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Details of the Changes to Go Into Effect After Jan. 1.
     While Secretary Root was at Oyster Bay, N. Y., the president considered the approved report of the army uniform board, says a Washington dispatch. The order of the new uniform will go into effect on Jan. 1.
     Among the changes are the following: The full dress coat is about the same as at present, save the buttons are more spreading, with ornamentations on the sleeve and with the rank designated on the sleeve instead of the shoulder knot.
     A new dress uniform is provided, consisting of a sack coat of woolen or cotton material of an olive drab color, with trousers to match. It is intended to provide suits which can be worn in cold weather that are almost a duplicate of the present khaki uniforms. The new overcoat will be a double breasted ulster of olive drab woolen material, and is to replace the old dark blue overcoat now worn.
     General and staff officers are to have full dress trousers with gold lace as a stripe, officers of the line wearing the present stripe to designate the service. The chapeau is retained for general officers and officers of the staff department, to be worn with full dress uniform. A new full dress cap is provided, differing considerably from the present cap in design and trimmings. A new pattern of saber has been adopted for all officers in place of the sword now in use. A full dress coat for officers for evening wear has been provided, cut swallowtail. The old dress coat for enlisted men has been abandoned and the dress blouse substituted.