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The Daily Eight.
MONDAY, JUNE II, 1898.
WEST POINT GRADUATES.
The Smallest Glass of Years Leaves
the Academy Today.

w EST POINT, n. Y, June 10
The class of '93, which graduates
from the Military Academy today,
is the smallest in several years.
What it lacks in size it makes up
in brillIancy and strength.
The present first class entered
with a membership of 100. Resig-
nations and the pruning knife of
learned professors brought the
number down to fifty-one. OF these
five who graduate highest will be
sent for postgraduate course of
years to Willett's Point, where
the advanced forms of military
engineering are taught. Cadets at
West Point receive salary of $40
year. Out of this amount they
are supposed to purchase necessary
uniforms, books, bedding and
whatever else they may require.
The cost of board is also deducted
from this sum. When cadets re-
ceive their diplomas from the
Secretary of War they are assigned
to different regiments. Those who
stand highest have the privilege
of selecting any branch of the SER
vice in which a vacancy exists.
Cavalry and artillery assignments
are most sought after. Infantry is
the least desirable, and falls to
those who stand lowest in their
class. There are usually sutfi-
cient number of vacancies in the
army to supply places for gradu-
ates of West Point. If, however,
the members are in excess Of exist
ing vacancies, they are at
tached to regiment until such
occurs. A special act of Congress
was passed in May, 1886, which
provides that when any cadet of
the United States Military Acade-
my has gone through all the class
es, and received diploma from
the academic staff, he may be pro-
NOTED and commissioned as
second lieutenant in any branch of
the army where a vacancy exists,
the duties of which he may have
been judged competent to perform,
and in case there shall not be a
a vacancy, he may, at the discretion
of the President, be commissioned
as an additional second lieutenant,
with the pay and allowances of
that grade until a vacancy shall
happen.
Col. A. H. Ernst superintendent
of the post, will to-day receive the
thanks of the Board of visitors, as
Will also his able aid, Lieutenant
Colonel Mills. Phe Board of Wis
itors consists of Senator CullOm,
eX-Secretary of the Treasury Chas.
S. Fairchild, of New York; Henry
l.. Pierce, of Massachusetts; Frank
Thompson, of Pennsylvania; Gen,
A. c. McClurg, of Illinois; the Rev.
John w. DinsmOre, of California;
Prof. f. y. Alderman, of North
Carolina Gen. JnO. p. Rea, of Min
nesOta; Senator f. A. White, of
Louisiana; Joseph Wheeler, of AL
ALBANIA James S. German, of Mich
igan, and Henry H. Bingham, of
Pennsylvania.
The "sheepskin" presentations
will be made by Secretary of War
Lamont.
The class graduates in the fol-
lowing order: Charles w. KutZ,
Pennsylvania; George p. Howell,
North Carolina; Meriwether l..
Walker, Virginia; Robert p. John
ston, North Carolina; Gordon G.
Heimer, Pennsylvania; Edward
j. Undertake, Jr, Tennes-
see; George II. McManus,
Iowa; VIM. NJ. Cruikshank,
District of Columbia; Robert r.
Raymond, New York; John H.
Rice, Missouri; H. G. LeComte,
Switzerland d. NJ. King, Ohio; H.
L. Laubach, Indiana; A. f. Will
liams, Texas; l.. E. Andrews, New
York; Elmer w. Clark, Iowa; S.
J. B. Schindel, Pennsylvania S. c.
Hazard, Pennsylvania J. Morgan,
Ohio; w. r. Smedberg, California ),
l.. B. Lawton, New York; w. c.
Babcock, Massachusetts, o. w. B.
Fart, Maine HI. B. Crosby, Illinois
VIM. Yates, Georgia; r. Honey,
Rhode Island; B. B. Hyer, New
York; l.. F. Kilbourne, at large;
NJ. C. Smith, Alaska; E. B. Cassatt,
at large; c. G. Sawtelle, at large
George f. Houle, Massachusetts
X. w. Walker, Texas; V. X. Hart,
Wyoming; H. H. Pattison, In
diana; R. E. l.. Spence, Georgia;
H. R. Perry, Illinois; Edward Tay-
lor, Idaho; w. c. Rogers, New
York; G. III. Jameson, Virginia;
F. B. McKenna, California; HI. A.