The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-11
TRAINING CAMP
 IS FILLING UP
New York Contingent R caches s P1attsburg
 Work in Earnest Now.

Plattsburg, N. r., Aug. Tiff any person alighted from a train here to- day and started to whistle f'I Didn't Raise My Boy to- Be a Soldier he would probably be mobbed by crowd Of khaki-clad New York business men who are here to learn how to be sol diers. The peace-at-any price man would. find himself about as popular in Plattsburg at this time as rain storm on the Fourth of July. Mayor Mitchell is taking to the soldering game like a duck to the water and the big delegation of business men from New York who reached here today resful1s of enthusiasm and 'spep.'
 Five hundred New. Workers. com. sisting of bankers, lawyers, doctors,S policemen, clerks, football stars, polo players and athletics in general, ar rived yesterday on a aspecial train. There were two sections of the train and each section consisted of Il cars. Delegations from Philadelphia, Balti- nore. Chicago and Pittsburgh also reached here at the same time.
 Among those who got in yesterday on the special train were Bradley Mar. tin. B. J. Roosevelt pr, Richard Derby, Magistrate Daniel Murphy, R. s. Pierrep ont. Crawford BIagden, Will lard Straight, IT E. Murrell.s Lewis. Stuyvesant Chanler, Jr., C. Oliver Ise- elin, Adrian Iselin, Alexander Smith Cochran, Gordons sMacDonald, Walter Seligman, Raymond Belmont, c. C.. surnsey J. e Fargo, T. W Garnegie. Police Captain Edward Hughes, Mar tin J. Keogh, Jr., J. W. Alexander 2d., Philip Brashear, John D. Crimmins, Jr,. Reginald Durant, R. Grosvenor, w. s. Van Rensselaer,, A. Al Parker. Bronson Winthrop, P. c. Wadsworth, B D. Morgan. Jr., G.! B. Kip, Edwin Der. BechteI and Frank Butterw orths
 From Philadelphia. came George Wharton Pepper, who was in charge of the Philadelphia delegation of young men and with him were w.. CIothier, the banker and former ten, his champion; Victor Mather and a. number Of well known polo players.
 They are all d democratic and anxious to learn all that can be learned about the soldering game duriT1g the four weeks that is allotted to them The social line will. be invisible in camp. Big business men will dig trenches with policemen and hobnob with clerks. No shirkers will be tolerated. The man who owns a skyscraper in New York will have to. dig trenches and wash his own shirts
 ] Mayor Mitchell stole a march on the New York city delegation that reached here yesterday. The mayor arrived bright and early Monday morning with Henry H. Curran, vice chairman 1 of the Board of Aldermen, and Will
 
 It was ' o'clock when New York I citys chief executive arrived in l Plattsburg. He and his party had l breakfast in town and at o'clock drove out to the camp, which is two miles distant from the center of the town, On a plain of 30 acres adjoining the barracks and tents. of the Thir- teenth Infantry,R U. S. Az Not far faway are the sparkling blue waters of l Lake. Champlain.
 Shortly before g o'clock Mayor Mitchell and his friends introduced themselves to Capt. Halstead Dorey of the Fourth Infantry. U. s. A, who ] is the camp commander. Achie- Roose- welt and his brother, Theodore. IT., l were on hand and they strolled over and shook hands with. Mayor Mitchell and his party. welcoming them to the ! tented city.
 I ! No time was lost in preliminaries. l Almost at once the mayor and Me1o- J ney were assigned to Company A, which. is in command of Capt. J. R. 1 keeIey of the Twenty sixth Infantry. Not long afterward they were working like beavers putting up their 14x1 tent
 I If any one had happened along at that time he would not have believed that the tall thin person straining at I a tent rope and trying to hold it long enough to peg one end of it to the ground was the nunfclpa1 chief or some 5.o0@000 odd human beings who call New York their home.
 At luncheon Mayor Mitchell, whc was perspiring like hot water pipe looked upon his work and saw thai it was good. But he had irsi de craving that reminded him of some thing. So he went up to Captain Keeley, saluted, and. in a mild tone inquired as to the prospects of getting luncheon. k
 As special dispensation Captain
 Keeley allowed the mayor, MeloneS
 and Alderman Curran to leave the
 reservation and fgo. to the Hotel Cham
 plain at Bluff Point. But he was in 4formed that the camp grub would b,
 his fare when the regular camI
 started yesterday.
 The mayor grinned and replied tha
 any sort of grub would look good t
 him and that he expected to obey al regulations when the camp was in ac tive working order.
 Major-General Leonard Wood. i
 now at the camp to superintends tn work of instruction. General Woot | is vastly pleased over the enthusiasm Of the New York delegation and tn |. way they are taking hold of things
 There is not a "squea1er" amoni ! them.
 Some of the other army officers wh, will assist General Wood in making
 men in four weeks time, are Caml Commander Dorey, Capt Gordon lJohnson of the Eleventh Cavalry camp adjutant; Capt. R. O Van Horl camp adjutant; Capt. R. O. Van HorI
 of the Thirteenth Infantry, Capt. E slV. Collins of the Tenth Infantry Lieut. Carl Truesda1e of the Twenty