Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-11
THE NEW MEXICO
MILITARY INSTITUTE
Eleventh Session
Started With 14O
Cadets
ERECTING NEW BARRACKS
Attractive Bulletin on Roswell
School to Be Distributed
at Irrigation Congress.

Colonel james w. Wilson, the ef-
ficient and energetic superintendent of
the New Mexico Military Institute at
Roswell, relched the city last evening,
partly on official business for consulta.
tion with Governor George Curry and
partly to visit Montezuma Lodge No.
l, A. F. and A. Masons in this city,
he being the grand master Of the
Grand Lodge of New Mexico of this
great order.
Colonel Wilson called at the editor.
ial Office of the New MEXICAN and upon
being asked how the New Mexico Mill.
tary Institute was doing, he stated
that the present term opened with 140
cadets and that was all that the in.
stitute, with its present barracks, could
possibly accommodate and at that it is
somewhat crowded.
The cadets are superior class of
boys and young men and he has appli.
cations for double the number, could
this increased number be accommodate.
ed.
Pushing Work on New Barracks.
The new barracks building, for
which $4,000 are available, is in the
hands of the contractor, who has pro-
missed solemnly that 1t shall be com.
pleted and ready for occupancy by
Christmas of this year. It is three stor
les In height, Of buff brick, supplied
with all modern conveniences as To
light. heat and water and will contain
sixty-six rooms, which will accommo.
date 120 cadets and four officers. The
architecture is baronial and the build.
ing when completed will present a.
very handsome and imposing appear
ance. There will be two cadets in each
room.
The corps of instructors consists OF
ten members and every one of them
were selected with the most careful re.
gard as to his fitness, ability, charact.
er and experience in educational af-
fairs.
Rated High BY War College.
One of the members of the faculty
is retired officer Of the regular army,
Colonel w. s. Barlow, who has charge
Of the military part of the education
Of the cadets. Colonel Barlow recently
visited the national capital and called
at the War College. He was told by
the officers that the New Mexico Mill.
tary Institute had such a fine record
that it was placed in column No. as
to standing and efficiency among the
many military educational institutions
in the country which make reports to
the war department and which are in.
spected by regular army officers
The buildings and grounds are IN
good condition as they have been care,
fully looked after and greatly improv.
ed during the three months vacation
which has just closed. Colonel Wilson
is sanguine that with the new bar
racks, the institute will show a roster
Of three hundred cadets during the
school year which will commence in
September, 1909. The facilities are be.
ing greatly improved and application
for more arms for the cadets will be
made to the war department as soon
as necessary.
Cadets Going to Albuquerque.
Colonel Wilson is preparing a bat.
talon for a visit to the Sixteenth Ma.
tional Irrigation Congress at Albuquer.
que. A full corps will be taken, consist.
ing Of a band of twenty pieces and
three companies OF forty men each.
The battalion will 60 into camp at Al
buQuerque and will also take part in
the military maneuyers that will take
place there. Colonel Wilson believes
that the battalion, although there are
great many new cadets, will make a
very creditable showing and will
prove to the people of New Mexico
and to the thousands Of visitors who
will attend the Congress, that New
Mexico has military institute and a
cadet battalion Of which they may
we'll be proud.
Mess Problem Solved.
Colonel Wilson experienced consid.
erable trouble with the proper con.
duct OF the kitchen and mess hall for
the cooking and serving Of meals
to lao good hungry boys are OF the
greatest importance. The better the
meals are cooked the more carefully
and cleanly they are served, the better
for the health and we'll being Of the
cadets and the more intelligently and
energetically do they take hold Of
their duties, especially in military
way. Finally this problem was solved
by Colonel Wilson sending to Cali
fornia and securing the services Of
Japanese cooks and walters. He has
mve Of them now and finds them very
satisfactory. They W. doodle, clean,
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