New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-10
Fair Advocates of Prepar-
edness and $4,000 Men
to March Saturday.
MISS SCHIEFFELIN TO
LEAD A BATTALION
Mayor Mitchell, General Wood
and Rear Admiral Usher Will
Be Reviewing Officers.

Demonstrating that they believe in
preparedness and mean TO have 1t,
145, 900 persons will march from Wash
ington Square to Fifty-ninth Street
next Saturday in the greatest exposition
Of bipartisan feeling that New York,
and perhaps the United States, has
ever seen.
There will be in line from $3.50 in
the morning to IL o'clock at night 49,
600 men, 10000 of the national guard
and 10000 women. The only limit to
the number is the fact that one day
contains only twenty-four hours. With
in the last two or three days 10000
persons were refused the privilege OF
marching simply because the limit to
the number that can be Systematically
handled had been reached.
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, General
Leonard Wood and Rear Admiral n. X.
Usher. commandant Of the navy yard,
will review the parade.
Edison TO Lead Engineers.
The announcement that Thomas A..
Edison would lead a delegation or
twenty engineers Of the Naval Consult
ing Board. with headquarters in Wash
ington. was made last night by Thomas
Robins. secretary Of the board
Orders have been issued from the
parade headquarters TO form lines Of
twenty instead Of sixteen. This move
took care of $4,000 additional men
who had enrolled through the various
trade headquarters and could not thus
have been very well thrown out. Linn
its. however, have now been set for
each trade.
Feeling among the women seems 20
be as general and as democratic as u
is among the men. Sandwiched IN
among the women stenoSraphers ana
art students comes young women
battalion, led by Miss Mary Schieffelin,
daughter of William Jay Schieffelin, of
East SiXty-sixth Street; a nurses
battalion follows, and ending the pa
rade will come Independent Patriotic
Women. headed by Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., and composed of women
we'll known in society.
The last meeting Of the executive
committee Of the parade W illbe held
this afternoon at the Yale Club. Mayor
Mitchell will speak.
Drill Planned for Boys.
Beginning with a meeting at the Uni
versitv Club several months ago of a
number Of prominent men interested
in national defence, there was launched
plan TO extend the opportunity for
military instruction, then limited to
business men and college students, TO
boys of high school age.
The announcement yesterday that
between July 6 and August 10 there
would be held at Fort Terry, on Plum
Island. in Long Island Sound, train
ing camp open only TO boys between
the ages Of fifteen and seventeen, crys-
tallized this plan into definite action.
general Leonard a. Wood, commander
Of the United States army, Division Of
the East, is 10 take personal charge OF
the organization of this camp.
Officers OF the regular army will be
assigned for instruction and supervi-
sion of the boys Members OF the
United States Army Medical Corps Will
be on hand to guard their physical
welfare. The camp is situated IN the
military reservation which army Off
Gals say is unsurpassed from a sanl-
tary point Of view.
School Camp at Peekskill.
Another similar camp will be held
under the direction of the National
Guard of New York at their summer
barracks at Peeksill, y. Y, High School
bows between the ages Of sixteen and
nineteen will be admitted. The term
"high school boys" was defined, incl
dentally, as applying to boys of both
public and private schools. II is the
belief of the men in charge Of the
camps that the more democratic they
can be made the better. And it is
purposed to place on a plane OF mill
tary equality pupils at Groton, st.
Paul's, the Gilman and other fashion
able schools with those Of the public
high schools. The term, therefore. is
similar to that in the Welsh-Slater bill,
now up for the consideration OF Gov
ernor Whitman, which calls for mill
tary training for all boys between the
ages of sixteen and nineteen.
Guard Officers in Charge.
More than one thousand boys are ex-
pected 20 gather at Peekskill. Officer:
Of the national guard will be in charge,
and the guard will furnish tents, arms
and other equipment. II is estimated
that the cost to each boy attending will
be his carfare to and from the camp
his uniform (about So, and 90 cents a
day. A number Of prominent men have
volunteered to stand the expenses OF
several boys (both to this camp and 10
one at Fort Terry, which costs approx
imately $500, who could not otherwise
afford to attend.
At Governors Island this summer
will be held an aviation instruction
camp, a sort of aerial Plattsburgh. Sew
eral aircraft have already been sta
toned there, and detailed plans OF the
summer operations will be announced
soon.
In connection with the military