New-York tribune., 1916-07-04
ROCKIES RETURN:
CALL FOOD POOR
Plattsburg Men Doubt if
Full Value Was Given
in Supplies.

Tanned and hardened by their month
OK military training, hundreds Of men
who attended the first Plattsburr camp,
which ended Sunday, returned 10 their
business houses yesterday. Most Of
the 1900 men on the camps roster left
after the last drill. although few re-
mained for a months cavalry training.
With nothing but praise for the
camp and its training, many Of the
men complained Of the food which had
been given them. Characterizing it as
rotten" and stuff you might expect
on q campaign" they declared that 1t
fell far short in value of the 81 cents
q day which they paid for II.
In addition, they complained that
the post exchange wagons, from which
they could buy fairly good food, added
al least five cents TO the prices Of the
goods they sold.
Camp a Success.
"The camp was big success Clar-
Metals Bank, said yesterday. They
kept US working from the moment we
90. there until we lett, but they sent
US home feeling fine. The men In the
camp represented practically every
state In the Union. The work, car
ried on with army efficiency, was pro-
gressive, and embraced every bit of
military training that could be crowd
ed into one month. Many of the men
are so we'll drilled that it is believed
they can enter Colonel Roosevelt's
proposed division without trouble"
p. c. Fleming, of the National City
Bank, who was made a sergeant OF
Company II. announced with pride that
his company had been conceded 70 be
the best in the camp in the manual OF
arms and extended order In field move
ments Lieutenant J. F. Ware, who
application to Join the Roosevelt d.
vision, and several members of the
company will 60 with him if he Is ac-
cepted.
Up 10 June % the total enrolment
for the 1916 Plsttsburg camps had
reached 1926. At least $500 men will
attend the junior camp, which opens
tomorrow. Between 1900 and 1000
of them will leave the Grand Central
Station tonight by special trains.
Undergraduates in Camp.
Practically the entire roster Of the
Junior camp is made up Of college un-
dergraduates Harvard will send 402,
Yale $50, Princeton 233, Columbia 80,
Pennsylvania ~. New York University
is and the College of the City Of
New York 10. Many of these repre-
sentations have been cut down because
Of the fact that men who had enrolled
belonged TO National Guard organiza-
tions.
The senior camp, which opens July
l2. will be made up 70 q great extent
of college graduates. Harvard will be
repres -ntcd by 9S3 Of her alumni, Yale
by Gil, Princeton by 422, Columbia by
6i4. Pennsylvania by 262, New York
University by 169 and City College by
l46
For the last two months Sergeant
A. l. Boyce, who Is in charge of the
Military Training Camps Association,
has been holding drills for prospective
I Plsttsburg men. These drills are held
twice a week-Wednesdsys, from to
7. at the seth Regiment Armory, and
Saturdays, from 2:30 TO 4:3O. Until
the departure Of the 69th the rockies
had used its guns. Since the regiment
has been at Camp Whitman the rook-
les have drilled with broomsticks. A
complete outfit Of rifles, which former
ly belonged TO the cadet corps of
Mamaroneck church, is promised TO
the men in the near future. Sergeant
Boyce announces that any man who in
tends going TO the August camp is well
come 70 enroll in his preliminary train
ing squad, and that all members OF
former camps may also Join II.