The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-11-20
CAMP ACTIVITIES
Will CONTINUE
Conditions at Camp Dodge Give No In.
dications, That Peace Has Been
DecIared-UsuaI Activities
WHAT or FUTURE, THE QUESTION


OecIared-UsuaI Activities
WHAT OF FUTURE, THE QUESTION
VIII Camp be Maintained as Place
for Military Training in the
Years to Come?
CAMP DODGE, Nov. 1s-Conditions
at Camp Dodge give no indication
that peace has been declared. AL
Of the camp activities are being car
ried on as in days agone. Fifteen hun
dred carpenters and workmen are
putting the finishing touches upon the
newly constructed barracks. Streets
I leading through the newly laid out
addition to the big cantonment are
being paved and there is an air OF
permanency about the whole situa
ton that keeps the best posted meI
guessing. What of the future? VIII
{ this camp be- maintained as place
I for military training in the years tC
come or will these thousands Of build
ings be dismantled miles and miles
Of water mains and sewers torn up
the paved streets turned over to the
farmers who own the land and the
miles of sidetracks be abandoned? No
body knows what disposition will be
made finally of the great camp. The
new addition is not yet ready for oc'
cupancy but will be as soon as the
plumbers catch UP with the carpen'
ters. These newly constructed build.
ings were to afford shelter to the
thousands of new men who were or
dered to report the latter part of this
month, but this order has been re.
scinded. Several hundred men came
in the first of the week in responsa
to orders but as soon as the arms.
tice was signed they were excused,
not discharged, because they had not
yet been inducted into the service.
The past couple of weeks the men
who occupied the hundreds of tents
have been transferred to barracks
and only few Of the men serving
quarantine are still to be seen in that
segment. Coal is being shipped in by
the train load and last Sunday we saw
oyer a hundred men unloading the
black diamonds along the railway
tracks. Something like 100000 tons of
coal are now ricked along the tracks
and more is coming every day. Sew.
eral hundred new men from various
camps, have recently arrived and these
are forming q basis Of special units
that are required to make the 10Th
4divisiOn complete. There are now
around $1,000 met, at the camp. Ev-
cry department, OF the service is in
training and nobody is admitted with
out a pass except on Saturday after
Moons until o'clock and on Sundays
from 8 o'clock in the morning until
in the evening. The health conditions
continue to improve and no new cases
of influenza have been reported for
some days.
Airpianes Delight the Men
Lieutenants A. w. Martenstein and
Glen w. Bailey. who have been at the
aviation field at Bellvue, Ill.,, for some
time, made a trip to Camp Dodge the
past week. Their presence here is to
assist in the staff officers training
school. They are instructing in liason
work. They gave number of exhi.
bition flights and on several occasions
visited Fort Des Moines and made
several trips over the city.
No More Overtime
One of the changes wrought by the
signing OF the armistice> is the dis
pensing with overtime and Sunday
work by the large force OF carpenters.
Eight hours now is all the men are al
lowed to work and this cuts into the
weekly pay roll very materially. Dur.
ing the summer and fall carpenters
have been making as high as $40 to
$12 per dey. That is how it happen
ed that the contractors for the new
barracks found no trouble in getting
plenty of workmen while city contract
ors found it next to impossible to get
help. .
i.s School at Camp Dodge 4.
A school for members of the various
intelligence sections of Camp Dodge
organizations in the new division has
been started. This work is consid-
cred OF high Importance and more
than a score Of n0ncommissiOned Of
ticers have been returned from over
seas to take up the work in the new
division.
Twins Pass Examination
John and Joseph Steely, twin broth.
ers from Waterloo, aged AZ years, sue.
cessfuly passed an examination for
admission to the medical department,
The men are both pharmacists and
are anxious even now to render what
assistance they can. Owing to their
ages. they enlisted under special
call.
Troops From Alaska Get Flu Also
The 14th infantry of regulars sup
posed they were proof against influ.
enza after the frigid weather they had
endured for several years in far away.
Alaska. but such was not the case.
Several of the regiment were strlck.
EN- and 26 Of them died.
Died IN France
That the Col. H. w. Parker, report.
ed killed in action overseas Septem-
Der goth is the Colonel Parker whose
assignment to command the SSth in
fantry of the 10Th division was an.
nounced several weeks ago, is the be.
lief OF number of staff officers here.
One high officer of the 10Th said
Thursday he~is certain there was on.
ly one Col. H. W. Parker in the Ameri
can army
Gone to Washington
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