Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-18
PREPARING TO PAVE WAY
TO Berlin AND VICTORY
Regiments Containing Noted Men
Training for Road Building and
Bridge Work ''Over There"

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Bridge Work '0ver There"
Several thousand members Of the
worlds second largest regiment and Of
0ds ccuntry's most American and most
cosmopolitan military organization are
cat here preparing to pave the way to
Berlin and victory.
Another bunch Of men from the same
organization - the asa Engineers-is
over at Glenburnie doing the same
fAangs as their comrades here-build-
ing roads. fixing bridges, leveling hill
locks and other work for which their
training has adapted them.
One calls the 23d Engineers the sec
end largest regiment because 1t is-or
at least will be when its organization
% completed. 1t will have 10000 MEM
bers. The Goth Engineering Regiment.
composed Of men who are to be en-
gagged in forestry work in @France. Is
the largest, with contemplated en-
rollment of 1900 men.
The 23d Engineers seems entitled to
the christening OF the most American
and most cosmopolitan Of regiments
because Of it's personnel. Every state
Rico. Canada. Spain, Mexico and other
foreign countries and colonies have
contributed to it's makeup.
Most Of the men are "hefty." 1t Is
almost a regiment of giants. There
are more tall, strong young men to be
found in this camp than In any other
place in the eastern section Of the
eountry-that is. Of course. proportion
geputation of being the best technical
~ drilled military organization in the
Army. Civil. electrical and mining
engineers help to make 1t up. while
others of the members were big con-
tractors back home.
Gave Up $50, 900 Contract.
who was given a $4,000 contract to
erect q building in Minneapolis He
bought new equipment for the Job. He
then turned his back on the contract
and the equipment to enlist as pri-
vate. There is another private here who
was getting $4,000 q year when he en-
listed last summer. Now he gets $50
month.
than $4,000 a year before they entered
ehe Army. Practically every university.
shining, electrical and civil engineering
hehool in the country Is represented.
Tersity quit his JOB 70 join the 2sd.
A preacher left his pulpit in Seattle
and another his pulpit in New York
state to enlist as private. One or the
ministers was working hard az ms Joo
a. bodybuilding in Glenburnie this after
noon.
Red Donahue in Outfit.
wA ~an;voor% hoa STE Of one of the
three ft-handed catchers who played
IA major league base ball circles, Red
Donahue. formerly Of the st: Louis
Cardinals; Fred Tenney Of Boston and
Philadelphia Nationals, shared the
honor with Donahue.
Some of the soldiers who will defy
bursting shells and bullets as they build
the road to Berlin have defed nature
Glenn W. Shaw OF Aberdeen, S. D.. has
reclaimed miles of arid lands on the
1vestern plains and has made them give
forth produce which will help to feed
the soldiers across the seas and give
them strength for the nnal dash
Bob Agar Of Brownsville, Tex.
showed what irrigation could do by
Nooding some Of the alkali lands Of
that state and making them produce
Col. e. N. Johnston. commander OF
the regiment, hade the waters Of the
deem do their worst after he had played
a big part in building the sea wall at
Galveston. Col. Johnston is a West
Point graduate. one OF the few regular
Army men In the OUTFIT. He has had q
aDaendid record as an engineer. but
nothing in his career will be looked
back upon by him with greater pride
than the work his men did in France
There are surveyors galore here, men
like Henry A. Bossinger OF Brookline,
Mass. who mapped out many improve
anents for that rich town. The regiment
ig an organization Of men who have
made good.
Bridge Named for Him.
Men who have made thousands of
dollars a year. who have pulled OF big
9Oha and whose future held out won
derful promises are just frst-class pri-
Yates. 1t is true that Jim" Booth. who
has built bridges and had helped to lay
roadways in the heart of the Rocky
mountains, is a corporal, but then one
must consider that Jim made such big
hit with the last great bridge he built
near his home town in Prince Falls,
YAaho. that the great western common
wealth. upon his enlistment, named the
bridge for him. Jim was the head of
the state highways commission in
Idaho. :.
There is not a state in the Union, 1t
AZ safe to say, that has not had men OF
the 23d Engineers working on its