Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — It Will Take 32 Complete Towns To House Forces Training Now. [ARTICLE]

It Will Take 32 Complete Towns To House Forces Training Now.

Complete plauo ter housing 22,000 men at each of the thirty-two divisional cantonments camps in whica the war is to be trained have been worked out by war department officials and construction work will oe undertaken as soon as commanders of the mfilitary deipartments have designated the sites. Twelve of the camps will go to tne new southeastern department, commanded by Major General Wood, making 264,000 troops assigned to that department. Six comps will be established in' the cefntrail department, six m the southern, three in the western, four in the eastern and one in the northetastem department • In effect, the project is to .build thirty-two towns complete with all necessary equipment and facilities. It .will require six million feet of lumber, whirfi was adopted because the price of cantvas Js so high and the supply so rihort. If tents were used it woufld require two complete sets a yeair to keep the men under cover. L There wifi be 2,000 buildings in each encanxptnent. These will indude quartern for officials and men, stables, kitabems, mess hlalls and store roams in addition to numerous structures for special purposes.