The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Plan Of War Department contem-
plates Concentration Of tho
EIahty-one Stations Of
tho Country.
SAVE LARGE AMOUNT
Sea-coast Defenses Are tho Best In
the World and Prove Menace
to Any Great
Fleet.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1o.-yorty.
eight army posts, scattered over the
United States, are to be abandoned
and the army is to be concentrated
into thirty-three stations, instead OF
eighty-one, as at present, II congress
approves the scheme upon which the
officials OF the war department are
now working. It Is proposed In order
to curtail the heavy and unnecessary
expense Of post maintenance. The
plan, 1t is said, would save the gov
ernment hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars yearly.
Major General Wood. chief-of-staff,
United States army. is preparing to
inaugurate the concentration scheme
at the earliest practicable date. He
has been assured that the house COM
mtttee on expenditures in the war de-
partment will support the plan.
According to statement Of coast
artillery posts submitted to the COM
mittee by the coast artillery division.
the following posts will be abandoned:
In the district Of Portland, Posts
Baldwin, Preble, Levett and Lyon.
Posts Williams and Mckinley are to
be maintained.
District of Portsmouth: Posts Fos-
ter and Stark will be abandoned and
Constitution will be maintained.
| District of Boston: Heath, Banks,
Standish, Warren, and Revere will be
given up while Andrews and Strong
| will be maintained.
| District of New Bedford: Rodman,
the only post, will be continued.
| District of Narragansett Bay: Getty,
| Wetherill and Keerney will be dis
| continued. Adams and Greble will be
maintained
District of southern New York:
| Wadsworth will be abandoned, and
Hamilton and Hancock maintained.
District of eastern New York: Slo-
| cum and Schuyler will be done away
with and Totten kept in service
District Delaware: Mott and Del
aware will be discontinued and Du
Pont kept in the service.
District of Baltimore: Smallwood,
3. Carroll and Armistead will be aban-
doned and Howard continued,
Division of the Potomac: Hunt
4 discontinued and Washington main
tained.
Division OF the Chesapeake Bay:
Wool will be evacuated and Monroe
maintained.
Division of Cape Fear: Caswell,
only post, to be maintained.
Division of Charleston: Sumpter
abandoned and Moultrie maintained.
Division of Savannah: Fremont
and Pulaski will be discontinued,
Screven maintained.
Division of Key West: Taylor, the
/ only post, will be maintained. De-
! Soto will be evacuated in the divis-
ion of Tampa and Dade maintained.
: Pickens and McRae, in the division
Of Pensacola, are to be evacuated and
Barrancas will be maintained as
} quarters only"
Division of New Orleans: st. Phil
5 ip and Jackson done away with and
;. Jackson Barracks maintained as
t quarters only"
8 Division of Galveston: San Jao
into and Travis abandoned, Crockett
s maintained.
: Division of Mobile: Gaines will be
4 discontinued and Morgan maintained
/ Division of San Diego: Rosecran:
J maintained and Rio Pico discontinued
4 Division of San Francisco: Miley
b Barry, Mason, and Mcdowell evacuat
e ed, Baker and Winfield Scott maintain
ed.
Division Of the Columbia, Columbii
and Candy evacuated, Stevens main
l. tanned
9 Division of Puget Sound: FIagle
u and Middle Point discontinued an
Worden, Casey and Ward maintained
1t Our sea-coast defenses are, be
n lieve, the best in the world" sal
L. Major General Wood to the hous
a committee There is only one thin
r to be remembered. and that is tha
b. great fleets, which cost such a
amount of money. and whose destru'
ton, or even temporary crippling. d.
ID prives the nation they represent {
Of sea control, and perhaps of life itse
st ARE not going up against thes
20 great Notifications The fortidcatior
e. had to be built simply because II the
ne were not there, the fleets would CON
ne and destroy the harbors and shippins