Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — TO REPORT AT CAMP TAYLOR [ARTICLE]

TO REPORT AT CAMP TAYLOR

Where Drafted Men From Central States Will Train. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Burchard and little daughter Winifred, who had been visiting Mi. Burchard’S people at Hartford City, returned Thursday evening. Mr. Burchard will remain here until Tuesday when he will go to Louisville where he will be stationed at Camp Taylor, the cantonment at which the Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky men of the new national army are to be assigned. There will be 41,880 men at this camp. Indiana supplies 17,500, Illinois 10,134 and Kentucky 14,236. The camp will be in command of Major-General Hale. The department has completed the assignment of the officers of lower ran# to the camp, that is to say the captains, the first lieutenants and the second lieutenants. These men, in most instances, are graduates of the officers’ training camps, a majority of themi coming from the training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Orders have gone out from the adjutant-gen-eral’s office to practically all of the officers that are to be assigned to Camp Taylor to report at the camp not later than August 27, although the first of the national army troops will not reach the camp prior to September 5. The officers are ordered to the camp a little ahead of the troops, so that they may be ready to receive the men as they begin pouring in. The order directing that 30 per cent of the men be ordered

to this camp means that between - 12,000 'and 13,000 men will report to the camp on September 5 and 6. Under the orders the men must all leave their home stations September 5, but many of them will not arrive in camp until the following day. These first arrivals will form skeleton organizations which will be built as the additional increments come in. The war depart-, ment feels that this plan has its advantages because when the second 30 per cent arrives the first increment will have received Considerable training and will be able to assist the newcomers.