The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-13
THE ARMY CAMP.
A Report of the Committee on Selec-
ton of Sites Has Been
Submitted
RECOMMENDING A PENNSYLVANIA POINT
Thus Cutting Garrett County Out of the
Prize-As Last Resort the Fight win
BE Carried Into Congress Where Gar
rett Has Many Advocates.

rett Has Many Advocates.
Last Friday morning the commit
tee appointed by the War Department
to select sites for a permanent army
encampment made its report to Sec
rotary Root, recommending the loca-
ton of the camp at some point in
Pennsylvania. This being the case
the labors of the citizens of Oakland
for the location of the camp at some
point near here or within the borders
OF Garrett county seems to have been
fraught with poor success.
When interviewed by Congressman
Pearre Saturday Secretary of War
Root intimated that he (Mr. Root
would submit the report of the com
mittee to Congress without any rec
concentrations. Congressman Pearre
presented to Secretary Root the ad-
vantages to be derived by the loca-
ton of the camp in Garrett county,
fully going into details and endeavor-
ing to show that by the selection of
the Garrett county site the men to be
placed in the camp could be moved
quickly either by rail or road to the
centres of population within a re-
markably short time, situated, as it
is, on the main line of the trunk rsil-
way of the country and distance of
but 1877 miles by turnpike from the
National Capital
Congress being the final judge of
the location, as the report and all
recommendations made upon it by
the Secretary of War must be en-
bodied in billHmaking the necessary
appropriation for the purchase of the
land, erection of buildings and other
necessities, Congressman Pearre will
make his fight there for the Garrett
location. He is in a position to pre-
sent fully the claims of Oakland and
that he will do so ably and to the best
of his ability there is little doubt.
Contained in a special sent out from
Washington to the press of the coun-
try on Tuesday relative to the estab-
fishing of regular army camps, was
the following
1.-THE establishment of an infantry
station is one of the important recon-
mendations of the board of high rank
ing army officers who submitted their
report today to the Secretary of War
upon the question of abandoning old
army posts and the establishment of
new ones.
1.-THE board recommends that 12-
company post, with headquarters
and band, be located north of
the Potomac, at some point near
Washington, and that the old Wash
ington Barracks, formerly an artillery
station, be used as an engineer school
in the future. Fort Myer, across the
Potomac, near Arlington, is to be
continued as cavalry post, and in
addition will have signal corps de-
tachment located there. The nation
al capital, with the location of the
infantry post, will have around it de-
tachments Of every arm OF the SER
vice-artillery, cavalry, infantry, en-
gineers and signal corps. 1t will be
in addition the location of the new
Army War College and the Engineer
School of Instruction. The nearest
infantry post now to Baltimore and
Washington is that at Columbus
Barracks, Ohio.
SIN the selection of the camp sites
for the maneuvers of the army and
National Guard on a large scale, the
board recommends that the eastern
field be in the Conewago valley, in
Lebanon, Dauphin and Lancaster
counties, Pennsylvania, and embrac-
ing the Mount Gretna section, and
that the southern field be located at
Chickamauga Park. The others will
be located at Fort Riley and near
Monterey, CAL Before selecting
Pennsylvania for the Eastern camp
the board had also considered site
in Garrett county, Maryland.
mo less important than the crea-
ton of new posts and camps was the
duty assigned to the board of indicat-
ing which Of the existing posts might
be changed for the better. The board
has solved these questions by submit
ting table, which, while it does not
any existing post for immediate aban-
donment, designates number of
such posts as temporary" indicat-
ing thas they are to be eliminated
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