Excerpt from The Messenger, Vol. 14: November 1916 Plattsburg having met with such a success, a few interested people began to plan a boy's camp, founded on the same principles, only adapted to the requirements of boys. Accordingly, last January a group Of school principals and other interested people met to discuss this camp. At this meeting arose the question of a site. Where would the camp be? Major General Wood, who was present, made a suggestion that did much to turn the camp from an amateurish attempt into a perfected plan carried out by experts. How about a coast artillery post? He said. How would you like to take the boys to Plum Island, for ex ample? Immediately every one grasped this Offer that solved the question of where the camp should be. This wholly military island, with its fine opportunities to get close to military ways was ideal. Therefore, on July sixth, the boys landed on Plum Island in droves. The wharf was strewn from one end to the other with grips, suit cases, and trunks. We were lined up in two single columns, and as we gave our names to a man at a large desk, he assigned us to our respective companies. When we had gone to our companies and our names had been taken again, we were free to roam about the island until supper time; or, as it is called in the army, mess. About eight o'clock we were all formed in the company street and placed according to height. We were then assigned to tents, eight men to each; and, as it was about time for taps, we all set about making up our cots. As the work was entirely new to us, we had some pretty poor specimens of bed-making. The real work, which began the next day, was as follows. At blew the most cruel call of the daily programme - it meant onlyfifteen minutes to attach the various habiliments of a soldier and turn out for roll call and calisthenics. These occupied twenty minutes and consisted of exercises for every muscle of the body. Often a short run down the road was included, to work up an appetite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.