New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-21
Privates Locked Up at
Plattsburg When Shells
Are Found Missing.
PAYS TO BE FRANK,
SAYS ONE ROOKIE
Fogel Declares He Failed in the
Cavalry and Goes to the
Infantry.

PIat.sburg, July 20.-Thefts during
The last few days of the empty
cartridge shells from the target
ranges. where the 6tn Regiment has
spent the week at practice, result
ed in the arrest to-day OF two enlisted
men and an ex-soldier. now junk
dealer. The enlisted men are James
Lynch and Harry lIamlin, attached to
the troops quartered at the instruction
camp 10 help in training the rockies,
and Frank Knosske is the junk dealer.
The loss Of the shells had been no
ticed for several days and suspicion
had pointed toward these three men.
Deputy United States Marshal James
Murray had them watched, and to-day
az noon. when there was nobody on
the range, they were caught emptying
the shells out of the boxes in which
they had been deposited.
Held in $1,000 Bail.
Saving shells is one of the govern
ment economies, as they are sent back
B.
are accused with stealing 10000
"emptys," valued at about $400. The
complainant is Lieutenant Townsend
Whelan, range officer. Knosske was
held in 81 900 bail for arragnment
Monday before United States Commits
sioner H. P. Glliland. and the soldiers
are in the guardhouse pending court
martial.
c. V. N. Fogel, who played in at
Pays to Advertise" has also found
that it pays TO be frank. He is one of
the rockies who thought he would
make a cavalryman of himself and he
enrolled with Troop X of the I'd United
States Cavalry. But to-day he decided
to give it up and went back to infan-
try, being assigned to Company in
the 9th Regiment.
Il believe in doing the thing you
fl into best" he said. II think | will
make better dough bow than caval
ryman and so / am going back to the
regiment. The thing | most regret
about it is giving up associating with
men like Sergeant Montgomery and
Sergeant Bowers and Corporal Scarf
and Alderman Curran. They may be
rockies, but they are regular fellers'."
In the eighty men who have elected
cavalry as their special course are some
of the most prominent men in the
camp. Sergeant Montgomery is Phelps
/ Montgomery, of New Haven, formerly
Judge advocate, with the rank of briga-
dier-general, on the staff of Senator
! Mclean, of Connecticut, when the lat
ter was governor. Mr.. Montgomery IS
top sergeant of Troop K.
I'VE are planning TO suggest that
the designation of the business men
troops be changed" he said. AT pres
ent we are simply classed as beng en-
listed in Troops X and |. I'd United
States Cavalry. We are in hopes of
having the designation changed to
Troops A and B. 1st Provisional Cav
airy, forming the nucleus OF bust
ness mems training squadron, just as
the graduates of infantry formed a
provisional regiment"
| Quartermaster Sergeant Bowers. who
Is the hardest working member Of the
company, is William c. Bowers, I'd,
OF New York, junior member Of the
law firm of Bowers e. Sands. Colonel
Roosevelt's counsel in his famous libel
suit. Mr.. Bowers has charge of the
troop equipment, horses, saddles and
all other government property being
used in the training.
Bowers a Busy Man.
He was a rookie last year and was
also in this years June cavalry out
ft To-day, in addition to performing
his duties as quartermaster sergeant,
which involves, besides keeping track
of government property, the assign
ing of men to their horses and
issuing them saddles. Mr.. Bowers spent
the morning at equitation with his