formation of a forest into a great
military camp In four months is one
of the achievements of which the
American Corps of Engineers boasts.
Early in February. Camp Allen A.
Humphreys, at llelvoir. Va., was virt
ually unknown. Hut American engin
eers were put on the jolt and today it
is a thriving, pulsating camp, a great
city in itself, housing some 17,000 men,
and growing day by day until by
August it will accommodate 30,000.
Camp Humphreys, named for the
first chief of engineers of the United
States army, is some twenty miles
south of Washington, just below the
town of Acotink, Va. Its confines cover
the historic Lord Fairfax tract; to
one side is Mount Vernon, home of
George Washington, and ini the other
diriction is Gunsten Hall, plantation
and typical southern home of George
Mason, illustrious Virginian, author
of the Hill of Lights, the famous doc
ument which Thomas Jefferson made
the cornerstone of the Declaration of
Independence. Camp Humphreys is
peeuliarilv adapted for an engineering
training school In the hills and val
leys \merieas citizen-soldiers arc tun
nelling, mining, ipiarrying, excavating,
titling themselves for work on foreign
bat l lel'ields
The lamp is tho only engineering
replacement camp in the country, ami
it is here the vast supply of engineers
is to he kept, upon which tleneral
J’ersbing will call for men to expand
and replace engineer units working
with the American overseas forces.
Already replacement units have been
sent across. Karly in June L\r>00 men
trained in all branches of engineer
ing work were sent to Pershing The
vamp can train, equip and dis: 'itch
men to France at the rate of )Jh.
a month
Washington newspaper correspond-^
cuts recently were guests of the Corps j
of l.ngtneers on an inspection '-rip,
to the camp amt its vicinity. Kvtryj
detail of the work was explained to I
them hy headq t.irters officers of tltj|
staff of Lieutenant Colonel Richard
J :nk. C S. A., an engineer of engtn
♦pi s who hits liceti placed in eh. me
of the greatest replacement camp
Seventeen thousand men are at the
( ..nip at present, moat of them drafted
in,m, inil new ones are arriving from
civil Lie evi ry day. There is a con
tinual ebb and flow of troops, mm
In iny sent across the Atlanti as last
as they can In- accommodated in
Fram e, and new ones arriving to take
their places at tin- schools. Kva
after the war it is the government >
intention to make <Limp Humphit - a
permanent training camp for engi
; S, mi all W rk i- being done with
that scheme in mind.
(.Me it thi most interesting features
ol Camp llcmphi -vs is the light coin
hat railway wlm-h lias been con
stun ted lot the irrying of applies
through the lo.-c vati.ui, as well as
for naming im-n in the construeti'»>
iqiiiatiou ar.d m n'-tuiuce ol battle
line rahroadi sixty-centimeter.
I,.11 low ■ .iUgc ro, twelve miles ill
1cm ih. -iinil.tr .lie French roads.
, ,, i in camp and all day I rains
,, j fiat cats and gondolas run hack
ami tiirt li with const ruction material
, s';i In--. Tin- locomotives are
I gilt especially for foreign service,
lot the jtovvei . laraished l»> lour
< slimier. Ilrtv horsepow er gasoline mo
; . IVI '.I trained are lhe Hum
p| lev,-, engineers that the • oiistrue
n.'ii gangs ran lay track at the rale
of half a mile a day
’rties*’ railway:- win i"' lusen
K.uiHt' with the railroad engineers,
;11)*1 it will not be long before they will
he running from the rear lines to the
tront, loaded with shot and shell and
funs for American Infantry and artil
lery. As rapidly as the battle line
changes the combat railway can be
moved to conform with it.
All phases of engineering are
taught at the camp. When the re
cruit arrives he is put through the
three principal schools—the supper,
gas defense and pontoon schools, in
order that he may get the rudiments
of the engineers’ work. If he is found
to possess special qualifications or
technical ability he is sent through
one or more of the following supple
mentary courses: Highway and
trench construction, railroad con
Btriiction and operation, water supply
work, forestry, animal transportation
camouflage, surveying, map produc
tlon, electric Viring. reclamation, gas
and flame, gas offense, mining, quar
rying, bridge building, trestle worV
and others.
i
On the correspondents’ inspection
trip three regiments of halfstrength
were marched in review approxl*.
impel; 7.' • ' soldiers filing past the
cnir.iii.'M dan*, his staff and guests,
with healthy stride* and military bear
1 ing. marching to lively music of the
ramp hand. In the outfit was one
'regiment whose drilling was espe
cially attrac tive. With snap and pre
eision. the* men of this regiment
1 marched across the parade* ground,
heads high, eyes front men who
eight days before were engaged in
civil pursuits. They were the latest
arrivals, and eight clays after they
had answered the* nation's call for.
men these young Americans were, to
the civilian eye, a trained outfit ol
American engineers, apparently ready
to face the foe, to do or die for the
freedom of the world. Negro troops;
! of the* service battalion also com
i manded the* attention of the specta
tors.
When a man has been graduated
from ('amp Humphreys and is sent
abroad he is an engineer in the? strict
est sense of the word. He is more
than an ordinary soldier he is an
J expert In his line, the best engineer!
Ills officers can make him. and Ills I
officers arc* the* pick of the* engineer
department West Pointers and civil
ian engineers who have “joined up
so the country may have* the* benefit
of their knowledge and practical ex
perience.
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