New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-10
EXAMINATIONS ENDED AT WEST POINT.

THE FUy BEGINS WITH AN INFORMAL HoP-sAD
SCENES AMID THE GAY.
WEST POINT, June 9.-To-day finished the EXAMINE
t;ons and the cadets free TO when not drill
ing or Cd guard duty. 1t is needless to say that the
privilege Is not sighted. The hotel Is hled with
women and the young soldiers reyel III the society oil
vivacious beauty. while the watchful mamma talks
over old times with her friend, the colonel Whatever
NAV be the future record of the cadet as an Indian
killer after graduation, he is most pronounced sue
cess as lady killer before that interesting event
After the return of the battalion from breakfast,
Herbert Whipple popular member of the graduating
class was reading paper, and joking with his com
papoHs in the area the space enclosed by the bar
racks is called when his eye fell on the story OF the
snicde of his brother Walter Z. Whipple, oil New
York described IN this mornings 1mBUNn. Inc
sbock was so great that he reeed and nearly fell The
matter being reported to Colonel Merritt, the young
man was relieved IRON his duties a. ohcer IN charge OF
tbe beasts" as the cadets facetiously designate the
new men and at evening parade the adj utant read an
order giving Mr.. Whpple leave OF absence until eatur-
day. c-u. ..oou.or frostor
Arthur army ed from New York, bearing the remains
of Colonel Grover OF the First Regiment OF
Cavalry, L. s. A. military escort met the BOAT az
Tie landing and the casket containing the body was
covered with the American flag and placed on calsSCn
drawn by four black horses. On reaching the piain
the PROCESSION passed down the line OF the cadets
who presented larms, and then. falling IN behind, fol-
lowed with arms reversed. TO the cemetery All re-
ligi0us services omitted
request of the dead and after the cadets had fired
three yoleys the open grave in the post cemetery
where the casket and its contents were deposited they
retained TO the lively music of the drum corps.
At O'Clock the guns at the water battery ana the
rnortars we're fred General Hawley got oct his field
asscs and watched the bombs as they sailed high into
the air and burst the heads of an imaginary
enrmy The effects on the tree-cOvered mountain top
over which they were exploded, must have been dis
astrous in the extreme The great hfteen-nch gun
No. nnsbed and hauled around by the cadets of the
second class under command Of Lieutenant Homer and
ia thunderous report sent the echoes crashing ana
rambling among the hills, while the crowd occupied
itself in irving dodge the smoke and see the balls as
fLev disappeared through the target or kicked up a
cloud of aust in its vicinity.
The Board of Visitors has taken formal action on
fhe facts which they have learned their voyages OF
S;seovery nor have they formulated any of the sug
ycstions whct Colonel Merritt has been quietly i'll
stng INTO their minds when occasion offered, but
Senator Iiawey said to-day that there was little dis
posltion TO crcise the part OF the board while II
would probably recommend some important ADDITIONS
TO the buildings and apparatus. 80
Those i0rorn objects, the - beasts reported l3O
strong to-day After passing their " preiims they
rise TO the dignity of plebs but the last state of
those men Is little better than the first For three
months they are be cleaners OF guns an drawers OF
water to he lordly upper eassmen for three months
they must " turn out their fins" according to the
regulation whereby they are compelled to Keep the
little finger 10 the of the trousers and dlg their
toes into the ground when they walk, the laughing
stock Of the academic world and the butt OF any
ferocous member of the first class who Is minded TO
Jump them. SO many women have arrived that an
informal hop was given this evening. and from
o'clock unti 10 the music and the light Heated out
from the windows in The east wing OF the academic
building through which the lonely sentinel caught
Kaleidoscope glimpses OF bright dresses and brighter
uniforms, as he paced the walk in outer darkness