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NO WASTE
AT MESS HALLS.
DO IT RIGHT .
DETACHMENT COMMANDER OF
FERS A FEW POINTERS.
Captain William W. Carnog, M. R.
C., detachment commander, has ot
tered the following bits of advice,
which The Caduceus feels should be
passed along tor consideration of all
the hospital enlisted men;
“It is easier to be ready for inspec
tion all the time than it is to pre
pare for inspection onoe a week. The
keeping of equipment in neat order is
only a.matter of habit. Get the habit.
“The" military efficiency of a soldier
or a military organization can be
judged by the time it takes to com
plete a formation for drill.
“If you can’t swat Germans just
now—swat flies. That warfare is al
most as important.”
THE CADUCEUS.
EVEN TIN CANS ARE CONSERVED
The “waste not” admonition of Her
bert Hoover is being carried out to
the letter at the Camp Greene Base
Hospital. Not a particle of food is
destroyed. Every by-product is utiliz
ed. Even the tin cans are saved.
The tin cans are wrenched out in
scalding water, by the members of
the kitchen police force. The cans are
then battered itno a solid mass. When
a sufficient quantity of the battered
tin is collected the metal is hauled to
Charlotte and loaded on board a rail
road car. It is shipped to a metal re
ducing plant and the tin and lead will
be used again in a different capacity.
Two weeks of saving the cans netted
a full car load of tin from the patients’
and detachment mess halls of the hos
pital. The government is gaining a
goodly return for a product which was
wholly waste in past years and which
offered the problem of burying the
cans.
Bread crusts and pieces of bread,
which have not been allowed over for
a meal on the big platters, are taken
to make bread pudding. The way the
cooks of the two mess halls have of
flavoring the pudding with raisins and
custard makes a delicacy much sought
after.
Large meat bones are saved for flav
oring soups and fats are rendered into
lard in the base hospital kitchens.
Garbage is not wasted as it was in
former years, when much fuel was
used in burning the discarded food.
The food waste is bought, by the farm
ers of the Charlotte region, tor ferti
lizer and is collected in large cans by
colored workmen after each meal.
FULL GROWN
Lieutenant-Colonel George Renn,
present commanding officer of the
Camp Greene base hospital, weigh
ed 225 pounds when he came to
Camp Greene.
He had been here just two days
when he met one of the old-time
darkies on the street in Charlotte.
The colored man, whose kinky
hair had been whitened by the
years, removed his worn hat with
great Chesterfieldian manners and.,
remarked warmly;
“Good mornin’, boss. Bless. God
I is at last seen one full-grown
soldier. Here here soldiers what I
bin seein’ is nothin’ but chillen and
it makes my heart* so sad to see
dese boys—but you is certainly-
full-grown. Say boss, what is youv
A gineral?
PROMOTED AGAIN
P. J. DEMPSEY IS HOSPITAL SER
GEANT SINCE SUNDAY.
PARK PAVILION BURNS.
The dancing hall at Lakewood Park
burned to the ground early Thursday
morning. Canse of the Are, which oc
casioned a loss of $12,000, is unknown.
The structure will be rebuilt at onoe,
it is announced.
Private Robert Nikrant, wardmas-
ter in A-8, is recovering from the try
ing experience of having his tonsils
removed.
ALMOST COMPLETED
NEW WARD BUILDINGS WILL
SOON BE ready FOR USE.
Top-Sergeant P. J. Dempsey re
ceived the warrant on Sunday which
makes him a hospital sergeant, an
honor which he shares only with Hos
pital Sergeant Abel Knight.
Hospital Sergeant Dempsey has been
in the army but little over a year. He
enlisted in the regular army at Fort
Ethan Allen, Vt., on May 21, 1917. Ah
his promotions have been in the regu
lar army and not in the reserve.
He was made a sergeant on Au.gust
21, and upon being transferred to
Camp Greene with the base hospital
force he was made acting first ser
geant. He received a permanent war
rant for that rank on November 20
His promotion to hospital sergeant is
dated .June 19. He has one more step
to take, that of master hospital ser
geant, before being in line for a com
mission and he has shown the stufi
which will eventually land him there.
Kis home is in St. John, Newfound- ‘
land.
Construction of the six mammoth
ward buildings, which will double the
capacity of the Camp Greene base hos
pital, is almost completed. The end
of the week will find the carpenter
work finished.
The new structures, each of which
is two stories high, are the most sub
stantial buildings in Camp Greene.
They are builded for permanent use,
which tends to bear out the ai-iginal
intention of military officers to make
the Camp Greene hospital a general
hospital.
The construction work, by the J. A.
Jones Company of Charlotte, has been
a marvel of organization and speed.
The rearing of the big structures, in
the few weeks that have been taken,
is claimed to set a new government
record for ward construction.
Lumber has arrived for the large
Red Cross building, which is to stand
in the center of the convalescent
wards. ^ Work on the proposed struc
ture will start at once and is expect
ed to be completed before fall. Tii.
Red Cross recreation home will be
built in the form of a cross and is
to cost $18,000.
‘OVER THE TOP”
WILL GO FIREMEN IN DASH
AGAINST TIME.
Firemen of tba base hospital will
go “over the top” in the true serise of
the word when they are called into
action against any attacks of flame
that may threaten the buildings. The
submerged runways, through which
the struggling firemen dragged their
hose carts and other apparatus are to
be abolished. The small tunnelways
were not of sufficient depth to allow
the passing of the ladder wagon, and
other loaded vehicles which are some
times brought into the hospital, and
so were found to be impractical for
permanent use.
Forty elevated drives are to be car
ried over the runways, that connect
the hospital buildings. The heavy
plank platforms are being construct
ed. They are re-enforced by strong
beams and will bear the burden of a
team of horses and loaded wagon when
necessary.
The former Sergeant Paul A. Man
ger is now a private in the ranks of
the ordnance department. His trans
fer came through this week and he
has already taken uj) his duties in
Washington, D. C.
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