New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-26
ORPHAN TROOPS
DEFEND HEIGHTS
Historic Battlefield. Re-
sounds as Hebrew Asy-
lum Boys Combat.
TRUE SOLDIERS"
SAYS GEN. O'RYAN
Lads Could Lead Volunteer
Force, Grifenhagen's Verdict
After LeWisOhn Stadium Drill.

On some movie screen somewhere
some day in the immediate future there
will be flashed martial scene in which
small and detected editions OF Charlie
Chaplin. Uncle Sam and Little Eva
serve rs background for a marching
host of little khaki-clad bodies.
Caption: The Tables Are Turned"
1t is most likely that the next scene
will show an admiring train Of men.
young and old. silk-hntted and other
wise geared. who will clamor IN vain
a. the gates Of large brick institution
FOR last glance at the midget soldiers.
Caption: "Boyhood Ambitions Rea-
lied"
And boyhood ambitions certainly
were realized yesterday. Not only lid
Major General Organ, Cornelius Van
derbilt and other members Of the gen
eral staff Of the National Guard Of
New York compliment the mancuvres
Of the several hundred cadets Of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum. VINO per
formed yesterday in the Lewlsohn Sta
dunn. but thousands rushed into the
field for a close-range view of the
Youngsters when the show was all over
Eight companies in khaki deployed'
enfladed and phalanxed in and cut.
Youthful lips blew blasts from instru
ments larger than the performers. The
sun cleaned on hundreds Of CUR bar
rels. From the stands hosted laughter
and applause.
Preparedness was in the air. Pre-
paredness was in the faces OF the
marching columns. and woe to the own
or Of a hyphen who should have cared
70 ridicule the Stars and Stripes.
Something must be told of George
ScbIoss. sine. George scared away the
last vestige of that dire enemy, the
blues. with his antics yesterday.
George is ten years old and in size
goes one degree beyond the superla-
five in small George was the star
nerform.r OF the day, and II the ap-
plause of Colonel Vanderbilt and 9TH
crs is any index, he was the most popu-
lar.
George schloss was the drum major
of the Little Boys Drum corps.
With a silver baton larger than two
Georges, he led his doughty band OF
blue-clad drummers into the fray Al
ter deploying and coming together III
mass formations. the various com,
psnies OF soldiers, under "CoioneI
simmons, assistant superintendent OF
the asylum, engaged in combat Inc
guns poured forth "a terrlhc nre anu
hand-to-hand struggles for the posses
sion of the crests which guard the city
went on necessarily. At n point near
(deleted BY the CENSOR the forces me'
and. greeting one another WIN
"hellos.b made up their martial diner
ences. o,p
Zine, said Major General ORyan
to Colonel" Simmons, when the arm
was over. "They showed the real spir''
Of soldiers"
~ bet YOU" said Sheriff Grifenhagen'
a trustee of the institution, that any
one of those boys could lead a com
pany of men volunteers into oattie'
Among those present at the drlii anu
the reception which followed at the IN
stitution were Admiral Slgsoee' zen
eral O'Ryan. Colonel Cornelius Wander,
bilt. Colonel Sternberger. Colonel
Townsend, Major Halladan, Lieutenan.
d Rivia, Colonel Taylor. Borough
President Marks, Justice NeWburget'
Louis Stern. Judge David l.. Wei I'd
ward Lauterbach, Sheriff Grifenhagen'
Magistrate Samuel d. Levy, Abraham
Stern, Theodore Obermeyer, Marx W
,inaer and Commander Albert Mor.tz.