"Camp Carnegie Great Success. Second Course of Six Weeks Is Announced by Officers. Begins on Aug. 18." The Pittsburg Leader, 1 August 1918.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology will offer a second camp of intensive military training for six weeks, beginning August 18 and ending September 28, 1918. The camp will be located at the Schenley oval in the center of a park of 420 acres, adjoining the institute campus.
Only one course will be offered, which all men will be required to take. The course will consist of bombing, bayonet fighting, machine gunning, physical training, trench warfare, military map reading, sketching, topography, military engineering and military law, organization and administration, open warfare, and everything up to higher tactics. They will be taught the art of making barbed wire entanglements, the building of dug-outs and the digging of different kinds of trenches.
The course is open to men between the ages of 18 to 35, who are graduates of a high school or the equivalent.
Candidates must be American citizens and not born in an enemy's country nor that of an ally of the enemy.
All applicants must submit a physician's certificate as to their physical fitness. Any man found physically unfit may be dropped from the camp at any time and will not be entitled to a refund.
Applicants must transmit ten dollars ($10.00) with their application and forty dollars ($40.00) at the office of the registrar, Central building, on August 16 or 17. Nineteen Seventeen-eighteen students of the Carnegie Institute of Technology will be admitted by payment of a special fee. These payments are to compensate the institution for the subsistence at the camp.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology will furnish cots, tents, subsistence, military equipment and instruction.
All checks are to be made payable to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and should be mailed to the cashier, Central building. A cashier's receipt must be presented for enrollment at camp. Any man whose application is rejected will have money refunded.
All applicants must provide their own uniforms, similar to the army pattern or that of the R. O. T. C. of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. They must be provided before arrival in camp. In addition, accepted members of the camp should bring with them the following articles: One pillow, two pillow cases, three sheets, towels, toilet articles for personal use and at least two blankets. A raincoat or oilskin would be very useful. All clothing and linen should be plainly marked. One pair high leather shoes (tan or russet), army pattern last, one pair of tennis shoes, four pairs of socks, one pair canvas leggins, one pair cotton khaki breeches, one cotton khaki blouse, two khaki shirts and one service hat.
Army camp regulations will be enforced.
No refund on the first payment will be made to any man who is dropped from camp for any cause. The commanding officer of the camp will have power to dismiss any member for non-conformity with discipline, or for any other valid reason.
After having reported in camp no member will be permitted to absent himself from camp, except upon the authority of the commanding officer. In cases of special urgency permission will be granted. Otherwise passes will be limited as a rule to Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
The camp will accommodate about 400 men:
The officers are: Col. John C. W. Brooks, U. S. A., and Maj. Hilliard Lyle, of the "Princess Pat" regiment of the Canadian army; army officers detailed by the war department and other competent instructors.
Application blanks can be secured at the registrar's office, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, or Pittsburg Military Training association, Carnegie building.
Accepted candidates must register at the central building on August 16 or 17 and must report in camp on august 18.
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