Show d MANY ARMY ARr Y ARE TO BE BEj I j 9 t F ENLARGED SAYS MAJOR OTIS L l J I Chicago Feb F b 7 Major ajor General C Otis I commander of the department of the fl t lakes Ikea has returned from Washington when wit he lie has heen en in us attendance on the ns of 0 the boari boa l nailed by the see sec secretary j of oC war to t l consider the Ule needs of tf f ft t t the tile board th tt first in December hay hav having ha hait hayr it r r tog ing been adjourned In order to the t department commanders to report 4 on G o the th needs of their respective du 1 particularly the department department H ci of The fhe second session last burt lasted burti ed four days ays i L As to the recommendations ommen of the tile t t boad boa General Otis said it would not 1 be proper to speak in advance of the im I report to the secretary Sf tar rt or war wat U it Its is liEi 4 understood however says the IcK k that the barracks at Fort Sheridan 1 l w will i be enlarged and made modern in Ini i every respect the United Unite States became be amt a at t world todd power and are re require required 1 iw W er work erk abroad the th tb posts throughout r J the t country have been found too small i for fez the lh accommodation of or the tb regi iii and batteries recruited to fight jug Iq strength li to Fort ShE ShEi I will be bei ether army pouts 1 i lana n many i en enlarged ed edi the work at t the tort fort will m be bett tt 1 i taken at once Is III assured t 1 l 1 me lug to orders front from the troops now quartered at the t tort fort will wilt leave l ave shortly for tor the Philippines Their places will not be taken until the sol soldiers so diers dien ordered from the far tar east have returned In the interim the carpen carpenters tera anti and masons will have haye almost un undisputed undisputed disputed possession of the place The Th movement of troops is at pres PleS j I tnt tilt tit the business of most niost pressing Im Importance imI Importance in this department said aid the I I general gener J All of the ninth in Int infantry 1 t fantry Is to be sent to the Philippines very shortly Part of the th regiment is at Fort Sheridan the remainder r r at Co eo Columbus lumbus barracks so that Fort Sheridan Sh will be denuded denude of troops The T place of th the present nt garrison i ito Is Isto to be filled by the Twentieth which is isnow Isnow 6 now on its way home from r Hl the pines one battalion ha vine sailed tied about the end nd of December 1111 s1 two others oth 1 Jan 16 The post poet po t must hive hJ ve accommodations for a Ii larger lU r gt g i mAn than It Itcan Itan itcan can an now DO take cart can of property properly When Wb n nIt it was ras U built b the companies had an av ay average ayI average I of men each earls Now they are filled ur UJ urto to the full f n Be Belde Besides sides we e have tryo tn light batteries there then thereOn thenOn thereOn I On a peace pence footing the tottery battery has men man Now ow it has It Il will HI be sar to increase e the ac accommodations acI I at a the fort anti it must roust f be done at once |