The Washington times., 1915-08-11
"Privsts" John P. Mitchell Want.
d b Take Swim, But Cap.
tain Kept Him Busy.
ARMY OFFICERS PRAISE
"SoIdier" at Plattsburgh "May
Be Anybody"-Many Celeb
rites Taking instruction.

PLATTsBURG, Aug. 11.-From all
along the Atlantic seaboard and from
far indoors as Iowa and Kansas profess
rional and business men numbering LOOT
have entered the businesslike instruc-
ton camp on the outskirts Of Platts-
burg, q camp that Is businessiike, even
II It's name which white canvas signs
strung above the brown canvas tents
say simply is the military instruction
camp
The mayor Of New York has become
Private J. p. Mitchell; Alderman Henry
H, Curran, high UP the line back home
in the list Of possible acting mayors, has
become H. H. Private Bob Bacon is the
same gentleman who not SO long ago
was Robert Bacon. United States am
And their hands are eblistered. all
these one-time celebrities who for four
weeks to come will at their own expense
eat the camp chow. and like It; hustle
their own beds and hike and drill. and
hike and drill, and hike and drill. drill.
drill.
Many Celebrities There.
Cotillion leaders. II there be suoh
things as cotillions now; all American
football stars, young men with more
millions than military knowledge. two
sons and a son-in-law Of an ex-Pres-
ident Of the United States. the collec-
tor of the port Of New York. an expo
lice commissioner Of New York. social
leaders from New York. Boston, Phil
adelphia, Chicago. Washington. Balti-
more. Richmond. and other cities;
magazine editors. an ex-neutenant
governor of the state. the former
ernor of Porto Rico are learning to
obey military rules. In fact any basin
being emptied by its owner down any
company street might belong to
heaven knows who.
States army Is here and sleeps In
tent on the field just as II he were
merely a mayor of New York.
Guns Salute Governor.
The governor Of the State himself
is on the ground. and seventeen guns
roared a salute ana infantry. ensi-
neers. and cavalry of the regulars.
their band banging ahead of them over
the wet grass. were reviewed by Gov
ernor Whitman and Gen. Leonard
Wood. with State Superintendent Of
Prisons Riley decorating the imme-
diate background.
However blistered the hands Of the
private mayors and lieutenant gov
ernors and ambassadors might be, they
seemed to have forgotten their pa ms
and aches in the olmtst small boyish
JOY they got out Of their first wet day
Of soldering. And although they bore
their new found military Importance
meekly. any man Of them could have
permitted his khaki covered chest to
swell a bit and be excused for SO do
ing had he heard the very fne things
the regular army officer proxies here
to teach them were saying of the ag-
gregation.
Men who at dawn yesterday knew
only that a Springfield was some sort OF
gun by mid afternoon were lining the
company streets drilling perhaps not
fashion that gave their teachers Joy.
"They've learned today said Capt.
Gordon Johnston. U. 8. A.. adjutant Of
the camp. what the usual recruits take
two or three days to master"
No Chance For Early Swim,
General Wood. Capt. Halstead Dorey.
the camp commander; Captain John
ston. Capt John r. Kelly. who put
Mayor Mit-Private Mitchell and his
buddies Of Company A through thei
Faces so far that they didn't have time
even for a swim in the wide lake few
rfcet down the hill. and other army
at time when the military students
were what Is technically known as
pounding the feathers. To Judge by the
forty-five centimetre snores that rolled
from end to end of the company streets
last night the sheer fatigue, coupled
with the fact that the sleeping tents
cots and bedding had been brought here
from Philadelphia, all had combined to
send the amateur soldiers to the never
never land for the count.
There Is only one drawback that
threatens to grow serious. none Of the
war correspondents have yet been able
to find German spy lurking around
the camp. The search for one has not
been ended. however. His name prob
ably will be August Schoosh, but this
detail has not been entirely settled as
body, but one group is still holding ont
for Otto as being preferable to August.
The day so far as Private John Purrov
Mitchell ct al. We're concerned was be,
gun at $50 a. m.
Said military strategists had decided