| Show furU f 1 I u lt ONu j Uncle Sam Teaching the Arts of War to Regulars and Guards Guardsmen I men Alike t GOOD FOR UTAH BOYS TO READ t Military Mutton itt ill Ml II l t tir ir Where i Ii v Iroll I rob ur urn Out Oti Special to the X News ew Camp It Jit It 11 retna Ienn penn Aug U St Incle Sam Sem m le Is making h here re rell ll tile first experiment In teaching the Ihl arts lUll of ot war I to ant and nI RUte tatt l mil mu milIda Ida ilia together l on cit the vast ut platte plane of ac Il actual a ml Maneuver r ramps aI are alt nr nt new either here b NI or abroad lint hut Camp Room nOli veil It Is I more mo than a maneuver tamp It It is a camp of Instruction us UI tell Ill ell ellIt It IK Sr a II gathering of federal troops and national imn from front various states on an alt equal footing to be ho taught problem of ot war ware not nol merely to 10 par Ir participate in spectacular lular battles bettles with blank In III this thin respect r It II Is Isa IsI isa a I departure from Irum the methods hither hitherto to 10 undertaken at Itt military encamp I mont III In the III United States 1 and In foreign forell countries ax as well Ill It Is a step I far tr In advice of any all that hal I has hall ever er ert been t taken heretofore by b the armies of or the I h world The selection of oC a II camp cam site for tor the department of ot the tum was tit the all Im lot Important pedant question that lust confronted the lie war department when Congress au an authorized auth th this Instruction tamp amp With Without out snitch hesitation It was A deduct decided to 10 try tr Mt II MS MIl an n ex with witha a slet leu 11 lo to selecting a ii permanent Letup Imp Pennsylvania has for tor several eral held he UK its annual encampments encampment here Mt 11 Groins Or lna Is III half hnit a II nights ride from New ew C York City Citro headquarters of the lb department of 01 the tit east It II is III located lor tt tin on the Cornwall and Lebanon railroad which traverses the th beautiful Ix It banon valley of Pennsylvania One On steps from the train and end gets gem the glimpse of or tile the camp ramp through the Ih dense foliage folia of ot great rut while oaks oakl HIM tOO and cli cl chest chestnut st t nut nUL trees tree AN As u far lar as RII the till eye 11 can MO see the tile beautiful ful fuI green hill little one rising the theother theother other like Ilk great real terraces are re dotted dolled with tents tent of khaki brown bron or canvas white Regimental flags here and Iud there mark mrk the headquarters of If regulars and ami national guards guarda alike Far Fat over oyer t camp grounds ground of ot the Infantry lire ceo the thelong long I long ni lines of at horses horse on a slope below the cavalry And ami artillery quarters Just JUMI above bote tb these thew t on th the of great hill hiti the signal corps and Ind engineers are alf encamped and antI from the top of ot a giant oak trev ret comet the lie chatter batler of the wireless telegraph u used d dhere here for th the nr first t time In the service Away Aay Aa above all In Is I the th III point of the Ulf camp amp where den On Frederick D Dent nt Grant and his lih hl staff are a quartered J Krom his lili threshold he lie can sweep the entire camp with field glasses classes On Gen n n Grant at I camp headquarter gave e a It comprehensive I an at to the plans scope and purposes of the theCa camp Ca This 1 Ii a camp of or instruction he heId said Mid Id and Is the first we Wl 1111 ever had that brought troops troop of t the regular army Arm and Ind the state troop troops together to learn real warfare IfaN There Ther have ben been am anti nl are now man maneuver COver euver campi In lii tn lh 1110 country nut but they lit are at not camps of Instruction In In th tM the sense I mean insists We to take III kt up tip I 11 the t he ad advanced drills drill lieN here going Just Ju 1 beyond what whit troops troop In garrison are supposed lIpP IMd to 10 learn leant and nd then theft we e nuke nisha hla a lve e drill Ir one week each tach phase pl e leading 10 to another pha phase e forming what whal may in be Ii termed a campaign suit and ending ding on all Friday In a problem which must be b met mid Iud fought f out by II the bet opposing forces forcee which we p call all the blues and ani the th browns brown These forces 1 art are at distinguished by hy having hing rome rom of the soldiers soldier r wear their blue shirts and th the others their brown blou blouses blouse The Th settlement t of 01 the t Ite problem lem urn at t the end nI of the week k whether It be a II sham ham battle five or sir oix Ix miles mile from camp amp or Dr whether it be b a midnight at attack attack tack lark upon the t tamp ramp 1111 Itself In is what may mat maybe maybe be termed d a maneuver The progressive r gm sire sive drill during the week Mil leading up to the problem or covert covers field Involves all II phase ef of Held field Instruction and Is III In Inthe Inthe inthe the end nd what might be bf termed it a cam lm campaign GRANT nA T lIt MT IT In many man respect r l continued continue 0 01 i eral Grant Orant Mt It U is au an u ideal spot for tor an encampment nc on such inch YUI Ilane plane as this thU has hi been pitched On O nee lri but to look at III the roll rolling In K hills hulls shaded as thy they are rf here and there by b great l and sitU chestnuts to lo we see that from a topographical lopo ra standpoint we have ha e here litre hereN N a ct place The Thi water runt runs oft off by b M as perfect a system of 01 natural rain drain drainage rainge age ge a as 1 anybody could desire d That IB 18 IBin i in my m opinion a it great advantage For Por all ail linN lines of Instruction n we wet f are admirably located here at Mt t The Th ground is 55 I fashioned by nature for tor fora a camping place In regard to the pitch pitchIng pItchIng Ing of tents and fitting up tip the tilt settle NUlt menu meat generally It l la is much better to 10 tobe tobe be In a I rotting rolling country like than to bv blo on nn a a plate plain ilia III or orto orto to 10 be bf In a It wild mountainous roan coun country try When General Orant Grant site waa directed to t bring rias out troops from tut iii various rlou par gar I and und fort forts In hla II hi and I gather them at lit tt II Ort he h marched ma hd the th Infantry the lint first m miles of Its I Journey Jou me and nd then Ihn the rest tut of ot the tit way by b train The cavalry and marched march Hi Ml miles mile of It the Journey jour be b before fore tort boarding trains for los the Pennsyl It Pennsylvania vania ramp Imp Here lIer lie wa was 1111 something new n In the way r I of nt n going In from garrison te to fI on crud and I It nerved to reveal reseal I the fart fact that the th State Stat soldiers are ace soft 1 many of lit If them jailing falling oat of f line Un on oat the long Ions marches marche tn Many bores horses alto also nave gave out cut Nothing could hive have been be more mere till del than titan these thee th march marche e Si for they showed that garrison life lit In iii American forts fott and find barracks barrack do donot 11 not lint keep II the lie Ib Individual IMMel I soldier hardened to vi make a I long torn mart march marih h Hereafter ft there will 1111 be many such Mach tramps tramp for tor the regulars Th The department d of the le fast east MalM m on the Ute north anti and orto Illon on es the he south It all n the tM New N Mates ates New W York New ew Pennsylvania Delaware triot of f Columbia West est t Virginia Porto HI and nd Id III it adjacent land The Ii fl of the CO c st t or f r t ti I 1 ti is j n II 0 v n Ii I IJ as U tin the lion tim by b Congress jq is i i nt ut t In dr tie d fray nil all the expense lid ind tw th stateS have h c to 10 pay n I part pari of ot the lion ion of their troops ovir or long This Tills was van w one consIderation that Ihal led to 10 the choice of ot Mt Il centrally ren I II located l as aa it II Is Ii and with ample trans transportation facilities Another reason why wh Mt dt t was adopted was because of or liar Its excellent health record Never er hu hUll hits there been beell beena a II fever ever scourge Kourge at lit Mt tIt t In nil all Its history us as II a 1 military cum camp p Camp Amp Roosevelt hax litts hn been In III operation about a month und has hal len been attends attended by b from to 10 regulars r permanent permanently ly I and by b from to troops who snake make fr there anti there lisa has been nut Dot one rasp 1150 lII of oC serious In the hospital Tim TIll topography of lIC Camp ItOM Is 18 Idl that after several 1111 of fit raIny weather weather which Grant wild Mild would tusks make k a II mK ruMe H Hot of ot many a cami within H II half hour after atler cacti pach rain had hod nafi passed d the entire romp wan 35 a all as dry as its could be br desired d lr I Ilor for lor or drills drIll and Int never neer tins there u I time limo when the tents role because became uncomfortable Ideal surrounding no cm than good have hn made our first ex OJ experiment In combining the Instruction III of or regulars piaN ami anti militia a II big bl success |
