New Britain herald., 1919-06-19
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
 ARE OFF FOR CAMP
r Will Take Summer Course at
 Camp DeVenS

Second Lieutenant Ellis J. Bards-
 ley, who has been in charge of the R. O. T. C. training at the High
 school has arranged for Y local
 boys to go to the R. c. T. C. camp at
 Devens. They will leave n Saturday
 morning. The boys will remain
 there until the second of August
 Lieut.. Bardsley has been notified that there will be over 2,QOO men at the camp to receive a six weeks
 training. 1,500 will be seniors, while the remaining 800 will be juniors. The group going from this city will
 be put in the class with the juniors. as the local boys did not receive any military or rifle training until lately, .a and are not qualified to be in the senior class.
 The district headquarters for tho R.. O. T. C. camps which has heen located at Boston will be moved to Devens where the following West Point officers will supervise: Col. Guy c. Palmer, camp commander; Major B. G. Ferris, adiutant Com- mapder; leutenants from the vari- bous schools, sending men to the camp will accompany the boys, being their instructors during their stay at camp.
 All boys upon their arrival at camp will be examined by the camp physi- cians. who will vaccinate and innOCu- late them against disease. Each boy will receive a uniform, rifle, pack, cot and other necessities of the sol sdier. Medical and dental attention will be given every boy free of charge. The boys will be given eight hours of military work, and one hour of schooling each day.
 Captain Fairfax of Boston, who has been appointed morale officer will be in charge of the entertainments, which will be held nightly. Moving pictures and speakers will be sched- |uled for each evening at the Liberty theaters located at the camp Two chaplains have been sent to the camp a Catholic and a Protestant, who will conduct the services every Sunday.
 The parents of the boys, who will leave Saturday are being assured by Lieut.. Bardsley that the boys will re- lceive the best of training All boys, lwho have not the permission of their parents, will be ordered to abstain from Srn Joking while they are at camp. Boys disobeying orders will be dis charged from the camp and sent home.
 This evening the public has been asked to assemble at the State Armory gon Arch street where Lieut.. Bards- ley has been training his recruits for athe past several weeks and will give 8an exhibition of what a platoon of Y Imen can do. The boys have been taught six drills which they will go Through for the public. Four of the drills are rife drills, and Lieut.. 8Bardsley says that for the time that The youths have spent in training Fhey 'are number Al soldiers. The parents, friends or relatives of #he boys at camp, when writing them, Avill address their letters as follows: @ ohm Dough. Blank-Company, R. O. NT. C., Infantry Camp. Camp Devens. &fass. Following are those who leave Saturday:
 # List of men due to report to D. 0. M C. Infantry camp, Camp Devens
 une .21:
 Lawrence G. Austin. Berlin; Robert &Booth, 42 Park place; William F. M3urns, 63 Vine street; John A. Gun Bingham 30 Wilson street; Russell o.
 5lliott, 50 South High street; Louis
 Gregory, 542 East Main street; James
 . Hart, New Britain road, Kcnsing- Won; Thomas H. Long, 131 Lincoln @treet; Francis Mcclure, 30 Wallace
 treet: George F. Mcclure, 90 Wal
 tee street; Howard H. Mitchell, IS
 $outh High street, Karul Edwin Neu- ! an, 92 Black Rock avenue; Stanley
 ewton. 214 Main street; Morris
 ordstrom, Maple Hill; Edward
 owen, Is South street; Algot Sten-
 #erg, Maple Hill; Everett Williams 86s Corbin avenue.