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Page 6 ma IMMENSITY OF CM I JS SHOW J|M | Statistics That Tell of the Size ai i I ill and Its Various Departi Ill DPI II , Statistics dealing with the construe-i Dtion of Camp Ureene are not of the j usual dry and uninteresting sort For instance, there are 1,713 buildings; f erected by the government within the i camp, and this does not take Into consideration a number of buildings Of these nearly 2.000 buildings 324 of j them are mess halls where the offl- 1 cers and men take their meals. These j buildings cover 665.700 square feet of space, which, in other words, is 16.2S There arc "74 shower bath buildings, with an area of 84.801 square feet. 41^ latrines covering 73,056 square feet, with 200 miscellaneous buildings covering 637,858 square feet, or more A \ There are 330 stables and wagon I RAj\\ sheds covering 950,160 square feet, or near 22 acres. There are also 66 other buildings designated as temporI ary which cover 40,888 square feet. This means that the 1,713 buildings, not counting the base hospital, cover \ ;tn area of 56.28 square miles. N. And aside from these buildings \ there are many other items of construction which are to be taken Into consideration when the camp as a fUBl whole is discussed. For instance, i there are 72 hay racks in the remount station, a mile and a half line, with | Bflgjrjl l,le sami' number of feed troughs, of : BlgalJ the same length. There are 283 watering troughs in the remount station Hinore than a mile long. An idea of the immensity of the I undertaking may be secured from the I statement that more than two miles of hospital porches were built. And tent doors and wall, which were not included in the tirst contract and not put in until many troops were stationed in camp took 1,298,664 square feet of lumber, or an area of 29.81 square acres. In Camp Greene have been built 347 incineiators in which all the refuse of the various units is destroy- J VILx t*d daily. These incinerators are oum of brick and steel, and reduce all J refuse to ashes which are hauled i Zl Ml 10.000 Head of Horses. Mzg H In the remount seation there are Hfjia nearly four miles of fencing, enclos- I I UjW I ing some 10.000 head of horses, to say j nothing of the thousands stationed RJlnB with the various units about the I l\i)| iCfM The water supply is the city water AvNir>J system, which is entirely adequate to I r>0<j9 care for all the soldiers at Camp I LKrVNl Greene and all those who will ever be | MJ^/ there. To secure all needed pressure: W/ hi th government has rected two red- J Ml! l/l wood tanks, each holding 200,000 gal- : II III Ions, which are of the same height HI Ill as the stand pipe in the city of Char yH. lotte. One of these tanks is located within the camp proper. Just west of irX *1 the postolllce building, and the other r,-r^.!, ^is in the base nospum [?c> m...., Mm i 11 the Tuekaseege road. These tanks Ml) 'Tlif were shipped from Redwood. CallforM. ?T M || nia. knocked down, and the Umbers fl U lor the supports, which are 75 feet I ; \l high. were shipped from South Caro- J 1 ^ Una. The tanks themselves, were set TiiW u*' a^ter arrival here with a 20 inch Bream feeding from an inexhaustable supplv of the city there is at all times more than an adequate supply and all needed pressure at Camp Greene. In this connection it may be of interest to note that one and six tenths miles of 10 inch and 12 inch water that 12.8 miles of sx inch piping leads from the mains, and that 25.8 miles of three inch or smaller piping delivers the water to the various ulthere is a total of 40.2 miles of water piping in the camp, and yet more to The elctric lighting of the camp took 861.2 miles of wire, strung on 2.335 poles, serving nearly 20.000 elec- j In Camp Greene proper there are 2.340 acres, with 400 additional acres mcss irKWW Referring to the building of mesa halls for the various outfits, it shoula t===? * be borne in mind that regiments of fthe different branches of the service do not take the same number of halls. For instance, in the engineers' regiments there are 11 mess halls. One of these, for the officers, is 20 by 5 6 feet, four halls 20 by 49 and six halls 20 In the light artillery regiments there are 12 mess halls, one 29 by 84 feet, five halls 20 by 49 and%ix 20 by In the infaontry regiments there are 20 mess halls, one 20 by 56 feet, six halls 20 by 49 feet and 13 halls 20 by 133. The motor truck company has but one mess hall, 20 by 105 feet. The quartermasters' unit has three niess halls, one 20 by 42 feet and two IP GREENE THRODGH FIGDRES id Magnitude of the Institution nents and Divisions. 20 by 112 feet. The machine gun battalions have 19 mess halls, six of them 20 by 49 and 13 are 20 by 133 feet. And thus it is through the entire camp, the various branches of the service havinsr Drovided for them the number of mesa halls of the size that will accommodate the strength of that unit. The total floor area of mess halls in the camp is $53,940 feet. To this must be added 11,760 square feet of lengthened mess nails when changes were made to neavy artillery from the light artillery arrangements provided at the beginning. Included in the miscellaneous buildings are 10 warehouses 60 by 168 feet long, for the quartermasters' department in which supplies of all sorts are stored. These buildings contain 100,800 square feet of floor space. In the remount station there is one building 60 by 300 feet in which Is stored certain supplies other than forage, there being four buildings rfor the care of roughness. And also in the remount station there is one building 32 by 297, in which the art of blacssmithing is taught to those of the army assigned to this work. 6U Mospiuu KUliaillgli. In the base hospital group there are 60 buildings, of various uses, as follow^ administration, officers' ward, officers' quarters, nurses quarters, laboratory for eye, ear, nose, throat; operating pavilion; shop; post exchange; garage; kitchen and men; receiving ward; sixteen ward units; eight ward and laboratory buildings; three isolation wards; six barracks for enlisted men; five store houses; chapel: guard house; mortuary; laundry building; physchlatric ward and Are department. Of the 66 buildings designated as temporary there is included one for the storing of dynamite, a hospital, a garage fire engine house, commissary store house, residence for the commissary manager, at what is known m Pamn 1. about the Dowd house. There are eight oIHces for superintendents at camps 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the rifle range. There are in addition. o(fleers quarters, erected to meet an emergency, a two story addition to the Dowd house, for offices, two teamsters' offices, an employment office, a barber shop, a canteen, lumber checkers, hospital addition, cement building, a half dozen latrines, 15 lumber cutting buildings, material storehouses, paymasters' office, oil storeage, baths at the Black house, Alexander house, the Dowd house, office and storehouses for the water department, offices and storehouses for the electrical department, and a painters' building. There are also 13 timber bridges built in various sections of the camp totalling 450 feet in length. Military roads of more than 22 miles In length, within the camp proper, have been constructed, and through the hard weather of the middle of December they held up remarkably well. These roads are of sand clap construction, with the top soil treatment and despite the unusually heavy traffic over them daily they are proving most satisfactory. NOTES FROM CO. M, FIRST N. IL INFANTRY. First Sergeant Harvey got a box of eats from somebody the other day. He won't say who it was from, but we can guess. Well, we hope that she will send some more soon. Mess Sergeant Clark is still mess sergeant for the third battalion. Yep, we are getting something different for breakfast every morning since "Roily" has been In the kitchen. Some mornings we have oatmeal and beans, and the next morning we get beans and oatmeal. Supply Sergeant Riley is not very favorably impressed by the south. He is going around wearing two overcoats. Sergeant Dunbar is getting two letters a day from Westtield, Mass. We would like to know who she is. Better set them up, "Dummy." FIRST CALL. Here on my army bunk I lie, j Enveloped by canvas and by sky. I I dream no longer I belong I To the army, 'causa the army's wrong. With army life dissatisfied, I readily lose my appetite, I tell the doctor 'bout my case. He throws a discharge in my face. r trier,** inH kin And meet them with a joyous grin. | They ask me., "Jim. are y' on a pass?" ! I like to tell them, but alas. They surely won't admire my grit ' If I tell them that I ran and quit. ! The cold sweat's beading on my brow. I want to explain but don't know how. Hark! What la this; is this first call? And I'm no quitter after all. I'm still right where I ought to be. Much obliged to you, "Old Reveille." (Composed by Corporal J. W. Newkirk, Co. M, 39th Inf.) C-- -i v gg I Jargon of the Sold Heard a The Jargon of the soldier, as heard n at Camp Greene, Is a new and novel jj! experience for the civilian who has never come in contact with the armed et forces of the nation. In almost every j instance the soldier has a term of his ** own, expressive to a degree, if some- f( I times inelegant, and not always un- n derstood by the civilian. ' For instance, the commissary sergeant is known as "beans." A "bean 11 shooter" is a commissary department ?! officer, and "black strap" is coffee. d I To be "blind" is to have been sen- P' tenced by courtmartial to forfeiture j of pay without imprisonment. 01 j "Bob-tail" means a dishonorable 111 discharge, and "to bone" is to study T to cultivate, while "boot-lick" is to 81 A cavalryman is known in the army ai as "bow legs," and "buck private" is di the term most often applied' to tho enlistod man who is not a non-com- pi missioned officer. ai "Bucking for orderly" means that fc .the private Is brushing up, and getting Into neat condition in the hope of be- m ing appointed or detailed orderly. ir A soldier's shelter mate Is his r? "bunkle," and "bust" means a reduc- c< tion to the ranks for a non-commis- a< sioned officer. The "butcher" is the company barber, and "canned horse" is nothing m more or less than canned meat of any c? sort. in A "elt" is & civilian, while "cits" y? means civilian clothes, and C. O. is to the commanding officer. A "coffee cooler" is not a machine d< at all, but a soldier who seeks easy Ja details away from the troops. To is have cold feet means that the soldier pi is filled with fear. pi The infantrymen are called "dough boys," and a "dough puncher" Is a ai baker. When any sort of aweeta la re- b< ferred to it la "duff." al A "gold brick" i8 an unattractive girl, while "gold flah" i8 salmon, and tc the "goat" la the Junior officer of the r? post ol "French leave" is unauthorized absence from duty or camp, and the flu "guardhouse lawyer" is a smattering tt of legal information talkative and liberal with advice to his comrades In p; the guardhouse or in other trouble. si A "hike" is a march, and the pro- tt vost sergeant is the "hobo," and the tl chaplain is called the "sky pilot," "Holy Joe" and "skywcout," ai Of course a "hop" la a dance, and B "Jaw bone" is but another name for w credit at the exchange. A "mule skinner" Is a teamster, and ti O. D. Is officer of the day And also c? HE IS FIRST OF A RRIGIM TO ARRIVE General Reported to Camp Con.- G mander and Then Began Hunt for Home. Brigadier General James H. McRae, infantry, arrived yesterday at Camp Greene to assume command of C I one of the Infantry brigades being | organized here of regular army infan- 81 ! try regiments. While it was consld- n: I ered Inadvisable to give out for publi- ^ cation the number of the brigade Gen- 01 j eral McRae will command, it was said tl ; that In his command would be the I Sixtieth and Sixty-first infantry regi- C] ments. He. was accompanied by Lleuten- H ant Carl F. Homles, aide-de-camp. ?>l After formally reporting to Major a General Dlckman, commanding Camp ir Greene, General McRae returned to ei the city and gave his attention during g the greater part of the day to finding ir a home. Temporarily, he to stopping u at the Selwyn hotel. p< General McRae is the first regular w army brigadier general to arrive at 01 Camp Greene. 8ometime ago Major ei General Dlckman. commanding the a camp, announced that six brigadier a generals would be ordered here. ?< Nothing has been announced regardlng the probable time of the arrival ti of the other five officers of this rank, b ? d ENGINEERS COMPANY *' ARRIVES AT CAMP GREENE J A company of engineers has ar- la rived at Camp Greene, It was learned s< yesterday. This company Is part of p the engineer forces of one of the di- u visions of the regular army being or- e. ganized at this camp. The deslgna- a tlon of the organisation of which they, si are a part was not given out for pub- b lication. The company, which has a ? strength of about 200 officers and 1( men, is encamped in the engineers' w reservation, near Y. M. C. A. head- ti quarters. The Forty-seventh infantry g recently vacated this camp site. n t Camp Greene iters to the uniform. An "old Issue" - ;| an old soldier, and an old file is an IH Id officer. ) The eergreant major la usually call- .'^1 1 "major" by the enlisted men. A "non-com" is of course a non- JH jmmissioned officer, and to be "call- ~1B 1 on the carpet" means to appear be- I jl ?re the commanding officer for ad- IB tonition. ' To be "on official terms" means " lat soldiers speak to each other only .-jfl a matters of business, there being ifferences of opinions between them -v'ffl srsonally. The orderly room is the company ' j f I 31ce. and the hospital steward is al- J fj iost invariably known as 'Pills. J his sometimes Is applied, also, to the irgeon. The "Q. M." Is the quartermaster, id "Q. M. D." Is the quartermaster's partment. -: J . To be "ranked out" means com- I elled to vacate by-a senior officer nd "red tape" Is but another term 1 >r official formality. -/ j?! The drum major is the regimental I lonkey, and to "re-up' means to re- / ilist at once. A "rookie" Is a new jj meruit, and a "sand rat" Is the offl- (A jr or soldier on duty In the rifle pit < target practice. The "saw bones" Is the doctor. The second lieutenants were, for- |B ierly referred to as "shave tails," be- fM tuse they were without designating . ,/|H islgnla. and also because of thett V ! nt?h and unbroken nature, referring > the mules in corral. "Sinkers" may mean dumplings or aughnuU, as the case may be. Slap icks refer to pan cakes, and a "slum" jR a stew of any sort of meat, with |R Dtaoes and onions, principally the Dtaoes and oniona JM "To soldier" means to shirk work, idR nd to "take on" means to re-lnllst IH sfore the expiration of three months 'R rter discharge. 3R The first sergeant is known as the _ ?p sergeant, and young officers are (ferred to by the men, in the absence -|g| r such officers, as "youngsters." it A "wagon soldier" Is in the light or ft.'. >ld artillery and a "wind Jammer" 1 IP te bugler or a bandman. A wood butcher refers to the cam- fil any artificer, and oavalrymen are fi| >oken of also as yellow legs, owing to ,;H le fact that all men Jn this branch oC ?e service wear tan leather leggins. . "Punk" means Ioafbread, and beans J.M re referred to as stars and stripes. aeon Is sow-belly, and ham Is r*d :,.3| "How" was once the form of saluta- - rfH on when drilling, but latterly this J' ffl istom has fallen into disuse. mmm: mmies i eneral Dickman Creates Board I to Investigate Deportment 1 and Dress of Soldiers. General Dickman, commanding amp Greene, haa created what be irmed "a bureau of military courlay." The duties of the officers asgned to membership on this comiittee will be to make inquiry as to le observance of prescribed military lurtesies by officers and men not nl while in Charlotte but also at le camp, and to suggest action based pon their findings. The dress of le officers and men will be under lose ooservation also. General Dickman said he intended ? see to it that the officers and men '^igP ? his command saluted properly, : -r* nd in so doing he would be carryig out the expressed desire of Genral Pershing, who, in a long teioram, stressed the necessity of nalut;g at all proper times and of appearig neatly dressed. The general said >me results have been obtained toard this end by the issuing of raemranda to the organization command- ? rs, but that he expected to bring bout much more uniform observnce of courtesies within the next )w days. -, Regarding the idea of suspending ie rules which prescribe the relations etween officers and enlisted men ...yj uring such times as they are away -om the camp. General Dickman xpressed disapproval in strong terms. y hlle It probably Is his desire to udntain that part of the array he jmmands in as demociatic a state as i consistent with efflcient military frB jrvice and good discipline, it ap- B eared that the general feels any impering with the regulations would H nl> result in lowered eiDciencj and B morale of the troopa Also, while not jl definitely expressed, it appeared to , -M e his opinion that no particular pood - |N &uld result from any permission nl- >^B >w ing olflcers and men to target d?B 'hile away from the camp their mill- >. I: iry rank, nor that there existed any .. 13 ood reason for allowing such in the .
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