The sun., 1901-06-16
ROOSEVELT SEES BATTLE.
10 PARADE TACTICS. GET TO THE
BUSHES, WAS ms CONVENT.
27d Regiment and battery Defend Van Cort.
iandt Parade Ground Against 9th and
nth Regiments s-(io,f Bunkers for Bre asst
works Vice President Reviews Brisade.

The First Brigade OF the National Guar d
had sham battle and a review at Van Cort-
landt Park yesterday morning After the
sham battle the brigade was reviewed by
Vice president Roosevelt. who had been
witness Of the mornings mar e1vres. The
show was concluded with a drill by the First
Battery undsr the command OF Capt Wen
dell The battery has been In camp at Van
cortlandt for a week; the other troors went
up yesterday morning on special r1 rs leav-
ing the Grand Central Station at about s
o'clock They werc the Ninth Regiment.
Col William F Morris; the Twelfth. Col
George r Dyer. and the Twenty second
Col Franklin Bartlett.
Col Bartett's command wa, assigned to
defend the Van Cortandt parade ground
The battery was to assist him The Ninth
and Twelfth regiments. tho attacking forces,
we're unloaded from their trains at Kings
bridge, threc miles or more below Van Cort =
land; Park
Tho forward movement OF the attacking
forces began at about 0 O'Clock from the
Kingsbridge station. The Ninth went east
and the Twelfth went west The groun d
on either side OF the hollow through which
the railroad track runs Is heavily wooded
and the attacking forces did Its best TO take
advantage OF the cover. Col Morris led
his regiment up through Kingsbridee and
out Bailey avenue. Advance guards were
thrown out as the tactics direct for such
occasion. They were thrown out too muoh
according to tactics. to suit the vice-Presi-
dent. who was riding with Gen. McCoskrey
Butt and his stan as an impartial inspector
OF the battle.
General" said the ice-President. 1T
may be none Of my affair. but that advance
guard has no business going down the middle
OF the road that way. as though 1t were Oh
parade. They ought to be OF In the bushes
under cover and looking all around them
to discover traces Of the enemy's advance
Gen Butt called the attention OF the proper
officer TO the matter. The officer did not
seem TO understand
II you had ever been out in the middle
OF the road having a sort OF informal tea
party talk with your scouts and advance
guards and an unkind enemy had seen 1T
to favor you with couple Of charges OF
shrapnel. the point would be much euci-
dated" observed Col. Roosevelt. He spoke
with an earnestness that might well have
been understood to mean that he had partio-
ipated in some incident OF the sort. The
guards took to the bushes.
on the park over too low ground and with
drew his column from Bailey avenue and led
it over a back road up q hill that brought
II out along the line Of the auueduct on the
hills mile or more east Of Van Cortiandt.
Meanwhile the woods between this back
road and tne. lower road below were filled
with the Ntrth's scouts Word came bnck
rom some OF these that men with cam
the lower road from Van Cortlandt." The
men in campaign hats were members Of
the Iwentv-s1c md Regiment which was
thus distinguished from tho attacking force
which wore fatigue caps, A company was
sent kiting down. through the woods to hold
up the ga advanSe S, OF the k uwsnty.sesond Great
down the hi. The Twenty-second's advance
ga'Td discrsetly withdrew along the road
2od yam oSc wSH S0n sct Mo on shot
vsntared out along the lower road U 9'sSHe some
OF the Ninth's scouts made deyio,.~ plans
popncng on him from the heights Of the eolf
inks Two OF them went out to make the
attempt They came back faster than they
al alive with Twenty-sec1nd men. who were
using them as rife embankments.
Meanwhile, ths main body OF the Ninth
d"ploved along the line OF tho aque1uc;
made a very picture.quc skirmlsh line
m e Ssv 9 0nHe % 9Sny vita va; that there
Van CoTtandt station Gol in Morris had had his Ms
the b tom If toe hill, where the defending
force vas arranged 6enind the got bunk:
runs along the pond near the station
Gen. Butt, with Col Roosevelt. went on
rip along col. BlItlett's iines These cx-
but also along ihe road to the west Of 'fGf, he
parade ground on the other side of the valley, |
ready 20 meet Col .pyer's advance from the !
col Dyer had advanced through the woods |
here and thero crossed open spaces well back |
Of troops was anywhere within mil miles @"' 'ou'
uoTrj. GTf b'il, went & seck 10 the front Of Col
% ahead Win ths attack The re result. uI1 'of OF
The question did not appear a. promptly |
as they, might have had not there been a
Of the Jerome Park reservoir The only !
artillery N tho attacking forces was sup |
posed TO b on the parade sround below.
Wendell had succeeded In making a record
.r"ikng living flank movement. Hurried
soNtng eNpedttons 70 the top Of the re-
posed 'aunCnadng was merely caused bv
BODY Of Italian non-combatants setting
Urged by Gen Butt. with his CUSTOMARY
energy Col Morr, got his men oir the groUnd
9nd o'nTt"d them over n" crest of the hin !
M moved oyer N" rldg" IA apple pie order.
TNcnty-second's men along thn edg" Of he
rpld aCd behind the gOli hlukprs onencd .
I"niy tr" which did not disturb the advancing
Ninth q mnch ne though there lad Lenr
real hu.l"'- N he cartridges
an' Nd'h' hrautifnl >srm.sh line went
Gown u" rili n II II were on pnrsdn Gen
nnt was not pleased II" said So Gn
Roosevelt WH- more polite IA hI. ,n,u,,,n,.
WrhaI~, dian Gen Butt, but even ,En cn,,r
hsr required OF an invited guest cnuld ,'1,
'ak' seriously that calm nrmory No. ~
fdrc" IN m" face of a projected nro ""-
, sergeant with twenty mon. s,iJ ,ba
,.-tf".iden, 20 the General, 'conld - m
non %" road and those golf things "' NV
y uplgh u" criticism had been ho,,Ib,.
10, MOTIFS, VINO was hundred yards gv,y
company slipped over the sIe of tho HIi
liH ..l iaH 1'"h ths road, driving tho Twenty.
second non before them Buf ne iL. -,
cookers remarked, with 50 no show of irs,in.o
Vr mnln n"iv nf N" Ninth coming down ~
M WIN 70 hrp1i bright gr"cu bqck vr,,,,,'t
ol ',"sr-clpp"l golf lawn would never M. y..
'Tn.'l M" bnttpm 70 rfl~" IA" con era fulDinrv
., nv mn Il"V ~ IN battle Vh"ro tho
~ "''f'1 Wrr" loaded with ANYTHING rycnnt
Meanwhile capt Wendell had go,o nm,
WIN '"P "i ne guns On the rond north or tba |
ig,i'' t't"lnl ippking for the First Bltttli0,, /
o' IN" Twelfth which had boon sriei n, ~,
yir"'IIl - NpsLolu sittion ''i' W ,m'
,'" l'ln'''. I'i"r be I'll isappaqrnJ info m, :
N'-H'" F'1I moro rps" a great ,inuJ ~ |
H,"n' ana . r'ithrg racket ~ rtiin nro from,
,n,.n 'n" t"'' tn" battery made more
.'l' wv. '"''l II came gaIouiny ON on
't" INtl HSuH In short order nni fell Lnri'
'l.hr lhI'h'rb -.lppr's
WY l-,". ',"u Butt. from hIs hilton
,Y, - '"Il, H''~ not Dyer come down
~" t"'Srn va. m1Io apparent at once
- 'rI'I - r"u." down utIi nf Tho wont.
rr'Iu "" i"u"oS on buth slpics of ,h" rn"I