The evening world., 1917-12-20

and we're then made tho honorcd
guests ~ the people OF New Roche,ts.
because tu'ro Were not nCcOmmodn-
ions for 'uom az the fort. are happy
40 boz living In regular barracks here
40 camp DIX. They have been appor-
toned out among tho different units
Of tho National Army here for train
ing-an Unprecedented thing and
compliment 20 tho National Army,
since the volunteers are being trained
with tho drafted men and by Platts-
burg officers In most cases.
But oil tho officers are not Platts-
/ burgers and all tho recruits from
Fort SlOcum are not raw civilians.
There are two exceptions and they
have come together, appropriately
enough. In Company +. 3iOth In.
fantry. commanded by Capt. w. r..
Guthrie. veteran OF the second bat
Ito OF Ypres. Nimy Ridge. Lens and
Givenchy. The recruit, who was
conspicuous among tho forty others
detailed to Company L in that he
wears the grccnish drab OF the
! French Red Cross, Is John J. Hayes,
| formerly OF No. i29 Hunter Avenue,
! Long Island City. and later OF the
French front, notably Verdun. Capt.
Guthrie was wounded twice and so
was Private Hayes. Both arc anx-
| ious to get back to the fghting line,
and II ir were not for the necessary
matter OF discipline they could un-
doubtedly swap some mighty in
toresting stories OF their experiences.
Capt. Guthrie, whose homo Is In
Springfield. Mass. was for sixteen
years In the United States Regulars
and was a First Lieutenant. He en-
tered the British Army as a Lieuten-
ant after the outbreak OF the world
war, and In eighteen months was a
Major. How many times he was
"over the top" he refuses to say, but
once he was doing that very thing
when machine gun bullet got him,
His second wound was from shrapncl
on another occasion II was shrapnel
that sent him to blighty. He left the
trenches on Sept. I, his resignation
from the British Army was accepted
: on Oct. 81. and hs was on duty down
here at Camp Dix on Nov. IL. Nov
; his hope is to pay n return visit e
the trenches at an carly date with
II his new command.
? Private Hayes has also shown speed
In getting in line for a return ticket
I After eighteen months as an ambu-
/ lance driver and strotcher bearer fol
/ the Red Cross at the French front
, with service at Verdun and In tn,
, Argonne, he arrived back home OF
board the RoChambeau on Nov. 27
He enlisted at No. 36l Fulton Street
Brooklyn, Dec. IL. and was sent 4
Fort Slocum. lie slept on the fioor o.
school house in New Rochelle foI
: HIS first night in Uncle Sans service
but he has forgotten that experience
In the memory OF the good time which
followed when he became a guest o
some fine folks who treated me lik
son." as he expresses II. II didn'
want 10 wait for the draft" he Eek
planned. I'm hoping now to get int,
aviation and pay the Huns back 10
the wounds l got In my legs"
Besides the recruits who have beei
arriving on almost every train thi
week. there are newcomers OF quit
another sort in the shape OF 545 grad
4 yates OF the second Plattsburg train
ing camp. As yet they are unat
tached and occupy group OF bar
racks near the camp entrance Will
they are waiting TO be assigned
Among them are many well know
New Workers.. such as Major Georg
T. Adee. President Of the America
Lawn Tennis Association: Majo
Robert 3 Cooke, formerly OF the oil
23d Regiment In Brooklyn; Cap
II Joseph j, Lilley, formerly OF the 69t
\ Regiment: First Lieut.. Ernest 1
II fosling. advertising and newspape
h man Of New York and San Francisco
H First Lieut.. DevereauX Lord, widel
known in insurance circles; Charlie
A D. Weed who left Automobile Row I
n 70 to Plattsburg: First Lieut. Carl {
n Sayward brokeri Second Lieut. Pete
V. o. Barkelew OF Brooklyn, forme
newspaper man; First Lieut.. Eugen
vi r. OConnel, another neWspapt
M man; Second Lieut.. Edward II. Pear
son, advertising man, and William i
III (Billy) Taylor. the actor.