The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-05-16
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purposes ard you Will soc that you
have quite city.
Camp Travia is quite city--a city
built up in month or two with paved
ssreets, sewers. electric lights and all
the comforts of home. A city cf 30
900 people gathered from the four
quarters OF the country all live.
healthy. young Americans. training
patiently and waiting impatiently to
get ut TIE Germans who are now de
Nlstating Belgium and France Camp
Travis occupies territory about the
size OF Lincoln Park and you can see
it pretty well if you are in IN auto
mobile and have an intelligent guide
and l had both.
Over. south or east, or some direc-
ton or other-about like Brookside is
located rs to Lincoln Parls--is the re
mount camp, or station, or something.
where are the horses and mules about
10000 of them. wasn't counting
these ia that 100000 temporary popu-
lation around San Antonio, hut they
must be valuable asset to the com
munity. with hay selling Mt $40 ton.
These horses and mules have been
bought up md gathered here By the
u. $. Government and by several of
the countries OF Europe.
Back to the left, as you look toward
Brook side, calmly anchored at ahout
1000 feet up in the air. are some cap
tive balloons. These are signal bal
looms aud carry students, who are
studying the various phases of the
signal corps work and are practicing
their art on the country round about.
You may have read in the war stories
J., f,.,NE nj
trench lines in France and permit the
signal officers to observe and report
what the enemy is doing on the other
side. They look like excellent targets
for aircraft guns below md enemy
aeroplaues above. Follow the line
down. if you can. and you viii find
Camp John Wise, a balloon school,
where 1000 young men are studying
this branch OF the service.
out Mt Leon Springs is Camp STAN
ley, where COCO men are in training.
This camp is said to be interesting be
cause of tho elaborate system OF
trenches that have been dug there.
bot | haven't gone ont and may not
Snd time to so.
All of this-half of this-is worth
coming to see. but probably the most
interesting thing around here are
me aviation fields. There are
three of them. Kelly Fields No.
1 and No. 9 and Brooks field The
three fields have a population of about
10000 people. all in training for some
branch OF the aviation.
Kelly Field No is for the trades
and newcomers. II il n great tent
city. Literally thousands Of tents
and hundreds OF warehouses;, mess
halls. office buildings make up this
section.
All OF the men who enlist in the
Aviation Corps will not fly. Only a
few will A company or squadron is
usually composed OF $50 TO 1856 en-
listed men and eighteen officers.
Twelve of these are Aiers. A squad
ron should have eighteen aeropianes.
So it takes about 100 men on the
ground to keep twelve men in the air.
And they tell me that II keeps them
busy.
In Kelly Field No. 1 the boys are
tried out and assembled rs to trades.
A long line of tents will be occupied
by photographers. another line by
truck drivers. another by mechanics.
another by loborers. etc. This is the
big field where most OF the men live
Kelly Field No. is where the hy
ing is done. and where the flyers live.
The line Of barracks and haugars looks
miles long In front of the line of
hangers is II great open flat field from
which the machines 20 up. f,ere we
saw about thirty machines in The air
and many more on the ground. These
6yers are mostly instructors and be-
Rinners. n machine carries two and
has n double control Either person
in the machine can direct the move
ments OF the machine.
Brooks Field is a smaller aviation
camp where the advanced flyers train.
All the aviation fields are named
after ayiiitors who have died. and the
name of each camp carries a story.
Brooks Field was named after young
San Antonio boy who went thrn the
San Antonio high school. enlisted in
the service, got to be Il flyer, fen and
WAS Killed
Accidents happen occasionally. but
not often. Every man I'm camp would
like to be flyer and every tlyer and
everybody else in camp is rflgiity six
ious to get to France. Danger doesn't
seem to ne thought of In camp and
you hear no fear of lying mentioned.
A youns flyer told me that he felt a
great deal safer in his auroplaue than
ne did In n jitBey on th streets about
town. You look around this camp a
little while aud see how easy Gying is
and sec 80 many up in the air, You are
pretty apt to want 10 70 mp yourself.
Isut you can't do It Civiiians are not
taken up In these fields.
6. u. H.
San Antonio. May :. 1918.
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