Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-24

ally on the hospital. Bathing and exer-
else at stated intervals are compulsory.
With salubrious surroundings, an alti-
tude of 300 feet, giving a delightful
climate, and it is no wonder that the
gain in weight Of each cadet
during the first four months at school
was Is pounds. No labor nor expense
has been spared to make every cadet in
the school healthy, vigorous and able
bodied. The boys have foot ball, base
ball and tennis grounds, a large parade
ground, military drill n hour and a
half daily, as we'll as regular study,
sleep, meals, diet and exercise.
The last year as many students as
could be accommodated attended the
school. Each county in the territory and
quite a number of other states and ter
~ritories were represented at the insti-
tute. Each county in the territory is
entitled to send one cadet to the school,
whose tuition and board are free. Can
Is years of age, and be able to pass into
the fourth grade of the school. Judging
by photographs, the cadets of the upper
classes are tall, handsome, manly n
those who attended last year fourteen
were wei 6 feet tall. 1t may be of in
terest to state that Cadet Otero, of San
ia Fe county, son Of Hon. M. r. Otero,
TJn;toI Stntnc land rapiCtpr was con,
sidered the handsomest cadet at the
school last year. In the preparatory de-
partment younger pupils are admitted.
In order to augment the inadequate APP
preparation of the legislature, a limited
number of boys and girls from Roswell
are allowed to attend the institute.
The curriculum of the institute is a
very comprehensive one. In the first
place, the school aims to give the ca
diets a thorough military training. They
are taught modern tactics adapted to
the Krag-Jorgenson rifle, although at
present the school is equipped with
Springfield rifles. AS soon as sabers and
| artillery are procured by the territory,
cavalry and artillery tactics will be
| taught. The uniforms of the cadets are
handsome, and the officers from captain
| down are chosen from among the ca
diets. The cadets form two companies,
which are recruited in from four to six
preparatory squads. Each cadet is CIV
en- a liberal college education, including
fnIp voors in Nnp1iCh thrpn UnapC in
Spanish and Latin, two years in Ger
man or French, mathematics, natural
sciences, bookkeeping, typewriting and
| stenography, both in English and in
| Spanish. No politics, no sectarianism,
no extravaganza are tolerated at the
school. Students must remain within
the closed limits day and night under
/ the personal supervision Of the super
| intendent and instructors. The school
prides itself upon it's excellent discipline
and moral training. Colonel Meadors
relates how at first students would
quarrel and instinctively reach in their
pockets for weapons or stoop to pick up
a stone. This was strictly forbidden.
Boxing lessons We're given, and when
ever two students quarreled they were
sent out in the field to fight it out with
| their fists. This method has stopped
quarreling altogether, and has devel-
/ oped in the students manly self-reli-
ance.
The corps of instructors is a cosmo-
politan and cultured one. 1t consists Of
vigorous, active men, who carry out in
practice what they teach. Colonel Mead
ors and Captain Davis are graduates Of
the Washington and Lee University.
Major Wilson is a graduate of a Vir-
ginia military institute. Captain Fitz-
gerald, who will be married next
month to n of Tennessee's most
charming daughters, was considered the
handsomest mar and best all-round
athlete that ever graduated from the
Vanderbilt University. Captain Mar
tini-Mancini is a graduate of a school
of arms of Italy. He served in the Ital-
ian army, and is a count in his own
right, being the son Of a well-known
marquis Of Spanish extraction.
The surroundings of the school are
ideal ones. Roswell is one of the pref
tiest towns and most prosperous COM
munities in New Mexico. Round about
and near by are pretty rivers and placid
lakes for boating and fishing, and ex-
tensive hunting grounds, Astounding
with small and large game.
The tuition and board at the school
are remarkably low, as 5000 will cover
all necessary expenses, including tut
ton, board and lodging, laundry and
medical attendance, for the ten-month
term. In addition, the uniform and cap
cost $3.50 to $40, and books and station
cry from So to $40. There is an iron bed
and mattress in each students room.
Each is expected to provide himself
with one pair of good shoes, foul sheets
for a single bed, two pillow cases, one
pair of blankets, n comfort or spread,
two clothes bags. six towels, six nap
kins, six handkerchiefs, four shirts, six
white standing collars, two suits of un-
derclothing, n tooth brush, one brush
and comb, one backing brush, one nap
kin ring, and one clothes brush.
Without undertaking to institute any
sort of comparison, the fact remains
that, up to now, no school in New Mex
leo or the entire southwest ever did so
much with so little within so short a
time, or took so commanding a position
among the people to whom it looks for
support, as the military institute. The
school is wasting no money nor time on
superficial fads. Impossible ambitions
or impractical schemes are tabooed, and
the school compares in every respect
with any other school Of its class in the
United States.
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