The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
Private Cole Breaks Through
the Lines Twice: Going
and Coming.
DISCIPLINED FOR HIS oFFENsE.
Strange Disappearance of sergean
0hlsen's Clothing as He Disports
in the Water.

GLEN ELLEN, CAL, Aug. Z4.-Llfe In
Camp O'Ryan has so far proved TO be one
succession of delights. The cadets of the
League of the Cross have said so more
than once to-day, and they certainly know
what they are talking about when it comes
to a discussion of how boys are best
pleased with country outing. In the
camp and out of it the cadets are having
more fun than they bargained for on leav-
ing San Francisco; and yet, with all their
jollifcation and disregard of conventional
restraints. they are conducting themselves
so braveIy and so we'll that Captain Fill
gate, their military commander, is proud
of them, and the people of Glen Ellen are
glad to have the boys here for week.
Sunday night passed off very quietly,
with the exception OF an exciting chase
for a refractory cadet. Private Cole of
Company was detailed for guard duty,
but no sooner had the detail been an
nounced than he ran the picket line and
escaped in the darkness. The provost
sergeant and q squad were sent in pursuit.
They followed the retreating figure under
the deep shadows of trees, over barbed-
wire fences, with which the country abont
here abounds, through the sleeping town,
and though the fugitive was the best run
ner glimpse of bim WINS caught on the
Southern Pacific Railway. Then the chase
took new course over the rails and ties,
with Private Cole visible in the moon
light. Presently he dropped out of sight,
quick as fash, and his pursuers thought
he had fallen and hurt himself. When,
however, they reached the spot where Cole
disappeared the squad found trestls
nearly fifty feet high.
Hes fallen through and killed him.
selfl" the sergeant exclaimed, for not a
sign of the fugitive was left. The squad
scram bled down the banks to explore the
ground below for their comrade. But
again they were baffied until one happened
to look upward. To their intense surprise
and relief of mind they found him hang
ing from a stringer of the trestle by his
hands. They soon had him under arrest,
and just as quickly he escaped again.
The night became cold and lonesome
and Private Cole longed for the campfire
where his comrades were amusing them
selves. He broke the sentry line and got
safely into camp, where the guard de-
tected him disguised with blanket and
paint as mission Indian"
Cole was put on guard duty until the
assistant surgeon pronounced him sick.
Then they gave him a little medicine,
which the surgeon explained: 1T will
make him sick If he is well and well il he
is sick" AS he got well it proved he was
not sham ming, and now he's policing the
company's streets and bestowing the ten
der solicitude of sentry on the camp.
After breakfast this morning the cadets
were put through long series of drills
and sword exercises. 1t was noticed par
ticularly that their step was firmer and
their lines much better preserved over the
uneven ground than when they first
marched into camp. They stood the
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their sword exercises proficiency which
would be expected only from trained SOL
diers. This system OF drilling and exer-
cising is on the latest and most approved
plan of calisthenics and is calculated to
tend toward the symmetrical development
of the boys.
Although the morning sun was hot the
drill did not fatigue the boys, for hardly
HAD they broke ranks and doffed their
white duck uniforms than they were off
to the swimming pool in the creek. This
ample strip of water has become popular
spot and the young warriors enjoy it to
their hearts content. Its depth is not
such as might cause any fears for their
safety, so the boys who have not learned
to swim are allowed to paddle with the
rest.
Sergeant Oscar Ohlsen Of Company II
went IN for a swim. The water was warm
and altogether delightful, and as he fairly
reveled in its comfortable depth he paidIno
attention to his comrades on the bank.
But when Sergeant Ohlsen came out of the
pool he was amazed to find his uniform
and all the rest of his dress missing.
None of the cadets saw his clothes, and
certainly none of them had the garments,
SO the sergeant was compelled TO appear
in the fashions of the garden of Eden, and
suffered himself to be drummed through
camp into the guardhouse in improvised
skirts of green bunting.
The camp will be under command OF the
following officers during the night: Officer
of the day, Captain ]. F. Curley of Com
pany B; officer OF the guard, Lieutenant
G. J. Regan of Company G; sergeant of
the guard. Sergeant e. O'Connor OF Com
pany B; corporal of the guard, Corporal
II. Smith of Company G; members of the
guard. Brady, ]. o. 'Brien. r. Garety,
g. o1e@ary, @ j. a@Psnyw aurPPey.y w. Ferry, GGNs T. Nolan 1
Company B; ]. Enright, J. Sullivan, w.
Ryan and P. Donovan, Company H.