Show GEN CORBIN THE GUEST OF i SENATOR KEARNS Head of f the Army Will Inspect In-spect Fort Douglas VISITED BY ARMY OFFICERS Delightful Serenade at Kearns S Mansion Last Night Mrs Corbin and Miss Amy IffcMillon Are Being Entertained by S Mrs Kearns MaJGen Henry C Corbin the preu enl head of the United Slates army arrived in the city at 1I5 yesterday afternoon af-ternoon and today will review the Twelfth regiment at Fort Douglass and inspect the posl Gen Corbin is accompanied ac-companied by Mrs Corbin and Miss Amy McMillan daughter of the late Senator McMillan The Earl and Countess of ShaClcsbury who have been visiting in this country had Intended In-tended to make the trip with them but were recalled by a cablegram at the last moment TAKEN TO TABERNACLE Gen Corbin amid party were met at the train by Senator and Mrs Thomas Kearns whose guests they are while in the city and were escorted at once to the Tabernacle where a special 01 gnu recital was given in their honor Following the recital they repaired to the Keurns home where after dinner last night Gen liubb commanding officer of-ficer of Fort Douglas accompanied by his entire staff of oflleers and the Twelfth regiment band paid a formal I visit to the majorgeneral of the I army Vhlln th < hnml stationed on the lawn at tho Kearns home rendered stirring music Gen Corbin spent an hour vhs itinjr with tim Fort Douglas ollicers who were received by l their chief in the wholesouled way which tits so well the stalwart veteran S TIEVIEW AND INSPECTOX Gen Corbin will visit the post at fltfO ifilsi mantling for the revicw and In I spcctlon He will be received with all the honors due his station The Twelfth buttery will take its station on the brow 0 the hill on which the post Is I situated sit-uated and upon the generals approach I will give tine imiJorgcncraPs salute o I thirteen guns In the review which I will follow the Twelfth Infantry troops the battery of Held artillery tie tht Twftlfth rutlmoni band will take part GOING TO PAI5K After tine review and intijcction the general and party with Senator and Mrs Ktiirns and a few Invited guests will go by spicial t alit over the Hlo Grande and AVestern railroad to Park City where hey I will be shown through the Silver King1 mine returning in time to leave for the north on tho midnight trnin to which the generals private I car will bo attached The general is 1 not yet mire as to the complete Itinerary Itiner-ary o his inieiit trip but thinks I Improbable that he will go further west than Helena AVhen seen at the home of Senator Kcarus last night Gen Corbin spoke freely of his oln attitude and the policy pol-icy of the Government in relation to Fort Douglas and military posts In gen oral INTERESTED JX FORT DOUGLAS I have always felt a great interest In For Douglas said the general It is j admirably situated and Is real deserving de-serving of more attention than It has received But It is nov the policy of the department to have larger posts and not so many of them and in the following out of this policy I think I can safely say that Fort Douglas will be made a full regimental post In the very near Tuture I takes the same machinery to operate a post of four companies that is required for one of twelve companies and the twrlvecom pariy I post can be run at about the same ye expense as one of eight companies The cnlarfrcirent of a few of the best slt uatod posts and the abandonment oC the others is therefore a measure of economy as well as operating to improve im-prove the service Fort Douglas situation sit-uation makes It a foregone conclusion taLol that it will bo one of the enlarged permanent per-manent I I posts o which there will blue r b-lue extcndinir t act onss the country from west to cast in this order Fort Doug Fort at Denver las at Salt Lake Logan ver Fort Russell at Cheyenne Fort Riley at Leavenworth Fort Des Moines at Des Molnca Iowa Fort Sheridan at Chicago and the posts at Indianapolip Ind and Columbus OhioAN Ohio-AN ADVANTAGEOUS LOCATION Fort Douglas situation is peculiarly advantageous continued the general In view of the necessity for at least some time to come of sending and recoiling re-coiling troops to and from tine Philippines I Philip-pines occupying is it cap a sort of midway between the Panlilc coast and I tIne Middle Vest while further advantages advan-tages arc the admirable climate and the I contiguous producing country from which the supplk ran bo drawn cheaply cheap-ly I Then it Is I conveniently located on the great arteries of commerce making mak-ing It possible lo reach all parts of tho country from this point with comparative compara-tive t casj and dispatch NOAV A BACK XuitB As you arc of course aware Fort Douglas was built a great many years ago and le now what you boys would call a back number and while the details de-tails of its enlargement will not be worked out until after my report of Its S Continued on Page P I j CORBft EAS CUEST I Continued from Page 1 Inspection shall have been made yet I J it looks as though the policy I have out 4 41ir lined will be the one we will follow and jJ I feel confident in assuring you that Fort Douglas vlll within two or three years be transferred Into a modern i l full regimental post As I say the details have not yet been even considered i consid-ered but the large pouts I have mentioned h l I men-tioned will toe uniform In size and character II k char-acter Ono of the objects of my Inspection I tj I In-spection Ig 1 io ascertain how much If I any of the old buildings can be used In Vs building the new modern structures SALT LAKE A MARVEL I 1 Salt Lake Oh Salt Lake is a marvel mar-vel said Gen Corbln In reply to a question I fist visited the city In 1S77 and have been here several times since and I have watched Its growth with the development of this wonderful ti wonder-ful Western country with not a little t i interest I believe too that the city is i about to see even a creator growth The building of now railroads and the opening of new country Indicates it I COREINS SON IS ILL Gen Corbin spoke with fatherly pride and concern of his son Rutherford Cor bin the Vashlrigton correspondent ot j1 the Cincinnati JSnqulrer who is Ill at j1 the Knulnford hotel in this city Young Corbln came here a week ago with the l ii other Washington correspondents who p11 came to attend the Irrigation congress Il at Ogden and Immediately upon his arrival ar-rival was taken ill with a sort of relapse re-lapse of a fever which ha contracted n while doing service In the Philippines I and which has never been wholly eradicated eradi-cated from his system The young mans condition is not considered serious seri-ous however and the father hopes to be able to take him along with him on his return trip to Washington |