New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-13
STATE CAMP CROWDED.
OVER 900 MEN CHARTERED THERE.
THIS BEATS ALL PREVIOUS RECoRDs-DR
TERRY,s sFRMoN-MANY VISITORS.

It1S BEATS ALL PREVIOUS htNONOS- I'm"
TERRY's sERMoN-MANY VISITORS.
State Camp, Peekskill n. Y, July II Especially
Never before In the history Of the State Camp have
there been many soldiers here were ousrtered IN
the place to-day. The 10Th Regiment brought along
more men than were expected with that organization
and four goodszed separate companies came 10 MAKE
up the provisional battalion. According to the
morning reports there were 93s men IN camp, Do
side the army OF Walters and other employees az 'ne
mess,hal. These figures include the eighteen ohcers
and orderles at State headquarters NUMBER Oh
men arrived nv train today who were hot included
in the morning report and tomorrow mornings
figures viii be still larger Nearly every tent mas
three men in it, and In Of them, In the part Vi
the camp occupied by the 18th Regiment tnere are
four At dress parade the line reached nom 'he
officers messhaI across the wide parade ground close
up 10 the blun at the north side Of the camp grounds
According to the figures at the post adluushcs
Office the only other time when there was anywhere
near the number Of men in camp that there are no"
was last year, when twelve separate companies Weo
doing duty as a provisional battalion Az tnst uue
there were only s54 men, including the soders ana
the band.
The sun got back to nearly his old form again to-day
and sent the mercury bounding toward the top OF
the tube 1t registered % degrees in the shade shortly
before O'Clock this afternoon, and the men were
happy in the knowledge that there was no outdoor
work 10 do.
The Rev. DR.. Roderck Terry, Of the South Re
formed Church, at Madisonave. and Tmrtyeighth-st,
"a chaplain Of the REGIMENT and he. conducted the
church services the bluff at the end OF Luxury now
this morning. He took for his text Nehemiah w. T.
HIS sermon short and entirely exempore' fio
said that the who built the wall about Jerusalem
carried weapon in hand and tools In the othef'
That was the way he told his hearers that they must
build their characters They must protect the part
which was finished while they added new material TO
the old stock. "And You must keep your characters
well 'policed,' he continued "You must not let
the rubbish accumulate. II you should allow INC
burnt matches and cigar stubs to remain in the COM
pany streets there would be such accumulation
of rubbish that the camp would be uninhaeitaoie'
When you find that any burnt matches or cigar stubs
have become mbedded into your character, quickly
police them. Look down Of those company
Streets and how clean 1t Is. Have your character
In the condition, so when the inspector
comes along as Colonel McGrath goes through
tho company streets, you viii not be afrala
10 throw back the flaps of the tent
covering your character and say: Look there Mr.
Inspector, and see how well polced it is announcer
point which I wish 10 impress upon your mhos is
that IL is grand and glorious TO help man 70 DC
better, but DO not know of a greater crime than
TO help man to be worse =. .,o Waning Mems
so Of an snteTainment viii Be held there each
Mi b. talk BY the assistant surgeon Of the regl
ment. Dr. Charles L. Lindley. DR.. Lindley was born
English army in the Zulu He mas lived in
than paqt OF the world nearly all his life and Is
Intimately acquainted with the ways OF the people
there. Being fluent speaker his talk' no DOUBT
large crowd of visitors, came to camp to.
lay, and they took the reSta amSnr ~
The late had to wait until the first corners oS mac mac
bInT Overlooking the ground and formed a line COM
plciely around three Sides OF the parade ground IN
the evening the elements seemed to take Tb
light In making things pleasant for the visitors. Ine
moon shOne brightly. and row across we river was
one OF the plcasantost features Of the visit. -
Tie work which the 18th Regiment has performer
since II came 10 camp has not been OF tne hg .
Character. The only mode Of judging OF the cahDle
OF the regiment thus far has been the sentry duty anu
iris certainly has not been Of high order. Mary
Of the men do not seem TO have learned the Iudnens
Of guard duty. &c.,,
Among the visitors TO camp to-day we're Colonel
J.hr n ('an.p Lieutenant Colonel william V. Klrg aud
Lieutenant Treadwen of the 22d Regiment ana Aoln-
tnnt Landon and Drum Major smith OF tie 7th Reei-
ment.