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Show Fort Douglas Real Health Resort . Small Cemetery Backs Contention Rules Enacted Against Spboners ii JoAn L. King ; , SPEAKING of health resorts, consider Ft Doug-las. At noon todr there were in rV Douglas , 1118 office and men, including the regular garrison, the demonstration troops, headqnartert of the One Hundred Fourth division and ths tudenta in the officers' training etmo. and out of thia number there wars just seventeen ajck la tha hospital and tsn of these are casuals from other stations who were sent to Fort Douglas for treatment, treat-ment, and not properly chargeable against this post. And of tha eev-enteen eev-enteen In the hospital not ona la seriously se-riously 111. Tha also af tha cemetery ceme-tery proven that this high average all hiallh haa bssn maintained fui many years. Tha post waa established estab-lished In 1M1 and sines that time thousands of troopa have been stationed sta-tioned there, but tha cemetery Is so small that ona not familiar with ths grounds could never find It unassisted. un-assisted. Wita ths training camp In session, ths polo games and the band concerts, con-certs, such a large number of visitors visi-tors In automobiles are being attracted at-tracted to tha post that It has been found necessary to . make certain rules governing tha parking of cars within tha reservation. Hereafter no car may be parked longer than thirty minutes at one place on ths main street, nor la It allowable to park a car with one or more wheele reeling against the curb or aldewalk. nor to park on the lawns nor to drlvs across the lawna or aldewalka except at regular crossings. The numbers of speeding cera will be taken and turned over to the city authorities for action, and no car will be allowed to perk on tne ree-ervatlon ree-ervatlon ou tilde of the poet proper sfter S o'clock at night. This last nsmed regulation ia made neceaeary by the- large number of apoonera who hare been using the reerrvatlon aa cooing and billing grounda. MOUNTED DRILL TONIGHT. Tonight at 1:11 o'clock there will be a mounted drill to mualo by the detachment of O troop of the Thirteenth Thir-teenth cavalry and thla will be followed fol-lowed by a concert by the band of tha Seventy-etxth field artillery. After thla ths enlisted personnel of the Thirty-eighth Infantry will give a danea In the assembly nan. . The officers' training camp has settled down to the herd grind demanded de-manded by the course of study. This morning Major David Cow lee lectured lec-tured to the students on terrain ex-ercleee ex-ercleee No. 1 and this afternoon Captain J. B. Neleon. commanding the First battalion of tha Thirty-eighth Thirty-eighth Infantry, will lecture on the machine gun in attack ; Major Cowlea will discuss ths orrensive I reparatory aurvey of terrain exer-elee exer-elee No. I and at S o'clock a demonstration demon-stration of ths rlfls plstoon in attack, at-tack, with artillery support, waa mads. Ths troops demonstrating thla problem were commanded by Mator Uustave Oonser. Tomorrow at S o'clock Captain J. X. Nelson will command in a demonstration dem-onstration of a machine gun platoon In attack. Thla ia to llluatrate the 1 power of machine gun fire In eup-port eup-port of an attack by Infantry troopa. PUBLIC INVITED. ! Colonel Kni dsen, commanding the training school, hss announced ths! the public la cordially Invited to be present and witness ths working out of the problems assigned for each day. and arrargemenla have been made to provide each apeetator with a copy of tbe problem being demon -st rated In order that It msy be better bet-ter understood by the visitors. I Fifteen student officers registered at camp yeeterday and pssssd lbs physical exemlnetlona. Tha total enrollment la now 7 and It Is n-. n-. pected that K will reach aoout US. Thoss reserve officers In attend-sncs attend-sncs who were not listed ysstsrday are listed below: Lieutenant eolonert-E. A. Froya. Infantry. Majors Frank W. Moore, engineers; engi-neers; Ooelet Osllatln. field artillery: artil-lery: Elmer O. Braduoca, medical CCa"ptalns-Oeorge D. McCllntoek. C H. Retmath. Infantry: Jecr L. Clough. air service; Charles Priest, - "it'sutsnants Earl T. Wight, field artillery; L. E. Vldal, P. V. Hendricks. Infantry. ... Hecond lleutensnts Victor Jrfnea. N O. Breltenstsln of ths Qreat Falle. Mont.. Tribune. Infantry; Fred E. Armstrong. L. W. Whitlow, field ax-llllerv. |