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Show FORT DOUGLAS PREPARES FOR CITIZEMf Fire States Entitled to Send 900 Men to Army Port for Four Weeks' In-ttructionrStarting In-ttructionrStarting July 26 With the cloae of the reserve of-1 flrera training camp Haturday. the! offlcera of the One Hundred Fourth i reserve division immediately began making final preparations for the citlsena military training camp, which convene at Ft. ixuglas on July It and contlnuee for four weeks. To this camp all able bodied young men of good moral character between the age of 17 and 24 years are eligible, and to those who attend the camp the government gov-ernment furnishes free of cost to the student, transportation to and from the camp, food, clothing, quarter quar-ter a. equipment and medical attendance. attend-ance. It aleo promises him that If he will attend the camp faithfully during the training- period he will return to hla home In better physical physi-cal condition than when he arrived and with a conaiderabls knowledge of military matters that may stand him In good stead later. The five si ate within the One Hundred Fourth division area. I' lah. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Nevada, aja entitled to send altogether al-together tos men to thie camp, tn quota having' recently been raised trom 800. but headquarters of tha division has not been assured aa yet that more than BOO students will attend, although appllcationa are being received dally in ever Increasing Increas-ing numbers ao that the total may reach 00 before the camp opens, INSTRUCTORS TO REMAIN. For the moat part, the officers who acted as Instructors In tne reserve re-serve officers' camp will continue to act In that capacity In the next camp, with aome additlona wnt-h have not been determined upon as yet. The atudenta will be divided Into com pan lee and battalions for the purposea of Instruction and Lieutenant Frank Barrel I will continue con-tinue to act ae meee officer. This will be welcome news both to the Instructors and the stndents. Ft. ouglas la getting ready to receive the atudents and many permanent per-manent facilities for athletic actlv Ities at the post either have been or soon will be completed. . A memorandum covering the plana for athletic actlvltlea waa ta-sued ta-sued yeaterday by the commanding general of the poet, and In thla memorandum are enumerated what has been done and what will he dune to further physical exercise at the. fort. It ta directed that earn company stationed at Ft. Douglas) construct a concrete hand and volleyball court In the Immediate vicinity of Ita barrack a TO IMPROVS DIAMONO. Arrangement a have been made to Improve the preeent baseball diamond dia-mond and to construct two other fields already set aalde for thla j urpoee, and plana are completed Which will provide fresh water bathing In a pool to be constructed adjoining the lake at the post, with a sand beach and toottom. Orders have heed laauedd for the Immediate conatructlon of an open air dancing pavilion, to be of hard wood, for uae during the summer sum-mer months, and tennis courts, both of clay and concrete, are ordered either constructed or repaired. An eighteen-hole golf course ta now under conatructlon, of which the eeconj nine holes ar temporarily tempo-rarily prepared for use uy the uae of aand green, while the Tret nine are being seeded. Bridle pa tha have been constructed around the pst proper for the uae of thoae Interested Inter-ested In equitation. The memorandum ajates that the post bowling alley ar ready for I uae; that e gymnasium will be enlarged to meet the demand f i the post, and that a normaitcnt boi-ing boi-ing and wrestling open air ring ' wltl be Immedaltely constructed for '.he uae of the poet personnel and tha civilian cam pa. |