New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-03
BOMBARDING GRO NEST.
CADETS AT WEST POINT PRACTICE WITH
THE SECOND BATTERY.
YOUNG HEROES HANDICAPPED BY OLD GUNS AND
POOR HORSESHOE MONUMENT AT

YOUNG HEROES HANDICAPPED BY OLD GUNS AND
POOR HoRsEs-THE MONUMENT AT
TROPHY POINT.
West Point, June 6pcciaD.-An day the clouds
have been rolling the green mountains and
trailing their shadows across the plain. Now and
then of in the rpcesses Of the mountain valleys
could be beard q rumbling noise that sounded nke
thunder but which, as everybody knows, Is only Hen
dtck Hudson playing at bowls with the ghOstly
crew OF his ship. The sun has shone down with
merciess heat between TIE passing clouds, and even
the fresh wind wandering up the river from the TAR
of sea could only slightly temper the heat
No one who has written about West Point since the
habit was first acquired has Neglected to say some
thing about the West Point girl end her fondness
for cadet buttons and uniforms. 1t Is right that 10
should be tins. 1t is the only revenge civilian can
take for the way in which his claims to nooce arc
ignored Every year the girls flock here rom AL
over the country, and each they are more beauu
full than the year before. But the civilian can only
sing:
II she be not fair for me-"
II she be fair for me-"
and admire from afar. The youngest cadet with not
even the dawnng Of mustache upon his lip. Will b
surrounded by bevy OF half dozen admiring young
women, while at the other end OF the piazza group
Of young in civil life will sit and discuss plans
for making the Army do away with uniforms But
really civilians look remarkably commonplace here.
How can young man. clad In suit OF clothes Of tho
latest cut the result OF the depved imagnings OF an
unromantic tailor, compete with tall and shapely
heir OF military glory ncased In wonderful UNIFORM
glowing with color and shining with gold. The ever
lasting hills OF green the flowing river, the mountain
vStas, the old gray battements all seem to call for
waving plumes sounding bugles and not for froch
coats and tall hats.
The Board OF Visitors at work all the morning
inspecting the quarters OF the enlisted men, repair
shops and various other buildings Of the post. There
IS one great need at West Point, which several boards
spoken Of and that Is suitable horses for cavalry
drill As IL IS the same horses which used for
cavalry d are used light artillery drill with the
result that the horses unified for use In either
Many the officers here think that the cheapest ana
most practicable way OF solving the difficulty Is to
have battery Of light artillery ordered up here from
Governors Island or Fort Hamilton every summer
and use the horses OF that battery for drilling the
cadets
The news that the North Atlantic Squadron had
been ordered here was received with peasurable an
tclpatlon this morning. The presence Of the feet
will make the closing days Of the graduating exercises
more brilliant In social way than they have been
before for a long time.
The graduating class finished It's examinations In
military engineering to-day. The second class was
examined in natural and experimental philosophy and
the third class in French. All the first class will
probably graduate but in the other classes 1t is proba
bic that several cadets will be found deficient and
either relegated to civil life or turned back Join the
class below them.
Some OF the granite has arrived here for the monu'
ment to be erected at Trophy Point to the officers and
OF the Regular Army who fell In the Civil War.
When the Will arrive tell the strike IN
the Massachusetts quarries having put stop TO get
ting ont the main portion OF the monument. Inc
cornerstone OF this monument was laid by General Nc
CIellan in 1859, fund having been raised by tie
l,,rico and If Tho
purpose OF building 1t done without the knowl-
edge Of Secretary stanton whO when he heard OF IL,
ordered the work stopped The fund then amounted
To $4,000. Every one forgot about the monument
and tie fund uUtil Colonel Wilson took command NJ
West Point, when he discovered that the super1n.
tendent OF the Academy exocio president OF the
Monument Association and custodian OF the FUND.
which had grown 10 100000. He placed himself IN
| communication with the surviving members OF tno
association and il resolved TO build the monu-
ment ms first intended 1t Will be built OF polished
Massachusetts marble. with central shaft forty-one
feet high and Will stand where the captured can
and other trophies OF war are deposited on Trophy
Point near the bOtel
This AFTERNOON there was drill with the sea-
coast battery This battery IS situated down back
Of tho hotel and looks over toward Gro Nest The
battery was manned by cadets Of second class with
chiefs OF detachments from the graduating class.
Harry H. Patson of Indiana; Herbert b. Crosby OF
Illinois, Edward Is. CaSSitt Of Pennsylvania; George
f.. IIoule OF Massachusetts,; Robert p. Johnson. OF
North Carolina. and william II. Smedberg, jr., OF
California the gunners. Two ffeeninch smooth
bores and three eght-inch converted rifles blazed
away the target three feet I'm diameter, painted on
IA cliff on shore the little bay and three
inch mortar fired balls over Gro Nest. All the guns
in the seacoa,t battery Of old type. all efforts
TO have modern guns provided for the instruction OF
| the cadets having so far proved uDavailing The
cadets did excellent work with the old guns however,
and proved Themselves artlerymen deserving OF better
pieces Of ordnance.
After dinner there air concert by the
academy band in front Of the hotel. Tomorrow the
,ards will inild pontOOn bridges and the exantna'
tons will be continued
Jesse Grant Joined his family at Cranstons last
night Among the other arrivals at Cranstons are
Colonel Upham. Of the Army. and Mr.. rpham Mr..
and Mrs. j. +. PeInOck, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Ran.
dolph Gunther. Mr.. and Mrs. II: ID: Wlnant, Mrs.
o. II. Marvin and the Misses Marvin. Miss A. NJ.
IIvde s. VI. Hyde, W. L. Glcnnon and Miss Rose
Tighe. . SEE ~. 49,, -
fmonr the arrivals at the West Point Hotel werc
Mr. and Mrs. John Blunt. Of BROOKLYN; Miss Ezabeth
Harris OF Cambridge Mass; George lickok, OF New
York: Mrs l. " Dr Barry and the Misses Du Barry.
| Of Philadelphia: Mr.. and Mrs. George W; X Hil oi
Nostnn: Mrs 4. ID. COcoran, of Philadelphia and
Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Robertson. ir. Of NcwJersey.