The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-18
ENLARGEMENT OF !.
DODGE BEGUN
Material and Men on Hand to Start
Work-Details of Plans Received
From Washington
MAJ. LANG, SEATTLE, IN CHARGE

MAJ. LANG, SEATTLE, IN CHARGE
Will Erect 700 New Buildings in Two
Months-TotaI Cost of Improve
ments Will be $2,835,210
CAMP DODGE, Sept. 16-The ar
rival of a train load of lumber and the
gathering of hundreds of carpenters
are the first evidences of the proposed
enlargement of Camp Dodge. Official
announcement from Washington gives
the details of the proposed enlarge
ment of the camp in keeping with the
contract recently let to Weitz Sons.
The building includes eleven officers
quarters, thirty-six mess halls, forty
nine lavatories, eleven administrative
buildings, eight medical infirmaries,
three guard houses, three post ex-
changes. twelve storehouses, one fire
station, eleven wagon sheds, eleven
stables, seven hundred barracks. The
total cost will be $2,S35,21O. Major
Louis NJ Lang of Seattle, constructing
quartermaster, is here and prepared
to rush the work He expects to have
the 700 buildings completed within
two months. A force of 1900 men
will be put at work on the new addi-
tion just as soon as the lumber, which
is on the way, arrives. Men just
brought into camp will be quartered
in the new addition thus doing away
with the necessity of tents. Three
thousand feet of railroad track, con-
Meeting the site Of the new addition
with the interurban have already been
laid. Putting up 700 buildings in two
months is mere trifle to the aggres-
sive big contractor from the Pacific
coast. He built Camp Lewis, Wash
ington state, consisting of 1927 build
ings in fifty-seven days. Major Lang
has had considerable army experience
having been with the national guard
a number of years and having partici-
pated in the Spanish war.
An order has been issued calling
into service the remainder of class one
in Iowa, numbering over 1000 men.
These are to arrive at the camp the
first week in October. With this large
increment the capacity of the canton
ment will be filled to the limit, neces-
stating the use of the tents until new
barracks are completed. A large
number of men were released from
quarantine the past week but are still
without uniforms owing to delay in
factories manufacturing them.
It makes all the difference in the
out uniforms. Somehow civilian
clothes do not comport to military
service no matter how thorough may
be the drilling nor how strict may be
the discipline. 1t takes a uniform to
give pep and zest to the men. Those
who have been going through all kinds
of military maneuvers without the
equipment do not feel that they are
getting ahead very rapidly, but the
new suits are expected every day and
it will not be long until all of the men
are fitted out.
Thousands of negroes have been
sent east the past ten days. Nobody
knows their destination but it is very
probable that they are headed for
France. The fact that they have not
had much training indicates that their
services may be sought as common
laborers rather than for activities in
the trenches.
With the transfer of 3,432 men from
the ,163d depot brigade, to the S09th
pioneer infantry, colored. that regi-
ment has been filled to it's full enlist
ed strength.
Several officers of the depot brigade
have also been assigned to the S09th,
and that regiment will now begin its
course Of intensive training. i
Farmers Object to Employing
Obiectors
Adjutant Gen. l.. G. Lasher, of Iowa,
has been in conference with Maj
Adam Richmond, camp judge advocate,
on the question of returning men OBJ
jecting to general military service
who have been granted agricultural
furloughs to the camp.
Reports from Iowa City to the ef-
feet that farmers in that vicinity have
voiced vigorous objections to the en-
ployment of these soldiers on the
farms of the neighborhood, thus TAX
ing them out of the military service,
prompted the conference between the
adjutant general and Major Richmond.
Select Officers to be Sent to Camps
General Pershing has selected a
number of general officers who are to
be utilized by the war department in
the command of divisions and brigades |
in the country. Out Of them the de-
partment will designate commander
for Camp Dodge. Arrival of some of
these officers from France is sched-
uled in the near future and then a
commander will be announced
Jewish Welfare Building at Dodge
A new service building similar to
the brigade Y. NJ C. A. buildings in |
the camp is to be erected by the Jew
ish welfare board for the use of Jew
ish men and their friends in the camp.
Plans for the building have been re-
ceived by Max H. Cohen, secretary for |
the Jewish welfare board and camp
welfare worker among men of that |
faith.
The new building will be fully
equipped with auditorium, rest and
reading room, and will give the men
the same service as those of other
recognized organizations established
in the camp.
Forming New Division
Formation of the 10Th division was
begun this week with the beginning
of transfer of men from the 163d de.
not brigade to organizations which