New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-09
Justices Sons Height
Brings Draft to Clean
Company Streets.
MEN START WORK
ON CHOSEN COURSES
Some Tackle Machine Guns,
While Students of Infantry
Tactics Crawl Gross Lots.
From . star Correspondent, o, III. Tribune


Plattsburg, n. Y, June s.-Extreme
virtuousness OF Company G was the
cause to-day of Charles Evans Hughes,
jr., being sent down the company street
with seven other tall men TO clean up
cigarette butts and divers other trash.
He accepted the duty with a smile, re-
fused to be interviewed about II, and
then went back and finished shaving.
Orders that delinquents in each COM
pany be detailed to police the camp
brought this duty on the justices son.
Delinquents are those VINO have demef-
its against their names on account or
getting up late or being absent from
Iollcall.
Policing the camp consists Of tidying
things up. There were plenty OF de-
linduents in most of the twelve COM
panies to make up squads fully able
B TO cope with the situation, but when II
came to Company G, there was not a
single delinquent to be discovered in
the records. Captain {. +. Turner, the
regular army officer in charge Of tina
company, was asked what were the
proper military tactics to be employed
in such pass.
5000 Booked for Next Camp.
Turn out the squad OF tallest men"
Captain Turner said.
That Is how Mr. Hughes and his
seven tall tent mates came to do the
dirty work. II also happened that
when the order came he had his face
lathered up and was just starting TO
NOW. without giving his views on the
subject, he mopped off the lather and
turned out.
With the enlistments for the July
camp fast mounting above the 5,OOu
mark, officers in charge are beginning
10 worry about handling them. There
is plenty of room, plenty OF equipment
and plenty of willingness, but great
scarcity Of regular army officers Ia
serve as instructors. Even the present
camp of less than l,400 men is under
manned in respect to officers. Fourteen
instructors have been drafted fron
West Point TO I'LL up, and are expected
to arrive to-day. -,
For the four regiments that vii
make up the July encampment there
will be needed the camp commander
twelve battalion commanders as againa
three now, forty-eight company com
|
four mess officers as against one now
ninetv-six on-commissioned officers a
against the twenty-fo here, and lou
provost sergeants as against one.
Rockies Try Machine Guns.
The rockies went one plunge deepe
! to-day into sheer militarism. Some o
; them were detailed TO the machin
guns and fired $50 worth of ammuni
ton at Lake Champlain. A few wer
gun shv at first, but soon overcam
= that and by the time the first practlc
was over were able 70 stand up close u
the bankers. Others were sent 70 ge
used 10 the ways of field pieces. Their
was no shooting of these heavier guns
: the mems experience consisting II
learning the mechanics of them. other
who have elected infantry work spen
most of the day crawling around II
the grass on their stomachs.
Gloom. which yesterdays hot SUI
banished, returned late this afternoon
when a sharp downpour Of rain began
The rockies hearts sank as the!
: thought of going through the delug'
, of mud that made their first three day.
, a period of misery.
James c. Miller, Of West Forty
second Street, New York, was per
/, suaded to leave camp to-day by tn
camp physicians on account OF a veal
: heart, which they feared would no
stand the hard strains 70 come. h'
begged 10 be allowed TO stay, but they
finally convinced him it would be bes
p not to risk il, and he left on the nigh
train. He is director of the United
, Military Order of Merit