Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-15

of which it well may be proud Whle
the cadets are getting to know thlnss
about THEN state and It's industries
resources and pe that theN tou''
not learn any other way, partly Tor the
reason that nobody knew them UNI
ill this fair was held.
There are l65 cadets in camp with
zen officers and about twenty-five
cooks and camp followers additional.
'fhey are under the strlctcst sort or
military discipline and he fact that
| there are no prisoners in the guafH
/ house" evidences how Wen they lNV
iup to the regulations.
| Glass work. except i'm tactics ana
athletics. has been abandoned Tor the
iweek they are spending at the state
! fair but the work win be made up
/ later at the expense of the subjects
on which they now are specializing,
so that the balance of the course VIII
! be maintained
The rifle team of the institute Is
competing in the state shoot on the
range north Of town, using the new
Springfield rifle, which is regulation
army equipment In fact, the cadets
are equipped throughout with arms
uniforms and paraphernaha that are
practically those given the cadets at
| West Point
Machine Guns Demonstrated.
The machine guns are a new ana
interesting feature of the equipment
I These guns are mounted on the regu-
lation tripod but also are arranged
to 90 on motorcycles, or to be taken
| off tho motorcycles and used indepen-
IDENTIFY at a moments notice. The
manner IN which these guns are
mounted 4 being watched with
great deal of interest by army Off
GERS because. unless this is IT, no
/ successful mounting for placing the
guns on motorcycles has been ar
ranged. This mounting was demon
strated Yesterday In fact, most oil
the features of the guns We're demon
| strated
The crowds that saw the demon
stration went home with an increased
respect for the guns and for the IRON
Bcrosses that a European power Is CIV
ing its troops for facing them. The
machine gun squad, mounted on the
motorcycles. with the guns attached
to the flat sdeGars that are used TO
haul them and several thousand
rounds of ammunition, first drove INTO
the narshy center Of the grounds.
showing how the motorcycle was able
TO negotiate difficult terrain despite
its heavy load,
When all was ready they were driv-
en- onto the course and down before
1 the grandstand at "A rapid gait. A
| signal from the sergeant in command
indicated the place to halt and In less
than q minutes time the guns were
in action
Get Range Quickly.
A second signal was given, and in
barely another minute the guns again
were advancing" toward the imlgl-
nary enemE. After repeating this
| maneuVer until the crowd got the
hang Of IT, another advance was
made and one gun set up by its de-
tachment The belt OF cartridges
was threaded through the mechanism
and the gun cooked The sergeant set
sights for 5000 yards and took a
flight shot at the dunes across the
river. while another member Of the
squad watched the dune with glasses
to correct the range.
owing to the fact that the cadets
we're exercising all possible care to
be sure they hit only the dune, and
as IL was At an unknown range, flight
shots were fired at intervals of few
seconds, the sights beingg changed
each time, until the dune was picked
Iup." Then the operator squeezed the
trigger hard and with a br-br-brp
away went the shots. 470 Of them TO
the minute until the crowd thought
1t was in a boiler shop and the belt
ran out.
Firing Is Novelty.
1t sthe first time anyone on the
grounds, with perhaps few eX-sol-
? diers as exceptions, had seen a ma
: chine gun firing The crowd was vis-
IDLY impressed.
The camp of the cadets contains
thirty-five tents and is complete IN
every detail from the detached ser
vice chest in the hospital tent 70
: the last ultimate tent-pin. The tents
. which were set under the direction OF
: the institute quartermaster before the
! cadets arrived, are lined up 70 a
hairs breadth and the interior o.