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The men represent many nationalities-British, French, Russian, Greeks, Poles, Etc., and all seemed perfectly contented and no complains could be heard. the food was of the best. Saturday was not a meatless day at this camp. The men had meat three times-breakfast, dinner and supper.

A Whole Battalion.

The large dining room holds 650, another room 420, and a small compartment for foremen 120, so that 1,190 dine at once. A second batch follows, but all was cleared before 12.45 p.m. The quantity of food consumed is enormous, some 900 loaves being baked every day, and at one sitting, for dinner, there were six barrels of corned beef, each weighing 200 lbs., and nine barrels of cabbage consumed.
The camp is kept perfectly clean and disinfected twice a day, while all refuse is cleared away morning and night. In the Superintendent's office are medicines and dressings for First Aid, while Dr. V. L. Miller attends twice daily. When a new man arrives he is registered and given two blankets, which on leaving must be returned in good condition or $4 is deducted from his pay.
It says much for the administrative ability of Mr. Smith that this camp is first-class in all arrangements, and the men so well satisfied that noise and disturbance are apparently quite unknown. The men are employed as painters, plasterers, carpenters, engineers, electricians, teamsters, laborers, etc., and all speak in the highest praise of Mr. Smith, who is a big "father" to his "boys" The general superintendent of the commissariat department for the reconstruction camps is Mr. S. Arthur Wallace.