some time soon with him
in a noV;i act. -.ss-,
George Wahl, baritone; from Pitts:
SnFEh P'n af hat ~ c0c cy I att!
Wrsnn, Of fhiiadeiphia, needs to be
| plauSc. "a %
After the performance. the new war
Who studied ii with much Interest
The The. battle front in France is outlined
Of jhe allies from day to day V'"s >''
| Thirty five hundred draftecs arrived
in ramp camp TO-DAY, -
formeriy in command OF the io7,li
Field Artillery. has arrived at Camp
P gIa,,, Camp. Major Mckee is
his, district in the State Senate So
Major stephen Karigan. camp signal
Camp Vail. New Jersey
Of ,he nT Are aipSt 81 fGr an oIrsanization
The"e are prSbaby iS5 aiumn Of n ,hs
university stationed at this camp In
higher medical Officers. Major S 5. {.
| Eaiderscn. OF the class of 1875. is in
| charge OF the details OF physicia ns, at
! the mastering Office. where more than
! Loo men are examined every day,
| Licutcn4nt Colonel Deer. in commaiiI
| OF the Base Hospital. Is also Il grad
! uair OF this institutions =
The last OF the 10000 TennsyIvaniars
! who arrived in the camp last week,
were examined, mustered and cuuip-
/ PED TO DAY. The majority OF the men
nave already been transferred to the
/ Infantry Replacement Camp
! There Is hardly n nceo or want that
cannot he filed I'm regard lin. H. a..