New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-25
SOLDIERS SHOW GRATITUDE.
sEVENTY-FIRsT REGIMENT MEN Buy FLAG
FOR CHTLDRENS HOME AT PEEKsKILL.

State Camp Peekskill. June q (SpeciaO--Nhen
the list Regiment marched out 70 Camp Roe yes
terday the most beautifully decorated house thar
it passed was the Summer Home for Children, in
LeXington-ave., about mile from the camp This
home. of the pra ctical charities of the Church
Of the Incarnation, Madison-ave. and Thirty-ffth-
St is under the management of Miss Sarah Reed.
of New-fork There is warm bond of sympathy
between the list Regiment and this institution.
Four years ago. when the regiment returning
from the Spanish-American War. number of the
men of the list, who sick and ConvaleSclng,
were brought to this home, where they receivest
the tenderest Last night Private John G.
Nermilye Company A. who OF the
men who cared for IN 1898. started sub
scripton for flag and pole, to be presented by the
regiment to the home. The idea approved by
the officers and men, and a large collection was
taken up. This morning d fiagpole purchased
here, and Private Nermilyea went to New-York
and purchased the flag He returned rms AFTER
noon, and. with number of other privates went
TO the home. raised The pole and ran up the nag
at $50 o'clock. No presentation speech was mace
at that time but tomorrow morning. although
the march is to be las If in enemys country.
the column will probably he halted in front of the
institution and will be appropriate speech
and music.
At $50 this afternoon there was meeting Of the
officers of the regiment, and Colonel William e.
Bates read for their instruction lecture on ''The
March Out and Camp Duty prepared by Captain
Henry G. Lyon. of the 22d United States Infantry.
Shortly afterward Major General Charles f. Roe
and his ade-de-camp, Major Louis NJ. Greer. rode
and paid a visit the camp, returning to
State Camp in time for supper.
Tomorrow morning reveille will be sounded at
the usual hour, . clock. but breakfast mess call
Will be at 80. which is two hours earlier than the
regular time. At : o'clock when in a permanent
camp the recall from early drill would he blown,
the general which is the call 20 strike tents VIII
be sounded The march back to State Camp. which
will along the route taken the march out.
viii begin at o'clock
Twenty members OF the 1st Battery came to State
Camp this morning. They Captain Louis
Wendell First Lieutenat Alfred S. Hathaway, First
Lieutenant Frederick William Esper, First Lieu
tenant Frederick Louis Fuchs. Second Lieutenant
Macmillan Seyfried and fifteen privates They
put up their targets at distance of nearly three
thousand yards and at elevation of three hun
bred feet. Then they had dinner. After dinner
they had their practice firing eleven shots at IN
tervals of about fifteen minutes each The long
intervals allow time for the men TO Try
sighting the pieces which every one of them Gid;
All Of the shots fired to-day solid shells, ana
six of them took effect. Sergeant james Jansen
with a detail at protected spot near the
targets, and, using an army telephone when theE
had laid in the morning, he sent in the result or
each shot as II fired