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Show ! NEW NATONAL ARMY ! NUMBERS 431,180 WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. The number num-ber of men in America's new national army either actually under training or ordered to the sixteen cantonments totals to-tals '131.1S0. In making public these figures today, to-day, Secretary Baker said that the shipments of clothing to the camps is keeping a pace with the arrival of the new troops. Up to October 2, the day before the second increment of draft men was ordered out, nearly thirteen million articles of wearing apparel and sleeping equipment had been sent to the cantonments and shipments "are being made dally. Camp Funston In Kansas has tho greatest quota of men of any of the camps, its number being 39,533. Camp Lewis in Washington state, is second with D.171, and Camp Devans, Mass., third 'Pith 33,098. Camp Custer, Mich., has the smallest number 16,193. The number of men at or ordered to the other camps follows: Camp Dlx, New Jersey, 19,363: Camp Dodge, Iowa, 20,324; Camp Gordon, Gor-don, Georgia, 22,507; Camp Grant, Illi- ! c lfl nols, 25,502; Camp Jackson, South jH Carolina, 24,975; Camp Lee, Virginia, 27,061; Camp Meade, Maryland, 20.- IH 300; Camp Pike, Arkansas, 24,639'; JM Camp Taylor, Kentucky, 27,402; Camp Travis, Texas, 29,249; Camp Sherman. IH Ohio. 32,886; Camp Upton, New Yolk, 29.555. Articles sent to cantonments for the new men include 1,402,390 blankets; 422,346 bed sacks; 436,749 cotton breeches; 259,805 woolen breeches, 267,579 cotton coats; 204,728 wcln coats; 289,713 overcoats; 4,002,?. JM pieces of underclothing and 937,731 pairs of shoes. All this material was manufactured IH in this country and the quartermaster department of the army announced that deliveries have been made that seemed impossible a few weeks ago. The industries have been completely mobilized for the big task of supply-ing supply-ing the regular and national armies and the national guard. oo |