New-York tribune., 1916-07-20
New Orders Bar "Septem-
Der Morn" Poses at
Plattsburg.
ONE CASUALTY
IN DAYS HIKE
Actor.Soldiers Falling Down in
Contests for Permanent
Places as Officers.

From . star Cores ponfsn, of The Tribune
Pattsburg, n. Y, July l9.--Imitation
Of September Morn" has been BAN
ished from the training camp Com
stockian complaints having come 10
commanders that the simple life had
gone too far among the rockies, gen
eral orders for a return to modesty
have been issued.
On the company bulletin boards to-
day appeared notices that the "prac-
tice of appearing in the company
streets nude or in underclothes must
be discontinued" and that men must
put on their trousers and undershirts
before emerging from their tents.
The root ofAhe whole trouble was
the attractiveress Of the cooling
waters OF Lake Champlain these broil-
ing hot July days. Coming in from the
target range or from maneuvre
marches in the afternoon, hot, dusty
and dripping with perspiration, the
men have just time enough for hur-
ried dip.
Only Towels Have Aided.
Those in the regiments lying near
the water have been tempted 10 take
the few steps from their tents TO the
tapping coolness in the most expedi-
tious manner possible, while those
whose tents are far from the water
have been loath to waste valuable time,
partly consumed by the long walk 10
the lake, in getting their ponchos out
of their infantry packs. They have
been streaking across the intervening
fields with the assistance Of towel.
Also another cause of complaint
rises from the fact that the railroad
runs along the edge of the lake where
the swimming is done, and women rid
ing by, peering eagerly out TO see New
/ York millionaire rockies, have had 10
/ turn their eyes away.
The sixth training regiment had it,
! first taste to-day of hiking with the
infantry pack, and brought back one
/ casualty. He was E. c. Wandless, a
I lawyer, Of "a Pine Street, member
Of Company D, who turned his knee
on the march from the recurrence OF
weakness, caused by an old injury in
/ his college football days. Comrade:
| carried his pack and rife for him, anc
/ he was able 10 limp back to camI
| leaning on others shoulders.
Actors Stock Down.
Broadway actors, who started of
strong as acting squad leaders and ser
geants in the 7th Regiment of bushes.
men rockies, have not maintained al
unbroken front through the first weei
of drill. There was r. Barlow, one o.
Winthrop Ames's favorite character
actors, who started off as top sergear
of Company B in the 7th. He had seer
active service with the British army il
the Boer war and wore Kings AM
Queens Canadian medals.
The lists of new non-commissionet
officers posted on the bulletin board 10
day show that he has been super
seded in his command, for the time be
ing.
Other actor non-coms are Henr!
Mortimer, who played with Mrs. Fisk'
( in "Erstwhile Susan" and John King
! who was the innkeeper in Seven Key:
to Baldpate." Mr.. King went through
the mill in the June camp, and is find
ing this months experience child:
play.
The June veterans know what the
greenhorns do not yet realize, that &
/ really very great prize is at stake ir
/ winning a second lieutenancy when the
permanent appointments of students
officers are made. Second lietenant Il
! the highest rookie can go, but that
means that a man does not have &c
wear the 37-pound infantry pack or
his back on the hike or carry a rife
/ Mr.. King makes no bones of the fac
/ that he is not going 10 wear pack or
I this camps hike if he can honorably
/ avoid IL by the aid of A commission.
May Become Sergeant.
Another New Yorker who rose anC
| fell as a non-com is F. T. Birchall. HI
even was persuaded TO put corporal
chevrons on his sleeves, but few day
/ later one of his squad took his place
/ II is expected, however, from the show
ing he made, that he will win ser
geantcy.
VI. c. Rorty. of the American Tele
graph and Telephone Company, New
/ York, has charge of Squad l3 and Ten
/ 7 in Company l. in the 7th, and TIL
seven men under him come from every
where but New York City. There /
W. f. Minor, former Yale crew am
/ football man, now a coal operate
I in Cincinnati; w. P. Tams. also in coal
from Tams, w Va; A. 7. Ogden, o
Undertook, y. Y; W. L. Keller, o
Harrisburg, Penn; E. F. Higgins, o
/ Bloomfield, n. j.; Z. NJ. Brown, Spring
field, Ohio, and |. hendricks, Johnstowr
! Penn