The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-30
community HOUSE NOW
IS Open At TANG|tRS
Marie Sounds Like n Romantic Moor
ish Spot But Ia Really Nine ana
Half Miles of Dust.
Is OBJECTIVE OF HIKES
when Coumandant Bell Sends HIS
Men for Exercise They Head Tor
This Point. where Fine Recreation
Rooms Are Now Open.

3 New York, July 29.--rCo-operation
has reached its highest point in the
new house the war camp community
service has Jus; opened a Tang'ers.
Tangiers isn't. as you might think a
romantic Moorish spot. in this connec-
itjon. 1t In otherwise known AS smith =
Point, Long Island, y. y TanEler~ IS
the fancy name somebody gave il "nce
when he hoped to make summer re
xort OF It. He failed It IS nine ana
half dusty miles through Long lslan
pine earrens from the nearest point
CT civilization, which happens to be
Camp Upton.
The reason community house is
needed there Just ROW Is tn@f ''iiA-
mandant Fell has appointed 1an%Isfs
"A the objective ~ practice hikes
Every other day A hot and dust GOV
cred battalion Of soldiers, loaded DOWN
with full kit. tramps into the place to
spend two days, setting up it@ dog
tents and generally acting as = i
were invading an undiscovered cnuH
try. In the hattslions leisure tins
which is large, tin the comm unity
house was opened there was no'nlnE
to do but sit on the edge Of tn" SOUND
and ekip pebhles-if YOU eou.a ma
pebbles-or stare at the deserted he-
tel, relic OF the resort boom
But the community service - Ok
charge. It rounded M a Y NJ. a
secretarv. a Knights of Column bus sec
Rotary, a Jewish welfare board sec
Rotary, and put them all at werE.
Each of the organizations contributed
money and a secretary. and the de-
serted hotel was opened and set 10
work again
In the big hotel dining room there
ts a canteen now, under the super .
vision OF Mrs. Frederick EdeY. ann
assisted by women from all the neefhy
Long Island towne, who come on al
ternate DAYS TO serve there, There :
n reading room in front, and upstairs
bedrooms Of most luxurious dinen-
eions and furniture. that the men and
oficers can rent NJ from twenty-five
cents q night up. They charge y'u
more If you're an officer
There In also "A bathing pavilion
Eoing up, for which General bei|
loaned the community service all the
help IL needed. The American troops
are talented. Plumbers builders.
rlasterers. carpenters, electricians-
gwen an architect--sprarg out of the
ty20kE 10 Dulli IHEliStlNFH u b'A nc ~
foathe--the only place for many
miles where there is a bathing beach
The talent isn't confined TO plumbing
either, for the first battalion to Try the
community house were celebrating by
a quite improm ptu vaudeville show
n began with The Spanglcd
Banner and ended, according to the
program tentatively drawn up, Win
Popular Ditties In between was
enough talent for three shows anc
in spite OF the fact that the '"Tentf
Bait Show" hadn't received enou&f
notice from a thouEhtless major Il
bring along It's dress suits. a fac
which IL lamented bitterly, II wa
giving its audience a good deal NOR
than most professional NaudeVlll'
shows present at one time.
More than half OF US earned ou
rnA7l~ that way before We Joined ex
planned the enthusiastic young man
nger. Private Nllva.
They should have been good meals
toe, Judging by the loud and harmo
NOUS sounds that tloated out from n
mysterious closed door where tn
.Dizzy Fur ouartette' were harmon
.-ing, and John Foley. the ragtim
boy. was practising a few steps
one and the same time. Not even
young captains N1sty summons to IA!
IN fer some camD duty, summon
which swept checker players and 1T
ter writer's in reluctant shoals from
the reading room, was allowed to dis
surn the talent, It rehearsed on hap
ply
.The mayor said we could go as IA
As we liked the manager eNp'oipe
sIts going to be some show
And the Y. NJ. c. A. secretary, IN
K. OF c. secretary. the Jewish weltar
board secretary and the war cam
community director stood in IT happ
row and beamed en- the good the
had made possible There's no rae
or relnaon trouble in this war u
ours