Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29
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exercises with the maximum of snco5
ana accuracy, to handle a cumpanv n,
soldiers To command a slSirmisb drul
To obey the harsh orders witbout O
murmur and he must take a tashlun-
able debuntante's pride in his eyurs
and carriage and become familiar with
all the rule of social etiquette.
The United States government is In.
tent on making West Point the proat-
est military training school IN tho
world. and some authorities claim thar
1t has already won this distinction. R.-
cent improvements greatly add To tra
academy's possibilities, and now n d.
planned to supplement it with nre-
paratorS school to he located on CON
stitution island fifty miles from Now
York city, in the Hudson river Sucb
school would give much needed aid
10 many candidates for admission to
tho academy for the course of in
struction would be peculiarly and mar
ticularly arranged to meet the sneciel
requirements of entrants at the acad-
envy.
The sum of about 100000 is being
spent on improvements at West Point
Elihu Root when secretary of war
VI iSlldtfN a. ppItN vi tNDhlulllE ana
undermining the establishment. and
William II. Taft and General Wright
have continued along the same lines.
Two million dollars more are wanted
to bring up the entire plant of the
academy to the standard deemed ncces-
sary by the authorities. Situated i'm a
spot of natural beauty eXcelled in few
places in this country or any other.
4,
ing crystal waters of the Hudson val
ley. West Point when the improve
ments are completed, will present ar
appearance of actual grandeur. Some
of the improvements. several already
completed, and their cost are as fol-
lows:
For the new cadet barracks the cost
is estimated at s275000: power house,
100000; cavalry and artillery bar
racks 100000; post headquarters.
100000 chapel, 100000; hotel $500,
coo: bachelor officers quarters, $780,
0O0 riding hall S695,OO0 academic
building, 100000; gymnasium $500,
600; cadet headquarters, $275,00O in
crease of water supply, 100000.
In connection with these features 1t
was thought wise to develop the forest
lands of the reservation in accordance
with the latest ideas of forestry. The
former superintendent Colonel Mills,
called the attention of the forestry au-
thoritles at Washington to the subject
and Clifford Pinchot, the governmcHt
forester, at once approved the sugges-
ton.
He sent two of his best men to look
the ground over. and then Professor
Roy l.. Marston of the Yale school of
forestry and sixteen students went to
make a detailed examination of the
place and draw up "A scheme for i'm
proving the lands. There are 2.l36
acres of forest on the West Point land.
mostly of hard wood, 95 per cent Of
which is of sprout origin. Some Of the
trees are $40 years old,
1t has been estimated that the entire
scheme of regeneration will not be
completed until 1872.
Increased attention is now given to
Workmanship at West Point. When
Prince Henry of Prussia attended an
exhibition on the parade ground dur
ing his well remembered visit 10
America he watched the evolutons OF
the cadet horsemcn with particular in
tercSt and enthusiastically eNclaiu oii
"This drill has shown me couclu-
sively that the American cayalNmcn
are the best in the world. In all my
experience | have never seen thcir
equals. much less their supcriors.'
JOHN II. SIMMONS,