Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — Record Number Are Now At Ft. Benjamin Harrison. [ARTICLE]

Record Number Are Now At Ft. Benjamin Harrison.

Indianapolis, Sept. 11.—With the arrival W the Third Indiana regiment, Col. George W. Freyermuth commanding, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison yesterday afternoon, the local army post registered the greatest numerical strength jn its history. The Third has a roster approximating 1,600 officers and men. The brigade of regular infantry composed ofathe Tenth, Forty-fifth and Fortysixth regiments, approximates 6,000 officers and men. The medical camp commanded by Lt. Col. Percy M. Ashburn, has 1,300 doctors and 1,500 enlisted men. The'training camp of the officers’ reserve corps, commanded by Lieut. Col. Alvan C. Read, has 2,545 men. The total of the Indiana national guard will Approximate 5,000 officers and men, and with other military units of the smaller caliber, Ft. Harrison today has a soldier strength of about 17,000 men. When the men of the Third began arriving, Col. Emmett *F. Branch, of Martinsville, commanding the First regiment, sent his band across the big camp to welcome the newcomers with a tune or two. The officers of the First also went over to welcome their comrades of the Third and to give assurances that they would be welcome to everything except their blankets. Col. Robert L. Moorhead, of the Fourth regiment, also gave greetings to the officers of the Third and assured them of generosities in all lines from mess to music. Colonel Moorhead introduced the supreme joy of the day—he ordered the men in charge of the Fourth’s post exchange to switch from ice cream to “hot dawgs” as the leading bill of fare. Of course the men of the Fourth and their neighbors of the First and Third immediately transferred their affections to, the sausages and the post exchange did a big business.