Governor Lindsey Is guest of Honor at Camp Cody Grand Review

Accompanied by Adjutant General Baca, and His Staff Officers

Saturday morning the 34th division passed in the most perfect grand review ever witnessed in New Mexico, before Brig. Frank G. Maldin, commander and staff, and his distinguished guest, Governor Washington E. Lindsey, New Mexico; Adjutant General James Baca, accompanied by staff officers; Colonel W. H. H. Leweliyn, Colonel Alfred Grunsfeld; Lieutenant J. W. Eider, M. C.; and Dr. B. E. Hedding of Santa Fe. Also Major L. C. Eckenfelder, chief of group of foreign offices and members of his group.

The parade was led by Brig. General John A. Johnston, commanding the 68th brigade, led the review, which is pronounced by governor Lindsey to be the best he has ever seen in this state. After dinner General Mauldin took the governor’s party to witness a very interesting bayonet drill by a detachment, led by sergeant-major Jones, of the British army, who has had 26 months in the front lines trenches and who might have collected a whole room full of Hun helmets. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

4th of July Parade at Camp Cody, Deming New Mexico 1918

Border Post From Big Bend to Camp Cody To get New Libraries

Two traveling library systems will be established by the Library War service of the American Library association for the troops along the Mexican border, Miss Ethel McCollough librarian at Evansville, Indiana, arrived in El Paso recently to organize and manage one of these traveling library systems.

The territory to be covered by this system, which has its headquarters in El Paso, will be from the vicinity of Deming, New Mexico, to and including the “Big Bend” district.

Miss McCollough is a graduate of the New York State Library school and has wide experience in public library and state library commission work.

Traveling library boxes will be built and filled with books about the war, books on military subjects, and general reading, and will be sent out to various post and station all along the border. The boxes will contain perhaps only 50 volumes each, but they will be exchanged between different post from time to time and that in the course of a few months several hundred different books will be made available to every soldier along the border. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

American Library Association – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917-1918

American Library Association – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917-1918

American Library Association – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917-1918

Camp Cody Field Signal Battalion Is Busily Training

Major H. A. Jeas, commanding 109th F. S. B. N., is busy with his officers instructing the 34th division
field signal service. Caption Macrone of the British mission and Captain Metcalf are busy with the infantry and Lieutenant Delash, of the French mission and Lieutenant Fred Jones, has just returned from the French battlefields, are instructing the artillery. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

109th Field Signal Battalion – Field Inspection – Camp Cody, Deming, NM, 1917-1918

Captain Patrick Dunne, Inventor Field Bake Oven, Now at Camp Cody

Captain Patrick Dunne has arrived from Battle Creek, Michigan, where he was in charge of the school for army cooks and bakers. He says he is here to organize the permanent school for bakers and cooks, for whom barracks and mess hall have been ordered built in the absence of other buildings. Captain Dunne is attached to the casual camp, and 53 out of 56 men sent here from the 314th cavalry of El Paso, the 302nd and 308th cavalry at Douglas, as student cooks, are distributed in the kitchens of the same camp for instruction. The other three were sent to the bakery company 345 for instruction.

Captain Patrick Dunne was a regular for years, but came back into the army for the term of the war, was made a captain in the quartermaster’s department and was put in charge of bakery and cooking instruction. He has the distinction of being the inventor of the field bake oven and the field cooking range, both of which are in general use in the army. They are known as the “Dunne-Holbrooke” patent, Captain Dunne and Col. Holbrooke, now in France, being the patentees. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

Bake Ovens at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Camp Cody Minstrels Are Praised By Foreign Officers

Is a Fine Organization and Never Fails to Score Success

Following a dinner giver by staff officers of the 34th division Tuesday night in honor of the officers of the French and British military missions now on duty at Camp Cody, a special performance of the Camp Cody minstrels was given at the division exchange theater in honor of the distinguished visitors. The foreign officers and staff officers of the 34th division occupied the boxes, and at least 500 officers and members of their families were in the audience.

The show was produced under the direction of Pvt. Al Schmeeman, and also manager of the theater. All the numbers were enthusiastically received, particularly the song “We’re Coming from Cody”, Sung by Pvt. John Johnny Maivers. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

Camp Cody Minstrels – Texas Grand Theatre – 1918

French and English Officers Are Pleased With Camp Cody Efficiency

“I am perfectly delighted with the splendid work of Camp Cody officers. Everything is first class and we have received such royal treatment here”, said Major L. C. Eckerfelder, chief of a group of French and English officers, assisted by Lieutenant Col. H. H. McGee and Major S. J. Sutherland, who has just returned from the French front, detailed by the war department to conduct a three weeks’ school for senior and staff officers.

Major Eckerfelder’s party includes Major E. L. McKine, D. S. O., British general staff; Major Bertrand, French army; Captain E. C. J. Muntz, French general staff, Colonel McGee and Major Sutherland being detailed from the American army.

The school will continue until about the middle of July, when the foreign officers will proceed to other divisions of the southern department.

In a very pleasant interview with the editor of the Trench and Camp, Major Eckerfelder said many kind things concerning the 34th division. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – Thursday July 4, 1918

Bayonet Practice At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Things About Camp Cody and Deming – Part 4 of 4

Comfort and Pleasure of Soldiers.

The war department, though the camp chaplains and the great American institutions of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Knights of Columbus, Red Cross, War Camp Community service and the churches operating through camp pastors and representatives are doing all that can be done for the morale and comfort of the soldiers and those who come to line near them. The class of men and women who administer these affairs are among the best to be found under the Stars and Stripes.

Voluntary athletics form a very interesting part of camp life and so father or mother would want a son under better influence along this line that Camp Cody affords.

The Y.W.C.A. has placed a travelers’ aid at the union station to assist strangers particularly women and young girls, in securing accommodations when they reach Deming. She meets all trains. Soldiers who are unable to meet their relatives on arrival, may secure her services free of charge by notifying the Y.W.C.A. when the visitors will arrive.

The war camp community service maintains for all enlisted men the finest community club house of any camp in the United States, and the finely furnished Deming club is the free home of all officers.

The Y.W.C.A. hostess house and girls club house are situated midway between the business district and highest type of service. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Y,W.C.A. Deming, New Mexico for Camp Cody, 1917-1918

Red Cross Building, Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Y.M.C.A Building, Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Things About Camp Cody and Deming – Part 3 of 4

All Real Roses Have Thorns

The Trench and Camp is not violating any “army orders” when it says no real roses grow without thorns, the chief thorns on our American Beauty bush being the fine particles of sand that have to intimate a relationship with the wind that sweeps the Pacific microbes toward the Atlantic seaboard. Mud is always a minus quantity at Camp Cody.

Part of Finest Army Ever Known.

It is a source of tremendous satisfaction to know that the officers who have the great responsibility of administering the affairs of Camp Cody, from the commanding general down, represent the best type of American citizenship which earns the cream of Christendom and it is pleasing to note in this connection that the rank and file from a part of the finest army known to the civilized world. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Camp Cody Buildings And Tents, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Things About Camp Cody and Deming – Part 2 of 4

It is one of the few great military camps in the United States where the men may drill practically every day in the year, and it is a source of great satisfaction to the ever anxious “folks back home” that Camp Cody is right up in the front row of everything that is worth while in army camps. Inspectors from the surgeon general’s office at Washington give us a fine “bill of health.” It is interesting to note in this connection that the war department many years ago established at Fort Bayard, almost in sight of Camp Cody, (the hills may be plainly seen 40 miles to the northwest), one of the finest army sanitariums in the world for the treatment of pulmonary diseases and that all quarters of the globe, a bunch being very recently received from the front line trenches in France.

The editor deems it wise to relate these facts in order to commend the wisdom of the war department in establishing a big camp in this region. Deming is a modern little city of 7,000 to 8,000. 100 percent Americans that always exceed it quota in war obligations.

National headquarters of the war camp community service recently published an interesting pamphlet citing New York city as a very large community; Chillicothe, Ohio, as a community of moderate size, and Deming, New Mexico as a small community where community co-operation with large army camps were given as examples. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Camp Cody Band, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918

Things About Camp Cody and Deming – Part 1 of 4

This famous military camp of Uncle Sam’s National army adjoins the city of Deming, New Mexico, in the heart of the Mimbres valley, where farming is done by means of irrigation, the water being supplied by powerful pumps that run continuously if necessary and are driven by gas engines or electricity and deliver from 300 to 2000 gallons of water per minute to nearly three million gallons per day of 24 hours.

The valley, or rather plain, comprise three to four hundred thousand acres, completely surrounded by towering mountains in which are stored nearly every kind of mineral and semi-precious stone. Extensive mining operations are conducted the year round.

The ancient peoples who inhabited this vast plain in prehistoric ages left many evidence of their civilization the boys in khaki never failing to bring in from the interesting relics that have been buried for centuries.

The camp, with its great base hospital and remount station, and occupies, with its rifle ranges and other fields of military activity, approximately 10,000 acres. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Brig General Frank G. Mauldin – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918