New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28
WIND SHE BLOW
HIKE REvEILLE
Dust, Dog Tents and Mud
Next Incidents of Stu
dent Soldiers March.
REDS AND BLUES QUIT
PLATTSBURG BASE
Six.Mile Test of Amateurs Ends
in Swamp, While 5000 Reg
ulars Pick Dry Camp.

fFrom stan Correspondent Of The Tribune
Plattsburg, N. Y, Aug. 27.-"The
wind she blow on Lake Champlain,
bimeby she blow some more" and more
and more and more-all of which gives
far from a comprehensive idea Of the
elemental disturbance that awakened
the members of the professional and
business mems military instruction
camp early this morning in their last
hours in this camp prior to the Z
o'clock call to begin hiking.
The French Canadian dialect poem
of which the quoted lines are a part
and F. p. A. will probably discover they
are a squotation-was repeated by
hundreds of the students as they tum-
bled off their cots and made ready for
the march to battle. The temperature
was very low and very unexpected,
chilling the just and the unjust alike,
and for the first time the heavy army
shirts were slipped on enthusiastically.
The picture of breaking camp was in
frame more than a mile long, for, in
addition to the 400 "cits," 5000 SOL
diers of the regular army, whose tents
had been pitched on the post grounds,
were routed out to participate in the
march and maneuvres.
The main force is that of the defend
ers-the Blue army. 1t is composed
Of the business and professional mems
regiment, the I'd Battalion, Sd lnfan-
try; Battery D, Sd Field Artillery;
seven companies Of the 30th Infantry;
Company d, LIST Battalion of Engineers,
and radio tractor and company.
Reds Against Blues.
The Blues are in command of Colo
mel McCloy. The Red army, which
started off at o'clock to head down
against the Blue from Rouse Point, is
under Colonel Joseph T. Dickman, and
il made up of the I'd Cavalry and two
battalions of the Sd Infantry.
The Reds left here at 8 o'clock this
morning, and the Blues shortly after
o'clock.
Plattsburgers see enough of soldiers
TO get pretty well used to the spectacle
of mere marching troops. but this fact
was not evidenced this morning, for the
sidewalks were lined from $3.50 o'clock
until the dust had swallowed up the
rea- guard.
The chill air gave great spirit to the
marching and seemed to make the
thirty-ive pounds OF army pack on each
back rest bit more lightly. The big
blankets and duffie bags were brought
along in wagons.
Progress was not remarkably rapid.
The first camp site selected was about
a mile north Of East Beekmantown, six
miles from here. but the men did not
reach it until just before II a. m. They
kept TO the dusty road the whole way,
il having been decided to hold off the
opening of maneuvres until tomorrow.
The lines were well kept except when
automobiles came along when the dust
rolled up as thick as soft coal smoke
and settled down on the men just as
closely.
At the end Of the first mile the men
looked as if they had been driving
racing automobiles through the resi-
Dental section of Woodhaven, Long
Island. The canteens then were the
most popular part of the equipment.
and they were so constantly in use that
the suns rays flashed from them the
progress of the marchers. No uniform
could conceal the presence of United
States army on a sunny day as long as
shiny canteens remain in use.
The field selected for the first camp
is just like any near level tract Of