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New Site -Will Provide for;Six Regiments NearPleasant Beach.* ■ . ; rColonelKennOn and Party;Inspect Proposed-New \ . Rifle .Range.iiI -Plans far the fourth military, camp to be established near.Pleaaant Beach I were completed/ yesterday at . the Office of Capt George. O.. Hubbard, j constructing quartermaster,1. The site f will provide for aix regiments, and j ‘ will be occupied .by tbe: Ninth and j ‘ ■Thirtieth regimen;s -of. infantry with 1' { their newly formed tributaries..;'• The pipe line to the new camps has been extended to the Twenty*third Infantry camp-aad will be completed to the fourth camp early this week. Captain. Hubbard'said that'so far as he knew the regiments mow in fair ground buildings .could - be moved without delay to u'imp, He said the rising ground on the site for the remaining six. regiments will, not make tent floorings necessary at once, !Location of New Camp..'The '.fourth camp site is. located northwest of - the. Twenty-third' .Infantry camp, and almost directly west of the fiftieth camp, on- the opposite side' of the Van .VIeel: road* The new site extends almost to - the Rockaway Reach road, :ahd its extremity is two and a half' miles fron the fair grounds. - . . .Into, this camp . will • be . moved nearly 5,000 men,.'and this number Vc'ill be expanded as recruits . come I In to between. 12,009 and 15,000 men.In the opinion of the engineers this , site is the best of all the camps, owing to its elevation and drainage. The artillery cacips are on the. lowest.. ground,' a mile ■ nearer the fair grounds. The camp for the Twenty-; third, Forty-ninth and ..Fiftieth regiments . occupies high . but • uneven ground.The regiments that will be moved jo the fourth camp are . the original Ninth and Thirtieth, and the new regiments, £he Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Thirty-eighth arid Thirty-ninth. '■No Hurry to Moyo Men. •Colonel Kennon is not wMmg to j u .hurry ■ these' regiments into camp. \ e\ and. may'insist that the new camp t'li be supplied, with water,' lights, and j p floorings, before ordering the move- fi ment. j• When these rcgiment3 move out F to the hill-camp, there will remain j d at the fair grounds only the recruit j i\ camp, the hospital, field bakery, and p headquarters of the* quartermaster j b and commanding’ oflicsr.Included in the plans, for the fourth camp are adequate drilling grounds, though this land will not^-be immediately available* The camps along Van Vieck road . so far . constructed have no good maneuvering ground nearby, and there has been* little'field work except for squads. 'Inspect Proposed Rifle Range.Colonel Kenaon with William Allen Dyer and others of the Chamber of Commerce committee took an automobile trip yesterday afternoon to the . now propoposed site for the .brigade rifle range, about twenty-five miles from the camp. It !s expected a decision on the location will be’made this week and that the* Chamber of Commerce military committee will take steps to secure the necessary land.TtC(fsic:vc-obPo:ittc:cVvsSiftae:Recruiting during the last week tlr.was at its lowest point since the! camp was established, so far as the j' 1 arrival of new men indicated. Thetotal was a • little over 500 men. Twenty-eight arrived last night and for the'twenty-four hour period preceding ninety-two.. At Colonel Ken-nou*s direction the Thirty-eighth regiment 3s now being filled..CoL VTiiUam VL Sample, com-'\ ra and ant of the officers* training joamp at Madison barracks, who has 1 been assigned to the Thirty-eighth regiment, win not report here for .duty until his work at the barracks' , is finished, probable August 15th. MaJ. Isaac Irving is now commanding 1hc regiment.€Iiic
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Jul 01, 1917
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