Division Is Ready To Sail.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 3, 1913:
Texas City Dubbed "Camp Misery" by the 7,000 Men There.
Special to The New York Times.
    GALVESTON, March 2.— With the exception of one battalion of the Twenty-third Infantry from Indianapolis, lost somewhere on the way, the mobilization of the division of regular troops here may be said to be practically complete.
    About 3,000 of the troops are encamped on the Government reservation at Fort Crockett, a short distance out of Galveston. There the conditions arc excellent, and the men are-content.
    It is a different story with the camp at Texas City, however, and army officers are still trying to figure out why such a place was selected. Already the enlisted men have named the place "Camp Misery," and the title suits the place exactly. Certain it is that a more inconvenient spot could not have been found in all Texas. There is not one electric street light in the town, the water supply is said to be deficient, the camp sites are on soft, marshy ground, pools of stagnating water are everywhere and mosquitos have already arrived. One of the officers described the place this afternoon as a cross between a sewer and a swamp.
    Texas City is owned almost outright by corporations, and rumors are current here that the Government was somehow persuaded to send two-thirds of the division there for advertising purposes, or, as one of the city officials of Galveston put it, "In order to get Texas City on the map."
    A more disgruntled lot of soldiers never slept in a tented city than are the unlucky 7,000 in Texas City. A protest is certain to be made to Woodrow Wilson before he is President many hours.