The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
CROWD INVADES WEST POINT.
ST iRV 0F EN(f RsIOVIsE9
~ FRHfN THE POST.

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s,.Ittionists ht West Point to-day and
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srI Nv two biR strafuhoats The ohiosfu a.
mo f,sl ite mighty fond ~ stsursioniata
..,of lhe "fl ~ az Tho oadats
tl.Iays crowd, which, added 10 the
Usual commencement week thfona, must
haze numbered $500 did oil the things
r,#ifionlsts usually 10 That IL a. aay,
,.oy histled In and out N every buIldieR
,na, wa not protected asaina, thsm by
.Ygks m aentihels They cornefed uns
r.r,tna,e officers or p~rivates and hurled
,lrid fire. questions NJ them They brought
.Uotr lunches, ate them under the treea and
off u trail ~ debris lehind them, They
r..u invaded the parade ground when
O. I"rtion was going on
ono fcmale camera fond. holder than tho
r.a' Walked out 10 within % few va rda Of
v.o,o Tho inspecting officers were at work.
l. s,la getting 90 the point when q corporate
guard was more than likely TO take charge
ar nor that two Of her friends called her
on
\ stout middle aged woman, whose hair
w. iust lightning TO turn gray. stopped
a smart cadet when inspection was over
and .aid
Excuse me, young man, but couldn't
yru give me one Of those buttons on your
r,a'3 You 500, I'm from T~allapoosa,
FIoridy. and I'd dearly love to have II for a
sOuyenoor.'
Sorry, madam replied the cadet
politely, but tho regulations forbid IT,
Another woman headed of an unfortunate
cavalry captain to inquire il 1t was true
that them ~tassels" on the cadets caps
were raised in time Of battle above an m
bankrnent to lure the enemy into wasting
ammunition on them.
The officer groancd and fed without
stopping to explain that no part Of a full
dress uniform is ever worn in battle.
In addition to the excursionists @ big
delegation came here from the General
SYNOD of the Dutch Reformed Church.
which has been holding SESSIONS this week
in New York. All told, there were about six
hundred Of them. and Gen. Mills and Con.
Horace Porter received them when they
visited Cullum Hall.
After two days Of cloudy, chilly weather
{ o-day turned out scorching hot and very
muggy. 1t was so hot, In fact, that at in5pec-
ton afterthe corps had made the circuit Of
the grass plain in full dress uniform at
double time five cadets collapsed and had
to be taken to barracks.
Old timers Of the army are beginning to
get here for graduation day or for their
reunions. Members of the West Point
class Of 90 celebrated the fortieth ami
versary tonight at a dinner held in the
officers mess. Out Of a class of forty
seven eleven men attended the dinner.
They were Col. G. E. L. B. Davis Of the
Engineers, commonly known in his class as
Alphabet Davis; Col. D. w: Lockwood Of
the Engineers, Col. G.. s. Smith Of the Ord
retired; Gen. II. h. Dunwoody, retired; Col.
Robert Craig, ex-Goy. w. H. Upham Of Wis
consin; Col. Z. R, Hills, retired; Col. s. R.
Jones, Quartermaster's Department; James
and Gen. Charles King, author of many
stories of army life.
The formal exercises OF tn day, for the
benefit Of the board and the commence
ment crowd, began at 1870, when a squad
the trooper in the riding hall, There were
twenty Of them all told, and they were
commanded by Capt. Godfrey H.. Mac
Donald, one Of the Academy instructors In
cavalry tactics.
ho euOSbS OSNulhOu cOotc ~ sho wv Co.,
leries and on the benches at the east end
of the tanbark ring. The young troopers
performed all their evolutions to music
furnished by a detachment from the post
band. They did all the usual stunts, In.
Guiding sabre exercise while riding at full
speed. Then the horses were all stripped
of their saddles and the cadets galloped
them about, standing IN their ba cks, lying
dow and sitting face backward.
After that seven cadets formed a pyra-
mid on two horses while the animals were
dashing about the circuit. This was fol-
lowed by flying leaps over one horse to
the back Of another while the pair were
taking a low hurdle.
: One or two Of the cadets fell between the
horses while at this sort Of work, but their
riding mates we're alert and rescued them
unhurt from their seemingly perilous pre-
dicaments.
Inspection was had on the grass plain at
1:2O, and at 8 o'clock, after the shower that
threatened had made up it's mind to skip
West Point, squads from the first and sec
ond classes marched up In front Of battle
monument and showed the crowd some
of the work that United States en-
gineers perform in the field. They built a
wire fence of the sort designed to break
the advance of an enemy IN the field and
they put up a trestle bridge Of the kind
every army corps now carries to give troops.
especially artillery and wagon trains, some
means of crossing swamps or other soft