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fc SITE NOW WINT13R RESORT
By J. HAMPTON MOORE
AUGUSTA, On-, July 2-..
About 500 feet nboe ica lccl, 220 miles
from the ocenn following? thn courio of tlio
6aannali IUor. nnl oxerlooklns the pretty
city of Augurta, which Is lcs than 150
miles aboxe the pea. I the sito of Camp
Jtnncoclt. the ticn home ofj tlio Nnllonal
Guard of I'cniwhnnlii. now mustered Into
the pen Ice of Uncle S.un for tho purpose
f the uuropcnn ui.
In part It It the camp site that President
McKlnley Htert December 19, 1S98. when
troopi of the Nntlonal Uunrd were Rt.Uloncd
tl,rc Tlio Spanish-American War camp
nn known a- Camp MrKen7le, nnd em
brired about r,00 ncrcs, while the new Hit
toptan war Camp Hancock will coer moic
than 2000 acre.
The Government dev not buy a foot of
1,1, property It pimply Jej)cs It for the
modest sum of for a period of two c.r)
from a group of cltbcus who hae sub
tcrlhcd a fund to buy up tho ciopt and
property rights of the owners
At the present time cotton, corn nnd other
vcgeinblo are ripening In sepirale tracts
c ground to be covered by the encamp
, me'it hut they have been taken over and
will not stand In the way of tho con
trirtor, who are to crec' most halls hos
pital buildings and tho like. There Is nlso
fcrub timber on the ground, much of which
jias bcn nit nwav and much more of which
111 have to be cleared before the l'cnnsjl
Tarda bo set up their tents
The onlv visible evidence of prepiredness
for the encampment at this time Is the In
troduction of a lC-lnch water main from
the city water works which border the
camp, to serve such streets or sections of
the camp ground ns the army olllcers maj
determine
Augusti folk pump their water from the
Savannah nivcr nnd congratulate them
'eelvei that their pumping station Is so
conveniently located The.v also point with
lome pride to tho fact tint this simo water
Is served to the Innihnmo bouses of the
well-to-do residents of firo-g'a and lAmy
wealthy northern families v ho m iko these
attractive hills of Clcoigla their winter
abode It Is the Fame water which goes to
the Country Club nnd the big hotels which
lire frequented when the snow Is flvlng In
the North, by such northern nnd eastern
notables ns Henrv C Trick nnd former
President Taft President Taft's cottnge
ind that of Robert T Lincoln arc pointed
out to visitors to tho ramp site
Visitors to the camp Bite
Mr Taft's Interest In Augusta Is well
known His nld, the popular Major
"Archie" Putt, who went down on the
Titanic, was an Augusta boy nnd to bis
memory tho people of tho clt have erected
A beautiful stono bridge Thev havo also
marked with n stone memorial the pl.ice on
the present camp ground nt which President
McKIn ev dKemlmked from the train to
Inspect Camp McKenzle In 1818
Tho Pcnnsvlvanla bovs will thus have
itibstantlal reminders of northern interest
In Augustn If tlity are students of Civil
War history, they will also find much to
Interest them In nnd about this famous
touthern city, whose I'ederal arsenal was
taken over by the Confederates, at the out
break of hostilities, and mnnv of whose
citizens attained distinction during the war
They will pick up mnclwif the hlstoty of
Sherman's march to the ea. and of the ie
constructlon period, tince Hamburg, tho
scene of tho negro riots. Is ovi In South
Carolina, just across the Savannah Iilver
It Is only a few' miles out of Augusta and
along tho levels and hills bordering tho
Savannah that tho story of 'The Clans
man" and the scenes of 'Tho Blith of
Nation" wero laid
But when are tho Tcnnsjlvanla boys
looming to Augusta? That's the question
,When the orders came to mobilize It
looked as though Mount Gretna would hold
the troops for n few davs onl Then there
was a good deal 6f talk about going south
to hot weather. Tho people of Augusta do
not deny that tho summer months aio
warm, but not more so, they think than
In a city like Washington They do not
have the tropical heat, and they do assert
that tho hills where tho soldiers are to live
lire cool at night and freo from mosqui
toes But, hot or cool, any concern about
climatic conditions Is unnecessarj at tho
'fre&ent time
Camp Hancock Is not leady for Its
guests and cannot be for somo time to
Come. The at my has Its own way of doing
things, and soldier officers who have a good
big treasury behind them aro not half so
rapid as they would bo If a good strong
enemy were In sight
The nrmy is preparing to keep Camp
Hancock In working order for two jears
That reenu evident. A few officers have
Put In. an appearance lieie, nnd there is a
local dlsputo about contracts o one seems
to know exactly how much monev Is to be
spent by tho Government on this J000 acres
leased for one dollar, but It Is approximated
t a million.
It is to be a tent camp rather tha.i what
Is known as a cantonment, but many wood
en structures are to bo erected nevertheless
A body of 17,000 men will make a good
sized clt and a cltj's accommodations will
hav'e to bo provided for them. But at pres
ent there Is no watcr-servlco plpo on tho
Kround and no other structure material
except a few wagon-loads of lumber
The army vvao tendeied tho use of a
Commodious new stone nnd brick building
for hospital purposes capable of recclvInK
600 sick men, but the offer was declined
upon the ground that plans had been pre
pared for a one-floor wooden structm e that
would cost probably $100,000 The prof
fered building, which Is at tho edge of the
Camp site, was erected with great care for
the Sisters of St. Joseph It Is a landmark
nestling In the hills In full view of Augusta.
Jbout miles away, and will now probably
be turned Into a hotel to accommodate the
wives of officers and other visitors who
will come to camp irom distant points
To an observer the rejection of such a
substantial building, for which tho Govern
ment would pay rent nnd winch it could
abandon at nny time, for a trime struc
ture, which tho Government would prob
ably be glad to give away nt tho close of
the camp, though It cost as much as J100,
000, docs not look llko eood business. It
Pells delay In making ready for troops
upposed to be needed Immediately "some
where In France."
But the army has tremendoub plans nnd
Congress hafl oted It vast sums of money,
and when It begins to move on Camp II.n
ck It may move more rapidly than pres-
ni conditions at-Augusta seem to indicate
that It will.
i . ""cuicr me local trouuia in " -"
;' 'Wll halt the construction work Is not clear.
Augusta desired tho contract worn tor un
own contractors and workmen The Build
ers' Exchange co-operated with leading cltl
J'ns rind otfered to unite upon one contract
to do tha vnrU. Another contractor, with
. the aid of tne Mayor, seems to have out
t Wlttcd thrf r".vehnnir All nartles. howov er,
jeem agreed to pdsh tho work to hasten
fine Mmino nt v. ,.!. rrhpv do not know
whether this will bo two weeks or two
months hence. It depends upon oracru irum
Washington:
Of this, however, tho Pennsylvania
troops may be.nssured: Lf the camp Is not
V Jady for two months, the boys who came
.,Wre to occupy It wilt Pnd themselves ac-
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MAJOR F. W. SMITH
Major Smith, who when in civil
life is one of the best-known postal
inspectors of the country nnd is
attached to the Philadelphia in
spectors' office, will today leport
to Washington for active service
pursuant to a summons after train
niK in the Officers' Reserve Corps.
It is probable that he will soon
bo sent to France to take charge
of the distribution of all the mail
of the American troops in the war
zone.
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i xuilK, Pa( July 2C emu u. i''
Mneral eecretary of the Associated Chan-
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Point Breeze Oil
Works Still Ablaze
the Plant And rnftiiiril In allow nnv mi
except firemen, officials of tho company and
police officials to enter. Across Pnssyunk
nvcnuo nt tho U. O. I. plant n force of
eonvny firemen turned out, ns did tho U.
O I. armed guards. They watched their
own properly.
N'ear the most Intenno part of the fire was
located a gasollno tnnk nbout ;2B feet high
by 75 feet In diameter. The Instant tho fire
started tho plant firemen begnn sprinkling
this tnnk with water to keep It from getting
too hot. An automatic sprinkling sstom
nlso'ppraved the destrojed stills and ngltn
tors, but to no nvalj, for they soon caught
fire nnd burned In splto of, tho spray
Immediately nfter tho fire started nil
pumps In the plant began forcing the oil
from burning tanks, nnd tanks In tho Im
mediate vicinity to tanks far removed from
the flames. Tills was kept up ns long as
there was danger of spread of tho fire
At 6 o'clock this morning It wns said
the pumps had stopped, as the fire was then
confined to two smnll tanks In tho center
of the nren of the conflagration These
were nbout 100 vnrds malt nnd It seemed
Hint there was no danger of further spread
linmedlatelv nfter the llro started .1 w
VanDjke. president of the compiinj " M
Irish, general manager .T C Culling su
perintendent and several other officials of
tho lompnn.v were called b ttlcnhone nnd
soon were on tho rcme Thev remained on
the ground until the fire vn under control
An hour nfter the file slotted the police
lues were iclixed so fur ns neighboring
streets were concerned nnd hundreds of
people who live nearbv lined the sidewalks
Thc found little comfort, however for tin
mosquitoes came out In drove i from the
river nnd swamps nearbj and attacked
them
The Ninth Ileglmcnt of engineer" who
nro trnlnlng nt tho Commercial Miwum
were notified 'hat thev might be needed for
guard dutv Thej were ordered to fall In
on the ground adjoining the museum
Thev walled an hour or more nnd wore
ordered bick to bed when word camo that
the fire was under rnntiol
It was said nt the plant that fires fre.
qucntlv start but tint the) seldom reach
alarming proportions owing to the nnnv
devices nnd arrangements for Instuntlv
fighting them
Battalion Chief Barrett was slghth in
jured while nt work He was treated bv
surgeons attached to the Philadelphia Gen
eral Hospital ambulance
Thre firemen known to be Injured are
John Pott nf Knslne t'ointnnv Vo 22
xerelj mirnctl nml errrnm l smoke Carried
from iilnnt I fellow flrpmen
Anthonj tUllmnn Truck Nn f, hnrnel
John Vfllcrew, Truck Ilnclne Comimny No
22, burned
All were taken to St Agnss Hospital
Officers and hundreds of marines from the
Philadelphia Navy Yard were rushed at
once to the fire rono In nutomnhl'es to help
hold back tho crowds The hospitals nearby
supplied n half dozen ambulances to succor
the injured
German Arrested at Trenton
TrtKNTON. July 25. Magnus Wehr
kamm, a German, thirty-seven ears old,
of Spring Lake, was sent to Jail hero
by Deputy United States Marshal Voll. Ho
wns found loitering nenr the United States
radio station nt Belmnr and had no permit
authorizing him to be within tho zones
barred to alien enemies.
Farmer Injured In Runaway
LANCASTER. Pa, July 25. The teafn
of Harry XI, Armcnt, a farmer, near !ll
lersvltle, becamo frightened while he was
operating a binder In hlo wheat field and
ran away. He was caught by the machlno
and one leg wns severed from the body,
his shoulder broken nnd spine Injured. His
recovery Is doubtful.
Recruiting Farm HmT&W
The Bourse farm nUtlon today started're
crultlng farm hands for Gloucester County
N. J An effort will bn made to get forty
five ouths nbout sixteen years of ace as
well ns a number of men. The boys will
bo paid $1 60 a day and the men from
2 40 to $2 50. The boys and men will live
In a community camp at Glassboro. '
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to appeal to frlfldVj
where for financial atwlsuite
the )50.000 base hospital fund. ,H
hope of the Hahnemann to provM i
tno most complete) unit which hM 1
offered to the Government,, owla
fact that the first offer of 'the
furnish a unit was refused.
Continued on Pnne One
saved tho entire plant Kn'-ilojes of the
companv also did noble work
The fire was the mot spectacular Phila
delphia has seen In jears
The plant of the V G 1 at Point Breeze
wns threatened with destruction A change
of wind nfter the fire had raged for haJf
nn hour is tho onl thing thnt saved It.
firemen said
As It was, flames came very close to the
huge gas tanks which, stand south of the
refining compan's plant.
In discrediting rumors of a plot, officials
said that Point Breezo fires wero of most
common occurrence Residents In the
neighborhood also said that there have been
many small fires nt the plant ever since It
has been there
The fact that todav's fire surpassed
others In recent scars, It was bald, was no
evldenco thnt enemies of the nation had
been nt woik In an attempt to burn or
blow up tho plant
Virtually nil Philadelphia, Camden nnd
towns In this State, New Jersey and Dela
ware wero aroused by the terrific report
which gave tho first Intimation that the
plant was ablaze.
HXPI-OSION IN BIG STILL
The explosion occurred In one of the six
teen I irgo stills, which stand nearly 100
feet high and are approximately fifty feet
In diameter
This still, although made of steel, was
shattered as though made of'glass
Tho terrific forco of tho detonation shat
tered ten other large stills standing nearby
and rolled them oer like so many nine
pins Thousands of gallons or oetrolcum caught
fire Instantly The Tames wero probably
1000 feet In the air bv the time tho first
alarm was turned In. Pour others followed
In rapid succession
Plre engines, ambulances, police patrols
and other nppatatus clanging soutward,
together with tho mountain of (Jame that
was visible for miles. led many to believe
that tho navy ard had fallen prey to
flames
No sooner had the oil started to burn
than tho flames Jumped across a 6pace of
more than sevent-flvo jards and attacked
thieo large oil tanks almost simultaneously
These went up In rapid succession They
stand thlrtj feet high and are more than
sevent-flve feet In diameter.
The boiler house wns attacked next Be
fore the fire had been In progress half an
hour the flames were sweeping across
Pnssjunk avenue, moro than 200 jards
aw a.
Police were called from all sections of the
cltj. I'nder Captain McCoach and Lieu
tenants Graham. Benners, Noon, Barry nnd
Daly, nearlv 200 bluecoats stretched a dead
line from Fnsunk avenue and Twenty
eighth btreet to tho Schujlklll nnd would all
low virtually no ono to pass Superintend
ent Robinson was there early.
Thousands of Phlladelphlans wero at
tracted to the scene. Many stnj ed through
out the night.
GAS TANKS THREATLNnD
The crowd scattered on many occasions,
when It was rumored that tho V. G. I. gas
tanks were about to explode. The flames
crept dangerously near tno monster gas
tanks, but firemen and a favorable wind
saved them from destruction.
From three different sources It was
learned that eleven men were at work In
the plant when the explosion occurred and
that all had been accounted for.
Jmt Insldo tho gates near where the
agitators and stills, which first caught,
wero located aro two large tanks filled
with chemicals These two havo an outlet
Into a single pipe, from which the liquid
Is drawn for flghtlnjr fires anywhere In the
jard Usually these chemicals are success
ful against oil fires, but this tlmo they
proved virtually useless It was said that
only a month ago a similar fire to the pres
ent one stnrtcd nt the plant, but It was
almost Instantly -stopped by these chemicals
Tho fire was fought by one of the most
formidable arrajs of firemen ever witnessed
nt a fire In this city. There were more than
500 of the company's flreflghteis with all of
their apparatus, and 350 city firemen with
the equipment of twenty-five engine com
panies and ten hook and ladder companies.
The city firemen were under six battalion
chiefs nnd Acting Chief of the Fire De
partment Harry Davis.
PLANT HEAVILY GUARDED
Fire Marshal George'W. L'lllott and his
,m nn tho scene until the fire was
under control. Mr Elliott said he could I
not estimate mo iw uun u. -"
gone over In detail. He also said It vs Im
possible todetermine how the fire started,
as the two men who were In tho naphtha
still when the 'first burst of flame came
we're so badly Injured that they have not
been ablo to tell their story. They are in
St. Agnes's Hospital.
ti. rira Marshal said he neither saw
L nor heard anything that would indicate a
plot. Men representing ma xcjwruiicni. m
Justice wero also on the scene Investigat
ing to determine If the fire bad been start
ed in the hope that It would help to retard
the activity lof tne United "States In the
wan They found nothing which Indicated
a riot-
The plant was heavily guarded. Two
hundred uniformed meh with savved-off
shotguns. w(ho do regular guard duty day
after day, turnqd out Immediately after
the Are started Those who were asleep
k. niiint wftra. thrown out of bad by-the
Big Shipyard Assured
as Row Is Settled
Continued from 1'nite One
satlsfj Mr Penman nbout nil the details
of the two plints. nnd tho struggle became
so bitter nnd personal that General
Ooethals sent his resignation to the Presi
dent One friend of General Ooethals, who Is
familiar with all ph ies of tho wrangle,
said that General Gocthals had been sacri
ficed to personal politics Mr McAtloo,
Secretary of the Treisurv who Is a cloi-e
friend and supporter nf Mr Denmnn, whom
he selected In place of Beinnrd H Baker
It Is asserted Inlluiuced tho President to
bring nbout tho resignation of both dis
putants The contracts ns drawn up, .awaiting ac
tion by tho Shipping Board, provide that
Hog Island will bo leased for nlncty-nlne
j cars, and the Government Is either to buy
tho plant outright or mnko proper provi
sions with tho New York Shipbuilding Com
pany for Its erection It is agreed y this
concern that It shall receive 6 per cent
profit on the cost of materials and labor
for supervising tho assembling of these
fabricated steel ships and that the steel
shall not cost moro than 5150 a ton
REGRET IN WASHINGTON
OVER EXIT OF GOETHALS
WASHINGTON, July 25
Regret Is expressed by friends of
General Goethals that the President could
not settle tho dlsputo without accepting tho
resignation of the builder of the Panama
Canal, who by his tireless energv had com
pleted elaborate plans for the Government
merchant ship program
That the differences between the head of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation and Mr
Denman, chairman of the bhlpplng Board,
were Irreconcilable was apparent to close
observers, and the President, apparently be
lieving thnt both wero at fault to somo de
gree, took the course which would effectively
end the dispute nnd nllow for tho carrying
out of the plans by new men
Mr McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury,
who Is, a close friend nnd supporter of Mr
Denman, whom he selected In place of
Bernard H Baker, It Is asser'ed, Influenced
tho President to bring about the resignation
of both disputants One friend of General
Goethals, who is familiar with all phases
of the wrangle, slid that General Goethals
had been sacrificed to personal politics
A member of the board said that the
Irreconcilnblo point of dlsputo was over the
cost of the plant to bo built near Philadel
phia and whnt tho Government bhould do
with It after the w.rr Mr Denman, who
opposed the Government expending an
monej, nlso wanted to know nt what figure
tho steel would bo sold throughout the
entire period of construction
General Goethals was unable to satlsfj
Mr. Denman about all the details of the
two plants, and the struggle became
so bitter nnd personal that General
Goethals sent his resignation to tho Presl
dent, which was accepted His plans, thl3
member said, would be cirrled out in every
detail as to tho fabrication plants and the
steel ships, as the new head of tho Emer
gency Fleet Corporation Is favorable to
such ships, and It Is known that the board
as It will be constituted will strongly sup
port such a course
Within tho next ten days, ns soon as the
Senate confirms the next Shipping Board
the contract will be made for the erection
by the New Yoik Shipbuilding Company of
a plant on Hog Island, below tho Philadel
phia Navy Yard The island will be leased
for nlncty-nlne jears, and the Government
Is cither to buy tho plant outright or make
proper provisions with the Now- York Ship,
building concern for Its erection It is
agreed by this concern that It fehall receive
6 per cent profit on the con of materials
and labor for supervising tho assembling of
these fabricated steel ships and that the
steel shall not cost more than $150 a ton.
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