VOL. IV College Station, Texas,
MILITARY BOSPITAL
WILL BE BUILT SOON
APPROVAL OF LONG DELAYED PRO
JECT IS SECURED FROM WAR
DEPARTMENT BY PRES. -
BIZZELL AT CAPITOL.
After a delay of several months the war
department has finally given its formal ap
proval to the construction of a modernly
equipped military hospital on the Campus
that will cost in the neighborhood of $50,-
000. While it will be only a frame
structure, similar to base hospitals in army
cantonments, it will be made thoroughly
comfortable in every way and will be pro
vided with all the latest equipments, in
cluding screened- porches for convalescents
and sleeping quarters for members of the
medical staff.
It was to secure immediate action on
this project and some other important mat
ters which it had been impossible to ad
just by correspondence that President Biz-
zell went to Washington last Saturday and
his telegram to Secretary Bailey yester
day announcing the success of his mission,
will be welcome information to all College
people who have seen the inconveniences
that have resulted in the last ten days
from inadequate hospital facilities.
CLARENCE BROOKS DIES AT CAMP
PIKE.
Clarence Brooks, 24 years old, former
instructor in Auto Mechanics for the
Training Detachment at College, but who
later entered the Officer's Training School
at Camp Pike, Ark., died there of ^pneu
monia Wednesday. While a native of
Georgetown, he had spent most of his life
at Houston, where he is survived by his
father, Judge R. E. Brooks, and other rel
atives. He made many friends on the
Campus during his residence here and was
a high class instructor.
Friday, October 11, 1918. No. 2^
NINE SCLDIERS DIE
OF PNEUMONIA IN A DAY
MALADY REAPS HEAVY TOLL AS SIT
UATION REACHES ITS CRISIS
—FEW NEW CASES DE
VELOPING.
Nine soldiers, all members of the Train
ing Detachment, died on the Campus in
the 24-hour period ending at noon Thurs
day, being a larger number than had died
altogether prior to that time. This un-
Tisual rate is believed to be due to the fact
that so many of the patients reached their
crisis about the same time and were un
able to pass it successfully. In spite of
the depressing influence which so many
deaths naturally creates, the physicians in
charge express the belief that the crisis
of the whole epidemic .has passed, barring
the advent of unfavorable weather. All
these deaths had been expected for two
or three days and the favorable symptoms
lie in the fact that few new cases are de
veloping and few of the old cases that
have not been serious from the outset are
becoming so.
A resume of the deaths, all among mem
bers of the Training Detachment, follows:
Harold Main, 22, of Stillwater, Okla.,
member of Co. C, died at 2:10 Wednesday
afternoon. He came to College as an
auto mechanic about three months ago and
is survived by his mother, Mrs. George
Main of Stillwater, whence his body was
forwarded at midnight Wednesday night.
William A. Childress, 22, member of Co.
A, from Muskogee, Okla., passed away at
5:10 Wednesday afternoon. He had been
in the auto mechanics school for two
months and is survived by his mother, Mrs.
B. Gregory. The body was forwarded to
his old home for burial.
Irvin A. Carroll, Co. A, 28 years old,
and whose home was at Beaumont, died
at 8 o’clock Wednesday night. Present
at his bedside when he died were brother-