Milford chronicle., 1911-12-01

ad e MISS EtD6l heeSe OF harrington
e, and Miss Pauline Townsend, of Nj
ford, Delaware, have been visitin
e in the middle west for two month:
" and previous letters from them hay
K. been published in the Chronicle, civ
IS ing their impressions of the countr
T. and the people they have met)-Eo
r Our trip into eastern Kansas ha
g been only along the very eastern
IS most side, and we realize that tn
+ season is just little too late to SCI
Kansas at its best, and we hope tina
t, sometime in the future we may hav,
, an opportunity to see more of thi:
+ rich and important State. From
:. Kansas City to LeavenwOrth, Kan.
r sas, is rather an interesting ride by
either trolley or railroad. The
country is hillv and rolling, but not
what is generally termed mountain
, Gus. At Leavenworth is one of the
most important, if not the most
important, Army Posts in the United
States. 1t is here that the great
federal prisons are located, and also
where the greatest military training
schools for officers is maintained.
| am sending you in series, a set of
post cards showing the grounds, the
buildings and the places of interest
in and about the United States Gov
ernment reserve. The first place
we visited was the Army Service
SchOOl,at Fort Leavenworth. We
went through the class rooms, the
officers rooms, etc. The building
Is known as Grant and Sheridan
Hall, and it has a splendid large
green in front with cannons placed
in many positions about it. Our
next point was the hospital YOU
will note from the picture the spac-
ious building with its two wings,
three stories high, and surrounded
with double piazzas. 1t is a brick
but about it you will note |
that there are tents pitched l am |
:
told that in these tents all patients
who are effected with tuberculosis.
are compelled to sleep. This hos I
pital is for the enlisted men. for the [
officers and any member Of their
.amily.
The drill field is a magnificent T
plain, around and across which fine
made trees, beautifully trimmed 5
ire kept to afford shade. / did not 3
zee many of the infantry drilling.
,ut we were fortunate in seeing the L
ayalry drill. It was beautiful
ight indeed The men mounted
heir horses while they were at a
all gallop, but even then the lines L
5 they swept across the great field
'ere straight. 1t was worth the
nip to see the dexterity of the men
nd the wonderfully trained horses
o heir work.
We went through the engineering :
epartment the superintendent's
ONE and other places, but we could
0t get post card views of them, but
'erything was kept on the same hi
gh-class condition that the United he
ates keeps over all its property. wi
On our way back we stopped at H'
e soldiers home, and it is GER pu %,
inly beautiful place for the old aft
ldier to pass the remaining part at
his life. am glad that we came
Leavenworth, although if / had Fr
ID a letter from you as Command An
g our Delaware Regiment. | am inc
re we would have had more of the pre-
ung officers to show us the sights s;J S;J
We leave on Wednesday for Tex Mr
Kama, so as to be there for Thanks lee
ing and be in time for fhe annual Mr.
i given there that night, which cisl ,i,s
ICY assures us is the grandest so chi
] affair Of their season. The ride coh
'Oss Missouri and down across 10
, western edge Of Arkansas. will bns iol
between three and four hundred tain
les, during which we will cross be
Arkansas River, the Red River Lor
the south and through the Ozark 1os1 II
pie growing country. l am told buy
t the part of Arkansas we will T
IS through, is not the most fertile dell
t of that State, but | will write OaI I
/ from Texarkana. Mar
PAULINE TOWNSEND. H