The Washington herald., 1914-05-20
CADETS faint IN
ANNUAL REVIEW
Eight Lads, Exhausted from
Excitement, Drop Guns
and Lie Down.
THEY RECOVER QUICKLY
THEY RECOVER QUICKLY
Victims Able to Go to Their Homes
After Being Aided by Ma
tional Guardsmen.

Painting with exhaustion and nervous
excitement. eight blue-ciad figures drop
ped from their place In the ranks and lay
stretched on the grass Of the White
House Ellipse at the annual review o
the high school cadet regiment there yes
terday afternoon.
One by one the tired lads, the oldes
but boy of sixteen, stepped from theil
places in the rigidly lines of blu'
and with tired, exhausted signs, dropped
their guns and fell fainting behind theii
officers. National guardsmen. detailed Al
a hospital corps ran from victim to vic
tim, given hrst-aid treatment
Paul Frizzell, fifteen years old, Of s
Thirteenth street northwest was the
first to fall. He is a member OF Com
pany 1 of Central High School. The
- members of the ambulance corps wert
administering stimulants to the faintine
cadet, when Wilmer Savage, a few PAGES
away, in the same company, quietly laid
down his gun without a sound and fell
fainting to the grass Young Savage Il
fifteen years old and lives at W Mary.
land avenue northeast.
Six Others Exhausted.
Within ten minutes, six more cadets
had dropped, and DIR. W. B. Hudson, OF
the District National Guard, personally
took charge of the work of caring for the
cadets. OF the eight who were overcome,
six. We're of Company I, of Central. Be-
sides Savage and Frizzell, the members
of Company ], who tainted, were Her
bert Allen, IA. 124 Bryant street; Robert
Dave. Is, 329S Nineteenth street north
west: A. p. Phillips. Sergeant Road,
Brookland. and Harry Woodward, Is, 1884
Seventeenth street. Vernon Clark. a mem
Der of Company A. Central High School.
of rs NJ street northwest, and c. z. An
adale,-corporal of Company E, Eastern
High School. living at 1882 New Hamp-
shire avenue, were the Offers.
All of the eight boys were able to go to
their homes after the review, although
the incident slightly marred the affairs.
The temperature was not particularly
high. and nervous excitement Is said to
have been responsible.
The twelve companies of the High
School Cadet Regiment, from Central.
Business, Eastern and Western High
Schools and the Mckinley Manual Train
ing School participated in the review,
which was inspected by Mai. Gen. Woth-
erspoon, chief Of the staff of the army,
with Capt. Powell Clayton and aid.
The three battalions Of the cadets form
ed at Sixth street and Louisiana avenue
northwest at 3 O'Clock yesterday after
noon. but it was Ais o'clock before Col.
w NJ Yater, in command Of the cadet
regiment ordered the cadets into a march
toward the White House ElIipse. They
marched up Pennsylvania avenue and
stepped upon the review field promptly at
o'clock. * As~ :
Gen. Wotherspoon, with his aids and
detachment of cavalrymen from the
Army War College, all mounted, occu-
pied a position before the reviewing
stand Hundreds of chairs had been
placed on the Elipse for the occasion
and hundreds Of people stood about the
edge of the expanse of parking.
Secretary of War Garrison was ex-
pectcd to attend the review. but was
unable to attend Nelson O'Shaughnessy.
former charge d'affaires at the United
States Embassy at Mexico City, with
Mrs O'Shaughnessy, was present Near
ly all the members of the Board of Edu-
cation were present. Superintendent Of