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Show IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST Tort Douglas a Most Inviting Spot. Half Million Has Been Spent the Past Year Beautifying Beau-tifying It. That Much Moro Will Be Expended in Making Ir Most Beautiful Beauti-ful Post in Country. Work at Fort Douglas Is progressing rapidly and within a few more months the post wilt present on appearance at once modern und beautiful. The new barracks, built of r-d pressed brick, the macadamized macada-mized roods stretching to the north and south and the ceinerlt walks which border bor-der tho long stretches of green lawn are n f ft of the many Improvements which strike the eye of even the most careless observer at Fort Do iglas Ami the new o.uarterfl, they have such a home-like. "sy appearance and seem so worm and ltivltlnc: In contrast t. 'he old, cold stone quarters soon to be torn down, thnt the llred visitor feels like going 111 and taking tak-ing Just a lit t rest. Regimental Post. Fort DoiirIts will SOOh be B regimental pest, with twelve companies and a band Already buildings for six companies have been coihpleted, a new guardhouse, bachelor bach-elor ofuc?rs' quarters and a wagon shed. Three miles cf macadamized road havw been put In and approximately one mile of eerr.rnt walks. To do this it hns cost Uncle -m ab."jt 1460(000 and to complete tho Improvements planned It will cost approximately ap-proximately !5O,aO0. Due to Senator Kearns There Is still much work to be done, but when It Is done Salt Iake can boast of one of the tin. St if not tht t post In the entire West. Only half the barracks havo yet been completed, and as yet nothing noth-ing has been done toward erecting N the new ofllcers' quarters, which will bo located lo-cated north of th present garrison and extend on for a distance of 1400 feet. It was former United States Senator Kearns who secured the appropriation necessary to make thes.- Improvements. Old Quarters to Go. This done, the historic old quarters are to be torn down But they have done good erylce For more than a quarter of a century thev have sheltered the defenders r.C the Stars and Stripes and it almost sterns a pity to see them ro. It was In them that the boys of the Sixteenth and Twenty-fourth regiments, who gained such renown at San Juan, found rest after D hard day's drilling, not to mention those others who came there In 13TG or the men vvhn now- live there. But the old barracks, strong and durable as they still are. have served their purpose and must ro. Their walls aro to be torn down, their deep foundations uprooted and every vestige of their existence destroyed Magnificent Vievr. The old burrueWs out of the way. nothing noth-ing will Intervene to break the view of the new ones or the beautiful semi-circle of officers' residences Joining them together. to-gether. The new red brick barracks, with their white porches, stand out In bold relief agaln.t tho rugsred mountains which rise Immediately behind them. They aro Inviting habitations, with green lawns In front, leadlnsr up to lorches supplied with hammocks and Denches, whero the mon can recline at leisure. Within everything is equally comfortable, and Just ono look at the furnishings Is sufficient to convince ecen the skeptical that Fnclo Sam Is no believer In the Idea that u soldier to bo a fighter must be sheltered In a dog kennel. Is the New Fort Douglas. This, then. Is to bo the new Fort Douglas, Doug-las, the old Fort Douglas, with Its rock houses low, uninviting and cold Is soon to bo a thing of tho pnst The new Fort Douglas will bo a post without a peer In the Wct, not only because of Its many new bulldlnprs nnd artificial improvements, improve-ments, but because of Irs natural location loca-tion Nestled at the foothills of the asatch. It ever receives those refresh Ing mountain breezes that Invigorate the hixjy and give now life to tho Soul Its natural location., mountains behind, valley val-ley In front, and far In the distance the great dead ses stretching out like a silver sil-ver ribbon In the jrlow of the evening sun. la without an equal, and has no superior su-perior In all tho United States. Then there kre the fresh streams of mountain water, not to mention tho springs: green lawns and towering trees, which all combine com-bine to make Fort Douglas one of the falrev-t and most Inviting spots In all tho West |
