Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-02
OUR BAND" TO PLAY
FOR CAMP DIX PRIZE
Musical Championship Will BE
Fought Out and Robinson's
Boys Will BE There.

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, \. J., July D.
There's going To be grand band-playlne
stunt here by the various camp bands,
the prize 70 be striven for. being the camp
: band championship. Lieutenant j. Nor
ris Robinson, with his horn blowers, flute
tooters and drum thumpers of the Fifty
| ninth Pioneers, the brawny husky lads
from the little old State of Delaware,
will be in it-very much SO, the Camp
thinks, because "Norrie and his men are
regarded as real cracks.
A dozen bands will compete for the
championship In the novel contest ar
ranged by Executive Secretary Frank
Waudle, Under the new order of the
War Department Tint permits to increase
the band membership from % to 80 ap~
proximatelv 600 musicians will compete
Three of the most prominent musicians
Of the Fast will net rs judges and there
VIII be n series of elimination contests
with final event The bands will each
play airs selected by the judges Hun
dreds OF Westerncrs from the Eighty
seventh Dlyinon. recently arrived from
Camp Pike, Arkansas, on the Fourth of
July will gratiiv a desire that they have
voiced ever since they reached Camp
Din These Wcsterhers havc known by
reputation Just three points In this SEE
ton of tho East Philadelphia, New
York and Atlantic C'ity-and for days
they have kept Information bureaus busy
answering questions ms to the relative
ncarnrss of these places to- the camp.
Burroughs extended to soldiers over
the Fourth will give these lads from
the wild and NooIy' their FIRST chance
for getaway to 500 the hg sights. The
majority. because % the brvity OF the
l.. 4 4 Il
Penn. bat bug delegation will seek 10
scrapc acquaintance with Father knicker-
booker. and many others will lrolic with
the mcrmalds BY the ara
Special train arrangements arr being
made by the Pennsylvania Railroad to
accommodate the great increase of out
going and incoming travel ON the ma
tIonnl holiday II IS expected that thou-
sands Of visitors will come 80 the camp
10 spend the Fourth with r,latfves and
friends ~ the service and IN sec the
Ing cantunmcnt For them and for the
mon compelled ly military meccssity 10
remain IN camp the s. NJ G. A and
u. Of G. are cooperating IN sport
carnival that will bring several thousand
men into competition There will hc "A
score Of military novelty contests in
Guiding an inter-hattalloa pushball game,
all those events occurring IN tho morn
lag The Camp Dix baseball team viii |
play the EIghty-sr vcuth DIVISION team |
in tho afternoon, and tho finals of the |
haSng tournament will 10 stagrd AT tho |
- auditorium IN tho evening
General Scott added % tho lust ot those |
v no wilt r. granted special pages 20 NJ
tend patriotic celebrations IN thcir home |
towns. I'll mon from tiaston Pa. Phillips |
burg and passaic. \ Several bands |
and special details OF troops from the camp |
all participate in celebrations IN nearby |
cities
amp authorities have notified recruits |
hat they must not throw away or DESTROY |
discarded civilian clothing II the old |
iuds are not ervicoahlc enough to H. |
Iscd by any Of the relief societies they |
n1ls, be turned IN for the Department |
II conservation 81 Reclamation