Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-24
ROUGH RIDER T|NGE
CVENDRESSPARADE
Bucking Horse and Lieut..
Oliver Terry Principals in
Spectacular Stunt.
ANIMALS VAIN EFFORTS
TO UNSEAT HIS RIDER
Saturday Night Scenes in Historic
Old Gettysburg.
TOWN FILLED WITH SOLDIERS
Dusty Tramp Of Two Miles for Brief
Hour Of Pleasure-Regulars
and Militiamen Fraternize.
Saturday Night Scenes in Historic
Old Gettysburg.
TOWN FILLED WITH SOLDIERS


GETTYSBURG, Pa. July 23.-Bucking
across the parade grounds with all the
fire of a western broncho, the horse ridden
at dress parade this evening by Lieut..
bia Infantry gave to the ordinary cere-
monious proceeding of dress parade a
touch of the real. rough-rider atmosphere
of cowboy caLlp. For five minutes
Lieut.. Terry was bucked up and down the
line of the regiment by horse which had
never seen the wheelings and Greetings of
a dress parade. and which evidently was
determined to get the soldier and his
trappings from the saddle to the ground.
1t was the spectacular feature of the
day. Gathered to see the dress parade
by the crack list Regiment were all the
regular army officers attached to the big
camp as we'll as the brigade officers of
the District National Guard, comprising
Gen. Harries and his staff. Several big
automobile parties, which had come out
from town to witness the dress parade,
and many ladies, were watching the men
march and pass in review, and were lis
tening to the LIST Regiments band.
Animal Concluded to Desert.
The officers had just gone forward
from front and center at the most cere-
monious point of the parade, when Lieut.
Terrys horse thought he would desert
from the guards. AT the first buck the
rider knew he had nasty horse, and
called all of his horsemanship into play.
The animal seeing that one buck did
no damage, squirmed and writhed all the
harder. Up and down the drawn-up line
of the regiment the bucking horse flew,
while officers and men looked on the
superb spectacle which the lieutenant af-
forded Of sitting in a most difficult sad
die. Finally, at the edge of the parade
ground, the lieutenant dismounted, and
in doing SO the bucking steed got away
from him. Lieut.. Terry started after
him on foot, but Col Smiley dismounted
at that point and the broncho- busting
Terry took the colonels horse.
Every one in camp tonight is talking of
it. and many of the cavalrymen say il
was as good an exhibition of sticking to
. saddle as they have ever seen.
District Men on Detail.
Private Daniel J. Hickey Of the Hos
pital Corps, ID. &. ~ CT, and Serst.
Daniel Divine of the Signal Corps Com
pany were detailed tonight to the 10Th
United States Cavalry, the Fort Myer
outfit. for instruction, and also to assist
the regular veterinarians with the sick
ness among the horses that is worry
ing the regulars not a little. The cpl
demic was given out officially tonight
as one Of poison, and is not considered
contagious. The stable detail of one OF
the cavalry troops expects to remain at
the camp grounds after the troops go
back to Fort Myer. The reason they
give is that they do not believe the sick
horses will be well enough to move and
they evidently expect the epidemic to
lave a run.
This Is Saturday night in Gettysburg
and every man in the big camp Of in
struction who could possibly get leave to
go to town seems to have come along the
extremely dusty mile and half of Penn
syivania pike to get to town.
The regulars are here apparently only
to get couple of bottles of Gettysburg
beer. take smouch around town and
then 90 back TO camp. But the guards
men seem 10 be here for the sole purpose
OF spending their money on post cards,
Ice cream, photographs or mother-of-
pearl souvenirs, with no earthly utili-
tartan function. Tomorrow the girls will
come to camp, two railroad excursions
being on the schedule. 1t is predicted
that the population OF this county will be
about doubled tomorrow, and the guards
men are buying souvenirs tonight SO that
the girls can go back home with some
thing by which they can always remem-
Der the lovely trip into d region filled
with flies and covered with two inches
of dust.