The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-28
CADETS VISIT SANDY HOOK
GRADUATING CLASS AT WEST
POINT Down FOR A DAY.

In squads Personally Condueted b Sea.
soaed Army OmceFS They Gee and
Near Interesting Things ~ the Prev.
mE Ground ana In the FsEtlnca tisns.
There was a solid line Of gray uniforms
around the news stand at the wsshEwksn
ferry house on the Jersey side e. $50 last
evening and seventy-seven about-to-be
officers in the United States army reached
over one another TO get a complete col
lection Of the evening newspapers and the
current magazines. It isn't often that the
graduating class at West Point gets an
opportunity 10 lay hands on these souve-
Mrs OF the outside world 20 readily and
the few minutes they had before their
two special vestibuls coaches started back
! for the military academy were not TO be
wasted.
Three out Of the eighty men Who viii be
second lieutenAnts after June IS Of this
year happened 70 be on the Hick list yes-
terday. but every one Of the others took
the trip 70 Sandy Hook that IL always
arranged at this time Of the year to give
them q line on the way the coast protsc-
tors handle the big fellows among Uncle
Sans firing irons.
Getting up IN the early dawn IL the
easiest thing they do up at West Point.
add 40 Il wasn't any hardship for them
to he down for the stS. They went a.
a class. in the short coated fatigue uni
forms on which there is nothing that gilt
tiers. and there was no marching or bother
ing about the militMy details that Obtain
when they stay az home Excepting
the clothes IL might Just a. well have been
any sort Of an academic expedition in
which the idea ia 70 Sc and 70 learn A
little element Of passive authority went
with the handful Of army officers who
accompanied tho class 10 Sc that every
thing went right. Col G. l.. n. RuEEles
was IN charge and he had with him Capt
Alfred Maybach. Lieut. y. r. Rehkopf.
Lieut.. George r. Alln and Lieut.. Nc
Donald
The QuArteTmaster's steamer General
Meigs met them az WeehaWken and the
ride down the hay with fresh salt breeze
blowing in their facrs gave them all the
q them And pretty full day had been
mapped out Il started On the way down
when they divided into seven sections
over one u which an Ordnance Depart
ment officer took charge 80 that every
cadet could he close 20 a man who kneW
about everything when Il came 20 e1-
planning what was going on
Near the wharf a. SANDY Hook were
Col Rogers Bfnie. commanding officer
n The Sandy Hook proving ground. and
Col John Y White. commanding Fort
Hancock The officers and cadets were
presented 90 the colonies and their Stars
and then everybody went aboard a wait
ing ordnance train which was run 10 the
SPOT where the siXteen-inch gun noses
ovl over he way into New York
After they had looked over the big chan
and rs bigger brother. the eighteen Inch
GathmAnn gun. and the targets nearby.
the cadets heard for the first time the
,ort II roar that q sixteen -incher can stir
up when u wants 10, just one round was
fred 10 sea with a three-auarters charge
Of smokeless powder and a cast iron shell
under the direction 81 Capt Waller Of
the Ordnance Department And then
the cadets climbed back into tho tram
and were hustled over 10 the proof hat
terN. NJ oUCRfH VINO were ACtinE a.
guides and philosophers 20 each small
group spent a lot Of time showing the
various sorts of material and then the
cadets mounted the concrete transverzes
behind the battery and stood there until
some thing happened Il came all right.
OF rather i went. ~ thH shape ~ atoTpedo
shell that sailed from the mouth ~ a
twelve-inch motar and danced through
the air until Il struck on the beach OOO
yards away and blew Itself into anither-
Gems Lieut. Rose saw that the range
was a. Il should he and directed the dis-
charge
After that they Hred a round from the
1905 model ~ a inch gun and Iieut
Coles LEI the cadets uee how ~ work a
disappearing carriage when " su-tains
such a gun The educational side ~ the
trip came out strong here Such thinRA
a. the pressure In the recoll cylinder. the
velocity ~ the reooil ~ tho t0p carriage
and the powder pressure were taken for
the benefit n the Young officers 10 he
Then Lieut. Brett bo--ed the shooting Of
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