The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-07
ADVANCE GUARD OFF
TO TRAINING CAMP
Machine Gun Squad Will Go
T0-day-TwO TrainlOads
Leave Monday Night.
CAPT. DOREY IN CHARGE

Capt. Hslstead Dorey, side-de-camp
60 Major-Gen. Leonard Wood. arrived
at Plattsburg. n. Y. yesterday to as
sumo command of the military training
camp where loo business and profess
s,onal men will lead a soldiers life for
four weeks. beginning Tuesday. With
Capt. Dorey. who will be the command
ing officer. went Capt. Gordon johnson,
who will be the adjutant of the camp.
This morning an automobile machine
gun detachment will start from Squad
ron AS headquarters. Madison avenue
and Ninety-fourth street. with twelve
machine guns mounted on motor trucks
and with fifty men who have expressed
u preference for that branch OF the
service. C. n. Bowling will be In COM
mand of this detail. One Of the motor
cars which will whlsk a machine gun
10 the new cainp will be OF the armored
type.
Meanwhile. the thousand and more
brokers, lawyers. bank presidents and
Others who W. enrolled In the camp
are getting ready TO leave the city on
Monday to arrive at the camp in time to
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begin a training which will last until
September 6 and which will ut them to
be officers In a volunteer army should
one need to be raised in this country
s In a hurry.
- Most of the men enrolled for the camp
are college graduates, some OF whom sue
cossfully bucked an opposing football
- slime or pulled an oar in a winning shell
D.. in their undergraduate days. More
49, NJ -. LI ~ t-.-
yesterday for the special train that will
a X them over the New York Central to
the PTattsburg Barracks, leaving New
York at 9:15 Monday night. Sixteen
cars are already sold out, and arrange
: ments were made yesterday for "A sec
ond train to leave the city at the same
time.
Tonight and tomorrow night many
of New York's prominent citizens may
be seen standing IN the bathtubs at
their homes with their shoes on and
with several inches OF water In the
enamelled tub. The reason for this is
= that the circular advice sent out to the
men enrolled In the camp has pointed
out that: next to his armament, the
y shoe is the most important item of the
equipment of the soldier" and, before
going to camp II is well to break in
your new shoes by standing In water two
or three minutes. then letting them dry
: on the feet while going about as usual"
instruction at the camp liz designed
TO give each mar there as much OF the
Fundamental training of an officer as can
he impaired in such a limited time
there will be training in all branches
Of the service, with a full complement
Of instructors selected from Major-Gen-
Woods staff and from among other
army officers equipped with special
knowledge. There will be at least fifty
such officers in attendance.
Among the MN whom the army
officers will take in hand and dis
cipline will be Hamilton Fish, Jr.. who
oaptained Harvard's winning football
team two years ago Crawford Blagden.
another M gridiron star: willard
Straight. n Of Cornell's graduates; T.
+. Murrell. another Ithacan and an ar
- chitect: Theodore Roosevelt. Jr. James
l.. Derby OF Oyster Bay Lewis Stuyvcs-
ant Chandler. Jr.. oliver Islin. Alexander
Macdonald of Princeton, Walter Selig-
man of Yale. Alexander Gordon OF Yale.
n scores of other ~collegians.
Police Commissioner Woods spoke yes.
terday to the twelve Members Of the
New York Police Department who leave
OF Sunday morning for Plattsburg. i'm
pressing upon them that they were GO
Ing for a months serious work and
study. I'VE expect you to be a credit
70 the Department" said the Commits
sioner. The men who will go to camT
are Inspector James F. Boland. Capts
Edward T. Hughes and JON J. Collins
Lieuts. William T. Davis. Olaf Somostad
Charles III. Mckinley and Charles l.
6chofield. and Sergts. Michae A. Wall
Martin A. Noonan, Harry A. Taylor.
David ]. Goss and James j. Geegan.