New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Training Camp for
Officers in Field
Artillery Opened
Nineteen New York Men
Have Already Been Ac-
cepted as Students
Entrance Test Difficult
Army Needs 10000 to Attend
First School at Camp
Zachary Taylor


training camp for civilians between
twenty years and eight months and
forty years Of age and enlisted men Of
the army has been established at Camp
Zachary Taylor, near Louisville. KY.
to open August 15. Applications for
this school, which will be the only one
in the United States for candidates for
field artillery commissions, are now
being taken at the Military Training
Camps Association, 10 West Forty
fourth Street.
At the present time the field artillery
is in urgent need of large number of
officers. The object Of the school will
be to train body of men exceptionally
fitted to command for service in
France as quickly as possible. Twelve
thousand are wanted for the first
school. and after that one thousand q
week will be enlisted for classes which
will run continually until the end Of
the war.
While drafted men are eligible for
entrance, the government is particu-
larly desirous to obtain older men Of
mature judgment acquired through a
wide experience in business or in pro-
fessional life. Though the school will
offer only second lieutenancy upon
completion of the course, these men
will be by selection and will probably
be rapid if ability is demonstrated.
Rigorous Qualifications
1t will be no easy matter getting into
the new school, according to Captain
A ~ hyy ne ho M ~
this city, for besides the examination
of the government there will be close
personal inspection by special board
which will test the fitness Of the appli
cant to be q commander of men.
This board in New York City will be
composed of Brigadier General Oliver
B. Bridgman, as Wall Street, chair
man: Mortimer Buckner, president
New York Trust Company; Alfred
Borden, 81 Pine Street; G. De B.
Green, 43 Exchange Place; DR.. George
Foundation; Frederic N Waitress, 80
Nassau Street; Bronson Winthrop, 32
Liberty Street; Linzee Blagden, Ill
Broadway; Morris K. Parker, vice
president Equitable Trust Company;
A. II. Marckwold, Bankers Trust Com
pany; Captain A. F. Crosby and A. S.
Thurston, 10 West Forty fourth Street.
"These men are giving the examina-
ton Of applicants their personal attcn-
ton every day at o'clock, which
shows the Importance we place on
proper selection of candidates." said
Captain Crosby yesterday. Already
these nineteen New York men have
been accepted:
New Workers Accepted
Joseph Howland Auchincloss, Ocean
Avenue, Cedarhurst, Long Island; Mil
ton J. Bach, A Cedar Street, New York
City; George Everson, 1O5 East Twen-
ty-sccond Street; Eugene Kelley, IS
Pinehurst Avenues; Delano CLANCY
Let's, National Bank of Commerce;
Richard J. Compton, jr., 2399 Grand
Concourse; William A. Prime, Wood
mere, Long Island; James Joseph Nc
Ginley, Harvard Club, New York City;
Richard Ames Ware, 27o Convent Ave
nue.; John Henderson Stewart, 43 Ex-
change Place; Danfort II. Cardoza, 2O7
West Ninety eighth Street; Harold
Woolf Bonwit, 334 West Eighty sixth
Street; Henry Green Hotchkiss, SO
West Forty-eighth Street; Lee James
Perrin, 60 Wall Street; Walter E.
Fentzke, 553 Chauncey Street, Brook
lyn; Edwin Firth Cadiz, 473 Fourteenth
Street, Brooklyn; Julio Francisco Sor-
2ano, jr., 228 Garfield Place, Brooklyn;
James Irwin Parker, 20 Sterling Street,
Brooklyn, and Joseph W. Stinson,
Gotham Hotel, New York City.
The course at Camp Taylor will last
twelve weeks. Previous to entrance
civilians will be kept apart for quaran-
tine and fer preliminary training, es-
pecially in algebra, plane geometry and
arithmetic. This will make the length
Of the cOurse fol1r months Ann1icants
and must be citizens Of the United
States. They must agree to serve in
the army for the period of the war if
they fail to receive commissions.
Further information regarding the
course may be obtained from Captain
Crosby, at 19 West Forty-fourth Street.