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Show MllSsS! Fortieth Division Training Station and Other Military . Posts Stimulate Trade. SAN DIEGO. Cal., March 29. The existence of Camp Kearnv, training station of the Fortieth division of the! army, and of the aviation training school at North Island, in San Diego bay, to say nothing of hair a dozen other military or naval posLs in or, near tho city, has given a distinctively military flavor to Industry here. Nearly every tailor is now a "military" tailor and advertises himself to make "army or navy uniforms," shoo stores offer army" shoes, boots and puttees, and hardly a line of business does not cater to the military or naval man. Nor is there any discrimination apparent ap-parent between man and officer. The best hotels here given equal attention to enlisted men and officers having commissions; both classes are to be seen in almost every lobby at any hour. Officers and enlisted men often can be seen eating at the same fundi counter and sometimes at the same table in the better class restaurants ' Quito often, too, the enlisted man Is1 eating the nioro expensive meal. Thro are jewelry houses hero that ' have or can have almost anything v wanted Jn the way of buttons or in-signla. in-signla. One pennant factory has built up a respectable business In furnishin" brassards and insignia for the use ot the rnilitnry and for special bodies, fl such as .the correspondents' corps, fl which are compelled by army regula- fl tion to wear special distinguishing fl devices. H Sporting goods houses have turned fl their attention profitably to supplying fl devices for making camp life more fl comfortable; clothing houses offer fl many accessories to the uniform, such fl as collars or stocks of olive drab color. fl In fact, except for arms, a consider- fl able force could bo equipped from the fl slocks of San Djego merchants and fl the benches of local manufacturers. fl |