Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-18
MAJOR GEN. CHAS. G..
TREAT 4 MAINE MAN
Bangor Commercially

Distinguished among the men of
Maine who in war or peace have
( achieved great success and occupied
high places of honor throughout the
nation and the world is Maj. Cen
Charles taoule Treat, formerly of
Orono. now IN command Of American
forces in Italy. Major General Treat
was born in Orono 5S years ago and
his father, Tcn. J. B. Treat of Mon
roc, Wisconsin, was in Bangor Fri
day, being the guest Of his nephew
George l.. Could of the Rines COM
pany.
General Treat went to Europe six
months ago. was personally well
coined by King Alphonso of Italy and
by General Diaz the great Italian
commander.
| General Treat is q West Point man
! graduating from West Point in 1878.
For seven years he was aid to Gen
| eral Howard at Governors Island A
letter from the general to his father
in Wisconsin took 40 days to come
| and was censored by the general him
self. and is an interesting account of
Italy, and the reception that our gal
liant allies gave a general from the
United States.
General Treat is closer to the hearts
of mothers, maybe than any officer in
the American army. for it is woe unto
any buck private who hasn't written
homo lately and the general finds it
out. says a recent issue of a Cleve-
land, Ohio, paper, the general being
the, idol of the whole Ohio division.
Many a night and day, all alone has
the general wandered over the camp
where he was commander, his object
being perhaps, friendship with
privates. You will write your
mother and report back to me-" he
has said to many a delinquent, and
the command has been sufficient.
His dad" who is 81 years of age
and who went down to Alabama from
his Wisconsin home to keep in touch
with his boy Charles" while the gem
eral remained in America, is one of
the generals best pals.
General Treat loves horses and is
known as the father of army polo. He
rode the famous Joaquin, the prize
jumper and show horse for II years,
winner of the international horse
show prizes in Chicago. Joaquin was
burned to death in a stable fire at
Fort Sam Houston. Now the general
rides a kentucky thoroughbred
Coroduman Carter.
A story told of the general seems
usually to apply to Maine military
men. An influential relative sought
to assist in a certain promotion be-
fore the days when lieutenants'
shoulder straps were won over night.
and tclegraphed to Treat then wait
ing promotion. He got an answer.
Let the thing alone. Ill win by
merit or not at ALL" And so the
phrase. "A clean, square man and a
soldier" is well earned and perhaps
all the praise needed And to clinch
it, perhaps, the major general has
knocked out the props of tradition for
nc announced with emphasis that the
commander of the 37th Division u. s.
A. would gladly give audience to any
private soldier who had either sus-
geStlon or grievance. And that is
the type Of man who is leading
Americans to victory shoulder to
shoulder with the gallant Italians
who welcomed him and his men in an
hour Of direst need.
General Treat, though he left
Orono some years ago. has hosts of
friends in that town and in this sec
ton of Maine who gladly add their
words to praise of a Maine born
fighting man.