The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-09
li:Gt. Lam, of lie Army, Has at Last
Applied for Discharge.
EE MARRIED BENEATH HIM IN RsgS
As a Result, the Young People Have
Ec,n cut Dead by Army circles
Ills wife WAS beautiful nnd
CuIturcd-A Shameful Story ar
American Snobbcry.


of the middle ages ms. cad of posi-
b,i,tv in the UnIted Sites in these civil
LIED days According 10 IL. n bright.
manly young lieutenant and hi. wife
who is az pret.y and highly cultured a
Girl as any woman in the army circles.
are being actually bounded TO death
and treated as barrarins simply becuse
the husband IS a lieutenant and his
wife CHANGED to he the daugh er OF
q commit. sary sergeant and beneath the
leu enant IN rank. The lines OF caste
were never more rlgidly drawn in India.
According to the Chicago News the
story begins at the time Leu. en-
ant LAM was a student al West Point.
While there he met Miss Marie Kenkle.
whose father. horn I'm Germany. posses:-
sa nf sl,,pu tntell,pancn AMI culturc
held The post of co,nmtssa,y sergeant
A soon az Il wag known ihat Sounr
Lang was paying any atten. ion to Miss
KenEle he was rrmnnstr,ted with: II
was pointed out to him that she was be-
meath him socially. 90 far as army rules
went. When he said he intended to
marry her he nj once entered un5n the
life which has since become aImost m
bcarlble. throughout the ret of his
course he was systemat!callv ANNOYED
AS seniors the West Pointers escape
with sl!gh.er punishments for minor Of
fences than do the plebs and the whole
place was surprised and Torn nm over
the fact that whenever vomnr Tonr
made any error or failed to turn up nj
roll-call he was Sentenced 10 the limit OF
The law. This had never before orcur.
red. On the day he graduated Lang
married Miss Kenkle. She was pref
~ girl ana had been ed,lca.e nj tho
high school an ac,dnrv ana tho S.,io
Normal School. Previous TO his mar
r!age a clergyman at the "poir, +" INA
gone to the girls mother and odvise,i
her to break off the engagement Lang
does not mean marriage" he said
These students forget nj about n riri
as soon as thnv Inv, boro +" W.
Lang heard OF this he was furjous ana
asked the clergym IN WIN. he nc1ni
The clergyman replied that he had been
induced To do what he had done Inv ,hn
superintendent. ""'
On the boat which c,rr,ad ou,,
from the Point Young Lang ,pI ~
wife we many Of MS cl,ssm,tes NJ,
one of them spoke to he connie or req
opnized ,boi, a~,r,S SSupie VI rec.
attended the wedding and his host fr,nnG
who had been asked 10 act as boe, ~
backed OIL, IKE n cravon -, - 80 i'aI li
mem. You are makinr q n,,',,i.a y,
he said, II can't be n marty ~ n ,,
Lieutenant Lang was ,se,unnd =,
Fort Warren, the dre,rlest nos. Tn ,hs
whole United St,1as ,rho -, 80 III VIZ
in the West. and Of The no,D roI - a ~
East, Fort Warren Is cors,dared ,ho,,
the poorest In army cjrr,cs no, go
government rules supreme and =, ~" Eo,..
Warren Mrs. Lang vas ,. V'.,a az ron.
cut. Not soul called an h"r al a'icai NY
and he. husband were nsvnr i, "i,n sne
the Coman6ant's rccep.ions Tho ,.e i. :"
an open snub. Lien enani ,.r'e wa
to attend a course In nlnn.,ic,,,ss Sk t,'
Boston Institute or Tsnhnn,ny al .he
quest which undar ordinnsS. re-
stances would have hnon 80, c,rcq I'M
answer he was orte~oS an ~ s'aI'ied. For
the Fo:t school an MIRA IN person
which he took un ,,ncamnia;r,r oi au'S'
When Tieut ona iI'nHGiy.
was born m that h,eal n,h '"nE > paoy
post, of all the men ana " ,, Mihuswept
post not one came IN enn Nv LINEN IN inc
no one spoke n word - IL rto,her ana
army post Is n lifts v,or,5 T., -" ,, nc,. Ar
neglect like this is moro o,.,,a ~ i,Scil ana
in the outside wnrlh on 10y c ieit IMAM
morning IIeut J,ang -. ane ioiiowins
rimanded for some sii,ht ~, nehc.ely rep
on that night 'ec' Oh duty
The post SURGEON nror,
Kindness. thrust siclt ,an,iy ny some
young man. Who .ssizN5 ' v' upon the
from his Intolerah la s,,, uU'l - 10 escape
came TO New Yorlf ,nd oui'uliss. lie
fore a medical exa,ni, T mIs ordered be-
ernor's Island +, Viii , uuura al Gov
and he had 70 stand ~, a. o'..el cold DAY
bonn 80 ''ie SioN lull Eln
n 6rr