| Show INCREASING S SZE ZE OF fT DOUGLAS Senator Smoot Wires Commer Commercial cial Club of Iem Item in Appropriation Bi BiTO Bill TO A FULL REGIMENTAL POST t If url Arc ro I Ions Wi I ho llo for tor lb Six Com Cotui IIII In rho long Inflated I as to tho Intentions towards Fort seems to have hao bon been It at last In tue tha form of oC nn Item In the tho appropriation hi bill for the tho ex cx or of on the tho fort Cort within the tho not next fiscal year The mone money Is to HO go Into Inlo the erection of moro more barracks Id and seems to be part or of n a pi plan to Increase the tho facilities at Fort Douglas until It I a rul full regimental Once upon I a time It was I a full I regimental pOt post but tills wo II in the days before the war when a regiment consisted of at eight companies Instead or of twelve as aa Is now the c case caseIn o II In those days the tho rul foil Sixteenth tr try was stationed there thore and the tho tl full infantry Now there thera arc nine nino companies of oC the tho nt at the fort tori Inel and Is its capacities are moro more severely severely tested than formerly thc they were wih with the tho toll ANTIQUATED ED BARRACKS Fort Douglas hI has struggled al along n ever sInce alne Col Patrick Connor cr In train the tho west with hil California volunteers and amI mado camp below the tho fled Dutes In Imi Civi Civil war wor days Since tide the war with Spain ono one sot or of barracks his hilts ben been p pit t up wih with modern elcel dIceS and there now live In this I new set t A majority or Of the In while the tho old barracks about companIes GOVERNMENTS POLICY Capt Dryml Bryar If H Wells adjutant nt at l Fort ort Douglas stated today when hen asked 18 tt to the appropriation item that they knew nothing or of It at al the post except what was contained In tile tho telegram rota Senator Smoot to tile the club IJo Ho said however that I If the thc three thre double eeLs or of bl called tar for should lie hc constructed they would mo ma enlarge the p pest at and woul would en cn aide 1 a ful full regIment to be comfortably taken care or of ll It has always to bo be to the 01 Iy Icy ot of tue tho government h he sale said t to buld build tip P Iroil lIttle by little than to abandon It it Last year car they erected n a store house nd and before that they thoy erected a let set ot of modern modem bar barracks racks ThIs Iem item I if ILia it is allowed would Mom to bo In tiu th general lne line or of SENATOR SMOOTS TELEGRAM TIte Tho text or of Senator Smoots telegram to the chub Is ns follows D C Ja Jan cul club Salt Sail I Lake ake City Utah No truth In tho reports Secretary Tar Taft Ind and Humphries have recommended the he building this year of three double barracks Ind and nn an II I on the th beok or of est esti mn tes for oo for tor Both iloth Id ad advIsed that there thero Is 10 no intention or of Iny any change chane nl REED ED SMOOT |
