Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-27
CANDIDATE FOR OFFICER
DROWNED At CAMP LEE.
Floyd HoustOun, OF Baltimore, Falls
Into Appomattox River Willie
Building POntOon bridge.
HEBREW WELFARE BUILDING
Rabbi Album, From Philadelphia,
SpcakS-NIOre French Officers Ar
rivc-Ball Team Goes to Camp
HUMPHREYS.
Especial to The Times Dispatch.1

CANT LEE. July 26.-Fioyd T.. lIous-
toun. Of Baltimore. a young student at
the engineers training school. was
drowned in the Appomattox River this
afternoon while engaged in building "A
pontoon bridge cross the river. lIous-
toun. in company with other members
OF the school was undergoing the reg
ulaE training for engineer officers when
the accident occurred.
1t could not he ascertaincd just how
lioustoun fell into the water, but IL
is supposed that he lost his balance
while at work on one of the pontooH
boats. lie could not swim. and al
though one OF his companions Jumped
into the water after him. it was I'M
possible 10 effect his rescue The SOL
dicr who tried to save him was him
self nearly drowned and was rescued
with difficulty by two others of the
party.
The site for the large now building
Of the Hebrew welfare board has at
last been confirmed by the government
al Washington. and work upon IL Will
begin Immediately. The building will
hc located at Twenty-seventh street.
zoo feet south of Avenue a. The con-
struction will take about three weeks.
| IL is estimated. at the end Of which
| time structure hfty-cight feet wide
and eighty feet deep will be thrown
| needs OF the soldiers in camp.
Rabbi Leon Album. of Philadelphia,
delivered an address this evening in
! which no declared that the German
| government has been an enemy to the
/ race for centuries.
ON August II. Rabbi Herbert Cold
stein. OF New York. said TO be one of
J The strongest and most forccful preach
ers OF that city, will conduct Il revival
meeting in the auditorium OF the Y.
! NJ. G. \.
The total number OF arrivals OF
newly drafted men for the first four
Gays is T.S3S. on Monday asa arrived :
on Tuesday 2.155; on Wednesday 2.4O9
Of whom 2,3S0 were white and twenty
Colored, came in and after being mus
tered were assigned to the Eighth
Ninth, Thirteenth. Fourteenth and FIJI
tenth Battalions Depot Brigade or
the 2,?20 who came on Thursday. 2aO9
were white and twenty-ninc colorcd
They were scnt to the Seventh. Eighth
and Ninth Battalions. While quite a
number of these men come from Vlr-
Einia and other States. the vast ma
jority are Pcnnsylvanians
several officers Of the French army
have recently joined those who for
some time past have been stationed At
Camp Lee. The officers in the French
mission are now four in number: Cap
tain &. Neyssicrc, of the Eleventh In
fantry; First Lieutenant r. Mallet, OF
the one Hundred and Twentieth Blue
Devils; First Lieutenant C. Dormeuil,
OF the Two Hundred and Eighty-Sev-
enth Infantry. and Second Lieutenant
q. CourtoiS, of the Sixth Engineers
lhese officers are playing a large part
in the intensive training of the Camp
Lee soldiers in the methods OF modern
warfare.
On Saturday morning the Camp Lee
baseball team leaves for Camp Hump PHI
rics. where games will he played Sat
nrday and Sunday evenings. For the
past few days the players have been
practicinE strcnuously. The men who
have been working out for the team
are nearly all former league players.
Those who will make the trip are:
catchers. Howe and HaREcrty; pitch
ers, Craft, Westerwick. HoehlinE and
Meyers; first hascman. Foiles: second
baseman, Stainbrcnncr; shortstops.
lifting and Ollum: third bascman Dur
kin. and 1eldcrs. Schultz. Wilson, Hart.
Mock. Crimson and McCrcight.
BAND CONCERT
THREE TIMES A WEEK
From now on, there will be band
concerts every Sunday, Wednesday anG