New-York tribune., 1916-07-28
Aid in Bringing Together
on Border Two Old West
Point Friends.
OFFICERS OF 18TH
QUIT THE SERVICE
Captain Tucker and Lieutenant
James Resign After Charges
Are Withdrawn.
BY ROBERT II. ROHDE.

Headquarters Sixth Field Division,
u. S. A.. McAllen, Tex. July 27.-One
pair of leather puttces and com
mission on which the ink was hardly
dry solved to-day problem of CON
duct which had been worrying two
old friends for weeks.
Nathan Shiverick and George
Beavers, jr., were at West Point to-
gether few years ago. Beavers was
star athlete and cadet. Shiverck was
in his class and company. They were
graduated together and commissioned
second lieutenants. Both went into the
cavalry. Beavers by a slight margin
ranked Shiverick.
After a few years service the two
resigned, Shiverick to take charge of
the stables of Senator Wadsworth and
Beavers TO seek civilian employment
that promised bigger future than
the army held for him. Realizing that
they still were under obligations to
Uncle Sam, they joined the New York
National Guard. Shiverick became
Captain Of the Avon Troop of the
lst Cavalry. His friend started at the
bottom in the 7th Infantry as pri-
vate.
Stickler for Discipline.
Beavers was corporal when the
7th started for the border, and that
was the last Shiverick heard of him.
There was not a prospect of any
thing better than a formal reunion
in the field Shiverick knew that
Beavers was stickler for discipline
and that even were he disposed 20
bridge the chasm of caste between
officer and enlisted man his chum OF
West Point days would not cross. So
in camp Shiverick and Beavers kept
away from each other, knowing there
was no middle ground for them to
meet on and that a meeting conse-
quently would mean embarrassment on
both sides.
Official business brought Captain
Shiverick to the camp of the Seventh
o-day. His glance kept returning to
F Company street. Presently a natty
young officer marched up to the ad-
jutant's tent, where Shiverick was
sitting. Shiverick rubbed his eyes and
jumped up, grabbing the natty ones
hand.
George Beavers!" ne yelled. "Why,
man, they told me you were a con-
founded dough5oy corporal!"
1t was the same George Beavers,
raised to a second leutenancy by the
only route by which officers in the
Seventh rise On the train he ha
been made a sergeant. Military eff
cheney displayed during the first week
in camp had made him the top ser
geant. Then he had taken and easily
passed the examination for lieuten-
ancy. His commission had arrived less
than an hour before Shiverick visited
the Seventh, and he had climbed into
borrowed plumage at once.
So, instead of $50 long, corporal; see
you later" and Every good, sir" it
was "How about chewing with me to-
night, George ?" and You bet"
Two officers Resign
Captain Wentworth Tucker, of NJ
Company, Twelfth Infantry, and First
Lieutenant Edward f. James, of Com
pany in the same regiment, will start
for home before the end of the week.
Both offered their designations after
charges of absence from officers call
had been made against them and with
drawn.
The only comment Major General
John F. Organ would make was THE
two officers violated the regulations
and resigned their commissions"
Another Texas League" is being or
ganized to-day-the New York division
league. The first game is scheduled
for a week from Saturday, when the
team of the First Field Artillery,
which defeated the pride of the Sew
enth last Sunday, will meet the Sew
enty-frst Regiment team, managed by
First Lieutenant Charles J. Kayser, o:
the medical corps, ex-University ot
Pennsylvania diamond star. At the
end of the season the best players will
form an All New York team to play
in a border world series.