New-York tribune., 1915-12-01
Garv and Schwab Head
Group That Will Meet
Cost of 100000.
OTHERS TO GIVE
ARMED AIRCRAFT
Huge Battle Car Will Garry Two
3.PounderS and Ma
chine Guns.
B, telegraph 20 n. Tnsvuol }

Albany. Nov. 3O--An armored motor
car train that will compare favorably
with anything that has appeared on the
battlefeldS Of Europe will form a part
Of the National Guards equipment
next year. according 20 plans now un-
der way. Governor Whitman approved
to-day, at the budget conference ses-
sion. the request of Adjutant General
Stotesbury for an appropriation OF
$4,000 for supplies and maintenance
for this train during the coming fiscal
wear.
The armored train will cost about
100000. and the entire expense Will
be betrayed by a grouo Of patrotic
citizens who have sgnined their VIII
ingness 70 contribute their share tow
ard making New York's National Guard
q present Of the finest act OF military
motor cars il is possible 20 produce.
Ebert H. Gary, chairman OF the
United States Steel Cooperation, and
Charles ". Schwab. of the Bethlehem
steel Company, have promises TO con-
tribute and 20 furnish the necessary
armor plate and other metal parts at
cost price. Il is said that the IRAN,
complete. would cost over Sl0O,Oc9 al
the open market.
Battle Car Big Feature.
A huge battle car, heavily srmored
and carving two three-pound guns and
two or more machine guns, VIII De the
principal feature Of the train. Ihls
battle car will be carried on q specially
constructed truck equipped with motor
apparatus and steering gear at either
end. so that IL can be run IN any dlree-
tion BY direct control instead OF re
verse.
This car will carry nine or ten men,
All Of them behind armor plate ana
will have space for considerable am
munition. Il will operate on highways
and be capable Of withstandinE heavy
enemy FIRE. Such a car could engage
and destroy an enemy train carrying
troops or supplies. Battle cars OF TINS
description have done very efectlve
work in Belgium and Northern France
during the present war
There will also be six or seven
lightly armored fast motor cars ce.
pable Of carrying machine guns and
suitable for fast scout work or the
bringing Up Of ammunition,
A motorcycle detachment will be
part Of the train. L. all, General
Stotesbury estimates that the train
will need the services of fully one hun
dred men. II is hoped that the battle
car and the rest Of the train will be
completed in time for next summers
mauUuvres.
$4,000 Asked for Aviation.
Another item in General Stotesbury's
budget was q request for $4,000 Tor
aviation. The adjutant general eX-
plained 10 the Governor that this was
10 provide supplies and equipment Tor
an aeroplane corps which was IN
process of formation.
A hangar is 10 be built at Hampstead
Plains and q military aeroplane, the
fTyt To form part of any state militia
in IN, country. Il Is said, will be
boused there. The flying machine,
which will carry an officer and pilot
and be armed with a specially con
structed machine gun, will be paid for
bv several citizens interested IN ava
tion and military affairs.
Rodman Wanam8ker, Glenn Curtlss'
Captain Lorillard Spencer and others
are devoting considerable time TO the
Establishment Of an efficient aero corps
in the National Guard. The Naval
Militia already has a hydroplane.
General StOtesbury's requests IoI
concentrations amounted to sl,l4I64O
for the coming fiscal yeau but were re-
duced by the conference TO SSoO'oVV'