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MILITARY ACADEMY 



of the Apaches, and in 1890 settled the Dakota 

 Indian troubles. He succeeded to the command 

 of the regular army in 1895, and during the war 

 with Spain, in 1898, conducted the campaign in 

 Porto Rico with ability. On August 8, 1903, 

 having reached the age limit, he was retired 

 from active service. His published works in- 

 clude Personal Recollections, Military Europe, 

 Serving the Republic and Observations Abroad. 



MILES CITY, MONT., the county seat of 

 Custer County, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific railroads. 

 Billings is 114 miles southwest, by rail. The 

 city is growing rapidly, and is becoming known 

 as a market for range horses, and many saddles 

 are made here. Sheep are raised near the city, 

 and many are shipped from this point. There 

 is a fine park bordering the Tongue River, and 

 an Ursuline convent and a state industrial 

 school. Population, 1915, estimated, 7,621. 



MILETUS, mile'tus, an ancient city of 

 Ionia, Asia Minor, at the mouth o the Maean- 

 der River, once famous as a trading center and 

 for its manufactures of woolen goods. Boats 

 and camel trains exchanged their cargoes at its 

 wharves. It was the birthplace of important 

 Greek thinkers and writers and the home of a 

 great school of philosophy. Paul visited Mile- 

 tus shortly before his imprisonment at Rome. 

 The ancient city was destroyed by the Persians 

 in 494 B.C. but was rebuilt. Near the site of 

 the old city, which has been excavated by Ger- 

 man archaeologists, is the small Turkish village 

 of Palatia. 



MIL 'FORD, MASS., a city in Worcester 

 County, thirty-two miles southwest of Boston 

 and eighteen miles southeast of Worcester. It 

 is on the Charles River and on the New York, 

 New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Al- 

 bany railroads. The population in 1910 was 13,- 

 055;. in 1916 it was 14,110 (Federal estimate). 

 The area exceeds thirteen square miles. Mil- 

 ford is noted for its granite quarries, from which 

 stone is shipped to every part of the United 

 States, and for manufactures of looms for cot- 

 ton machinery, foundry and machine-shop prod- 

 ucts, bone cutters, rubber and straw goods and 

 shoes. The city has a Federal building, con- 

 structed of Milford granite, a public library, a 

 hospital and several parks. A settlement was 

 made here in 1669; the place was a part of 

 Mendon until incorporated as a separate town 

 in 1780. W.L.C. 



MIL'ITARY AC AD ' EM Y, UNITED STATES, a 

 national institution established by Congress at 

 West Point, N. Y., in 1802, for the purpose of 



educating officers for service in the United 

 States army. Earl Kitchener, the War Min- 

 ister of Qreat Britain during the great Euro- 

 pean war from 1914 to June, 1916, and the most 

 experienced British commander, after a visit to 

 West Point in 

 1913 expressed 

 the wish that the 

 military schools 

 and colleges of 

 England could be 

 modeled abso- 

 lutely on the 

 plan adopted at 

 West Point, 

 which he de- 

 scribed as the ARMS OF THE ACADEMY 

 finest military school in the world. Apart from 

 the efficiency of the training given, West Point 

 differs greatly from the military colleges of 

 England in that it is possible for candidates to 

 graduate without expense to themselves or 

 families, while the English colleges are open 

 only to sons of wealthy or well-to-do parents. 

 Each accepted nominee to West Point is paid 

 $600 per year by the government and a daily 

 ration fee of thirty cents, which makes his 

 total income $709.50 per year; he is able and 

 is expected properly to maintain his position 

 on that sum, and is prohibited from receiving 

 money from home or from friends. 



The present era of the history of West Point 

 began in 1817, under the direction of Major 

 Sylvanus Thayer of the Corps of Engineers, 

 when an adequate body of teachers was author- 

 ized, age and mental requisites for admission 

 prescribed and the maximum number of candi- 

 dates or cadets was fixed at 250. Under later 

 acts that number has been greatly increased. 



Number of Cadets. Each Congressional dis- 

 trict and territory, including Porto Rico, is en- 

 titled to two cadets at the Academy. The Dis- 

 trict of Columbia is entitled to four. Each 

 state is also apportioned four cadets from the 

 state at large, and eighty are admitted from 

 the United States at large, twenty of whom 

 shall have been recommended as honor gradu- 

 ates of educational institutions having officers 

 of the regular army detailed as professors of 

 military science and tactics, and which institu- 

 tions are designated as "honor schools" as a- 

 result of an annual inspection by the War De- 

 partment. The President is also authorized to 

 appoint cadets to West Point from among en- 

 listed men of the regular army and National 

 Guard, provided that the total number shall 



