The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-05
Walks to SdUe
Railroad Fare
Badly Frozen

II
| in class one of the new national
| army, his card being found togeth-
| er with a military instruction book
He claimed that he wanted to make
short visit at Leeds before enter
| ing the army and that he was saw
ing his money to spend when he
| reached home.
He was turned over to the county
officials on suspicion of being a per-
son dangerous to the government.
Word Is awaited from Detroit as to
the mans identity. His feet and
face were badly frozen in making
the trip.
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that the number Of buildings had no
particular military Importance, inso-
far as it should be kept from the
public, called up the city editor Of
The Louisville Post stating that
was a newspaper man (took some
nerve to do that, eh?) and asked
him to tell me the number of build
ing at the cantonment. He told me
that their reporter had brought down
the number of buildings completed at
1900, and still building.
That the government is in dead
earnest on this matter is evidenced
about $500 acres. This land eight
months ago was a lot of farms, orch
ards and groves. In the time inter-
vening since then, all distractions
have been removed, which means
that houses, barns, and sheds have
been torn down, low lands filled, hills
graded down, and a general process
Of leveling has been contaminated
so that now a man can stand on a via
duct, across some railroad tracks and
see from one end of the cantonment
to the other. And a vast array of
buildings meet your eye as far as
you can see. guess that it will not
be giving away any state secrets to
say that the cantonment OF Zachary
Taylor will accommodate about twice
as many men as there are people in
Fargo. This, mind you, includes a
water system, lighting system, sew
erage, telephone, and all other public
service equipments of city of some
thing over forty thousand people.
This has been accomplished in a lit
tie over eight months, and thousands
of men have in the meanwhile been
intensively trained, and men no doubt
are now on the firing lines some
where in France.
At the present time, there is all
kinds Of active work done here-ex-
cepting Of course aviation, which il
an entirely different branch Of the
service. English officers are training
the men now to fight gas attacks, to
throw bombs, make bayonet
charges, and in fact, all the things
that will be expected of the men
when they are put up against the
Huns later in the year. There Is
extensive machine gun practice too.
Members of the machine gun SQUADS
are required to learn all about the
death dealing machine. These guns
are quite complicated I am told, but
yet every man in this branch of the
service must know each part of his
machine, and have such a minute
knowledge of the gun in all it's make
up that he can take it all apart and
put it together blind folded, or in the
dark. He learns to do this so that
it can be done in less than Ave
minutes.
Talking with privates and officers
leads me to think that the agitation
about not good service at canton
ments is mostly bunk. I didn't
hear a single complaint. One off,
Ger said that he didn't think that
the American clothes are quite as
heavy as either the French or the
English, but on the whole he said
there was no reason for complaint.
not only talked with men in the
service, but also with a woman in
charge of the woman visitors at the
Y. w. Q. A. and also g. worker in the
city looking after the welfare of SOL
diers off duty, and from all was
able to learn, the welfare Of the Am
erican soldier is surrounded with |
every precaution that can well be
provided for as physical and moral |
welfare; calculated to make Of him a |
fighting force that will make the
folks look upon his triumphs with |
pride, and to make them feel that |
the money invested in Liberty bonds, |
the Red Cross, the X. Of c. and the |
Y. NJ. c. A. has indeed been we'll |
spent in the efforts to free the uni |
verse of the Hideous Beast that has |
made the world tremble and has |
the civilization Of all |
mankind.
T. D. Hughes.