The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-09
MAYOR IS TO TRAIN
AT MILITARY CAMP
OFF To-day for Plattsburg.
Where He'll Set City En-
ample Of soldering.
SPECIAL TRAINS ENGAGED

bus ness and professional men who
win go into camp for military training
al P~lattsburg tomorrow morning. He
spent Saturday and yesterday in looking
over the Catskill water system, with
headquarters at Ashokan. and will GO
to Plattsburg to-day.
Other city officials who will get a
taste OF the soldiers life on the shore
Of Lake Champiain are Fire Commits
sioner Adamson. Weights and Measures
Commissioner Hartigan and Henry n.
Curran. v~ice-chairman OF the Board of
Aldermen.
TIL Mayor will stay at Plattsburg
two weeks unless recalled by unexpected
pressure OF city affairs. lie wanted to
go for fou weeks. but decided hat he
could not spare the time. He is going
because a chief executive of the city
ne wishes to set an example for other
New Workers. and because he thoroughly
approves Of Gen. Woods programme for
the drilling OF civilians.
Then, too, he wishes 10 learn as a
recruit the elements Of military life as
they are being taught by officers of the
regular army at the camp. He made his
plans for the trip after a talk with
| Gen. Wood.
Buys Regulation Outat.
On Friday the Mayor went 70 a
broadway store where military outfits
are handled and bought the khaki uni
form and other equipment which each
volunteer must have. He bought w
pa'rs OF heavy marching shoes. medium
weight socks, a pair Of light shoes. two
pairs OF olive drab breeches. an army
blouse. two olive drab shirts. a pair OF
leggings and a campaign hat.
As all the others. he will have to
provide his own transportation and will
deposit $50 at the camp to pay for food
and other necessary things.
Inc Mayor expects to dig trenches.
study military hygiene. hike when or.
dered TO do 80 and perform all other
tasks assigned. As he is a crack shot
with pistol and rife. it is probable that
ne VIII mingle a good deal with the
sha~rpshooters.
Two special trains will leave the Grand
central station at 9:l5 o'clock tonight
Tor PlattsburR. bearing the major part
or the New York contingent. 4 detach-
ment OF seventy men started on Saturday
In fifteen automobiles which were
equipped with the machine guns. Twelve
policemen OF rhe metropolitan force left
for the camp yesterday morning. 4
number OF those enrolled have made or
will make the trip separately. But some
800, Including many OF the best known
OF the younger business and professiona.
men or the city and many noted college
athletes. will go tonight. arriving jus,
In time to report at the opening OF the
camp.
BY tomorrow noon the military camp.
ers will all be a in the regulation
khaki and by tomorrow night tbs
routine OF the camp will be IN full swing
Capt. Halstead Dorey. senior aid 4
Gen. Leonard Wood. and Cant. Corridor
Johnson. who will be respectively rom.
mander and adjutant Of the camp, hav,
been OF the ground since Friday. Gen
: Wood will go up this morning.
Business Proposition.
, The camp Is to he distinctly a bushes,
E observation-disclosures to turn the vol
E unteers out NJ for actual service II eyei
there IL need-no dress parades, No bra 81
bands and waving banners and It'll,
= loafing. From reveille at ! 80 A. NJ
, until | O'Clock the men will be kept ~
q the jump with training and drill. Tn,
afternoons will be passed in special work
-. such as map reading and signalling. an,
+, there will be lectures by regular arm,
officers on such things as trench warfar re-
military bridge building. and the in
: stallation and operation OF electrical fell
: lines.
with the New Workers.. delegation
from Philadelphia. Baltimore, Chicag,
and Pittsburg will join In the work. Re
y cruits from smaller places will brin,
: the total number of campers we'll abov'
twelve hundred.
5 The idea for this camp-the first o
II its kind-came from the summer mill
y tary camps which have been operated II
n the last few years for the training q
d coll ge students. II has been sprea,
largely through committees of the col
l. lege clubs in the various cities. pain
r. being taken to interest men who ha
o already passed the thirty year mark an
1. perhaps felt that flannel shirts and har
81 work which started at 5 80 in the morn
,e ing were too much FOR them. Gen. Woo,
n who has devoted a great deal of tim
to the plan. said yesterday that he vi
of highly pleased with the results so far.
* No Congr. ssional or State appropria
IN ton has been made To cover expense
a the money needed beyond the $50 whic
I'll each volunteer must pay for his boar
or having been contributed by Judge Elhe'
In H.. Gary, j. J.. Morgan, George W. Pc
r. kins, Brown Bros. Il Co, Potter, Choa'
IN & Prentice and White. Weld a Co.
some of Those on Rolls.
Among those who will work at "
no camp are John W. AleXander 2d. c.
er Applet-u, :. s, sAuchincloss. RuiSArt
g. Bacon, Arthur Crawford. Thomas Blai
r. den, Winthrop Burr, Jr.. 7. W. Carnegi
re =, 1haalnr II tlaxnnAar - Cochin,
~ ]. -. Crimmins. Jr.. DIR. Richard Dcrb
ne j. &. Fargo. II. Grosvenor. cyril Hate
w. Hamilton Fish. Jr.. q. L. Hornblowe
"" @. W. Hubbcll. Jr, r., du Pont Irwin
Adrian lselin I'd, oliver lselin. g O'Do'
nell lselin. Henry James. Jr,. J, kcog
Y. Jr.. Archibald King. Frederick X. Kin
lie Roy King. +. II. Kinnicutt, Theodo
t. Lane j. &. Lillienthal. Dudley Field NJ
lone, T.. u. Morgan. Jr, Regis Poo
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