The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-18

poral in Company II. Fourth Regiment
Before he could leave for Canada. how
ever, an opportunity offered itself for
American service. and on April 90 he
enlisted as a private in the Signal on
GERS Reserve Corps and was ordered to
Mineo!a for training with flight squad
rons.
He began training as n fler May
last year. and won the admiration OF
his officers. for his intensive application
to the work and his undoubted ability
| IN handling machine in the air. II
was no surprise 10 his friends to learn
on July 10, little over a month and
half after he began training that he
had been commissioned a First Lieu
| tenant. He was ordered to Fort Wood
Bedloe's Island. and left before the end
of the month for France under Capt
Philip Carroll.
Flew Over His Home.
BEFORE his departure Lieut. Quentin
made a fight over his home at Saga
more Hill and took leave OF his par
ents.. His training was completed in
France and consisted as nearly as
could he learned. OF signal corps work
In connection with air suuadrons and
not actual flight duty 1t was not until
the present month. on July 3, that cable
dispatches told Of his taking part in
ar combats AT that time he piloted
mis- own machine in fight in the Marine
sector and returned successfully.
a week later on July 10, he brought
down MS first German plane in battle
Fought al 5000 yards altitude eight miles
inside the enemy lines. north OF Chateau
Thlerry. Misied by the clouds Lieut..
Roosevelt turned his machine toward
what he SUPPOSED WAS the French line
and encountered three planes which he
mistook at first for French machines. He
was close upon them when he discovered
the error, and making "A quick descent
fired nifty shots at his nearest enemy. As
he shot upward again he saw his ONION
ent's machine take fire and drop rapidly
To Garth In nose spin. He was certain
the plane WAS wrecked. His inward
dive carried him out OF range Of the two
other planes, and he returned to his own
lines without further difficulty.
Quentin was born November 10. 1897.
In WASHINGTON when the Colonel was as
Sistant Secretary Of the Navy in the
Mckinley Administration He attended
ST Paul's Episcopal School near Alex
andria. Va and for short time later
studied at Groton Preparatory School.
at Groton Mass, At Harvard he took
prominent part in athletics and was
among tn" 10, Harvard men chosen to
take special military training lie chose
the rigoTs Of Plattsburg instead
Washington Still remembers the
youngest of the Roosevelts for his boy
.sh pranks. The capital was busy
keeping uP with him. His activities
We're in no sense confined to the White
House grounds He roller skated over
the city and travelled in street cars
garbed as an Indian, his pockets stuffed
with toads or snakes that kept the com
mutcrs IN an uproar,
He experienced juvenile romance
with the youthful daughter of letter
c0rrier that made equally delightful
reading for the grave persons of Con-
Fress and for the friendly Washing
tonians who came to know the strenuous
young Roosevelt and loved him for his
generosity and fricndliness.
Washington became familiar with his
innumerable pets by reason of the fact
that he was rarely without one or an
other Of them i7 his 1eregrinations
about the city, They were housed in
a miniature nenagerie in the White
House basement The story is told that
when his brother Archie was i'll In the
White House he conceived the notion
that the patient would like nothing bet
ter than to have near him the small
pony that was his constant comrade in
~ binary times. Quentin somehow man
aged to load the pony on an elevator
and shortly introduced the pony into
the siCkroom,
At Plattsburg both Archie and Quen-
tin were under training at the same
time, Archie attended the previous camp
and was first sergeant in the same
company. Quentin was corporal