Evening journal., 1918-03-06
Medical TRAINING
At CAMP GREENLEAF
Delaware Boys Go to One
of Most Important Can.
tonments in Country
WILMINGTON BOY
TELLS OF BENEFITS

Camp Grcenleaf. Fort ogiethorpe, Ca.
where the draft men who left this city
on Monday are going 10 be stationed
and where they were due 20 arrive ye--
terday Afternoon at a o'clock, ls a medi-
cal training camp. and not an infantry
cantonment. according TO Roger Daniels.
formerly a newspaper man In this city
but who for several months has been
doing y. NJ. @. A. work IN Camp Green
leaf from which place he arrived yes
lerday.
Mr.. Daniels description OF The camp.
no doubt. will be OF interest 10 The
people OF this city and State, especially
io the relatives and friends Of the men
who were sent 90 tho camp Monday
/ from Delaware Mr. Daniels said the
cantonment Is trainns men for the
medical corps. and is fast becoming one
| of the most important and one OF ihe
biggest medical camps In The United
/ states. he said. and there are alwei,
from 800 90 1900 doctors alone there,
undergoing lrainlng for service In tnf
army Colonel Henry Page Is the COM
mander OF the canionmcnl.
The Delaware men. who were due
10 arrive there at 4 o'clock YESTERDAY
afternoon. will be the iirst draft mcn
sent TO this camp. an the others there
having been volunteers or regular
army men detailed for medical corps
work. Instruction In every branch OF
the army Is given 90 Camp Greenlesf
they have ambulance companies. cvacu-
alton hospitals, sanitary corps, hospital
trains. strctcher-bearer companies. amt
an other divisions OF tho medical Geld
work
When the Delaware men reach there.
Mr.. Daniels stated. most likely they
. will be sent 10 a detention camp for a
perlod OF ten days in quarantine as a
sanitary precaullon This Is TO avoid
an danger OF contagion from disease
both 10 themselves and 20 the othel
men there
they were due to arrive iust in tim'
, for one OF the biggest celebration
G Camp Grenloaf has ever had. On Marci
y ii. Surgeon-General Gorgas Of th
n army. head OF the medical division, i
/. 10 be there 90 open formally a big audi
d tor.um IN which medical lectures or
4 90 be given by some OF the creates
4 surgeons and physicians Of the country
% Many of these men have already d.
4 lIyerod lectures there 10 give the physI
i clans In training the benefit OF an 90
i knowledge they may have on medicine
and surgery.
Camp Gronleaf, according 20 M
Daniels. Is one of The four units i
Chckamaugua Park. The other unit
{. are Fort Oglelhorpc which u
- regular army post, Camp n. p. For
y rest. concentration camp for inian
F. try artillery and cavalry, ana Cam
ID Warden Mclean. reserve officers tran
r. Ing camp. The location Is regardel
- as ideal and particularly healthful
~ sits among The hills Of Georgia, an
a there has been no epidemic Of any kim
it since 10 has been established. u is ar
70 cepied as "A fact that the Delaware me-
.c sent there ON Monday are 70 be place
be- In the medical corps for there are NJ
"a infantry or other armed units IN thi
particular camp, nothing but medica
corps men. thus ~ IS believed the
b" never would have been sent there
,r they were intended for The infantry o
rs artillery.
4 one Wilmington boy. another for
+, mer member of the star OF the WI.
mlngton Morning News, who, accord
+ Ing 10 Mr Daniels Ms making goo
r. ',vith a punch is Lieutenant hooer
Ne King. now OF the jlst Infantry, Unite
states Regulars ilc is stationed
~ Fort Ogleihorpc.
e. While IN Camp Greenleaf, Mr.. Daniel
IS was editor of Trench and Camp" On
al soldiers paper he came North 70 az
m cept a position as publicity director {
ID War Work of the brotherhood or =
Andrew I'm Philadelphia.