New-York tribune., 1908-06-21
HEAT DEPLETES RANKS
SOLDIERS FALL BY WAY.
Members of 9th Regiment Suffer
Severely from Long March.

Back from the field of glory to the city they had
saved from theoretical destruction marched the
National Guard regiments yesterday after week
OF the hardest kind of work with the United States
regulars at Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth on
the Narrows and Forts Totten and Schuyler on the
Sound Although they had been engaged in a
mimic war against the so-caed Swiss navy
there were two privates of the 9th Regiment killed
another soldier seriously injured while on the re-
turn march of men in the 9Th
come by heat, badly that they taken
to hospitals.
Although the return march to quarters from the
front was to have started early in the morning, for
one reason or another it well after the noon
hour when the began to arrive at their armo-
ries in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The 9th suffered
most from the heat. for the other regiments
turned for most of distance by trolley cars
and steamboats,, while the 9th obliged to hike
the four hot. dusty miles from Fort Wadsworth
Staten Island, 10 the ST. George ferry. The bat
talon of the 47th that had acted infantry sup
port TO the 9th artillerymen went down to ST.
George by
Through the narrow. twisting Staten Island
roads the 9th plodded in haze of yellow dust
each man bearing sixty pounds Of accoutrements
After the first two miles began to drop in
their tracks. Kindly natives who had turned out
10 see the spectacle dragged these men into the
shade and managed TO revive them. BY the time
they embarked the ferry the ia
tigued that of them lay fat the decks 10
rest
for the short march the street to the Sixth
elevated road where special trains were
waiting. Even this too much for some. Pri-
vaUe Walenstein. of the 14th Company, and Pr1-
vate Walter Scott of the 2lst Company, were taken
in ambulance to St Gregory's Hospital. Pri-
Blake of the 18th Company. and Henry Hud-
son. a negro water bearer carried unconscious
into the ferryhouse. where surgeon of the United
States Marine Hospital Service worked over them
for hour. About fifty others threw themselves
Ia
TO move. and patriotic citizens brought them ice
and restoratives.
Those who could drag themselves up the ele-
waited stairs took the special trains and marched
from the 14th station TO their There
the flag at halfmast in memory of their dead
comrades John Lawrence Waltz, nineteen years
old, and George Arthur Harvey, twenty-five years
old. The former will he buried in Calvary Gene
terry to-day and the latter in the Lutheran Gene
terry tomorrow. Full military honors will be ac-
corded them.
Long before the I'd Battalion Of the 9Th from
Fort Wadsworth had reached its armory in Marcy
avenue. Brooklyn, the 1st Battalion, coming from
Fort Hamilton. on the Brooklyn shore. already
disbanding there. The 18TH with its band lead
ing had marched with the 1st Battalion of the
47th the 99th street entrance of Fort Hamil-
ton 70 waiting trolley at Third and Fourth
avenues, and thus returned in g comfortable man
neI to the cheers of half Brookyn's population.
as il appeared. The 18th disbanded at its Sumner
avenue armory. after having been complmented by
Colonel Austen. whose praise, by the way, was
no more emphatic than that given by any other
of the commanders to their men for the war game
work.
Probably the coolest and rleasantest return
was made by the Sth Regiment. Coast Artillery,
y G. y. Y. and the list Regiment of Infantry.
which were stationed together with the regulars
at Forts Schuyler and Totten. They came down
the East River the steamboat Roseben, the 9Th
being landed uptown TO march to its armory in
East 94th street, and the list continuing on down
the river where it landed within easy march
ing distance of its East 34th street armory.
Though the war over-was really ended on
Friday night-the bellicose spirit of the lingo had
Entered into of the younger members Of those
companies that had been stationed at Fort Wads-
worth. Not satisfied with having wiped out the
Swiss navy and filling full of theoretical holes
as its national cheese, they said they had captured
the Japanese spy" It undoubtedly the pro-
fessional Japanese spy that bobs up Just so
often when the weather is hot He had ''the
papers'-plans of Fort Wadsworth-and he had
been dragged TO the guardhouse. Some Of the Of
fcers at Fort wadsworth laughed hard they
co-ld barely say this 10 them