The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-04
WIRE CEN. BARRY
Military Training Camp AssOci.
alton Wants Expedition.
Topeka Applicants Unable to
Take Final Examinations.
NO ARMY OFFICER HERE
Frank p. MacLennan Asks That
One Be Sent to City.
Col Burkhardt Advises Men to
Go to Lawrence.
NO ARMY OFFICER HERE

In view of the fact that more than
goo Topeka applicants for enrolment
| in the officers training camp at Fort
Riley are uniformed as to whom they
are to report upon return of their
application blanks. Frank P. MacLen-
nan, chairman of the Kansas and
western Missouri division of the Mill
tary Training Camps association,
Thursday evening sent the following
telegram to Gen. Thomas A. Barry.
commanding the central department,
at Chicago:
The Telegram.
Dear Generals the Topeka chair
of the Military Training Camps
souri,. our committee finds itself Sc
riously handicapped from the fact that
there is now no recruiting officer here
and no one with authority. Until about
one week ago CaDtain Williams was
here but he left for Little Rock We
assured Captain Vardman would
be here to succeed him but no one has
appeared. While we have almost filled
our quota we have fifty or more appli--
cants anxiously awaiting to know what
they should do. There is not even a
local recruiting officer here now
understand the Kansas City office has
been instructed from Chicago that no
more applications are to be sent TO
= Chicago; and there Is no one mere 20 aG
on applications when first presented
Some of our applicants have already
gone to Lawrence: others are in doubt
whether they should go to Kansas city
or elsewhere If we can get no one
here could not the Lawrence man be
detailed to come up here. We feel that
We should have some definite advice
whether anyone is coming and when
and who Please advise me by wire
Open Camp May S.
The telegram to General Barry was
the Topeka Military Training Camps
association. Immediately upon reply.
Mr. MacLennan announced this morn
ing, publicity will be given General
Barry's wire thru the newspapers:
1t was officially announced by Col
Samuel Burkhardt over long distance
telephone from Lawrence that the
training camp at FIT Riley will open
from May S to May IA. A certain
number of men, say four or five hun
general, will report each day OF this
period. The applicants who go to the
camp will report to Col Tyree Rivers,
cOnlmandant-
in reporting, Colonel Rivers will be
enabled to assign them TO barracks
and enroll them as fast as they ar
rive. The week for reporting also
allows time for division of the student
officers into classes
Published reports are to the effect
that the men are to pay their own
railroad fare 20 the camp and obtain
an agents receipt for their ticket for
use in presenting to the government
to be reimbursed for the expense.
Examining Officers.
The following list of officers to
make final examination of applicants
who are stationed in Kansas has been
published:
Coffeyville, rs walnut street-Capt- E.
A Sirmyer, Fourteenth Cavalry; Capt X.
J. West. Thirty-seventh Infantry.
EmpOria-Capt. W. s. Dowd, coast artil-
lery.
First Lieut.. James W. Payton, infantry
Fort Riley-Capt. Frederick G. Turner,
Fort Scott, S Main Street-Capt. William
S Dowd, coast artillery.
Hutchinson, n South Main Street-Capt.
Edgar A Sirmyer, Fourteenth Cavalry:
Lawrence-Col Samuel Burkhardt, Nine
tenth Infantry.
Liberal. Thompson BuiIding-Capt- Ed
gar A Sirmyer, Fourteenth Cavalry.
Manhattan. State Agricultural College
Can't. Lawrence o. Matthews, Infantry.
Pittsburg, 3051a Broadway-Capt- w s
Dowd. coast artillery.
Wichita. Beacon Building. South Main
Street-Capt. E A. Sirmyer, Fourteenth
Cavalry. .
Colonel Burkhardt this morning,
over the telephone, also advised To-
peka applicants to bring their appI-
cation papers, upon return of the lat
ter, to Lawrence. He will conduct the
final examination. He said he had not
been advised that anyone was to be
sent to Topeka to make the final tests