The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-11
GUARDING HEALTH
 OF THE TROOPS
MODERN PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN TO PREVENT ILLNESS
 IN BIG CAMPS.
Soldiers Being lnoculated Agains Typhoid-Sanltary Camps Be-
 ing Provided.

San Antonio, Tex, March 10.-C2l John l.. Clem, quartermaster genera of the department of Texas, receive orders from Washington today to SC ceure the provisions for four months for 10.0 men. Twenty thousant troops are expected to mobilize here but 1t thought that half that nun Der will be detailed elsewhere alon: the border after practice in genera tactics
 Officers are not given to discussing their orders or speculating for publi cation rn their meaning. The order: for these provisions, however, is gen erally taken as proof that the mobil ization here does not have drill ant field practice for its main object.
 The men believe they are to SC, real service before long. The heav, supplies of food and the absence c blank ammunition are the basis Q their belief. When the Seventeenth regiment left Fort McPaercon ths men jumped to this conclusion and fairly tore the roof off the barracks with their cheers. The trip here was made iii the excellent time of 4S hours, without mishap
 They found the ground northeast ni Fort Sam Houston surveyed and wa. tered, and during the day city oi tents sprang up. Large tents are be ing used. It took General Joseph " Duncan, commander of the Depart ment of Texas, just "A hours to lay half mile of water pipe into ths camp, despite the fact that there was not enough tubing in town for the construction, and he had to send away for part of it. General Duncan, q square jawed warrior with aggressive ly erect gray hair and merriest ol eyes, is that Duncan Who whipped the Moros on the island of Jolo so thor. cughly several years ago that they have not made an organized resist ance since. Hise present position re- quires him to do some twenty or more things at once, which he does with every appearance of enjoyment This spirit is in evidence everywhere
 The camp is on gentle slope of the prairie. offering perfect drainage The temperature today ranged around 80 degrees. but the air was clear and dry-perfect conditions. the soldiers assert. Rain is rarity
 Also in camp are several billion de funct tyghoid bacilli. They are con tained in the systems of 300 members of the Seventeenth and constitute an anti-toxin against typhoid fever. The use of serum is not compulsory, but many of the men are taking the treat menb voluntarily
 There are three injections neees- sary. The first dose from the hypo dermic needle contains 800 million dead bacilli, the next two one billion each. A hospital steward said that he was glad the tents were not neces- sary for the bugs as there are now l50, ,000, 900 aa0, GOO in camp, with tive treatments to come.
 The divisibn moblrizing here will be known as the maneuver division. Gen eral Carter, who will be in command is due here with his stan tomorrow morning. General F. A. Smith, com mander of the Department of Mis- souri. who will command a brigade arrived today, accompanied by Lieut. enant F NJ. Watson. his aide. and Colonel Daniel L McCarty. quarter. master general of the Department oi Missouri.
 Officers who were cn leave anf were caught by telegraph away from their posts and ordered here forth with in many cases are arriving wit1 scant supplies of uniforms. For the most part their orderlies left at ths various posts are now entrained, and there is much speculation as to what sort of kits the unfamiliar guards lei. behind will forward to them.
 Sherman was right" said enc who had only his second best" witn a tear in the coat, With him. One of the biggest packing houses in the country was five minutes late today in turning in it's bid to furnish mea, to the camp. Colonel Glenn. in jus tic etc the other bidders, promptly tore it up. The quartermaster's office looked like big wholesale grocer, store. Samples of all kinds of edi. bles strewed the uoor of his office and overflowed to the long veranda.
 The Eleventh cavalry and the Tentf infantry are expected here by morn ing. A part of the Third artillery ss A..