New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-15
One Battalion in Evening
Parade AStOniSheS En-
viOuS Comrades.
PITCHING PUP" TENTS
THEIR DAYS WORK
Officers Plot Out Man9uvres
for Last Six Days of
Encampment.
From a star corresponden. Of The Tribune.

lFrom star Correspondent, n The Tribune
Plattsburg, y. Y, June l4.-One bat
talon Of rockies to-day became CO.
herent enough military organization to
hold formal evening parade. Which
means that although they had no idea
what was expected Of them or just why
they did what they did, they yet had
come under sufficient discipline squad
BY SQUAD to be able to carry out with
machine like precision the commands
the regular army officers gave and
which resulted in sending the 500 OF
them swinging through the movements
as unified whole. The other eight
companies stood by in silent awe, mar
yelling at the glory of being soldier
There had not been so much Of the
panoply and glory of the military life
in their days work that preceded their
evening ceremony. They went out into
/ the hills and learned how TO pitch their
/ pup tents. Tins is a shelter composed
Of two halves of canvas. giving cover
( for two men lying on the ground.
/ First Experience of Campaigning.
/ II was the first experience in the sort
/ of life they will have to live the last
six days of their army existence when
they give up the tented habitations of
the present and depart on unknown
/ trails after a theoretical foe in war
maneuvre campaign.
Preparatory TO this movement, MAJOR
Peter Murray, the camp commander
and other off GERS mounted their horses
today and went off into the wilds, lay
ing out the routes and selecting camp
grounds for the troops on march.
/ II this is a training camp Tor tired
! business men, il is also proving school
| Of practical experience for the regular
officers in charge, since the size OF the
| student commands under their tutelage
! this year is making them use their wal
science and campaign wisdom IN work
/ ing out a scheme that will bring the
men to proper battlefield and adequate
camping grounds those last six days al
large among the upstate arms.
Four Full Regiments In July.
This problem will come to the fore
more particularly in the July encamp'
ment. when there will be four full reg
iments 20 handle, or just four times as
many as they have had at any time be
fore. Looking ahead TO that four reg
iment maneuvre campaign, tentative
plan is being worked out for sending
The regiments ahead one or two at
time on successive days. none knowint
where the other is going or what II Il
doing. and then bringing them 70
gether in a series of mimic comoats.
The radius laid out is about mt!
miles. Although the city of Platts
burg pays for damaged crops, specla
effort is being made TO gauge the move
rent of rockies so that the combat!
will destroy as little as possible o.
farm land or produce. The ofhcer'
vent mn toward Canada in the neigh
borhood Of Mooers and west fiat's
burg. ..o.iov I,
was definitely announced tonight thai
General Leonard Wood, commander Of
The Department of the East, originator
of the training camp plan. and specla
natron of Plattsburg, would arrive To-
morrow morning TO inspect the camp;
The engineering students have LAID
corduroy road dug bitches for the sites
of next months camps, so as 70 insure
AGAINST any such catastrophe OF mud a.
oyertook this months outtit, and per,
formed a number of other practical
.