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Show 30,000 National Guardsmen to Train at Camp Kearney fr dt 3 d s3 sJ Artillerymen of Utah Are to Live at Ideal Cantonment DIVISIONAL and brigade commanders at Camp Kearney. Left to right Brigadier General George Cameron, commander of the Seventy-eighth infantry brigade: Major General Frederick Fred-erick Strong, in command of Camp Kearny and Fortieth natonal guard division; Brigadier 'General LeRoy Lyon, commander of the Sixty-fifth field artillery brigade; Brigadier General A. M. Tuthill, commander of the Seventy-ninth infantry brigade. t"lV- -.-Y e r-i --'VSv-Y4' , . i - , , . Daily Disbursements for Subsistence Will Amount to Over $40,000. Special to The Tribune. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1. Utah artillerymen artil-lerymen who are to be attached to the Fortieth division at Camp Kearney will have the distinction distinc-tion of heinjf trained for the front in ono of the most healthful cantonments to bo found in this country. Camp Kearney embraces S000 acres. It is located on a mesa fourteen and a halt miles airline from the heart of San Diego, and less than five miles from the Pacific ocean. The brisk, exhilarating breezes from the Pacific continually 6weep over the mesa land, adding to the health and enjoyment of the troops that will be stationed there. A military concrete highway is now under construction from San Diego to the cantonment. In addition to tbis the camp will be encircled by a ten-mile ten-mile paved boulevard, with seven miles ' of lateral paved streets running to the brigade, regimental and company headquarters, head-quarters, to the postoffice and railroad station, and to the warehouses. 30,000 Men to Train. Thirty thousand national guardsmen from the states of Utah, California. Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona will mobilize at Camp Kearney. They will be under the command of Major General Gen-eral -Frederick Strong. Fifteen special trains, composed of sixteen cars each, will be ruu from Camp Kearney to San Diego daily for the accommodation of the national guardsmeu. Th-. cantonment proper is one and a half miles in length and one-half mile wide. This does not include areas for the hospital and the remount and breed ing camp. The hospital units, involving involv-ing an expenditure of $50U,000, will cover sixty acres, the remount station 300 acres. This leaves five and a .half square miles of terrain for maneuvering maneuver-ing purposes and five miles of territory for artillery and rifle ranges. Tho entire cp.ntonment will contain a total of 1472 buildings, and will cost, when completed, approximately $1,250,-000. $1,250,-000. Tho main sewage trench is 44,0U0 feet in length, while the lateral sewers extend over a distance of 46,000 feet. Nearly 50,000 feet of water piping has been laid, the water being supplied from the city 's reservoirs in the Cuya-maca Cuya-maca mountains. The ' cantonment has been equipped with a reservoir with a capacity of 1,750,000 gallons of water. Camp Kearney is a great military city. It has telephone, telegraph, electric elec-tric lighting, sewage and water systems, postoffice, railroad station, and, in fact, all the institutions to be found in a modern city of 100,000 inhabitants, with the exception of merchant establishments. estab-lishments. It has a theater and well-equipped well-equipped y. M. G. A. The governmental governmen-tal and civic authorities are making every effort to provide clean, wholesome whole-some amusement for the national guardsmen. Plans are now about completed com-pleted to have one of America's largest circuses winter in San Diego for the benefit of the Camp Kearney soldiers. To Guard Against Disease. The foremost medical men in the country have been retained to assist in establishment of the Camp Kearney hospital. Among the famous physicians who will assist in this work will be Major William H. Welch, the noted pathologist of Johns Hopkins university; univer-sity; Major Victor Vaughn, dean of the medical department of the University of Michigan and nationally known as an authority on sanitation; William H. Mayo, famous surgeon of Rochester Minn.; Major Theodore C. Jaueway' physician in chief of Johns Hopkins' hospital of Baltimore and secretary of the Bussell Sage Institute of Pathol- ogy; Major J. E. Goldthwait, one of the greatest orthopedic surgeons in this country, and Dr. Pierce Bailey, famous neurologist and psychiatrist. Colonel George E. Bushnell of the medical department de-partment of the regular army, who was for years at the head of the army medical medi-cal hospital at Fort Bayard, N. M., where tubercular cases aro treated, will have charge of similar work at Camp Kearney. Personnel of Staff. The post, brigade and staff officers of the Fortieth division at Camp Kearney Kear-ney are as follows: Major General Frederick Strong will be post and division commander. He graduated from West Point with the class of 1S80. Brigadier General LeKoy Lyon will command the Sixty-fifth field artillery brigade; Brigadier General Gen-eral George Cameron will command the Seventy-eighth infantry brigade, and Brigadier General A. M. Tuthill the Seventy-ninth infantry brigade. Lieutenant' Lieu-tenant' Colonel John Gnlick . will be chief of staff, and Major Francis Far-num Far-num will be assistant to the chief of staff. Other staff officers include Colonel George Pillsbury, engineer officer; of-ficer; Major L. O. Matthews, divisional adjutant; Major Eobert M. Nolan, signal sig-nal officer, and Captain Louis Beard, personal aide. The brigade commanders comman-ders will appoint their brigade adjutants adju-tants and personal aides after the arrival arri-val of the respective commands at Camp Kearney September 15. Great Remount Camp. Troops that will comprise the Fortieth For-tieth national guard division are as follows: fol-lows: From California, Second, Fifth and Seventh infantry, Ifirst squadron cavalry, First battery tield artillery. From Colorado, First cavalry, machine gun company, First and Second infantry infan-try regiments, First field artillery, First battalion engineers. From Nr-w Mexico, First infantry and A battery, field artillerv. From Utah, First and neers and machine gun company. Troops from Arizona anil Nevada have not yet been made public. 1 Twenty thousand horses and mules will be stationed at the remount camp, located at the northwestern corner of the cantonment. Forty buildings and twenty-five huge corrals comprise this unit. The hospital is located in an isolated point at the southeastern corner of the cantonment grounds. The buildings include in-clude five hospital w-ards eacn 137 feet in length and forty-two feet in width, a laboratory, officers' quarters and isolation iso-lation wards. Modern Postoffice. Tlio cantonment postoffice is 105 feet in length and forty feet wide. It is equipped with all the facilities of a modern postoffice, including money order, or-der, parcel post and other departments. The staff comprises nine clerks. Nc deliveries ivf mail will be nmde at the cantonment by federal carriers. Instead In-stead the mail will be distributed by regimental and company mail orderlies. It is difficult to realize the magnitude magni-tude of the great military city at Camp Kearney until one obtains a first-hand view. A few facts and figures may be r-f aid, however. The total daily disbursements for subsistence alone will amount to more than .40,000. The cam)) will utilize as mucii gas and electricity for cooking and lighting light-ing purposes each day as the city of San Diego. $1,250,000 Payroll. The daily ration at the remount station sta-tion for the horses and mules "will amount to G6 tons of hay, 1-lL' tons of oats anil S tons of straw for bedding purposes. Every Sunday 100 baseball frames will be played by the teams representing represent-ing the various units. The camp league will lie composed of fifty team?. Kaeh day 10,01)0 national guardsmen will be granted leave, :M0 coaches being be-ing necessary to transport the men to Syn Diego. The camp railway is ten in iles in length, with nix miles of siding. The monthly payroll for officers and men will approximate $ 1. 230.000. The motor lorries and automobiles used at the camp total 7j0. Thirty five hundred carpenters, drillers, drill-ers, pipefitters, rlpctricians and unskilled un-skilled laborers were em p loved in con-structing con-structing the military city. ' |