The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-10-04
Big Munitions Plants In
Virginia Being Fast Dismantled


ching up an enormous automobile |
factory two years from hence when |
everything is in readiness to push
their enterprise.
Camp Lee, established after our en-
trance into the European war, half
way between City Point and Peters,
burg, Va, is located on the car line
which connects these two towns, in
fact, the car line traverses one of the
camp streets, but you cannot see
much OF the camp from the car. On
your left going toward Petersburg,
are the warehouses with solitary
looking guard in evidence, while on
the right hand side are the power sta
ton and rows of pup" tents where
those selected for oversee service
were hardened up ,or real warfare
as this was one of the replacement
camps. The soldiers who were sent
across were marched via macadam
road to City Point, where the Apo
matox river and the James river unite
and put on small boats for a short
trip Of sixty-five miles down stream
to Chesapeake Bay, and there were
loaded on ocean transports.
BY the way, there is lieutenant in
this camp, B. D., who was raised
across the street from us when we
used to live in Kentucky. He and ]
used to be in the same grades in
school, music and Sunday school
Funny, isn't It how you DO happen tt
run across folks.
/ Sleepy looking, old dingy Peters
!, burg is the center Of trunk manufac
: turing, although you would neve
q dream 1t was the center of anything
: from it's appearance. There are fou
8 trunk factories located here and on
d of them is the largest in this part O
the United States. Before the labo
! shortage this factory turned out a
b average of one trunk minute.
: 1t also has its share of wartim
stories and relics. On the south-eas
/" side Of town stands an immense sigr
70 board lettered ode Crater Thi
10 place is visited every Sunday by a
u average of thousand people VIII
d come to view the tunnel dug by til
% Federal troops during the Civil wa
:. in vain effort to mine Lees arm
~ just before the war closed. Grant
" forces tunneled and mined the grour
II here thinking they had trapped Il
III Confederates, but Lee became awal
III Of their intentions and backed hi
K men out Of the danger zone. WHIT
~ the charge exploded, the Union fore
re rushed into the hole thinking Il
:" Confederates had been entrappe
ID whereupon, Lee brought up his figh
a. ing units and turned the tables {
them.
:, Just out Of Richmond on the Wi
-, liamsburg turnpike is the scene
- the Battle of Seven Pines, mark,
, : now by an engraved tablet. There
:. also National cemetery not far fro
this spot.
he On the Norfolk and Western Raj
lg road is wee bit of a station. Ju
be q mile or SO away is the spot whe
re General Lee surrendered to Graz
e. thus ending the struggle. A sma
ed marble slab tells the story.
G. II I had some one to sharpen n
pencil / would like to tell you of Il
IL little squirrels in the Capitol Squa
to in Richmond, hundreds of them, I,
r and protected by the city, petted al
or noticed by all who pass through tn
e, popular breathing spot in the hea
OF the city, and above all source
ut childish ecstacy to all youngster
ny who are brought by their parent
NJ especially on Sunday, to see these Il
r tie rodents.