Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-19
CAMP lee SUBSCRIPTIONS .
REACH million AND HALF
Majority or Soldier Liberty Bond
Buyers Paying for Them on
InStnllmcnt Plan.
FoRTY-FIvE INFLUENZA CASES
No Immediate Prospect OF Letting
Down Bars Against Civilian WISH
tors-Petersburscrs Try to Evadc
Regulations.
Especial to The Times Dispatch


CAMP LEE. VA. October ts.--W:ti1
SUBSCRIPTIONS totaling S1.50G.000 for the
lourth Liberty loan. Camp Lee was SO
ner ce,o ever its voluntary apportion-
ment, and was headed towards the 81
oo".0ob ilrark. The camp is we'll in
me lead Of any other camp in the
none will overtake 1t in the final day
OF reckoning Tomorrow. The feature
Oh me ertire campaign was the cash
100 worth Of bonds. The major. who
Ia from Ohio. in making the purchase
requested that his name he not used
crty bonds Of an earlier issue. With
inns total OF $4,000. he IL probably
ono OK the heaviest owners of Liberty
n , among the men who are offer
ing their ives to the cause.
Inc majority Of the purchasers Of
the bonds are paying for them out of
Their already limited income. Ten per
cent is deducted for ten successive
months f-om the salaries of the men.
one lieutenant purchased $4,000 worth
or me present issue and another lieu
tenant made a $4,000 purchase to-day
The men arc Interested in the success
OF ne loan and expect the people
PACK nome TO equal the record that
they arc making.
inHuenza were reported at the camp
surgeons Office to-day. To offset this
here we're 400 men discharged from
ne. hospital who had been sufTcring
Mith the disease. This reduced the
humber who are now receiving mcdi-
ca! treatment to 2,G5c. There we're
the total OF 6l5 who have lost in their
light against this dreaded disease
since the epidemic appeared 1880
There seems little probability that
there will be n change in tho pass
resuiations within the Immediate fu-
health authorities civilians were pro-
hihited from visiting the camp except
under unusual circumstances.
MAJOR KING COMPLAINS
ABOUT PETERSBURG PEOPLE
The camp was placed in quarantine
Major john l.. King, camp Intelligence
officer. who has charge OF issuing the
emergency passes. our only trouble
n enforcing the rule has been in pre-
venting Petersburg people from vlo-
.aling the law"
The major was bitter against one
tersburg. who applied for a pass. 20
see his son who was in the officers
training school. When asked II there
was any particular reason why the
lass should be issued this citizen re-
piled: II have not seen my son since
he reported TO the school" The pass
Naturally I presumed that the son
had been away from home for several
mouths" said Major King.
imagine my surprise when learned
that the son had reported 70 the school
days before"
one OF the most unusual sights con-
nected with the enforcement OF the
regulations prohibiting officers or en-
from visiting Petersburg Is the appear
nnce on the streets Of the city OF second
.cutenants as military policemen
These officers wear an NJ. p. arm !ba n
similar 10 the ones worn by the enlisted
men who act As military policemen.
The principal work OF these officers
is to satisfy themselves tim; officers
appearing in the city have proper
passes. :
y change in tho method of handling
the men upon their arrival At the camp
from their local boards is now being
developed. Immediately upon the mus
teTinE of the men in the mastering Of
lice they are assigned 10 the infantry
replacement and training camp and at
tached TO the One Hundred and Fifty
NTH Depot Brigade. Frequently while
the men arc thus attached officers from
the replacement camp drill the rockies
while the paper work IL carried on by
the depot brigade officers. Under this
plan the only enlisted men who are III
the depot brigade arc members of the
training cadrc, which consists OF sixty
men TO each company. The IN jority
of these are domestic service men. and
!: is Planned that within n few months
the entire personnel of the training
cadTe shall be composed entirely of
men who are unfit for overseas SER
vice.
Beverly VI. Hartman, of Roanoke. Va.
has reported 10 the camp as the rem