Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-07-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.l


are frequently published in the
newspapers, comparatively few
people understand just what the
College is or will be and, with a
view to furnishing your readers an
accurate description of the proposed
institution, your correspondent
called on several members of the
"War College Board and from
them obtained the following infor-
nation:
Briefly stated, the projected
College will have three principal
functions, first, the classification
and development of data relative to
the Notifications, military arm
ament, ETC., of foreign nations and
their study from a strategic stand
point, second, the highereducation
of American military officers, which
will include the study and
working out of problems of offense
and defense both at home and
abroad, this work being closely
related to that under the first head,
and, third, the supervision and
coordination of the educational
work now being done in the "Post"
and Special Service" schools.
For many years the War De-
partment has maintained schools
at various army posts where the
higher branches of military edu-
cation have been taught to officers,
both the graduates of West Point
and appointees from the volunteer
service and civil life. The institu-
tions known as Especial Service
Schools" include the Torpedo
School at Willette Point, n. Y,
the Artillery School at Fort Monroe,
Va, the Cavalry and Light Artil-
lery School at Fort Riley, Kans.,
the Engineer Schoolat Washington,
ID. c. and the Staff snd General
Service School at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans. Their names in
dicate the character of the instruc-
tion given at each. Heretofore,
these schools have been under the
joint supervision of the Lieutenant
General and the Adiutant General,
but it is believed that their direc-
tion can be much more advant-
ageously performed by the new
college, which will itself be an
educational institution and whose
faculty and managers will include
those officers who are especially
fitted for the performance of such
duties.
The War College is not new in
inception but only an appropriation
of S1,250, 900 made by the Fifty
seventh Congress, of which amount
5000 900 is now available, made
possible its immediate organization.
The War College Board, to which
the welfare of the College is in
trusted, was appointed by President
Roosevelt and is composed of
General Young, president, Gen
erals Carter and Bliss and Majors
Green and Beach.
At present the headquarters Of
the College are in private resi-
dence adjoining the Temporary
White House" but surveys have
already been made and plans are
being prepared for eXte nsive build
ings to be located on the grounds
of what are known as "the Bar
racks in this city, and overlooking
the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.
The present plans, which are
subject to some revision, include a
single large building for the accom-
mediation of the College proper,
flanked by residence for the officers
and II club house. The building
now at the Barracks will be replaced
with one or more structures in
harmony with the proposed i'm
prOyementS. \ handsome building
for heEngineers school VIII occupy
a portion Of the site and an immense
parade ground and barracks for
the men will complete what
promises to be the finest and most
extensive military establishment in
the United States.
In this connec tion, it is worthy
of remark that in the policy Of
the present administration, there is
evident purpose to develop the
military organization, of the United
States along lines consonant with
the growing Importance of the
country and % take time by the
forelook and strengthen the often
siye and defensive resources OF the
nation i'm proportion 10 the increaS-
cd responsibilities eutailed hy ex-
pansiOu, sooner or later, the army