Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-01
THE "REcRuIToeRAPH.y
Latest Device to Secure Volunteers
for the English Army.


| trust that a short sketch of +b;.
latest method for obtaining recruit.
may not be without interest. II was
SO evident that the pessimism n
many persons as to the army being =
suitable career sprang from ignorance
that 1t occurred to the writer thai
TINS ignorance might be dispelled il
animated photography were EMPLOYED
10 snow the actual life of a soldier
The War Officer authorities testified
lEer Willingness to forward the
scheme in every way and gave the
needful letters of introduction and
authority in order that photographs
might be secured.
otarting with the raw material at
81. Georges barracks and proceeding
to Hounslow, Aldershot and other
depots. a large number of photo.
graphs were secured, showing orr
soldiers both at work and at plav. in
the gymnasium and in the readin.y
room, reclining at ease surrounded by
their pets or engaged in those sterner
exercises which would stand them in
good stead in the grim earnest of war,
Left, however, to the mere civilian.
even these pictures would have
probably been incoherent and
scrappy, and once again the ex-
perience of those in authority proved
OF the utmost value. Various pre-
liminary shows were given, and at
each of these General Borrett. In
spector-general of recruiting, attend
ed, and, although much pressed with
his own peculiar work, gave many
valuable suggestions and detailed a
sequence in the order OF the pictures
which rendered what would otherwise
have been but pretty picture show
into a well-ordered and thought-out
life of soldier.
The "recruitograph" was ready 10
go on tour. After consultation with
the colonies commanding the districts
it was decided to take Satffordshire
and Worcestershire for the initial
visit, and one cold night in March.
the snow hurrying down as though to
grace our opening venture, to an
audience composed of hard-headed
with much fear and
trembling as to our reception, we
gave our first public performance.
1t was a success. From the chilly
applause that greeted us as strangers
the enthusiasm gradually grew, until,
as one traced the career of the raw
recruit, his physical drill and gym
nastic exercise--now treating him as a
of the infantry, now as an
engineer engaged in escalading or at
redoubt exercise, or again as mounted
infantry, and saw him engaged in
trench digging: or, suddenly chang
ing the scene, we come upon him in
1ulging in camp sports or in prepar-
ng his breakfast-we found our
audience gradually becoming more
and more interested.
elected to join the cavalry, and a
splendid gallop past was greeted with
rousing cheers. Various types of
cavalrymen were thrown upon the
screen, and such pastimes as hurdle
jumping and racing were shown to
he audience; and then, introduced
by a picture of General Gordon, the
loyal artillery were depicted in
various exercises, and members of
he Army Service Corps were intro
1uced and endued with life by the
pictures.
Our volunteers and colonial troops
were shown, always to the accompani-
nent of the heartiest cheers, and
hen, other titles being merged into
that of Soldiers of the King" we
saw them all "out on active service
wiping something off a slate" and
wound UP with an appeal to those
present who could so do to join the
army.
In all we gave % lectures during