. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE COMPLETED HOUSE, VERY COMFORTABLE AND QUITE WEATHERPROOF A COMPANY STREET AT CAMP ROOSEVELT CAMP ROOSEVELT By LILLIAN EVERTSEN Hello, Bill, I hear you re going to some sort ofa camp all summer. Right you are. But you see, theres a summerschool in connection with the camp, an so I gocamping and to school at the same time. Thats fine! What kind of a place is it? Why, it s Camp Roosevelt, five miles southof Muskegon, Michigan. The U. S. War Depart-ment furnishes the tents and such things, and thesummer-school faculty are picked from the Chi- cago public high schools b
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE COMPLETED HOUSE, VERY COMFORTABLE AND QUITE WEATHERPROOF A COMPANY STREET AT CAMP ROOSEVELT CAMP ROOSEVELT By LILLIAN EVERTSEN Hello, Bill, I hear you re going to some sort ofa camp all summer. Right you are. But you see, theres a summerschool in connection with the camp, an so I gocamping and to school at the same time. Thats fine! What kind of a place is it? Why, it s Camp Roosevelt, five miles southof Muskegon, Michigan. The U. S. War Depart-ment furnishes the tents and such things, and thesummer-school faculty are picked from the Chi- cago public high schools by the city Board ofEducation. There are four of us boys in a tent. There arestreets of tents, right out in the open. That sounds great! Whats it like up there? Well, first thing in the morning, you hear thebugle-call to get up, and you are up in a We got to have your clothes on right, too—no shoe-laces hanging loose; no shirt open at theneck! Then you line up outside the tents for in-. MAJOR-GENERAL LEONARD WOOD INSPECTING CADETS840 CAMP ROOSEVELT 841 spection, and your commanding officer (hes a realarmy officer, too) comes and looks you over; andif theres one who is nt O. K., they all have towait until he gets dressed right. Then we all marchto breakfast, and I 11 tell the world we can eat, outthere in the fresh air. Next we have setting-upexercises, drills, high-school classes, and things likethat, until noon, when we march over to messagain for lunch. Each fellow carries his own knife,fork, spoon, tin dish, and cup, and after each mealwe wash em and carry em back to our two oclock the guard for the day is re- from Washington and all over the country to seeus. Last summer, Major-General William , of the General Staff at Washington, D. C,and Major-General Leonard Wood visited us andinspected our work. And they praised us, too. After parade, we have short talks by the offi-cers or prominent speakers. Every other night wehave movies, good ones, too, al
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