New-York tribune., 1908-06-14
TROOPS OFF TO CAMPS
LIKE ACTUAL WARFARE.
First Battery Goes to Pine Plains
N. @. N. Y. at Fort Wdds1COrth.


marched from all sections OF this city yesterday
for the game at Pine Plains. Jefferson County.
and other encampments. Service clothes. blue
shirts and olive khaki lent air Of real business
to the scenes of departure the various armories
but the iuttering flags and general air Of good
humor and expectancy worn by officers and men
alike indicated no great dread Of field hardships
The troops will rough service, though, for
the officers Of the regulars. from General Grant
down. have planned gruelling tests and the guards
men have not been behind them I'm wishing TO test
the mettle and efficiency of the militia Hard work
in hot desolate country and exacting officers
Will have 10 be faced by the troops at Pine Plains
There is tract of desert land there of about one
hundred and fifty square miles. which the soidier
boys will have to convert by their own efforts into
military encampments.
The 1st Battery, 110 strong, got away first yester-
day. In charge OF Captain Ryan, the battery
marched from the armory. In 6sth street. to the
West Side freight yards of the New York Central
where the guns were loaded on fiat cars the
horses into number of stable cars. while men
and officers took tourist cars and Pullmans re-
spectivey. 1t was curious looking train "hch
pulled out of the yards little before noon
Squadron A embarked last evening, with Major
Bridgman In command. All day It's armory' at
Madison and oath street, had presented
busy scene of preparation-horses picketed. ready
for departure: in their picturesque trooper
outfit, packing saddebags and blanket rolls The
trains which conveyed Troop A were OF the same
description as for the Battery-long. heavy
caravans of assorted cars for horses, parapner-
MALTA and There were three sections. leaving
here at 430, $50 and $50 o'clock The troops en-
training presented the hustle and hustle OF mill
tary movement contrasted with a distinct social
color, for score of automobiles gathered In the
vicinity, many containing fashionaby goWhed
women to their friends OF the mill
fonaire troop" depart. The squadron is expected
to reach it's destination about a. m. to-day Ihls
evening Squadron c. of Brooklyn. under command
of Major Charles I. DeBevoise, will start for the
manoeuvres. reaching there early Monday Inc
ed Regiment, Colonel Stokes in command Will
leave Brooklyn few hours later. reaching the en-
campment about o'clock on Monday morning
All the work will not be done by the troops
hurrying upstate, though. Down Broadway yester-
day morning marched the 9th Regiment, Coast Ar
tllery, fully equipped for week OF field service
at Fort Wadsworth at the entrance to the Mar
rows. Colonel Morris told the seven hundred ana
fifty men who answered rollcan that they were
going to be put through work more nearly ap-
preaching real than any the regiment ever
had undertaken. They appeared eager for the
weeks experience with the regulars at Fort Wads-
worth. and their trim appearance as they marcheo
down Broadway from 14th street through the bus1-
ness section to the Battery indicated their ntnes
At the same time the list. 800 strong. under COLO
mel Bates was moving to 24th street and the East
River, where waiting boats to transport the
regiment to Forts Totten and Schuyler. the
Sound. The 1st and Sd battalions commanded oy
Majors Linton and Beekman. will be stationed at
Fort Totten; the 3D. under Major Bruch, at fort
Schuyler. They will be put out into the neld WITH
the REGULARS and IL they fulfil the predictions they
made yesterday will be able to follow a very hot
pace.
The 18th Regiment. of Brooklyn, and one bat
TALON of the 47th left their armories yesterday
morning and last night canped at Fort Ham
ilton The other battalion of the 9th was at Fort
| Wadsworth. the Narrows.
Meanwhile the state encampment at Peekskill
will he occupied by the S9th, which left its arr1ory
! Yesterday morning for weeks field work Colonel
| Edward Duffy was at the head Of the regiment
| The three battaIions in charge of Majors
| LYNCH Duffy and RevelIe. The regiment started
| soon after a. rn marching from the armory, at
2sth street and Lexington to Eleventh ave
nue. and up that thoroughfare to sd street, Wnere
two trains were waiting.
All the troops, regulars and nlilitiamen TO take
part In the Pine Plains game will reach there
some time this morning General Grant and his
staff are there The umpires-staff officers
left Friday in motor car for the road test
The regular troops will include 1st Squadron
18th Cavalry under Major Mercer; two battalons
of the oath Infantry (negro). under Major Tag
CART; two battaIions of the 18th Infantry. Major
Mallory commanding; two companies of engf-
neers from Washington, with Major Langftt In
charge two squadrons of the 18th Cavalry under
Major Dickman. from Fort Myer, Virginia. COM
pany of the hospital corps and thirtyfour men or
the signal corps
Lieutenant Colonel Rumbold of the 1st Field Ar
tilIery Captain Horn Lieutenants Miles and Shep-
ard staff and Battery D. Sd Field Artillery, with
124 men, 1O9 horses and four field pieces. left Fort
Myer Yesterday. Mayor Mercer. with four troops
of the 18th and three of the 11th reached Carthage
last evening Major Barth, of Fort Myer, IS ex-
pected 10 reach Pine Plains at noon to-day with
oSn tba N Infantry,