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 No one will ever know, unless they were in it, how quickly and utterly the men who were in training were cut off from the civil life with which they had lately been so familiar.

Just to show what the Second Fort Sheridan Camp could do in the way of selling bonds. Colonel Ryan called together representatives from each regiment with the following result: The First Regiment sold $1,108,100, the Second $526,250, and the Third $3,02 7,700, making a total sale of $4,700,000 for the Camp, or three times as much as any army camp or can- tonment in America.

The schedule for the seventh week, when the work was practically half through, was as follows:

DAILY SCHEDULE

7:00- 7:30 Drill, School of Company (includes Training in Giving Com- mands, 5 minutes).

7:30- 8:00 Signalling, Semaphore (except 7:30-7:50 for regiment which has lecture at 8:00).

8:00- 9:00 Conference, one regiment; lecture in Gymnasium; other regi- ments, subjects studied previous evening).

9:00- 9:30 Boxing (see Special Schedule).

9:30-10:00 Physical and Bayonet Drill. 10:30-1 1:00 Pistol Pointing and Aiming Drill.

11:00-12:00 Range Practice, to include pistol practice, estimating dis- tances, and use of range finder (see Special Schedule).

1 :00- 2:00 Conference.

2:00- 3:30 Attack, Company.

3:30- 4:00 Conference, on Training in Use of Machine Guns.

7:00- 9:00 Study, Small Problems for Infantry; Fifth to Eighth Problems during seventh week; Battle Fire Training. (Total time al- lowed, 14 hours, seventh and eighth w^eeks. )

7:00-12:00 Inspection, Back Work, etc.

Field Artillery — Seventh Week

Special Drills and Conference.

8:00- 9:00 1st and 2nd Batteries — Lecture in Gymnasium, Captains Sol- bert and Bertrand.

7:00- 9:30 3rd Battery — Harnessing, Firing Battery, Use of Fire Control Instruments.

9:30-12:00 4th Battery — Harnessing, Firing Battery, Use of Fire Control Instruments.

1:00- 3:30 5th Battery — Harnessing, Firing Battery, Use of Fire Control Instruments. Unless at Special Drills or Conference the fol- lowing:

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