Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-17
KING TO SEE DRILL
Expects to Attend Army Ma
neuvers Near Cambridge.
CALLED POOR HORSEMAN
But Nevertheless He Will Take Con-
spicuous Part in Affair.
FREE MEDICAL SERVICE KEPT
Prof. Benjamin Moore of Liverpool
University Has Scheme Which
May Prove Satisfactory.
CALLED POOR HORSEMAN
FREE MEDICAL SERVICE KEPT
Special Cablegram to The Star

Special Cabegram to The Star
LONDON, August 11.-Although King
George is undoubtedly one of the poorest
horsemen in the country, and the sight
of him on horseback cannot he a very
| inspiring one to his soldiers, he has de-
cided to take quite conspicuous part
in the great army maneuvers which are
to take place in the eastern part of Eng
| land during the third week of Septem-
Der.
Travelling by special train from Bal
moral. the king will reach Cambridge
the morning of September It.. He will
spend the greater part of each day of
his visit with the troops. but will dine
In the college hall the evenings of the
18th and 18th
The college rooms set apart for his
| majesty are those occupied by Queen
Victoria and the Prince Consort in 1877,
when tho Prince Consort was made
chancellor Of the university, and later by
King Edward when Prince Of Wales.
The state drawing room will be used as
sitting room. Workmen are now
busily engaged decorating the apart
ments. Sir John French and his staff
will occupy undergraduates rooms at
Trinity.
Nearly $4,000 in Maneuvers.
Nearly $4,000 will be engaged in the
maneuvers. including large force of
territorial cyclists and the army wing
of the royal flying corps. The plan of
campaign is that invading force has
landed on the east coast, about Har-
wich. and is marching on London.
For the first time in England the OPP
Inc min
scouting operations by airships and aero
planes; and, lastly, the secretary of state
for war. as commander of the Hamp-
shire Yeomanry, will take part In the
operations as combatant officer.
Originally the maneuver scheme, which
Is modification of the plan for the
abandoned operations of last year. pro-
jected landing on the east coast but
although one force will represent an in
vading enemy. there will be no actual
landing.
Cyclists to Take Part.
The cycling battalions to be employed
are the 9Th Suffolk. 9th Essex, Sth Hamp-
shire, 9th Yorkshire, 7th Devon. 1th
Welsh and the 18th County of London
from Putney. Each and all of these will
cycle from their headquarters to the
maneuver area, journey which, in the
case OF the Welsh regiment. will occupy
five days. The ride and the subsequent
operations will furnish some test of the
usefulness of cyclists in masses on active
service.
The Royal Flying Corps, too. will un-
dergo It's first trial under service condi-
tons. The two dirigibles, Beta and Gam
ma, VIII be allotted one to either force
While the aeropiane .squadrons will be
equally divided between the two.
The nearness of the maneuvers area to
London, the presence of the king and
the trial of the aerial scouts will prob
ably draw large crowds to Cambridge and
It's environs, and with this prospect in
view the military regulations concerning
traffic and sightseers will be even more
stringent than in former years.
Plan for Free Medical Service.
Free doctors for men, women and chill
.dren is the object of a new scheme which
Prof. Benjamin Moore of the Liverpool
University suggests can be worked in
conjunction with the insurance service. to
be administered by a board of health,
under minister of public health, with
abinet rank. assisted by expert medical
advisers. The whole profession, he sug-
gests. should be organized on the lines
of other state services.
An association has been formed with
the idea of promoting these objects. which
are supported by a large and influential
body of medical practitioners and many
public health officers.
I'VE are not a political association
Prof. Moore empha sized to an interviewer
yesterday.
Il am in favor of the insurance act.
Each doctor under our scheme would be
a minister of health just in the same way
as a clergyman is supposed to be a minis
ter of grace. Private practice will exist
as hitherto and be paid for, not by the
individual, but by the state. You would
200 no nai a iiCt hNr T..
taching him to "A hospital, and it would
be necessary, in the interests of the mid
die and upper ella sses. to allow specialists
attached to hospitals a certain amount of
freedom for private work.
The objects of the association were
framed before the inception of the insur-
ance act. 1t is further proposed that all
hospitals should be nationalized.
Collecting Ancient Implements.
The prison authorities at the home Office
are making efforts to collect, for the pur-
pose of an international exhibition, an
cient implements used in prisons and old
documents relating to them, together
with any skilled work performed by con-
yicts during their Incarceration.
Last wear some prison cells. believed to
date back to the time of Charles IL. We're
removed from WellcloSe square, White
chapel, where they were being used as
..desshouse" to the London Museum at
|Kensington Palace. The walls are strong
Nv built of oak, thickly studded with six
inch bolts, which secure them to a kind
of cagework of hoop iron. The letters in
which prisoners were manacled are fixed
i'm the walls Scores OF names. dates and
Inscriptions have been cut into the oak,
some of the latter being very quaint The
earliest that has been deciphered is dated
1893.
Many of the relics of Newgate We're dis
persed when the prison was pulled down
for the building of the new Bailey, but
they have of course, been preserved.
They include the pillory, letters and the
condemned cell, though the last would
probably not be available for exhibition
purposes
Skilled work in prison is rather a wide
term. There used 10 be a great deal of
skilled labor until it was prohibited, as
being in unfair competition with free in
dustry At Wakefield prison there was
at one time a costly plant for mat-mak-
| ing 6,U prisoners were engaged in the
| Industry, and the net profits on their Ia
Dor amounted to more than $4,000.
"Holy Rollers" Increasing.