New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15
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has the right TO consider there is any
thing voluntary in the discharge Of his
duty to the country as soldier. This
duty is an obligation binding upon all
citizens who are mentally sound and
physically fit and are within certain
prescribed age limits. A man has no
more right to talk of volunteering to
discharge his duty to the nation as a
soldier than he has to talk Of volun-
teering TO obey any moral law or pay a
lust indebtedness. II is a matter OF
principle and not of volition.
"The experience in training men
which our officers are getting here will
in effect double their efficiency in the
line of ability to create new organiza-
tons"
Following his talk General Wood left
for the artillery training school. at
Tobyhanna, Penn. He was visited this
morning by Arthur Woods, Police Com
missioner of New York City. Mr..
Woods was asst gned to Company D. In
getting into this body Mr.. Woods was
very fortunate, for in the extended
order drill this afternoon Company d
received the first applause that has
been given TO any of the rockies.
Unquestionably that is the crack"
company. Led by Captain R. NJ. Parker
of the regular army, the $50 men
marched down to the parade ground
about 3 o'clock this afternoon. 1t was
the last company to enter the final
drill OF the dav And it was the last
company to leave the field. The sharp
ness and uniformity with which every
evolution was performed took observ-
ers' glances from the other men and
centred them on the men of Company
d. They held the field alone for ten
minutes
Horace Marsh, chairman of the Po-
lice Commission of Plattsburg, stood
with a friend watching the drill. The
friend, pointing to the men of Com
pany D, said: 81 am willing TO admit
that the men up here have made great
progress, but when you look at the
men over there you can see at glance
how far he regulars are beyond the
rockies"
yes" said Marsh smiling, at is ap-
parent
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Regis H.
Post, Lathrop Motley and Perry Bead
lesion belong TO that company.
Commissioner Woods, who is only
d private, will have to salute the New
York policemen who rank him in camp.
For the first time since he has been
here John Purroy Mitchell, Mayor Of
New York, devoted part of the day to
consideration of official business. When
rest periods gave him opportunity he
dictated letters on municipal matters.
For him, in other respects, the day was
sing-so He had his ninety minutes
of cavalry. At sub-calibre practice
shooting at targets with a rife scaled
down-he got forty-eight hits out Of
fifty shots.
That Mr.. Mitchell will return to New
York before September 5, when the in
struction will be concluded, seems out
of the question. Police Commissioner
Woods also will stay to the finish, if
crime does not cut up in New York.
To-day four hundred out of about
twelve hundred persons were inocu-
lated by Camp Surgeon Darby against
typhoid and smallpox.
j. Pierre Drouillard. of New York,
who arrived here yesterday, found him
self under the command Of Captain
James Regain, goth Infantry, L. S. A.,
who is in charge of Company G. In
the Boxer troubles in China Droullard
was a captain in the regular army, and
Regain, then a private, reported to him
for duty. Drouillard' left the army sew
eral years ago.