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Show SAFETY WORKERS ON THERANGES Measures to Protect Persons or Animals During Artillery Practice Scrupulously Carried Out. CAMP KEARNY, SAN DIEGO, Cal.. April 2$. How extensive and how i-f-rupulously observed are the measures meas-ures for safety of persons or animals who accidentally approach the artillery artil-lery ranges here is a matter little known, even among the soldiers themselves. them-selves. No artillery firing is done except ex-cept when there Is a "safety officer" with the range "or observation" party stationed out on the range, to observe the effect of the fire, ami another such officer at the firing point. Under these two are other safety worker-Observation worker-Observation points are established far out on the ranges, but out of the line of fire, from which all entrances tc the ranges can be observed. Sentries are posted about the range and frequent fre-quent signs warn the sight-seer that this is an "Artillery range Keep out". Should a horse or cow wander on the range, if it is in a dangerous position, ; firing is ordered suspended until a mounted soldier can chase the animal out again. All the safety stations are ! connected by telephone, so orders to "cease" firing" may be given quickly in I emergency. 1 The safety officer at the firing point i- charged particularly with seeing that the deflection of the guns and 1 . their trajectory and the "height of j burst," should shrapnel be used, are I such that the men at work on the In spite of all precautions, howevi r, range, either as observers or as safety H officers, are not endangered. H there h ! n several times wben shrapnel has burst unpleasantly clos- H to parties on the range, though no one H has been hit. |