The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-05

Major Bridgnan had picked his wire
dir road with hankers thrown out wher
old huckleberry came tearing along the
roau toward him. swinging his hat and
yelling. The Major halted his cavalry
! Hey! shouted Hucklsberry. 70 you
want TO find the military with the kivsrec
wagons you listen To me
ommy how about this1- said Bridg.
man, to his Sergeant Major Would
THIS ne playing the game''
WHY notr said Tommy Clark -Don't
the problem specify Information by
friendly habitants'' QuiE Andrew Jack-
insides
Them fellers.- pursued Huckleberry.
was workin' through the brush down
by that patch OF Cottonwoods by the
crossin and they wanted to know Z I
could pint EN- the right road 90 Carthage
Seargeant. big fellow with stripes on his
coat sleeves gave me q chew Of eatin
terbackcr and p'inted EN- the wrong
road They ~ coming this way he'll
bent and they can't be a mile on >
BndgmAn made ou' that Huckieberry
he'd seen the wagon tram and its cavalry
guard IN full retreat. and the Major knew
here was no time To waste. BY ambushinR
and d-touring the Red cavalry and captur-
ing the wagon train n would get valu-
abba supplies and deprive tn. man Red
AlllN ~ tfAI might nr1nR
about the destruction - the Blue de-
Z tsnslvs force
~ he deployed his troops IN cover
| mounted his men. sent the machine gun
battery to masked position among tim
ter on the brow Of a hill tina, swept the
rns,d and a stretch Of oIsn country through
/ which IN" Red horsemen would have 10
I com" and sat down waiurZ TO- thu fun
\ qua t''r II an hour later u d scouts were
! sighted -nsaklng through the bus n
I Hrfdg Tfla 4 man ~ rinaa And
lh- scouts came on until they were
actually within the B,ue lines Thcv were
surrounded ard captured silently Then
! me point " the cavalry showed up. half a
troop with Swapping p"nnons making a
brave show IN tho brilliant sunlight among
he green trees BridgmAn gave the
word aud Ike a flesh deadly rfe firc
struck home against the TANKS q the
trapped Blue horSsmen Prom its knoll
the masked battery cut loose with an in
ce-zant rattle and finished what the rife
men had begun In actual warfare the
Red cavalry would have been annihilated
Huckleberry witnessed the engagement
from the crotch 81 an elm and puc,uated
the rife fire with delighted yeli- When
the bugles sounded cease firing and the
reCall and Bridgman turned 10 mop the
sweat ~ his face Iuck'eberry ran up 70
-haSs hands At that mon. INT two Of the
unpira~ appeared They wanted % know
now m the name of Condemned humanity
ta.- variation ~ mano.uVres cane about
H." Major bursting into laughter swung u
glove toward HuCkleberry Charley
That. saId an umpire. and poured
MS feelings Don't you know, cir. that
YOU should not have injected your in
formation into this situation'-
Wasn't gOin 70 have these fellers
whIpy al said Hucklcberry standing
ms ground llk" General Of division I
get an invite to meals when I visit their
camp
In" jok. was rich enough to relate by
wireless 10 the commanding q General. who
had not had tune. 81 course to bring
up the main command The Signal Corps
men dashed oH quickly the details Of !
ChaTl"y's exploit and ths commanding
General smote himself on the thu Oh and
pa--'-t laugh back that shook has dusty
troops :
While Huckleberry was saving the
country an enga cement IN larger mum
bers was icing fought miles awav A.
leraysville between regular troops II
was worked out 70 the last decinal az the
umplre- had planned 4 blu" ~, sIou.
consisting Of the negro troops 81 the
Twenty-fourth Infantry less three com
paniss. the third battalion 81 th. Fifth
Infantry. the Tenth Cavalry less nv.
troops a section of the ambulance corps
and a company Of the Tenth cavalry was
protecting the country against a R.d
diVI-tun composed 81 Battery ID. InIri
i"ld Artillery part Of the Fifth Infantry u
{ ne third squadron Of the Tenth Cavalry
under Go! { y Gowi-- % IN" fiith In
tantry
The Blue army halted for th. day at
l..ravsNIll" and went into camp. bat
{ al Jones learned that many wagons
W"r" moving on the road from Antwerp
10 Carthage and that Red troops had hem
observed ia the neighborhoOd His
patrols reported later that all the bridges
over the Black River between Natertown
and Carthage had been destroyed and
hat the telegraph wires had been cut
Ia" patrols brought IN word that the
Reds w"r" throwing up trenches at the
crossing Of West Black Greek and a road
"a I,eray-vIlle Col Jones received orders
he enemy and TO cut ia lines Of COM
nunication
III. black sklrmishers found the snemy ,
u y. VI. The Re IL were protected bv !
heir battery 81 field guns aud their posi-
ION wsS obviously strong Col. Cowlss
va' prepare To resist an attack in force
m" Blu" skirmishers were rep,Ilsei wItb
ieavy loss. col. Jorss ~ the Blue
rheelei de'achmsnt Of infantry 10
'ttAck the trenches along covcre :
errain. while his main body poUrei in
heavy fire To keep the defenders closely Q
- RAget. The "ngagemcnf las'ei for
N hour and a half AID was stubborn ~ y
Cowles r.liat on his battery
q save him and the battery was equal .
% ~" job II drove hack Col. Joncs's
'lu. attackers tim. and time again. End
> length the uinpires 6e;idet that the =
ttFGk hal failed aud that the Rel army =
a sAvei i's position. d
Other problems were being worked out
N H.. "A Il wastes The New York .
fsrtry the Twelfth. sixty ninth and .
.se1tv-frst regiments. we're practising .
prmations for attack and defence by :
with regular army officers as
,siriIctor- They were out Of camp by o
4 NJ and thcy III int hike hack until u
y n. ten hours Of hard. earnest work
The men haven't developst a crouch I.
ct T"rhfps berause the oommisssry do
srtm"1t he's leo perfect in its arrange
l"nts There has lee fer less complaint =
iar - u-uFI from nilitiam-1 IN camTs
Z irz'r,Ic'iors. The weather has been
arfe-' for military purposes and ther" - I'd
~ man ~ IN" s. jJO who N serioIIrly III.
nlv twelve men we're on the hospital =,
lis to-day aud their complaintA were :