New-York tribune., 1916-07-29
Noble Bird Gives Up the
Ghost at Feast to Mex
ican Officer To-day.
GUEST WILL BRING
HIS APPETITE, TOO
Military Pomp to Mark Enter
tainment of Major Flores at
McAllen Camp.
By ROBERT Fl. ROHDE.

BY ROBERT Fl. ROHDE.
Headquarters 9th Field Division, o..
S. A., McAllen, Tex, July 2S.-That TAT
and complacent turkey which for the
last couple Of weeks has been prisoner
in the headquarters reservation, the
only specimen of his species in this end
of Texas, is to meet his fate at last to-
morrow-and what a splendid fate 1t
will be! Served up with all the trim
mings the country for hundred miles
around affords, the solitary turk VIII
be the piece de resistance at hands,
across -the-Rio Grande feast.
No less a person than Major General
John F. Organ, decked in all the re-
gala his rank authorizes and the
weather permits, will WELD the carving
knife. The eating, unless there IS
really nothing after all to the famine
stories that come over the river, will
be done chiefly by FL Major Juan
Flores, the little commsndant Of the
Carranzista garrison at Reynosa.
The truth now comes out about that
mysterious trip which Major Edward
F. Olmstead, assistant chief Of staff to
General Organ, made to Hidalgo
Wednesday, He went as the bearer OF
an invitation from General Organ 20
Major Flores.
Mayors Reply Is Flowery.
Whatever fowery verbiage may have
been employed, the substance of the
message to the major was just this:
"Come over and have a good feed for
once in your life. Turkey-yum!"
To John Fenton, the Hidalgo customs
officer who carried the message on
when his orders stopped Major Ohm
stead at the river bank, Major Flores
made a beautifully embroidered reply.
He, always to be considered the humble
servant of the justly illustrious Gen
eral Organ, whose fame was no less
south of the Rio Grande than north,
would take pleasure most delicious and
indescribable in accepting the honored
invitation. Only, OF course, it would
be necessary to obtain the consent OF
the commanding officer.
That consent will be forthcoming,
there is little doubt, for the precedent
of visits across the border has already
been established at Brownsville.
Major Flores will not look upon the
New York camp with the eyes of a
critic, for after his own Reynosa, ripped
inside out by half dozen sieges, evac-
uations and fresh occupations as the
Mexican war scales have tipped to one
side or the o.her-his Reynosa, where
tents and other comforts are unknown
and where tortila or two is the days
ration-the American guArdsmen will
seem to be living in luxury. And pains
will be taken to have the major leave
with just that impression. General
Organ and his staff will wear their
most impressive uniforms. The general
even will have his sword belted on.
Entertainment for Major Flores.
When Major Flores sets foot on the
American side, at o'clock in the even
ing. he will be received with flourish.
General Organs private car will be
there with Colonel II. II. Bandholtz,
the new chief of staff, formed into
reception committee Of one. A de-
tachment of the 2Sth Regular Infantry
will stand at salute as the car starts
north, and swarm of motor cycle or
derles will serve as outrlders.
A squadron of cavalry, probably
Squadron A, will join the escort at the
outskirts of camp. To sharpen Major
Flores's appetite, and perhaps to open
his eyes, the 7th Infantry, which makes
a remarkably fine showing in close
order drill, will be paraded in review
for him before the attack on the tur-
key. After dinner there will be a
more ambitious entertainment, with
fast boxing bouts and loud singers. It
will be staged on the platform outside
the headquarters inclosure, and Major
Flores will occupy a seat of honor.
All the McAllen troops and some, per-
haps, from Mission and Pharr will be
in the audience.
Even a regiment stretched out on
the plain at night makes an imposing
show of strength, and it will not be
surprising if the major goes back to
Reynosa suspecting all the soldiers in
the world. including such minor bodies
as the Allied and Teuton armies, are.
massed in this sector.
Big War Game Planned.
All these plans were described by
General Organ this evening.
"A number of people have asked me-"
he added, "why We have delayed in
starting field maneuvres. 1t is purely
a question of water, ten minutes
march in any direction, and we are in
the brush. We have TO find some less
arid country. However, we'll start
gradually. First, we'll have one COM
pany opposing another. Then we'll go
ahead by battalions, regiments and
brigades. Later the whole division
may be split into red and blue armies,
and after that, if there is another
guard division sufficiently far along,
we may operate our whole force against
one of them.
"The aero squadron will take part
in the manpuvres. | already have
asked that the first company be sent
from Hampstead Plains, and that the
Buffalo company be moved on for final
training at Hampstead. Probably the
first of the fiers will be here in two
weeks"
Two Investigators Report.
DR.. Thomas Darlington and Mrs.
Alice Kelly, who have been looking
over camp and town, have departed,
carrying with them the conviction that
the investigating hereabouts never will
be overly good DR.. Darlington took
the train at Pharr to avoid any pos
sible unpleasantness with the town
folk of McAllen. who. he believed, in
tended to give him warm nd-of.
The private automobile of Major
Wright. commanding Squadron A,
scooted to Pharr with him. Through
out the trip the doctor kept his finger
on the trigger of loaded revolver,
opd an orderly with three guns