New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Shoots at Neighbor's Tar
get Until Officer Shows
Him His Mistake.
R. H. DAVIS TAMES
HOTEL HEAD WAITER
Gun Practice to Continue This
Week-Mayor Tired, but Says
Headaches Are Gone.

gets on the regular army rifle range
here were shot at at sunrise this morn
ing by Mayor Mitchell Of New York ana
several other persons in the Business
Mems Military Instruction Camp.
Mr.. Mitchell and other members of
Company A had to get up at 4:lo
o'clock. lust as if It were fishing
party. Bernard II. Sander, the New
York LAWYER who is attorney for JACK
Rose. was asleep when the morning
bugle was blown, and he thought II was
a fire alarm. He had empued pan
Of water over Joseph H. Hartigan'
Commissioner of Weights and Meas
ures. before he learned OF his mistake
At the ride range Mayor MitcheII
fred at targets set at 100, 200 and oVO
wards. The targets are about h1teeR
feet apart, but in the shaking out oil
used shells between each shot the aim
frequently becomes defective. g.,
MIR. Mitchell. in his slow firing MT
the target four out OF I'VE times. buI
in the rapid firing, he got DIT mlXed
I'D and was peppering the target turned
over 10 Mr.. Sander when Captain John
R. Kelly, of Company 3, pointed out
the error. ., ~
"That counts against you" Mr..
Mitchell was told. after he had mace
five bulls-eyes on the target OF JACK
Roses legal representative, a.
But it counts for me- Mr.. Sander
said. with a great deal Of heat.
mo, it doesn't" said Captain Kelly
Mr.. Sander was very indignant.
Reaching into the special pocket he
had sewn on his shirt, the lawyer pro
duced full set Of injunctions restrain
ing the United States Military Depart
ment of the East from dePrving Ber-
nard II. Sander. Of New York, OF the
record made for him by John Purroy
Mitchell.
Mayor Gets rs.
"Just as surely as am the attorney
for Jack Rose you must obey TINS man
date of the court" Mr.. Sander SAID
"Mr. Mitchell made those shots in good
faith and with no intention to deceive.
| quote from the decision in the case
of Sweeney W.. United States Govern
ment, 26 Federal Reports. Do | win =
"You do" said Captain Kelly; where
upon Mr.. Sander strolled along the
range, advising every marksman 70 ann
at the Sander target. As result the
attorney got high score. He made 100
bull's-eyes out of possible 100.
The Mayor went right ahead win ms
work and finally achieved score OF 10:
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods, OF
Company d, made II. Frank l..
Meagher, captain of Company NJ, ~ u.
n. Y, made a high score OF 81. X. Is.
Chapman. of Company b, and K. Girls
void of Company A, made So. J. p.
Perhallop made 81. Robert Bacon, Tor
mer Ambassador to France, made d.
His son. Robert, jr., made 10. Theodore
Roosevelt. ir.. scored 81, very good
shooting. Philip J. Roosevelt made 6l.
other scores were: Alexander S.
Cochran, SO; Hamilton Fish, jr., %; +.
H. Curran, vice-chairman of the New
York Board of Aldermen, 81; William
J. Clothier, 81; Regis II. Post, former
Governor Genera! of Porto Rico, 5s;
Travis II. Whitney. secretary OF the
Public Service Commission, 81; W. NJ.
Bullet, 81; Samuel Auchincloss, 30;
Edward Hughes, captain in the New
York Police Department, Al, and Lieu
tenant Simonstad also of the Police
Department, SO.
Woods Refused Table.
Mr.. Mitchell was very tired when re-
treat wa sounded tonight, but he
had TO march out with his company
and 90 through the close order drill on
the parade grounds He is Of the cav
airy squadron, but because rife prac-
tice took so much of his time to-day
he had no opportunity 10 participate
in cavalry practice, in consequence Of
which he must spend three hours at
this tomorrow.
Arthur Woods, who, by the way, has
fixed things so that he will not have
to 90 back to New York at this time,
went over to the Hotel Champlainr at
Bluff Point, to dine this noon. He
picked out a table in the dining room
and had drawn his chair out when the
head waiter hurried over and said:
"You can't sit here, this table is re-
served"
What about that table," asked the
Police Commissioner, pointing.
"That, too. is reserved" said the
waiter. And every table at which Mr..
Woods sought to find place had been,
he was told, reserved.
As he started out of the room Rich
ard Harding Davis, OF Company Il,
entered. He sat down at a table, where
upon the head waiter ran up and said
the table had beer reserved.
Enough of that" said Mr.. Davis.
on II nave " sup LSliAHS ihV Nh"S
Any way, don't like your manner, and
| never liked it,"
Undecided as to the next move, the
head waiter backed away few feet
and rubbed his chin. MIR. Woods walked
over to Mr.. Davis and said:
How did you get chair? |
couldn't?
well" said the author, raising his
head so that the waiter could hear
what he was going to say, "the people
hete naturally show more considera-
tion to Mayor than 70 a Police Com
missioner"
The head waiter flushed and then
bawled out to a corps Of underlings:
Quickly, there, bring the Mayor OF
New York the wine card" following
which be apologized, said a fearful
mistake had been made, and almost
carried Mr.. Woods 10 the table.
Target practice will be the principal
work here this week Captain Halstead
Dorey, camp commander, was very well
pleased over the showing this morning.
Mayor Mitchell did not have 20 be
inoculated against typhoid and small
pox. He was a typhoid sufferer few
years ago Persons who have observed
him from day to day since he arrived
here remarked this afternoon that he
was looking fine.
81 am in excellent shape" he said.
81 feel very good Just before | came
I had one of my regular headaches,
but | haven't had one up here"