A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . commis-sioned brigadier-general of volunteers, serving thus until bis honor-able discharge in November. General Garretson died in 1917. The result of the Spanish-American war, especially our acquisi- ISOS-lDll MILITARY AFFAIRS 663 tion of the Fhilippiues, brought the Uuited States territorially intothe international comity. Our shipping interests revived, our navyexpanded, the Panama Canal commenced to mean more to us thanever, and yet, after Europe had been engulfed in blood for nearlythree years, i
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . commis-sioned brigadier-general of volunteers, serving thus until bis honor-able discharge in November. General Garretson died in 1917. The result of the Spanish-American war, especially our acquisi- ISOS-lDll MILITARY AFFAIRS 663 tion of the Fhilippiues, brought the Uuited States territorially intothe international comity. Our shipping interests revived, our navyexpanded, the Panama Canal commenced to mean more to us thanever, and yet, after Europe had been engulfed in blood for nearlythree years, it seems almost inconceivable that the covetousness andcold-bloodedness of a great .military nation across the Atlantic coulddraw the United States into the vortex. And when long-sufferingthreatened to become national humiliation, if not suicide, the UnitedStates acted as she always liad when resolved upon a course. Military AViien the World War Opened In 1917, when President Wilson declared that a state of warexisted with Germany, Cleveland liad a number of efficient military. Fifth Ohio Infantry in the Stadium at El Paso, Texas organizations whicli had been largely maintained by legislationsupporting and developing the National Guard since the conclusionof the Spanish-American war. Two armories had been built andfaithfully used. The Grays, which had never died, had their head-quarters on Bolivar Road , and the Central Armory, a finebuilding at East Sixth Street and Lakeside Avenue, northeast, wasthe grand drilling center and the nucleus of local military activitiesin general. The naval militia had its armory on Carnegie Avenuesoutheast and Troop A Cavalry on East Fifty-fifth Street. Training School for Civilians Even before the war clouds broke, Cleveland had commencedsystematicalh- to prepare for the coming storm. In the fall of 1915 66-i CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXXIV was organized the Ohio National Guard J\Iilitary Training Schoolfor Civilians
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