New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
BEWARE, Mr.. HUERTA!
There's Something Happening
in Madison Square Garden.
NOISE BEGINS TONIGHT
Review to Open Big Military
Show, with Mayor Kline on
the Firing Line.

II General Huerta had happened into
| Madison Square Garden yesterday after
noon, albeit il was peaceful Sunday, he
would have seen a few demonstrations of
military efficiency that would have damp
ened his ardor for irritating his Uncle
! Sam any more with his doings down
! where the Yucca blossoms bloom. lie
would have seen the military tourna-
ment, under the auspices of the Military
Athletic League. getting touched off
day early in a full dress rehearsal Of the
warike scenes that are going TO keep the
Garden laundering for this whole week.
The show Will open tonight in dead
| earnest with Mayor Kline's review of the
! fifteen hundred participants. Then, after
| the Mayor has made a non-campaign,
| though pro-military, speech the horses
! will begin to prance. the dust VIII hy as
| the gun carriages dash over the arena,
/ the walls of the buildings Will shake as
| the field pieces bark and the muskets vol
| ley. and applause Will greet the horses
as they do their stunts.
The first event. as staged yesterday in
the rehearsal. was an attack on flaming
building by a picked squad of laddermen
! from the New York Fire Department
under Battalion Chief Larkn. Not eA-
actly military, but nevertheless heroic
work so il goes in the military show,
and the fire laddies are given a chance TO
show just how blazing walls are scaled.
fre-hemmed people rescued and hremen
themselves protected from death,
Next came some real military, with a
bayonet exercise and combat in leather
padded uniforms II was the Sd Com
pany, United States Coast Artillery, I'M
der the command of Captain John w.
McKie. After this Troop G, 1st Squad
ron. LIST Cavalry, If the New York Ma
tional Guard. galloped in. They are
machine gun troop. with rapid fire guns
strapped 10 the backs OF their mules. The
climax % this act was a demonstration
of the speedy way in which guns are put
in action and set firing at the rate OF 800
shots a minute. No place for man with
a headache.
Following field exercises and manGu-
vres BY provisional company, there were
some spectacular rapid driving stunts by
Battery +, list Field Artillery, of the
national guard-four guns of them, six
horses to gun, dashng around the
arena like mad in four directions at once
passing as clean as knife between
stakes set Just the width of the wheels.
and then all four coming to halt abreast
with the nicely of parts of a machine.
Then the combat company OF the list
Regiment staged little sham battle UNI
der command OF Captain Henry d. Masiin.
| Again, no place for folk with nerves.
/ The realism was carried out by the hui
name offices of field hospital and ambu-
| lance corps. who picked up the dead
/ and wounded"
/ ut the big thing was the way the I'd
| Engineers dashed in with heterogeneous
| looking mass of stun. and, slap! bang
/ in seven minutes there stood 2c-foot
| trestle crossing an imaginary stream,
| across which the corps dashed to the OPP
poste bank.
! Then another body Of men swarmed
after them, trailing wires and DOING
! strange things. II was the explosives
| squad, laying mines. Boom. OF went
the mine down went the bridge-anG no.
| body could imagine anybody crossing that
| imaginary stream after that
The ninth act was a platoon Of police
urder Lieutenant Mccarthy. doing riot
| duty. Tammany repeaters will he ellSl-
! BILE to represent the mob. The afternoon
| show wound up with some daredevil mu-
| itary riding by Lieutenant w. ii. Shep-
| herd and two brother officers from Fort
Myer.