New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Kiltes' Officers Reused
By Lack Of Recruits Here
Melted Only About 800 Volunteers-Visitors Leave
for Chicago Where They Expect to Get $4,000

A New York girl, a bride Of few
hours, threw her arms about her so.-
der husbands neck in the Grand Cen
trail Station yesterday afternoon and
babe him farewell. Her soldier was
Private George Campbell. wearer OF
the KITS and sporran Of the 236sh
Canadian Overseas Battalion Of the
Mclean Northumberland rightly, too,
for his own mother was a Mclean from
Thurso.
The pipes walled the command and
Campbell stepped back into ranks
While the station rang with cheers, the
ladies filed aboard the New York Gen.
trial train which IS speeding the Scotch.
Canadians TO Chicago, where to-mor-
row they open the British recruiting
demonstration in the West. There they
hope to get $4,000 men. Their weeks
effort in New York Melted few over
soc, a showing that was made the topic
Of some frank and sharp comment =,
the farewell luncheon to the High
landers by the Canadian Club at the
Biltmore.
German Walters Expelled
The luncheon was full of unexpected
happenings from start to finish. The
kilties were scarcely settled in their
seats and the prominent guests-in.
GLIDING Lord Northcliffe, Brigadier
General W. A. White of the British
army. Major General John F. Organ
OF the New York National Guard and
Thomas d. Needlands, president of the
Canadian Club--had just proceeded TO
their places on the dsis when Lieuten-
ant Colonel J. S. Dennis left his place
and went hastily in search Of the man.
sger Of the hotel.
There are Germans in this room,
fumed Colonel Dennis, who in civilian
life was assistant TO the president oil
the Canadian Pacific Railway. 81 want
them removed at once. ! will not SIT
at a table and permit @ German tc
wait on any one in that banquet hall
Colonel Dennis told one of the as.
s:stant managers he had heard two
waters qusrrelling in the enemy:
tongue. The hotel man apologized, ex'
planning that the Germans were not
regular employees, but had come in with
the extra banquet Grew. He went in
~ shaw k,,t thau Ind la IA
a fact the Canadians made sure of be-
fore the meal proceeded.
Colonel Flags Slackers
After that things ran along as
they usually do at luncheon until
Lieutenant Colonel Percy A. Guthrie
rose to speak. Colonel Guthrie wa.
the first volunteer and is one of the
first heroes Of Canada. he mas beer
wounded twenty-five times on eleven
different occasions and is the idol Of
the McLesns, whom he commands. He
Gallied but little with cordial after
dinner phrases and, like the gallant
soldier that ne Is, went CURLY to the
point.
Canada has too often been referred
to-" he said, "as an ally Of the Allies.
Canada is British, not American. Our
men went because they believed in the
cause, not because they had to. Four
hundred thousand strong they went,
and 100000 have paid the final price.
The Canadians on this side of the bor-
der must Join the colors or be known as
the greatest slackers in the war.
"If you fellows are not citizens here,
shouted the speaker in shrill tones that
might have been taken for Roosevelt's,
"you have got to get into the Canadian
army. If you are citizens here. why
don't you put on the uniform OF the
country that has benefited you? II we
do not get $4,000 men in the West !
shall deem we have failed. We don't
want hot air. We want men.
Says America Is Asleep
"You people in the United States do
not realize you are at war. But. an!
wait till the long casualty lists begin