The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-04
1850 LEAD RUSH TO
JOIN MILITARY CAMP
Applications Are Pouring Tn
From Professional and
Business Men.
EAGER FOR THE TRAINING

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invitation to business and professional
men to Join n military training camp to
he held this summer from August 10 to
September s near the United states
army post Mt rlattsburg. n. Y. william
wickham HOFFMAN, who Is receiving re-
sponses at IS Broad street. said yester-
day that In a few days about $50 appli-
cations had reached him. Applications
have also piled up at Governors Island,
where the officer in charge OF enrolment
has been unable to catch UP as yet with
the job of answering them.
This has come about despite the fact
that the task of enrolling men Is still
incompletely organized. Those In charge
OF the work have 20 far been able to
address directly only college men. but
they are anxious to have II known that
any man interested in military training,
or merely In getting limbered UP and en-
joying a healthful outdoor life for four
weeks on the shores of Lake Champlain,
will be welcomed 10 the camp.
Accounts Of the plans for the camp
have brought letters from mep of all
sorts who are eager to Join II. Some are
Spanish war volunteers, others la
seen fighting In Central American revolu-
tons still others nave never shouldered
a rife but want to know how to do 30
II II ever becomes necessary. Ono man
wrote from Connecticut saying that ne
had seen a story about the camp In THE
SUN and wished 10 Join.
Applicants Eager 20 Attend.
II have charge Of 100 boys from l5
10 10 years OF age" he explained, and I
thought I might get some good things
from the instruction that I could teach
them"
A Yale graduate who wished to Join
the camp reported that he had been u
corporal In the National Guard and a
Second Lieutenant in command of a
company hat was for some months on
foreign service.
The intercollegiate committee engaged
In rounding up men for the camp was
announced yesterday. Its membership u
as follows:
ph hHI A csfIsil. 1I.nsiTi. cri.,..M i TS.s:
dore Roosevelt Jr.. william w1ckham
Fo5 Ysl.aH.ry Hooker. Frank g. But
Jane. Williams Beekmsn Hoppin'
Gordon F : fasI ssSon.id. IeI.n Sr. E. a. rsasSn,
George s; Hornbiower. Van 8. Msrle-smith
For wiihlism.-Nicholas pansor,h. oeors,
4. Sheldon. Harold Hcrrick. Francis J. Dan
forth. Faneher Nieoll., Bruce Brooks
c. Shields. Darrell II. smith. H. n. Kres..
we,ter.
For Mich,gan-Gi.uae A. Thompson. Z
For Hamal'on-oonklin Mann. Eth,
For Amhsr.-chauno.y p. Carter.
For Cornell-A b. Trowbridss. WILLARD
ID. STRAIGHT.
For ~Brown-Coigats Hoyt. Jr.
Harvard Subcommittee.
: II Is hoped to ampl,fy his committe,
later. OF the subcommittee recruiting
men from the various colleges only tn,
d, Harvard committee has been composed
: Its members ars:
Duncan c Harris: sW ~ avenue
els ii Kinnieutt. ~ West. Fii;y.fourtl
: street Ksn,s'h ? pp %.u IS, r;ai W,, Sy:
: s& S-sH'@ crssiarS si.sa.s, 81 waii
. .s-..,; o N p. r sse~. i W Esii , Ei.ssy- Xs,hH
. s w R,rs..n ..s 50 c NAL .'r sppl: : D. F fssSsd I
3 . HR1,s'0jp ). :! HI H%issS.oa n'i i East Fqi,y.ar
5 "t ra fG. % eA Val Stress. .s! J. Log
Derby. $50 Fast seventy-second etreet
1t. Conrad Goddard Rcslyn. N. y: e "
D ilton Fish. Jr. 81 William street. Clarenc
Harry Forster. sss Fifth avenue. Anderso,
D Dana, 90 Cortlandt street; Suydam Cut
ting, 90 West street. Y. c. Hardwick, !
Wall street, Philip J. Roosevelt. so4 FIT
avenues E: u. Morssn. Jr. Westbur,
Il y. Y J. X. Hodges. 80 East Forty-nint
street: Louis L. Chanler. Jr, Tuxedo
n n. Y: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, ~ Wa
street. Langdon p. Marvin. 81 Wall street
Philip A. Carroll. SO Wall street.
Nearly all of these mon will Join tn
camp in August. Many Of them ar
d. we'll known. william W1ckham Hof
y man is the recent Inner OF the Metro
20 politan handicap at golf, Frank Z. But
terworth Is a famous football playe
and Yale athlete. George S. Hornblowe
p is the son OF a distinguished lawye,
g Willard b. Straight Is a member Of J. !
N Morgan & Co. Robert l.. Bacon Is tn
son of the ex-Ambassador 10 Franc
Hamilton Fish, Jr., IL we'll known fo
his share in politics. Clarence Crimmir
is the son of John ID, Cr!mmins, Phil
7. Roosevelt is the son of W. Emile
70 Roosevelt.