Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-30
WARDEN M'LEAN DIES
AFTER FALL OFF HORSE
Philadelphia Second Lieutenant,
Instructor at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Succumbs

Second Lieutenant Warden Mclean. L.
S. A.. of Philadelphia died in hospital
in Chattanooga. Tenn, of injuries received
last Monday when he was thrown from Il
horse, according to word received here to-
day. The body will arrive in Philadelphia
tomorrow and will be taken to the Mclean
home 2S17 Queen lane, Germantown.
Lieutenant Mclean was an instructor at
the officers training camp at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, about four miles from Chattanooga
He was assigned to a battery of artillery.
with this organization he was on a
march through ChiCkamauga Park. scene OF
the Civil war battle of ChiCkamauga The
horses, II is said were new to the service
and nervous over the unaCcustomed duties
required of them.
Mr. Mclean. riding at the rear of the
column of rumbling guns and caissons, was
required at the front Of the column and
spurred his horse to a gallop. The animal
bolted and whirled around tree on Snod-
grass Hill one of the historic points in the
park.
The horse whired so suddenly and
yiciously that its rider was unseated and
hurled against the tree His body struck
I'm such a way that it was bent about the
trunk of the tree He was carried to the
post hospital, but failed to respond to treat
ment. Yesterday morning consultation
of physicians was held and grave doubts
were expressed as to his recovery Last night
he seemed to rally, but this proved to be
but a prelude to the end, for he died shortly
afterward.
Lieutenant McIean's home was on Indian
Queen lane, Germantown. He was the eld-
est son of william l.. Mclean publisher of
the Bulletin and director of the Associated
Press. He was educated at Penn Charter
School, the Hin School, near Pottstown, and
at Princeton University, He also had pri-
vate tutors.
He was fond of athletic sports at all
times and while he was at Princeton he
developed into a football star When the
prospect of active military service became
bright he applied for admission TO the
officers reserve corps, passed the examina-
tion and was commissioned second lieuten-
ant. He had previously taken the course
of intensive training at Plattsburg, n. Y.
When the officers training camps were
started he was active and enthusiastic i'm
furthering the plans for them. He was
so far advanced however, that he was sent
to Fort Oglethorpe to assist in the instruC-
tion of newer men. His brothers Robert
and William l.. Mclean Jr., are in train
ing at the Fort Niagara camp in New
York.
Partly for the improvement Of his own
work as an officer and partly to assist in
the work of instruction, he had, before going
to Fort Oglethorpe, assisted in the training
Of the student corps at the University of
Pennsylvania,
The young officers parents were at his
bedside when death came and are accom-
panying the body to this city for burial.
The Fort Oglethorpe camp, officers
listed men and student officers, was pro-
foundly saddened by the death of Leuten-
ant Mclean. Army officers charged with
the instruction of the students were par
ticularly affected, as they said they had
come to look upon him as one Of themselves,
a model officer and a splendid example,
morally, physically and mentally, to the
young men with whom he came in contact.
OF sterling character, he had made a deep
study of military affairs and kept himself
in the pink OF physical condition.
Lieutenant Mclean was in his twenty
ninth year. and hoped soon to be promoted
to a captaincy in the army.