The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-28
CAMP SURPRISED BY
VISIT OF GOVERNOR
First. Second and Third Rcgi-
mcnts swell Number Of Men
at Bcekman to $500.
O\TH TAKEN BY THE GOTH

OATH TAkEN Bl TUE G4TU
c,Nr WHITMAN. GREEN HAVEN, y. r.
,lre .7.-Dov. Whitman paid the camp
avtng visit to-day. He came unan-
rcluced. and until he left practically no
ono hu, a few officers In command knew
his IDENTITY. And the queercst part OF
y VAS hat he came as the guest and
~ the automobile of Assembly man
Hamilton Fish, the man who led tn,
fsht TO have the Governor present
vouchers for his trip to the Panama
Pacific Exposition.
GOV Whitman ard MIR. Fish arrived
- : O'Clock In tho afternoon, having
rid. tho trip after the departure of
ne seventh and Seventy first regiments
from New York The Governor sprang
out o. tho car In front VI headquarters.
There we're many officers and mon in
the vicinity. but no one recognized him
save John A.. Jamison. division general
manager OF tho New York Telephone
company and a personal friend. Mr..
iamison, who was inspecting newly in
sailed wires, ran toward the tent to
MORN the camp officers. but he was too
ate.
The Governor Of the State came up
behind Col, Arthur +. Townsend and
nv him a hearty slap OH the shoulder
b, way Of greeting. The assistant di-
VISION qusrtermaster almos, dropped
from surprise and just then Col. Edward
" Van 6. Lucas of the Twenty-second
Engineers rode up on Topsy. his new
mare AdJt.-Gen. Louis W. Stotcsbury.
90 a distant part OF the camp heard the
news srd hastily gathered his stan
bout him and came on the run. Col.
tonley Of the S~iNty-nlnth was summoned
ros' haste by messenger and in n few
minutes all the officers werc expostulat-
ng 30 the smiling Governor that they
should have had warning In order that
@ fitting reception might be prepared.
$500 Men Under Canvas.
Gov Whitman went with them
through tho camp streets. gazed at In
,srvas homes "f the Sixty-niuth and the
engineers. and at $40 O'Clock, when
-H' tfr>t Regiment came in from Bing-
Idnton, he went to the station at
''reeu Haven u watched them detrain.
To IN" officers great relief the First
nod Is band along and the martial
nus" |Nsib' s'llF tIVT'd'n 10 an APP
p-opria'e ceremony. The Governor had
,iprer AZ the officers mess and at :
O'clock got into Assembly man Fish's
machine again with col. Lucas and
.'ir'el for Albany. He gave out no
statement beyond expressing his delight
a. 'h' soldierly appearance of the camp
and its occupants.
Shs camp is a busy place Tonight
with $500 men under canvas. Three up
''a'e infantry regiments. tho First OF
) rehamton. Third of Rochester and
the Second, which has been hiking in
from r~oughkeepsie for the last two days.
pitched carup here to-day. So did the
Fourth Ambulance Company of SYRIA
cI>a. IN" newest organization in the
New York guard and the largest ambu-
ls0ce company in the United States.
b. neNt Thursday there will be 10000
troops here. FOR II was announced to-
night that the Sixty-htth Regiment from
Blfllc and the Tenth from Albany will
arrive tomorrow or the next day.
One Of the big events OF the days
tlsv life anne when the Seventy-frst.
. "oute To tn. border. passed through
fuIEhkeepsle at 6 +. NJ. on it's way to
b!"alo. col. william g. Iiatcs's boys
arrived just as the First Regiment, un-
.'- Cpl. e. II. Hitchcock. began to de-
AN For fifteen minutes, until the
>-y-uty-frst resumed It's journey. there
Here about 5000 husky youngsters
cling with all their lung power. The
FIRST let loose a cheer for their down
>','e rpmrades. who had beaten them In
I~''lrg away TO the border, a cheer that
''t"rheratcd across III. Hudson and
hood back again from the mountains
around The Seventy-tirst answered as
Ns''ly and piled out of their cars in a