The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-11
ROCKIES LEARN WAR
IN NPLATTSBURG MUD
NOtables. Including Mayor
Mitchell, Hustle Luggage
as Exercise.
ARMY OFFICERS PRAISE
New York Has $50 Men in the
Six Companies at Business
Mems Camp.

PLArTsprRG. Aug to.--From all along
doors as Iowa and Kansas professional
ana business men numbering 1907 by
sundown tonight had come to the busi-
nesslike instruction camp on the out
skirts of Plattsburg. camp that Is
businesslike, even II its name as white
canvas signs strung above the brown
canvas tents say simply. is the mill
tary instruction camp"
The Mayor OF New York had along
about daybreak become Private j. =.
Mitchell; Alderman Henry X. Curran.
high up the line back hone in the list
of possible acting Mayors. had become
IL. H. before noon. Private Bob Bacon
is the same gentleman who not so long
ago was Robert Bacon, United States
Ambassador to France.
And very, very long before sunset
their hands we're blistered. all these one
time celebrities who for four weeks 10
come will at their own expense eat the
camp chow. and like 1t: hustle baggage,
erect tents. clean rifles. make their own
beds and hike and drill. and hike and
drill and hike and drill drill. drill.
Cot!lon leaders. II there be such things
as cotillons now all American football
stars, young men with more millions
than military knowledge, two sons and
a son-in-ldw OF an ex-president OF the
United States, the Collector OF the Port
OF New York. AN ex-Polce Commis sioner
OF New York. social leaders from New
York. Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago
Baltimore. Richmond and other cities
magazine editors, an ex-Leutenant-
Governor OF the State. the former Mexi-
can Charge d'Affaires. AN Ex-Governor
OF Porto Rico are learning to obey mill
tary rules. In fac, any basin belnG
emptied by its owner down any company
street might belong to heaven know,
who.
The ranking General of the United
States army was about camp all day and
will sleep in a tent on the field to-nigh,
just as II he were merely a Mayor OF
New York.
Guns salute Governor.
The day had hardly got under way
the rain had. hOwever-when the Cover
nor OF the state himself was on tho
ground, while seventeen guns roared a
salute and infantry, engineers and
cavalry OF the regulars. their band bang
ing ahead OF them over the wet grass
were reviewed by Gov. Whitman ant
Gen. Leonard Wood, with state super
intendent OF Prisons Riley decorating
the immediate background.
However blistered the hands of tn,
privat Mayors and Lieutenaut-G t-Governor
and Ambassadors might be they seemed
TO nave forgotten their pains and aches
in the almost small boyish JOY the,
go; out of their first wet day OF sol
diering And although they bore thei
new found military impo tance meek!
any man OF them could have permitted
his khaki covered chest to swell a bi
| and he excused for SO doing had h'
| heard the very fine things the regula
J army officer proxies here to teach then
were SAYING of the aggregation TO
| night
( Men who at dawn knew only that
| Springfield was some sort of gun h.
/ mid-afternoon were lining the compan.
( streets drilling perhaps not with reg
| ular amy precis on. but in "A fashit
| that gave their teachers JOY.
They've learned to-day" said capt
| Gordon Johnston, l.. :. A.. adjutant o
| the camp what the usual recruits TAX
two or three days to master
No Chance for an Early swim.
| Gen. Wood. Capt. Haistead Dorey. tn
/ camp comma nder capt. Johnston, Capt
/ John X. Kelly. who put Mayor Nit
/ Private Mitchell and his buddies cf Com
pany A through their PAGES to-day s.
! far that they didn't have time even 70
"A swim in the wide lake a few fee
down the hill. and other army officer
were paying them compliments at tim
! tonight when the military students wer
! what Is technically known as poundn
the feathers. To Judge by the forty
! Ave centimeter SnoreS that rolled fror
end to end OF the company streets 10
night the sheer fatigue, coupled wit
the fact that the sleeping tents. cot
and bedding had been brought here fror
Philadelphia, all had combined to sen
the amateur soldiers to the never neve
land for the count.
In fact up to this late hour OF writln
there is only one drawback that threaten
TO grow serious--none + the war CORE
spoHdents has yet been able to find
German spy lurking around the cam
! The lrch for one Will he taken u
! hopefully again tomorrow. however II
name probably will be August Schoos
but this detail has not been entirel
| settled as yet. Schoosh Is satisfactory
everybody, but one group is still holdin
out for otto as being preferable to Al
gust,
Onicially the day begap tor the ha
hundred or so particularly enthusiast
military rockies who had got here @
Monday with first call for revsille
b:45 this morning. 1t may be col
tended by some that there ''ain't I
such hour no place." but there was
the military instruction camp this mori
ing. In fact the day so far AZ Priva
John Purroy Mitchell. Private Bill Brow
Meloney, who Is the Mayors bunki,
private Dudley Field Malone and one
two others were concerned was begun
6 80 A. NJ,
Mitchell Lugs LuggaEe.
Said military strategists had decid,
. the night before that with a great pa
of Lake Champlain just standing aroui
at the foot of the grass terraces who,
and half holler away 1t wouldn't he
had idea to beat the clock and take
swim But young Capt John II. Kell
U. 8. A., was up ahead of them, Tn,
weren't swimmers. Capt Kelly told Pi
vate Mitchell ct al, they had become.
|, explained to them. right at that nome