Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-07
HOUSECLEAN|NG
At CAMP DIX
Special Effort to Make the Sani-
tary Arrangements 100 Per
Cent Efficient.
CAMP DIX. n. J. FEB. Z.

Friday afternoon will hereafter be week
Iy housecleaning day in Camp Dix bar
racks under orders issued by Major
General Scott yesterday. that put the I'M
ishing touches 10 the campaign recently
organized TO make the sanitary conditions
about the cantonment 100 per cent ell
hcicnt" One of the interesting details OF
+bo FRIDAY cleanup will be the job of
polishing half-millon window panes IN
the barracks and offices.
Taken i'll with scarlotina, Sergeant
RAYMOND V. Martin. of the 3I0th Ambu-
lance Company, died Tuesday at the base
bospital and his body, rs 1T WAS shipped
To his home at Newville near Carlisle Pa,
WAS the first TO be accorded the full honors
of military funeral under the orders lsSu-
ed hv Major General Scott last week. HIS
entire company marched to the base hos
pital and escorted the coffin to the tram,
where volley was fred and the bugiers
sounded Taps" Sergeant Martin WAS
one OF the most promising non-comnis-
stoned officers IN the ambulance unit mere
and was recently picked for course at tne
Officers Training School. tie was attend
ing the school when taken i'll.
Deciding he would rather be IN the
ranks again than continue in the DIVISION
Training School for Officers, Sergeant
Walter Winston, who came To the school
from the Regular Army Quartermaster
Corps. al Madison Barracks, was today
transferred back TO his old company.
"saILEAGE BOOKS"
"Smileage Books" are pouring IN
through postal channels upon Camp DIX
soldiers, attestiug the popularity OF the
Government plan OF permitting TRENDS
bark home 10 present the boys IN the tram
mo posts with tickets for the best govern
ment-supervlscd theatrical performance.
Hundreds Of the tickets arc sent direct TO
the soldiers for whom they are purchased,
butt evident desire of the general publlc
to aid IN the novel plan Is attested by the
receipt At division headquarters oil many
books from donors who know no soldiers
personally, but desire that none be over
looked.
Lust hand this 'Smileage Book to
some boy who has received none. He need
Mt be told who sent it, but IL Will let HIM
know that somewhere he has friend,
sid a letter from q New jersey woman,
containing one Of the first OF the books to
rescb the division offices. Many other
letters voiced the same spirit
The "Smileage Books" containing
tickets exchangeable for submissions to the
new Liberty Theatre here, can be purchss-
81 in all home communities of the boys IN
the training camps. While the quarantine
has DELAYED the opening of the Liberty
Theatre. WiRiam o. Wheeler, the man
ager, is planning for several bag attrac-
tions in addition to the regular schedulc
as soon as the ban is lifted. Efforts are
being made to get William Courtney and
Thomas A. Wise IN General Post, now
playing in New York, to present the open
ing performance.
Among the volunteer ente rtainers aid-
ing the army Y. NJ. G. A. In dispelhng the
tediun OF barracks life for soldiers during
the quarantine, the Rockford Male Quar-
tet OF Philadelphia, has scored big hit
this week. These singers have presented
several clever musical programs 10
New Jersey artillerymen IN the oUStt
Field Artillery, and for New Workers IL
the 309th Field Artillery.
GETTING IN FIGHTING TRIM
Recruits from the balance of the first
draft in New Jersey who begin reaching
the camp on February % will be put lntt
fighting trim In record time unders plan'
COMPLETED YESTERDAY by commanders o.
organizations to which they will be assign
ed. after their Liberation from brle
quarantine in the l53d Depot Brigade
The newcomers will be taken through then
rookie" days on the jump and IN order
that every recruit may have rs much per
sopal instruction as possible, colonel;
have directed that picked prlvates be
chosen to aid lieutenants and non-com'
nissioned officers in instruction work.
Regiments have been reduced 10
mere skeleton of their former size by ire
ouent transfers TO other divisions fol
overseas service, and practically al
drills In the New Jersey units Will be
abandoned until the new draft arrives
giving privstes an opportunity to prepare
Tor their new duties as military teachers
Officers are hoping that the balance OF the
first draft can De assimilated within fort
night at the most, in order that the seconc
draft NAV be called early next month. Al
ARRANGEMENTS for equipment And house
ing OF d complete division are ready hert
and by filling the ranks at once there VII
be far greater development OF efficiency
and SAVING Of time and energy III getting
= division al this post ready for service.
The quarantine will continue anothel
week al least, as a result Of the jump IN th'
measles today to q total Of 80 cases. I h'
only hopeful feature Of the situation 10
the quarantined camp IS the fact that II
the last IS hours there have been no nev
cases of genuine measles reported, all TN