Outing . s of population, thus in-suring the undivided attention of the men to thesole performance of military duty, and enablingthem to derive the greatest possible benefit fromthe instruction they would receive both by pre-cept and example. The cost to the Government of transporting,paying and subsisting for forty days a militiabattalion of 300 men (enrolled, say, at Albany,N. Y., and ordered to join a future encampmentof regular troops at Fort Robinson) is estimatedto be as follows : Transportation, $33>325 Pay, 17,389 Rations, .... 2,633 Total $53,347 It is believed that the actual enti
Outing . s of population, thus in-suring the undivided attention of the men to thesole performance of military duty, and enablingthem to derive the greatest possible benefit fromthe instruction they would receive both by pre-cept and example. The cost to the Government of transporting,paying and subsisting for forty days a militiabattalion of 300 men (enrolled, say, at Albany,N. Y., and ordered to join a future encampmentof regular troops at Fort Robinson) is estimatedto be as follows : Transportation, $33>325 Pay, 17,389 Rations, .... 2,633 Total $53,347 It is believed that the actual entire expensewould not exceed $50,000. The beneficial results attending the detail ofofficers of the army as inspectors at encamp-ments of State troops are too well known andappreciated by both the regular army and themilitia to permit a doubt of the positive and last-ing advantages of the occasional union, upon thegreat plains of the West, of those twin branchesof the defensive land power of the THE CLAIMS OF CROQUET. There is many a person whom ignorancealone has placed among the ranks of those whohave hitherto seen nothing in the game of cro-quet, simply because they have not seen the are ready without any examination into itsclaims to pass judgment unfavorably upon one ofthe grandest games for gentlemanly recreation,moderate exercise in the open air, the exhibi-tion of deliberate judgment and the exercise ofthe greatest skill and nerve that can be foundin the entire list of outdoor games and amuse-ments. Either the increasingly large numberof those who engage heartily in croquet mustbe on the ragged edge of uncertain sanity,in their devotion to their much-loved pastime,a singular infatuation must have seized upon acertain class of men, or there must be some-thing in the claims of croquet. Let us have a few facts. The average age ofthe thirty or more players at the annual contesthas been for several years between forty andfifty years. This removes the ass
Size: 3186px × 784px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade, booksubjectsports, booksubjecttravel
