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Show MUG HP IS COffiGTO A CLOSE Today Will Mark -the End of the Work at Fort Douglas. WILL AWARD MEDALS C. C. Long Is Winner of Prize Offered by Salt Lake Tribune. With t inspect ion and review of the entire 'Tovisiunal regiment ami tho presentation pres-entation of The Tribune modal for the Inchest marksmanship score, the second place medal and the medals for the members mem-bers of the winning squad and platoon, the citizens' military training camp at J-'ort Douglas will be brought to its official of-ficial conclusion. The review is scheduled for the first period this morning, with the checking of equipment and the balancing of accounts ac-counts remaining as the only work to be dune at the end of the tour weeks of rigorous training. But, although the camp endn todav, officially, it will long ho. remembered y the Cntf-odd men who took pn it in the exereines. Probably foremost among the memories mem-ories which the citizen soldiers will carry away with them will be that of the practice march, the return trip of which wus made yesterday morning. After a night spent in the "pup" tents at Knudsen s raneh, near tho mouth of Big Cottonwood eanvon, tho companies of student soldiers broke camp before dawn yesterday morning, and under the direction of tho army officers had everything every-thing .ship-shape in less than no time. Last Military Maneuver-As Maneuver-As the last military maneuvers of the ennip the regiment was divided into two 1 tut ta lions fur a sham battle en route liume to the Fort Douglas barracks. Companies F, G and H formed the "enemy, " which, under the conditions of the problem, was withdrawing east f com the iSalt Lake valley, which it had occupied. The second battalion, com-. com-. posed of A, B, C, D and E, comprised the defending force supposed to be holding hold-ing the retreat of the enemy until the arrival of reinforcements coming from the north. To make time for the sham battle, and at the same time arrive in Fort Douglas towards noon, the citizens had to put up oven a more strenuous pace than on the march over. And that they carried tho increased gait with but two men who wore forced to fall out bespeaks be-speaks the excellent physical condition of the men after the four weeks of training. The sham battle took place just south of the Emigration t canyon railroad tracks and both sides claimed the victory, vic-tory, though the odds of numbers favored fa-vored the attacking force. This battle served the excellent purpose of im-prepsing im-prepsing the lessons already taught to 1 lie men about the need of discipline above nil things when under fire; the lessons of deployment, of fire control, of getting and keeping cover and using the army rifles. - Men Well Pleased. Many of the men last night said they now thought for the first time that thev actually understood something of 1 he real business of soldiering. Kight after dinner Major General J. Fvaiiklin Hell, who had watched the march and the sham battle from an automobile, called the officers who have directed the instruction at the camp together to-gether to compliment them upon the very excellent showing of their citizen charges. And General Bell not only told the commissioned officers in person that ho liked their work, but he assembled as-sembled the noncommissioned officers, too, aud told them how much he appreciated ap-preciated the difficulties of the work which thev have performed with the highest possible success. General Bell was much impressed with the Fort Douglas camp, and he said so, not only to the citizens themselves at their bivouac camp on Thursday, but to everybody he saw yesterday-General yesterday-General Bell expressed the sincere hope that the expectations of many citizens citi-zens for an encampment of more than 000 citizens next summer would be realized, lie said that the war department depart-ment is heart and soul in the training camp movement and that it will care for every recruit who makes application applica-tion next year. That the Fort Douglas camp will be held next year with even a far greater attendance than this year ie seemed to take for granted. Medals Are Presented. Tho presentation of the medals to the winners in the ri fie competition will be made this morning by Dieuten-Hnt Dieuten-Hnt Colonel .lohnson Hagood, commanding command-ing officer at Fort Douglas. 0. C. Dong", winner of The Tribuuc medal for the "highest individual score made on t he ranges, will be the first of the recruits to he called from the ranks to have the high award medal presented to him before be-fore the en t ire regiment. Long is a member of K company. Next will come the Beaver youth. AYaldo F. -Murdoch, from company "', who was a close second sec-ond to Long. The thirty-two members of the winni ng platoon, also from A company, will be given the medals presented pre-sented by the Commercial club. The winning squad is from F company and each nt' its eight men will be given a medal put up by the Rotary club. After the review and the present a-tion a-tion of medals, the camp will have practically prac-tically come to an end. "With the citizens citi-zens from the eLe-ven states who gave their aeations o the cause of preparedness pre-paredness scattering back into their v:mous niches in civil life, the regular soldiers and instructors at Fort Douglas will have onlv the work of cleaning tamp before they. too. scatter to their posts Pnd the Fort Douglas training camp will be a memory save for the committee which, headed by J. A. Tieevos. is going to bend every effort to the making of next year's camp even a greater success. |