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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1917
Page
4
An editorial warns Anniston merchants to stop exploiting soldiers in uniform after troops arrive at Camp McClellan. It recalls Texas sellers who hiked prices for soldiers, risking the state’s reputation and inviting retaliation from servicemen. Citizens are urged to protect Anniston’s name.
Atlanta firm The T. H. McKinney Co. Inc. lands the Camp McClellan electrical installation contract beating rivals due to equipment and organized forces. The project covers about 70 miles of outside pole lines and nearly 15 000 lights inside buildings. Mr T H McKinney devotes personal effort to ensure thorough work and also oversees Camp Gordon Silver Lake installations.
A bidder states that millions of feet of yellow pine doors sashes and mill work were installed at Camp McClellan in many buildings. The firm notes it was a successful bidder and emphasizes material and work supplied.
In Aberdeen Mississippi a once lazy youth, Major C L Dulin, rises as quartermaster to oversee the largest best constructed Cantonment in the nation. He coordinated relief efforts during the 1912 13 floods and led swift, thorough building of facilities for nearly 50 000 troops at Anniston Alabama.
Watching the Virginia unit pitch camp on a Virginia base a sergeant marked the first camp site with a rock then a crowd gathered for the christening A student splashed liquor on the stone and Alabama celebrated its first drink in months as pennies were begged and tongues snatched at the rock with a joking plea for it to become a barrel again.
The first Virginia troops to train arrived at Camp McClellan, with a coach labeled Berlin or Bust, signaling their readiness for service. Major Dulin and his staff led the advance, making McClellan the first U S army cantonment to receive soldiers for training despite nine days of rain.
Charles Butler the New York architect arrived to advise Major Dulin on a base hospital for Camp McClellan. A Box Springs site with 72 wards and modern facilities is planned at about 576000 dollars, plus 4 million feet of lumber, plus dormitories and regimental infirmaries. The project aims for rapid medical care to minimize battlefield disability.
Maj Stanley W. Martin of Lynchburg Va arrives in Anniston to inspect Camp McClellan artillery range as part of the permanent layout. The War Department confirms Camp McClellan as a permanent artillery range, ensuring 5 000 to 10 000 troops stationed there year round.
Virginia troops led by Captain L G Figgat and Major J C Bowman pitched camp at Camp McClellan becoming the first cantonment units in the United States. Officers and commands hailed from Roanoke East Radford Richmond and other Virginia towns with Battery A under Captain L C Vogt among the units preparing in Washington.
Four neatly attired chauffeurs are required immediately. Apply to Mark Anthony at the Construction Quartermaster's Office Camp McClellan.
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