Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 8 | Conditions Ideal at Camp Grant, Ill

CONDITIONS IDEAL AT mm, ILL, Mrs. Onions of Salt Lake Returns From Visit With Interesting News. That conditions at Camp Grant, Rock-ford, Rock-ford, III., where the 343rd ambulance corps, known as Dr. II. B. Sprague's unit at time of its organization is, are as ideal as is possible in army life, is the messago brought back to the relatives rela-tives and friends who have boys in this service by Mrs. William E. Onions, who spent six weeks visiting her two sons, who are in the unit. According to Mrs. Onions, the boys are most appreciative of the remembrance remem-brance of La Marraone society, which has adopted the individual members as god sons. The men are modest of their achievements, although they have been doing the work of the camp for some time and have been long ready and waiting to go to France. Captain Sprague is not a seeker after publicity, according to Mrs. Onions, and wants to wait until the boys really do something before breaking into print. This is the reason there has been so little news out of the camp. Since the unit reached Camp Grant, twenty-two men, mostly from the University Uni-versity of Chicago, have been added to the ranks. The unit has been highly complimented by army officers upon its showing and work and is fully and splendidly equipped for field service, according to Mrs. Onions. The men of the unit are being entertained enter-tained by the best families of Roekford and the folks of Roekford come out to the Y. M. C. A. for tho various enter-1 i tainments, which aro given almost nightly. The music for the dancing, the luncheons lunch-eons after dancing and similar features are of the best, according to this visitor vis-itor from Salt Lake. The kitchen and dormitory arrangements are of the. finest and the Utah men are most comfortable. com-fortable. Literature is furnished at the Y. M. C. A., together with writing materials. One of the unique features is a huge j toboggan slide on which performance! is compulsory for the men every night ' in order that they may get the amount of exercise that is good for them. Mrs. Onions 's two sons who are in the service at Camp Grant are: William E. Onions, 23 years of age, a student at the University of Utah for two years in the engineering department, and Richard Rich-ard E. Onions, 22 years of age, who was also taking special work at the university univer-sity when he enlisted and who was prominent in athletic circles as a walker and soccer player.