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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

���INSTRUCTORS, SECOND CAMP

Front Row (left to right) Capt. L. I. Morgan, Capt. O. G. Miller, Maj. Roy F. Farrand,

Maj. J. B. Woolnough, Capt. P. K. Fletcher.

Back Row (left to right) Capt. X. F. Blauvelt, Maj. H. R. Smalley, Capt. R. J. Gingrich,

Capt. A. R. Gardner, Capt. C. Edwards.

which the lives of thousands would depend further on. No men ever worked harder than they did then. "All w^ork and no play makes Jack a dull boy", and it does the same thing with the rookie.

Colonel Ryan watched the men work, read the reports, inspected the companies and was pleased. Could they keep up the pace? If they could this would be the most military training camp in the country.

They must play as well as work, he said, and they must learn lessons of proper training and caring for their men at Fort Sheridan w^hich they could apply elsew^here. Music, for instance, was a relief at the close of the day. So the Director of Morale w^as instructed to provide a piano for every com- pany. Some hard-boiled old timers smiled the next day when a fleet of trucks came out from Chicago loaded with pianos. The movers smiled too w^hen they unloaded a piano into the company barracks — but when the men came marching in on a cold afternoon and some man who knew how w^ent in and tickled the keys, you could hear the old wooden barracks harmonize from one end to another — and everybody smiled caught the spirit and w^ent to

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