The Irish standard., 1910-09-10
WAS BORN AND
REARED IN NEW YORK
New Superintendent of the United
States Military Academy
at West Point
Is Major General Thomas H. Barry
Who Entered as a Cadet in
July 1873.
Will Prove a Most Popular and Eff
ficient Manager, Say His
Associates.

A., who became Superintendent of
the United States Military Academy al
West Point on Sept. /, is what supreme
Court Justice OGorman recently
termed "a typical product OF New York
City" He was born and reared in the
old First Ward. and there are now in
New York men who tell YOU that
Tom Barry was the handsomest boy
in the old ward, and that when he
came back from West Point on
furlough the younger boys We're wont
to point him out as their hero.
That was thirty-odd years ago, when
some of the best people in New York
lived back Of Trinity church, between
Greenwich street and the river. 1t was
in that section that Gen. Barry lived
as boy, and it was there that he lived
when Robert B. Roosevelt, uncle of
the President who was later to make
him brigadier and then Ma jor Gem
eral. appointed him cadet to West
Point in July, 1873.
Police Capt. Patrick Lahey of the
New York police force was one of the
youngsters in old Greenwich village to
whom Barry as cadet was a hero.
'He was older than the rest of us
boys" said Capt. Lahey the other day,
but remember him we'll. | recoI-
lect when he came home from West
Point. He was the straightest, finest
looking lad ever saw. and we kids
just stood around and admired him. I
saw him years later when as Grand
Marshal he rode at the head Of the
great parade that went up Fifth avenue
at the time of the Catholic Centenary
celebra ton in this city and handsome
as he was as boy he was even hand
somer as a general of the army. No
body who ever knew him israstonished
at the great record he has made"
1t was in old grammar school 20
that Gen. Barry got the preliminary
education that fitted him for a career
at West Point. IN those days the prin-
cipal was Patrick Gavan Duffy, later
the famous Judge Duffy. The school In
those days stood where the United
States Express building now is, at
Rector and Greenwich streets. In 1872
Robert B. Roosevelt was the congress-
appointment TO West Point waiting for
some bright lad. Somebody. maybe
1t was Judge Duffy, told him about
young Barry and Mr.. Roosevelt looked
up his record and said he was the very
boy he wanted, and so it was that on
July !, 1873, Thomas II. Barry entered
West Point. ... ...
Popular Cadet.
Gen. Barry was one Of the popular
cadets during the four years he was
at the Academy. AS an athlete he
stood in the front rank, and he stood
high az student. In June. 1877. he
received his diploma, and as a Second
Lieutenant was assigned to the famous
Seventh Cavalry. Clusters old com
mand. After three years in the Sew
enth.- Gen. Barry was transferred to
the infantry arm and assigned to the
First Infantry as A First Lieutenant.
Two years later he was promoted
Captain, and after that passing through
every grade until in August, 1903,
President Roosevelt made him Brig
adler General. In April, 1908, the same
president promoted him to the present
rank, the highest under the present
law that an army officer can attain.
When Gen. Barry becomes Superin-
tendent at West Point he will be the
second officer of his rank to hold that
post since West Point was founded.
The other was Lieut.. Gen. John NJ.
Schofeld, who was a Major General
when appointed Superintendent in
1876.
| A Fine Record.
No officer in the army has a finer
record than Gen. Barry. In the Span
ish war he was an Adiutant General
and after the close Of that war he saw
hard service in the Philippines. When