New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Aid McAllen's Finest in
Enforcing Texas Speed
Laws.
CLOUDBURST DRIVES
TROOPS FROM TENTS
Twelfth Regiment Digs Trench
Squadron A to Have a Five
Day Practice March.
By ROBERT II. ROBBIE.

McAllen, Texas, August 2.-ln the
wake Of the federalized militia comes
the municipalized military police.
Ever since the Guardsmen detrained
and shook themselves into camp there
have been soldiers assigned TO police
duty. with Lieutenant Colonel Robert
Mclean of the 7th Infantry as their
chef. To date their authority has
been limited. To other soldiers with
out the M. p" brassard their word
has been law, but over civilians they
Rave had no control.
Chief Of Police Mclean and Marshal
Anglin, whose steady gray eyes and
pearl handled revolver represent the
civil law, reached an agreement to-day
whereby the military police are to be-
come deputy marshals. As such they
will call the most feared and famous
rangers by their first names and deal
summarily with any bad men who may
drift through town.
Traffic Cops.
Also they will have less picturesque
duties. There will have TO be a traffic
squad for the streets Of McAllen, when
dry enough to be OF any use whatever,
are crowded with horse-drawn vehicles,
motorcycles, bicycles, equestrians, auto
mobiles and motor trucks. Fully half
the conyeyances are taxicabs. Many
come from miles away and the town
council. loyal to home industries, has
passed an ordinance taxing foreign lit-
noy drivers a $25 license fee.
There will be two men on the traffic
squad One is 70 be John d. Rilers,
who got his experience as Commits
sioner Of Weights and Measures m
Yonkers. The other will be James An
thony Dooley. who Is six feet four
inches in height and could be easily
remodelled into one OF those "Stop-go
affairs. Both before they went on the
police" were privates in Company OF
the list Infantry.
Cloudburst Hits Camp.
Another cloudburst put the camps
under water again IN the afternoon
after the men had spent several sun
shiny hours at work improving the
drainage systems. The wcrN was SUI
pervised in the McAllen camp by bHsa-
der General George K. Dyer command
/ ing the I'd Brigade.
eeneraI over. who spent twenty years
with the 10Th Infantry-the last thur
teen as its colonel spent most or ms
time encouraging the men OF that COM
mand -..-..,. Ia,
The 18th needed encouragement. LSst
-. 90 camn was flooded and the
YM. c. A. and officers cluo Duhlihss
crowded with sleepers whose cotless
and Aoorless tents had become unln
habitable Battalion relieving pat
talon, the regiment spent the cay uls
cling trench deep enough 70 moe an
elephant battery. II was the halGes
of work. and half the men Iouhu "
corveniont 10 tackle il sans raiment
General Dyer, rubber booted ana
mud -snattered. kept i'm the thick OF li,
and the big ditch was dug By night
General Will Entertain.
The general. whose projected snter-
+ainment of Major Flores, OarfahIls'e
commandante at Reynosa, mas Oeeh
called off three days IN row on ao-
count Of rain, intends to journey 70
Hidalgo as soon as the roads permit
and ,Sere In a little adobe Mexican INN,
Give an informal dinner TO the major;
That won't mean the big dinner ana
the brigade review planned, as the
oyster course is of. Rather % VIII DC
a fller-in to keep the communication
lines across the Rio Grsnde open uh'n
the parade ground is dry.
Eight hundred camp cots, the hrst
instalment of one order for several
thousand placed more than two weeks sss
ago arrived to-day. Some went TO ne
Geld hospitals and the rest 20 the lith
Infantry. Cd
As soon as the road permits squad
ron A will start on a practice march
north. The squadron will be away ave
DAYS. Major General John r. Ryan
whose plans for field manWuyres nave
been delayed no less by dearth or
watering places than, paradoNically' ny
the heavy recurrent rains, VIII 80
along 70 study the country