New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
"Private Hanf, NJ Company, sir, ne
reported, returned from furlough'
Granted Too Late.

| ETlVhte Hhn1, VI tohP""y' 49,
reported, returned from furlough.'
Granted Too Late.
Captain Despard thoughtfully rihed
a pile Of official papers on the desk be-
fore him.
"I'm sorry. Hanf" he said; I'VE did
our best, but that was not good enough.
It got here this morning" at was one
Of the papers in the pile on which Cap
tain Despard's fingers trembled-an or
der granting fifteen day extension to
Private Hanf's furlough:
Fill in the rattle Of the cocoanut
shells for Yourself This is the unvar-
rished story.
Two weeks and one day ago tele-
| gram came for Victor Hanf. His face
went pale under it's new Texas tan and
| he read and read it.
Come at once il you can; mother
dangerously i'll" was the message. =,
Back in his law Office at home Colonel
| Fisk can write briefs of prodigious
| length, filed with why's and whereases:
, Down here he makes practice OF
, driving at once to the point.
"See to it that the boy gets away on
! the first train" he told Captain Des-
| pard. The captain saw TO it. Division
| headquarters can grant Burroughs oil
not more than fifteen days. For leaves
beyond that there must be much cor
respondence with department headquar-
tiers in San Antonio. Private Hanf got
| his fifteen days leave Immediately.
Now we'll move heaven and earth
| immediately TO get an extension
through" they told him.
Regiment Pulled for Him.
Heaven and earth may have both
/ budged little, for the efforts put forth
/ in Private Hanf's behalf were great.
But the slow wheels of routine were
inexorably braked. The whole regi-
ment. as the story few along the COM
pany streets, was pulling" for Hanf.
II was only this morning that the ex-
| tension came clicking over the wires
/ from San Antonio, taking its turn be-
/ tween something about the "t' not hay-
ing been crossed in the fourth word,
second sentence, of requisition. NO
3147, and something else concerning a
| lost case of shoes. Only few hours
| behind it came Hanf.
II left her dying" he told his com
pany commander, his voice Oddly
|
+ chance. Most probably the extension
would be granted-but, then, again,
maybe it wouldn't be. | didn't dare TO
take a chance"
And with a clear record and NJ
teen day furlough that is Of no earthly
use to him, Private Hanf goes back to
I fulfil his solderly duty-and to wait
/ for another telegram.
Private William NJ. Hepburn, OF b
Company, had better luck. A Few days
ago news that his sister was dying
won him a fifteen-day furlough. The
7th pulled" for him, too, with better
| effect. His extension arrived to-day
and is being forwarded.
Instructors Assigned.
Six regular army officers have been
/ assigned to the New York Division as
instructors and are coming here to
speed up the training of the Guards
men. The first Of them, Major G. w.
Jamerson, detached from the 28th
United States Infantry, arrived to-day
and established himself in headquar-
tiers at Pharr. The coming Of the in
structors is taken 10 mean that the
acclimatizing and preliminary harden
ing Of the troops are considered com
plete.
Another squadron of cavalry will
march to-day on the trail broken by
Major General John F. Organ, who
is out on a five-day hike with Squadron
A. One unit a day will leave until
all the cavalry is on the move. After
that the infantry will have chance
to see the scenery along the seventy
iive-mile course. Real hiking. too.
Three officers Of the list Infantry
have handed in their designations.
That OF Lieutenant II. |. Davidson. Of
Company G, already has been accept
ed, and he started back to New York
to-day, with twenty-one years Of Guard
service closed The others who have
resigned are Lieutenants Henry Con-
way and Edward Oresenigo.
A report that hurricane was whirl-
ing toward the Rio Grande Valley was
received late tonight. Call TO quarters
was ordered Immediately and more
than a thousand guardsmen, who were
watching motion picture show in a
big tent near camp, had TO leave Char
ley Chaplin falling down a long flight
Of stone stairs. They were ordered in
their own tents to weight them down
and make ready for a rough night on
the prairie.