New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-05
One Little Woman Cries as
Her Warrior EntrainS with
Khaki-Clad Horde.
1000 IN FIRST ARMY
AT PLATTSBURG CAMP
| awyers, Doctors, Bosses and
Employees Start Drills To-day
1000 in Next Force.

Rive hundred and sixteen good
Americans. citizen soldiers Of Uncle
Sans second training regiment. moved
cut Of the Grand Central Terminal last
night in = railroad drive on Platts-
burg. They we're divided between two
sections Of a special train. scheduled 20
land them at their upstate camp at 7
o'clock this morning.
For an hour before leaving time
o.lO o'clock-the terminal had the rs
rect or sn army post. At least half the
men, who for the next month will for
get their clients. their patients, their
customers, their employers and their
employees. we're already in uniform. A
few carried rifles in leather cases.
Wives. sweethearts. sisters and
cfums BY the hundreds we're there TO
see them OF. or all the women. just
one cried when the gates were slammed
behind the last OF the summer camp
volunteers. She. slender little person,
who looked as IL she might have been a
gring bride. wept as bitterly as il It
we're 70 real war. instead Of real work,
her soldier was going.
Wonderful" Says J. l.. Derby.
One man in the throng about the
Plsttsburg gate viewed the entrsinirg
with especial satisfaction. He was J.
Lloyd Derby, secretary of the National
Training Camp Association, relative by
marriage Of Colonel Roosevelt and one
o. the group which developed the sum-
mer training idea.
ITS wonderful!" he exclaimed. "As
, demonstration Of the patriotism that
lies in the heart OF our plain American
business man, nothing could be more
striking.
you remember how the whole thing
started It was just sitter the sinking
o. the Lusitania that few OF us got
together and started to talk prepared
ness. We hit on the summer camp
plan snd went TO General Wood. He
promised 70 have such camp if We
would sign up a minimum of 200 men.
"A year ago to-day We had only fifty
men pledged. IL looked then as il we
weren't going TO put it over. But we
did-and now look at the result! This
first month well have about 1850 men
il camp and next month there1l be T.
600. many of them 'repeaters' from last
year Those who had the training Of
1915 and took General Woods CORE
spondence course during the winter
will come pretty clos, 10 being real
soldiers before fs,..'
Entire Nation Represented.
or the 1900 and more men making
Up the first Plattsburg camp, about
1000 are from New York Others
come from distant places. States as
FAR west as Oklahoma are represented,
while there are also recruits from
Alaska. Porto Rico and Panama. Thus
the camp at Plattsburg will in spe-
cal sense fulfil the ideal General
Wood has desired in military train
ing-that is, to help weld into a
homogeneous whole the l00,000,000
people Of the United States.
Once within the lines of the camp,
The recruit passes under strict discl-
plne. with all distinctions obliterated.
EXCEPT for special reasons. such as
sickness, he will not be allowed to
leave the camp until he has put in the
full four weeks.
Neither will any one be accepted
who reports late. He must be at the
camn some time to-day or he cannot
enter A recruit may, however, have