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ADMINISTRATION STAFF
Administration Building, Corner of Wheeler md Wrightsboro Roads.
Camp Secretary E. Tomlinson, Wilmerding, Penna.
Associate Camp Secretary Ralph A. Tracy, Hartford, Conn.
Camp Religious Work Secretary Dr. T. A. Wlgglnton, Nashville, Tenn.
Camp Educational Secretary George B. Landis, Harrisburg, Pa.
Camp Physical Director-. George R. Fleming, Williamsport, Pa.
Camp Business Work Secretary Robert P. Zebley, Philadelphia, Pa.
Camp Director of French W. T. Turk, Athens, Ga.
Camp Musical Director A. L. Tebbs, Dayton, Ohio.
Camp Director of Publicity
Camp Motion Picture Expert George Magarlan, New York City.
Camp Accountant E. Logan Butler, Greenville, S. C.
Camp Stenographer Frank Wynn Shriver, Omaha, Neb.
Camp Stenographer L. Breaker, Atterbury, Jackson, Tenn.
Camp Property Man .....J. W. Ross, Somerville, Mass.
SPECIAL MOVIES AT 75;
TENT 234 POPULAR
BUILDING NO. 75 AND TENT NO. 234.
(Serving 107th and 108th Field Ar
tillery, Ambulance Corps, Field Hos
pital, Motor Truck Companies, Field
Bakery, Quartermaster Corps, Ordnance
Corps and Depot Engineers.)
Building Secretary—W. T. F. Hill,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Religious Work Director —A. B. Cur
ry, Jr., New. York City.
Educational Work Director —J. A.
Brodhead, Cincinnati, O.
Physical Work Director —F. W.
Prechtel, Lancaster, Pa.
Business Secretary—Harry P. Lunt,
Williamsport, Pa.
Extension Secretary—Harry E. Bicks
ler, Missouri.
Range Secretary—Barton Richards,
New Castle. Pa.
Assltant Secretary—C. B. Ware, Sylva
nia, Ga.
The feature of the week at 75 was the
first musical program of a series to be
fufnished by the First Presbyterian
church of Augusta. It was given on
Monday night following the weekly band
concert by the Sanitary Train band. The
first church is noted for its splendid
quartet choir, which was appreciated by
the boys.
A jazz band from the 103rd Ammuni
tion Train made things lively on Wed
nesday night, and preceding the regular
movies on Friday night the regimental
band of the 108th F. A. gave a short,
concert.
Dr. C. C. Hayes of Johnstown, Pa.,
was the speaker at the mid-week re
ligious services on Thursday evening.
A special movie show on Saturday was
much enjoyed. The "Russian Whip” is
a story of the struggle of revolutionists
of Siberia with the military authorities
and is well portrayed with excellent pic
tures and acting. These special pictures
were secured through the courtesy of J
F. Young, 103rd Motor’ Supply Train, Co.
P.
Program for tho Week.
Wednesday-—To* be announced.
Thursday—3 to 5 p. m., sewing anil
mending by Augusta ladies; 6:45 to 7:30,
Divisional Song Training; 7:30, Mid-
Week religious service.
Friday—6:4s to 7:30, Musical Enter
tainment by Augusta ladies: 7:30 Movies.
Saturday—Write Home Night; Boxing
and Wrestling.
Sunday—9 a. m., services for Sanitary
and Motor Supply Trains, Chaplain Hill;
10 a. m., Regimental Services 108 F. A.,
Chaplain McFetrldge; 7:30, Sabbath eve
ning Devotional Service, Speaker, Dr.
Lyon.
Monday—7:ls-8:15, Musical Concert by
the Ernest Gamble Concert Company.
Tuesday—Movies.
TEnFnO 234.
(Serving Camp Q. M. C., Ord. Dept.,
Field Bakery, Motor Truck 332; Eng.
Depot.)
Secretary in charge, Harry E. Bicksler,
New Hampton, Missouri.
Attendance is becoming better and
better since we have a piano and a vic
trola and the tent is already a great
place for all the men in the units we are
serving.
There being only one Y. M. C. A.
secretary assigned to the tent, the or
ganization of its work is different from
that of the buildings in that there is
much more volunteer service. A goodly
part of the weekly program of events is
planned and carried through by a com
mittee composed of representatives from
each unit. They are entering heartily
into this service.
Program for Week.
Wednesday—Open night for writing.
Thursday—Mending and sewing by Au
gusta ladle*: 7:30. Sing Song, led by Cy
Hecker; 8:00. Address by Dr. Zebly.
Friday—B:oo, Motion Pictures.
Saturday-—Program to be arranged.
Sunday—9:ls a. m., Chapel Service by
Secretary Beekier.
Monday—7:4s. Stunt Night.
Tuesday', 8:00, Motion Pictures.
SECRETARIES HIKE
WITH REGIMENT
Currant Events Club at 76.
New Nights For Movies.
N0~76.
(Serving the 112th Regiment of Infantry).
Building Secretary—J. Campbell Bran
don, Butler, Pa.
Acting Building Secretary—Charles F.
Heuck, Brookhaven, Miss.
Educational Director —F. A. Smith,
Woonsocket, Ri I.
Religious Work Director—Herman L,
Adams, Dayton, O.
Business Secretary—Euclid Mcßride,
Nashville, Tenn.
Physical Director —Thomas S. Hughes,
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Assistant Secretary—G. W.’ Veech,
Louisville, Ky.
The men of the 112th Regiment claim
March 6.
that we have the best outfit here of any
of the Y. M. C. A.’s in camp, and there
was considerable wonderment on the part
of a good many of them when for some
reason or other the activities of Build
ing 76 were not mentioned in last week’s
Trench and Camp. One private said
“There have also been things doing since
the last issue came off the press. Two
classes -in English for foreign speaking
men are now going In good shape, meet
ing twice each week. The interest in the
French classes continues to keep up. A
club to discuss Current Events will be or
ganized on Saturday night of this week
and all fellows Interested should sign up
at the desk. Secretaries Adams, Hughes
and Veech went on the hike with the
112th Regiment to serve the men on the
march and to promote activities on Thurs
day and Friday nights. Movies were
shown to full houses. Starting this week
the movies will be shown on Wednesday
and Saturday nights instead of Tuesdays
arql Fridays.
The Bible classes are increasing each
week. Besides those meeting in the
building there are also those meeting in
the company mess shacks. More are in
the process of organization.
Dr. Winfield S. Hall, the famous writer
of books on sex hygiene, will be here on
Thursday night to give a talk. It will be
well worth hearing.
Program For Coming Week.
(Subject to unavoidable change.)
To-night Wednesday.
A first class movie show.
Thursday.
7:3o—Dr. Winfield S. Hall.
Friday.
Nothing scheduled yet.
Saturday.
6:4s—Current Events Club.
B:oo—Feature Photo Plays.
Sundav. y
9:oo—Bible Class in Y. M. C. A.
6:45 —Bible Class in Y. M. C. A.
10:00—Regimental Service.
,7:30 —Evening Song Service and Address.
Monday.
6:4s—French Class.
B:oo—Lecture for Officers.
Tuesday.
Nothing scheduled yet.
QUARTETTE~FROivr~
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
FINE CONCERT AT BUILDING 77.
BUILDING~NO. 77.
(Serving Engineers, Signal Corps, Mil
itary Police, Headquarters Troop and
Third Motor Mechanics.)
Building Secretary—R. C. Dobson, St.
Louis. Mo.
Religious Work Director —S. E. Henry,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Educational and Social Secretary—Chas.
A. Lineback. Carthage, Ind.
Physical Director —H. E. Batchelder.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Business Secretary—W. E. Griffin
Augusta, Ga
Assistant Secretary—A. Blaine Robin
son, North East, Erie County, Pa.
An excellent program of high grade
music was rendered by the. quartette
from the First Baptist church of Au
gusta on last Friday evening. They
were greeted with a large audience
and every number was roundly ap
plauded. Tpe program offered cer
tainly reflects great credit on the di
rector, Mr. Robert Irvin, and too much
cannot be said in praise of the work
of each member of the quartette. The
enthusiastic reception which they re
ceived would tend to disprove the
theory that soldiers care only for pop
ular music.
A very interesting stunt was given
in this building on Saturday evening
by Corporal C. C. Holt of the Motor
Mechanics. Corporal Holt was for
merly of the United States Navy, and
is also an experienced vaudeville ar
tist. Professionally he is known as
"Do-Do, the Human Torch.” He caus
ed his audience to gasp with astonish
ment in this feats of fire and glass
eating. Several articles of food were
saturated with gasoline and set on fire
by Corporal Holt, after which he
calmly proceeded to devour them. He
■wound up his feast with an electric
light bulb, broken up into fine pieces
for desert. The building was crowded
to its capacity and the boys are still
guessing as to hqw he did it.
The Motor Mechanics Medley Jazz
Band, under the direction of Julian
Fox gave a very fine program in con
nection with the movies on Monday
evening. This organization, though
hastily formed, certainly shows effi
cient work on the part of the director
and the men. They certainly delighted
their audience. They are open for so
cial engagements in and around the
camp.
Program for the Week.
Wednesday—7:3o, Mid-week relig
ious service.
Thursday—7:3o, Good movie drama.
Friday—7:3o, Entertainment
. Saturday—7:oo, Concert by the fa
mous Ernest Gamble Concert Party.
Sunday—B:oo a. m. —Communion.
9:00 a. m.—-Regimental service, 103rd
Engineers, by Chaplain Houghton. *
2:30 p. m.—Popular Bible Class.
7:30 p. m. —Song service.
Monday 7:30 —Movies.
Tuesday, 7:30 —Lecture by Bernard
Suttler, "Why We Are At War.”
CAVALRY REUNION
MARCH 22ND AT 78
Big Time Planned. All Cavalry
men Expected.
BUILDING No. 78.
(Serving the 110th Infantry and the
3rd O. T. C.)
Building Secretary—H. L. Simmons,
Magnolia, Mass.
Educational and Social Secretary—■
Frederick B. Heitkamp, Chatham, N. J.
Religious Work Director —Charles N. St.
John, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Business Secretary—L. F. Lunt, Wil
liamsport, Pa.
Associate Secretary—Paul A. G. Mach
emar, Philadelphia, Pa.
Physical Work Director —Leslie Whit
ney, Rockland, Me.
You never saw a miser cling to his
money more than do the old cavalry fel
low hang on to their yellow hat cords.
The ether- night no less than ten of them
came through the door of this building
—and the place came to have the old
home-like atmosphere, which was always
present when the old First Pa. was on
the hillside just above us.
The result of the visit of these troop
ers was the fixing of the date for the
promised Cavalry Reunion. It will take
place on the evening of March 22nd at
Y. M. C. A. 78 at 7:30. The entire mid
dle section of the building will be re
served for the Cavalry men until 7:25
after which time anyone being there will
get the seats.
It is planned ot have young ladies from
the city come out and entertain for the
first part of the evening. Then some
of the freaks of the old outfit will make
their appearance and do their part, as of
old, in the famous amateur nights of last
September.
If possible the officers of the Cavalry
who still remain in camp will be three,
and a few words from some of them will
be heartily welcomed by their old men.
You fellows in the Artillery, Remount,
Ammunition Train, Infantry, and other
branches of service, remember that date
and plan to be here with the old bunch.
Let us see some of the spirit that we
used to see in the days of last fall.
DR. READ ON SEX HYGIENE;
DB. PRICE LEAVES 79
BUILDING NO. 79.
Building Secretary, C. H. Harring
ton, Collingswood, N. J.
Educational Director Frank R
Hean, Harrisburg, Pa.
Physical Director —E. B. Peterman,
Youngstown. Ohio.
Business Secretary—Hubert N Dukes
Sandersville, Ga.
Assistant Secretary—G. T. Trevor, New
York City.
The Wednesday and Thursday even
ings we Were entertained by some clever
movies, especially the reel loaned us by
the 110th Hut, which depicted scenes and
sights of Camp Hancock.
Following the movie on Thursday even
ing Dr. Reed lectured on social hygiene
sent out by the Commission on Training
Camp Activities. He gave the crowd an
excellent talk on the above topic.
The slides’ which he showed were ex
tremely fine and adde-t much to his lec
ture.
The greeting he received on Thursday
prompted the suggestion that we invite
special units to hear his lecture on Fri
day evening.
We therefore had Companies B and C
of the 109th march to the building and
together with our regular crowd, our
building was so jammed that we were
unable to accommodate 500 men of the
Third Motor Mechanics who were ordered
to hear the lecture. This outpouring of
men gave added stimulus to Dr. Reed in
his lecture.
On both occasions Captain Lee Alex
ander Stone, Division Gas Officer, intro
duced the speaker and "by his remarks
won the audience to the reception of Dr.
Read’s lecture.
Tuesday services in the morning were
largely attended at which Dr. Wiggin
ton delivered the talk. No. 79 always
hails with pleasure the talks of Dr. Wig
ginton. for in them are verile messages
that help.
We had the New Chaqrain of the Third
Motor Mechanics with us during the day—
Chaplain Stamtz.
On Saturday Dr. Price, -our religious
director, left for his hv-me after spending
three months at camp. An irreparable
loss is oud judgment; a loss to the men
we serve and a loss to the men on this
staff. A splendid Christian gentleman
was he.
On Monday and Tuesday Drs. Price, Pe
terman and Hean accompanied the 55th
Brigade on their 3-day hike. The fun
they had, and service they were able to
render, made the jaunt a mighty enjoy
able event.
The arrival of the Ordnance Regiment
on the camp ground of the 2nd Motor
Mechanic Regiment once again throws
upon us an increased number of men to
handle. We hope we can meet the situa
tion.
Schedule:
Wednesday: Song Service Dr. Hall
Thursday Moving Pictures
Friday: Band Concert... .110th Reg. Band
Saturday Gamble Concert Co.
Sunday:
9:00 —Regimental Service Chaplain Stamty
2:30 ..Bible Class
7:30 Evanlng Song Service
Monday•• Moving Pictures
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BUILDING 231—A TROPHY
OF SOLDIERS’ EFFORTS
At least one of the Y. M. C. A. huts
has started its career "like a house
afire” for the new building, No. 231 was
plucked as a brand out of the brand out
of the burning last week. After the mess
squad had carefully oiled the floor of the
109th Field Aitjllery Headquarter's mess
shack, » flash of flame from the boiling
g-.ease in a frying pan ignited the floor
and in a minute the north end of the
fragile shack was ablaze. Great clouds
of smoke and shooting flames were
blown about by the moderate light wind
from the west and the new Y. M. C. A.
hut just half painted and with new green
timbers seemed to do its best to coax
the flames over the sixty foot street be
tween. Trice was the building in im
minent peril of ruin. The tar roofing
was boiling under the heat and clouds of
white steam from the new lumbei were
rolling out of the sides nearest the fire.
The fire marshall with men organized
and orderly, but frantic with a desire to
save the new “Y” hut, were attacking
the fast crumpling mess shack with the
fighting spirit of good soldiers and
swarming like flies over the roof of the
building. Fire buckets were emptied of
their contents making a barrage of water
hanging like a sheet of protection over
the sides of the building and holding
back the flames.
If ever a Y. M. C. A. building really
belonged to the men of any camp, Hut 231
belongs to the 109th Field Artillery, 103rd
Ammunition Train and the Trench Mor
tar Battery, because thev literally saved
it from the fire. Help came too from
the 53rd Brigade headquarters fire de
tachment. In a short time two powerful
streams were playing with full power on
the mess shack and over the “Y” build
ing. and the fire was out.
The men will use the fine building that
rose in a phoenix like fashion out of a
fire that three times in fifteen minutes
threatened to burn it to the ground.
RED CORDSATW 231
With a spirit of marked appreciation,
the men who wear the red hat cords have
taken possession of Hut No. 231 of the
Army Y. M. C. A. at Camp Hancock and
since the informal opening on Friday
evening have demonstrated by the crowds
thronging the building at all free hours,
that it has been well located. Moving
pictures occupied the program on Friday
evening and Dr. Winfield S. Hall’s lec
ture on sex hygiene was attentively lis
tened to by a good sized audience on Sat
urday evening. The formal opening and
dedication of the building treated at
length elsewhere in these columns, took
place on Sunday evening. Col. Harvey
has placed in the hut a fine model of a
phonograph, which was presented to the
109th Field Artillery, and which they will
take with them when they go to France.
TRENCH
BUILDIhg
Building 232 has beM
serted for the past wB
112th regiments went I
days, and the Machiß
are out on hike now. I
ley, Finley and Kelfl
111th, hiking with theß
the evenings in campß
service as was possibß
accustomed to the ml
taries stuck to it, andß
to be “tagged” for a®
lance. Secretaries Maß
are out with the Maclß
this week, carrying B
furnishing stationery, ■
for the men.
An interesting occafl
well meeting in honor!
transferred. On Mon®
farewell service was he®
mess Shack, "commeß
in their' honor were fl
high school or colledi
Chaplain Keith and ®
and Smedley spoke b!
Useful pamphlets werl
Testaments were furi®
were not supplied. pfl
men present who had il
so signed up the War I
of the privacy attach®
a public demonstration®
ble, but the boys who ■
ferred greatly apprecial
mony thus arranged ta
parture.
The new building hat®
with the red triangl®
place, it is now possa
without the aid of a d
Program fori
Wednesday, March I
song; 7:30, motion piJ
Thursday, March 7, I
service, with Rev. Paul]
officers’ lecture.
Friday. March 8,7 I
cert; 8:00, entertainmel
Saturday, March 9, d
pictures.
Sunday. March 10, 9 I
service for 111th infantrl
10 a. m., regimental sei
Gune battalions, Chapll
p. m., grand concert byl
ble “Concert Company;!
song service: address J
Monday, March
Tuesday, March 12.f1|
ment.
remountjß
Last Tuesday was®
Y. M. C« A. The eXB
barracks covered parr®
of the tent. A dozen <-■
the supervision of Lie®
ed in moving the tent
site. Our hopes for J
received great
