Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
INTENSIVE WORK
AT PLATTSBURG
Staff Correspondent Tells of
Scenes at Big Business
mems Camp
BY a STAFF Correspondent


Plattsburg, n. Y. July Isles
than one week of intensive training
and over 1900 men. composing the
Sixth regiment OF the July encamp-
ment, passed by companies" in regi-
mental parade this afternoon that
lzatlon OF old-timers. Three battalions
OF four companies each, led by first
ieutenants of the regular army and
manned by privates and rookie nom
CONS, went through the manual of
arms, executed complex commands
and conducted themselves in close or
der to completely astound the big au-
dtence that had gathered for the pa
rade on the drill plain at the post bar
racks.
The students are on the rifle range
all this week, where they will be fol-
lowed Saturday by the businessmen,
and proud indeed is the man or boy
who wins the right to wear an expert
riheman's or sharpshooter's medal.
The sidelights on this conglomerate
assemblage of celebrities and mere
men are many and interesting. The
brother of the holder of the national
amateur boxing championship marches
in line with the member of the diplo-
matte corps at Washington with the
decidedly English accent; the former
all-American Princeton guard goes
swimming with the executive secretary
of the Training Camp Association; the
young marvel who stirred the public
some years ago by graduating from
Harvard at the age of IA is working
ranks; and everybody gets along with
everybody else.
When the Fly Butts In
Ona aF ha VoAst
ences of the camp is to stand at "at-
tention," perfectly immobile, while a
fiendish fly, with almost human
prescience and evaporation. marches
triumphantly ell over your face, and
you are powerless to remove him.
The camp photographers, "jitney
lunches" sightseeing Fords, ice cream
cone sellers and vendors of all sorts
do rushing business, because it seems
to be custom for soldiers to spend all
tehir money the minute they get it,
The Y. NJ. c. A tent, which supplies
writing paper gratuitously, is ever
filled with mob of scratching pens
and earnest young men doing their
duty by their families or studying the
infantry drill regulations. Some go
to the movies" in Plattsburg; some
to the Hotel Champlain to dance; some
stay around the company street and
swap stories" or ply the much
HdTaSSeQ regulars with questions on
this and that. All this, of course in
the evening, because the day is full to
overflowing with drills and instruction
of every imaginable military sort.
A wrist watch, by the way, is no in
dication of effeminacy in the army
and the big husky as we'll as the
little delicate" of which latter there
are but few, all wear the timepiece in
the most convenient place.
Marked Men"
There are two kinds of men who
quickly become marked in a camp of
this sort. One is the individual with
a little knowledge who believes he is
all-sapient and who gives commands
promiscuously to all about him. The
other is the man who drops his gun.
The later is an ineXcusable fault in the
army.
When it comes to the last analysis
the post Office is the most popular spot
in the entire camp and ofttimes there
is line four or five hundred yards
long waiting for the incoming mail
A letter from ones "best girl is joy
forever and the many-colored enve-
lopes with the feminine handwriting
that pass through the Office are a con-
slant source Of amazement to the OBJ
server. E. ]. S., JR.