The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-04
US. DIVISION TO MOVE TO-DAY
SAD DISAPPOINTMENT. FOR ITS
ONLY A BFG WAR GAME.
AerOpianc Trip Of ~ Minutes sets the
Whole Machinery Of the Fort sam
Houston Camp Whlrring Gen. Garter
says Mobilization Has Done Good,


states Signal Corps. lifted itself out OF
the slop of the parade ground at the
division camp at $50 O'Clock this after.
noon whiz1ed to the east, stabbed
through low lying bank of clouds and
vanished. Frank r. Coffin. the Wright
| aviator instructor sat at the controlling
levers with watch on his wrist. n com.
pass strapped about one leg and a decor
ative pistol in its holster hanging to a
convenient upright Lieut. Ben jamin r
Fou'ois OF the aeroplane division Of the
signal Corps sat beside him. an open mar
spread across his knees aud u despat ch
pad handy in n leather pocket
In lust forty seven minutes Coffin
brought his machine down within a
hundred feet of Gen Carter's tent and
Lieut. faulois went IN to report. His
message. written from the seat of the
aeroplane. conveyed To the commanding
General Of the division the start ling
'ntelligenc" That the aeroplLne had located
an entire DIVISION of the enemy horse.
root and artillery. bivouacked twenty
miles 10 the north and eas; near the town
OF Schertr on the line of the Southern
Pacific Railroad tie had plotted on the
map from an altitude of 100 feet the
exact disposition of the "enemv's" forces.
"ithin ten minutes Of the time that the
big fiier skidded over the sod before Gen
'arf"r's tent word had been sent TO each
OF the acknowledgements in the di vision
that they were to assemble a. Gen Car
yer tent to receive orders. The springs
OF action wer" SCI IN motion aud tn. fire,
DIVISION nanpuvre of the mobilized
army at For, Sam Houston r..or,a,ioi,
was begun
Field orders No l." which came neatly
typewriter from IN. ten, of one of Con
Carter's stan. told each Brigadier- General
what IN" critical situation was that has 10
be faced about sunrise tomorrow morn.
ing
The main body of the enemy is being
held IN check 10y oar independent cavalry
brigade in the vicinity Of Leon Springs"
so IA" order read An aeroplane recon-
naissance has doveloped hostile division
advancing on our base via Bracken and
Selma
TINS command will proceed tomorrow
To TAX" up position in readiness on the
general line of the Beital road
The order than set forth that the div-
-iona! cavalry. which in the absence Of
the Ninth and Eleventh Regiments has
TO be represented by Capt F. C. .Johnsons
provost guard Of Troop NJ of the Third.
would move to certain position. the
night column under command of Brig
Gen Smith To another and the left column.
10y Gen. Hoyt. would act as
a reserve
Before an hour had passed each Brig
adler had issued the necessary ov vernight
orders 10 hi. Colonels and through them
To the last Second Lieutenant. Just out of
West Point. th" iinpetu. of action de
-cended Passes out Of camp for the night
were suspended. scouting parties were
sent down 10 san Antonio to round No the
absent officers from the hotel lobbles and
the dallying enlisted men from he moving
picture shows.
Nobody but the Brisadiers and their
higher staff officers knew what was in the
wind, and when the word passed around
camp and IN the by-ways @ San Antonio
hat tn" whole division, including hospital
Irain and wagons. was 10 hi: the road a,
sunrise tomorrow speculation became SO
tense as TO be painful Fverything from
he assassination of Ambassador Wilson
n Mexico city to the blowing up of Fl
Paso by lnsurrecto dynamite passed as
good currency IN the camp gossip and
o-nisht several thousand private solder.
and not few commissioned officers who
ire not IN on the gam. are sleeping over
'IsIonS of cactus on hot plain with row,
IF conicat straw hats peeknS over the
OPS OF M"sicos ragged mountains
Tomorrow they will all learn tha,
u-t about Twelve miles straiph'awav
VII cover n" sum Of their actiy i,ies
md that the only diplomatic issue that
viii have Ia he settled will concern some
iolid German farme-s broken barhad
wire fences. II Is what the army calls
| problem, the first division problem"
hat has been sat 10 stir thu. activity =
4 N" manplvre division
Aside from proving for the first time
n AMERICA, Theoretically AT leasi tho
'Giia OF IN" aeropi3ne IN warfare Coffin
md Fotioi. made a pioneer discovery
u the field of natural science which
leceSslrily has heretofore remained IN
iin''o. rms l. thai common Ieyas
kunk can be reconnoitred and his posi-
ION determined from an elevation of
0H feet, this without seeing the skunk
i all
Gen Garter gave 10 The Srx CORE t,
pondent to-day statement which he
Iad prepared and which covers some !
points Of recent criticism 4,
Irmy officers in the division camp here
ave no: concealed their dspleas,lre
ver the fact that when sou,e New York 7
|ational Guard officers of the first batch {
en' down for period Of two weeks
tudy e'urned 10 New York they CAV.
interviews To the papers in which they
Ssilmed To criticiS1 tn" command of tho :
vlsion here and the seeming lack of