25,000 EXPECTED A PLATTSBURG

The Military Training Camps Association of the United States, with a membership of 20,000 men all over the country, who have attended the camps, has divided the work for 1917 into four departments to correspond with the military departments of the army. In each department there will be two classes, the senior division, for all men from 18 to 45 years of age, who are citizens of the United States, or who have taken out their first papers and are of good moral character, and the other, the junior division, for boys from 15 to 18 years of age. For the seniors in the Eastern department there will be four camps held at Plattsburg, N. Y., in June, July, August, and September. For the juniors there will be two camps at Fort Terry, Plum Island, N. Y., and Portland, Me.

Captain Arthur F. Crosby '94, Executive Secretary of the association for one Eastern Department, said:

"We expect to get a minimum number for the Plattsburg camps alone this year of over 25,000. In addition there will be a large number of boys in the junior camps, as so far at least 10,000 have applied. The history of the training camp movement shows a steady progress in numbers. The first year, 1913, the attendance only amounted to 222. The next year, 1914, the numbers increased to 667. In 1915 the first business men's camp' was held at Plattsbutg, and the total attendance was 3; 406. Last year the numbers had grown to 16,139 in all the camps.

"The special feature of this year's camps is that it is the first time when there will be tried, on a large scale, the plan recently adopted by the Government of having all the expenses of the men paid by the Government. The Army Appropriation bill of 1916 included an allowance to cover the expenses of maintaining the military training camps, including paying the expenses of individual men for their transportation to and from the camp nearest their homes, their subsistence in the camp, and uniforms."