The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-02
MESS TABLE FOR SEVENTY
from Camp Herring Revel in
"All the Comforts of Home''-New
Quarters Promise to Make Service
With Army Unit Here Popular.

"Snug as bug in rug" as old
Ben Franklin would have put it, the
officers at Uncle Sam s little army
camp out at Camp Herring have taken
up their abode at the Elks Club at the
corner Of Park and Chicago streets.
The entire dormitoIy floor of the
new building now just exudes the
military spirit. From the bull
letin board in the main corridor
on which can be read all kinds of or
ders for the military men clear down
to the newell posts of the big front
door the Elks Club is an army club now.
The flag is waving over nearly all the
rooms which may be leased to the Of
fcers and the men are making it the
real rendevouz for the army in Ke-
nosha.
The formal order has been issued
making the club house the official head
quarters for the officers of the army
in Kenosha and from now on it is 60
ing to be an army club Some time
later when the building is completed
in it's other appointments the Elks will
move in too but SO long as the Gov
eminent. needs these q dormitories for
the proper housing of army officers in
Kenosha the buildings is going to be
at the disposal of the army.
All Of the thirty rooms in the build
ing have been fitted out with sanitary
army cots made by Simmons Company
and these cots have been equipped with
new clean holdings. Eleven bath
rooms on the main floor and three on
other floors Of the building are open
for the use of the soldiers.
The rooms have been arranged so
that it will be possible. to take care
Of seventy five officers and it is ex-
pected that every accommodation Of
fered will have been accepted by next
Saturday night.
Army discipline is being maintained
over at the army Club" just the same
as at the other barracks of the army
The call comes just as early in the
morning and taps are sounded just as
early in the evening and the officers
are being trained along a lot Of lines.
They make their own beds in the morn
ing but the remainder Of the work
about the rooms is left to the trim
maids who give service.
The officer mess is located on the
mezzanine floor of the building. Here
a kitchen with every modern equipment
has been fitted up and with two COM
petent cooks on the job all the time
the meals are served to the men on the
long mess tables. The officers have
been enthusiastic about the manner
in which the plan is working out.
It's an all man affair so far as the
officers is concerned and they are hav-
ing a mighty jolly time of it. The
call in the morning is to the cold bath
before breakfast and the men get out
with cheers without any fears of dis
turbing any one else.
Steward Thompson in charge is the
Manager of the Elks Club and he is
giving her person attention to see that
Uncle Sam S soldiers has every possible
comfort that can be provided for them.
In the van guard of the regular army
club men who have moved into the
apartments in the building were Cap
tains Taft and Chaffe and Lieutenants,
Booth, Kent, Weisaiger, Berry, Hem
mingway, Parham, Rymer, Weekes,
Black, Weleh, Wharton, SEVERN, Hep
ner, Stow, Kohl, Timm, Terrier, Thorn
burg, Savage and Richal
These men have finished their train
ing at Kenosha and have given up their
rooms to new classes of officers as they
arc arriving.