The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-03
FORT NYER MEN
LOUDLY CHEERED
Star Feature at New York
Tournament.
AUDIENCE WAS AROUSED
Eighth Annual Athletic and Military
Tournament Best Ever Held.
Seven Distinct Features.
AUDIENCE WAS AROUSED

Booming cannon, cracking volleys of
| musketry and the thunder of artillery,
hoofs and wheels in Madison Square
Garden last night gave a crowd of thou
ands an excellent and timely impression
OF what the Russo-Japanese emeute on
the Yalu looked and sounded like
1t was the eighth annual athletic and
military tournament and was up to the
standard that has been set during the
past seven years. There were seven dis
tinct features last night. and each one
was greeted with such applause as may
be evoked by nothing short of cavalry
charges, artillery exhibitions and the
firing of many guns.
Mayor Mcclellan reviewed the as
sembled troops and marines shortly be-
fore 9 o'clock.
Made Splendid Spectacle.
The review was a spectacle such as
has seldom been seen in Madison Square
Garden. The troops filled the inner
| circle of the Garden completely. and the
salute was a thing that called forth
cheers Of real and spontaneous en-
thusiasm.
In the lined up forces were United
states troops, sailors. and members of
the Marine Corps; the Forty-eighth
tiighianders, Canadian Militia, with
their kits, filibegs. and the numerous
Qther strange looking equipments of a
Elshlander; the National Guard and
Naval Militia of New York including
attachments from the Eighth. Ninth
1Wel1th, Fourteenth Twenty-second
Iwenty-third, Forty-seventh, Sixty
ninth, and Seventy-first Regiments; the
First and Fourth Regiments. n q Il
J.; FIRST and Second naval battalions
anu anu Ola Guard. Colonel Dyer. Twelfth
regiment, n G. n. Y, commanding.
AS they broke into a column Of four
formation and marched out of the arena
the sight inspired a blase New York au-
dlence that has seen everything 10 q
burst OF cheers that lasted until the last
man had disappeared
Regulars Were Stars.
The first feature to follow was the
drill by the Forty-eighth HighIanders.
and there was much OF brotherly feel
ing and Hands Across the Line" and
other mingled sentiments for the stur-
dS-lookinF Scotch Canadians who
marched into the arena to the sxirling
Of many bagpipes. Theirs was a driI
that was declared by an enthusiast in a
megaphOne voice TO be "au the goods
The three star features of the night.
however, were the artillery drill of the
Fourth Battery, Field Artillery, I. S
a; the music ride by the Fifteenth
United States Cavalry, and the shelter
tent and music drill by Company E.
Eighth Infantry, L. S. A The rough
rld1ug by Troop C., y. G. y. Y. was
also bit Of work that called forth
hardly less enthusiasm than the work
of the regulars.
Only Accident of Night.
The only accident OF the evening was
the overturning Of a caisson in the ar
tillery drill. but this did not interfere
with the exhibition. The broken caisson
was rushed of and others brought on
and the great mass of intertanglec
horses and men kept on whirling and
darting around the great arena with a
dash and swiftness that caused the big
crowd To cheer so that IL might have
Deen heard blocks away
In the shelter-tsnt drill an entire COM
pany set up their tents IN fraction of
minute, and then as the lights were
lowered crept into them TO the sound
OF Taps, and gave a realistic impress