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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
4
In a tent under rain and forest air one finds freedom and vast horizons. The Abercrombie & Fitch store is the place to supply every camp need.
Complete Exposition of Camp Comforts on the fifth floor displays tents and camp requisites for permanent and movable camps. Tents cover canoe, pack horse, work rest, cruising and automobile treks with varied fabrics and balloon silk builds. Prices range from 2.75 to 200, plus sleeping bags, blankets, cook kits, stoves and related gear.
Automobile luncheon kits fitted with thermos containers condimental cups and cutlery priced at 730 and 75 dollars.
New York City recruiting centers reported a surge as hundreds of draft age men joined the army navy and National Guard. Officials estimate city enlistments exceeded seven hundred with the army and National Guard drawing many to front service. Navy applications were heavy though many did not meet exam standards and Marine Corps saw little impact. Total enlistments for the two days surpassed two thousand with Newark and Ohio also contributing large numbers as part of a broader mobilization.
Sacket Harbor June 4 A War Department plan to open an aviation field about twenty miles from Madison Barracks places the site at Pine Plains. The field will support a two seaplane station and housing for up to 150 aviators with hangars and an enhanced telephone network. The New York Central Railroad expands facilities to support the camp and a military post office will open at the field.
The Madison Barracks district will host a new training camp within six weeks covering New Jersey? area and Pennsylvania districts. Government rifle range at Stony Point is ready and student officers will soon travel eighteen miles to the butts for target practice as a three week training cycle begins with long drills under hot sun. Cavalrymen face a forced switch to infantry under a Washington decree, risking transfers to Fort Myer for some.
Fifty Yale aviation students from West Palm Beach arrived by special train at Huntington New York with twenty hydroairplanes. They will resume training at the Cartlid estate on Huntington Harbor under Lt. F. T. Davison. They began assembling machines and shelters and expect to fly within the week.
A detailed dispatch reports reactions to the Stockholm conference with German and Austrian press voicing anti Stockholm sentiments. It notes calls for Ribot's stance and fears of annexationist campaigns supported by Pan German groups. Contentions include resignations under press pressure and shift of leadership to Admiral von Grapow.
Plattsburg New York June 4 nearly 700 students are slated to be weeded out of the training camp by June 15. Officers say the ax will fall for inattention to orders poor bearing and skylarking. Ten from the Eighth New York Company resigned after being warned. Canadian officers may join after mid month to aid bayonet drill rifle practice and trench warfare methods. Bry Gen Clarence Edwards will inspect the camp and confer with officers. Charles B Willard of Brooklyn died in a post hospital pneumonia following exposure in rain last week.
A private letter from a prominent American via a Scandinavian country reports German submarines firing on survivors in open boats after torpedo attacks. The Scandinavian paper quotes Norwegian sailors describing increased brutality and orders to stay off the ocean.
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