Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-06-08
"TEIE: BIjFFAOES,' 4
F|H2T~t.L. COLORED
FIGHTING REGIMENT
IT'S COLDRED OFFICERS NAVE
SEEN PREVIOUS SERVICE
IN ARMY CAMPAIGNS
"Thc Outlook" Publishes Article on
Unique National Army Regiment
by Lieut. O. II. Mckaiuc,
iOiGrcu STAN Uiuticr.
Continued From Last Weck)

Continued From Last Week)
With the assistance of their civil
ian friends both white and colorcd,
tie officers and men OF the seth
Reg mcnt of Infantry known as the
BuMalocs." have erected mammoth
aud Drum nj Camp Upton, Now York
The other night ut the auditorium l
wen 10 sec n show and several white
and culorcd sold crS were sitting just
b2h.nd me. talking /, over" and wait
ing for the next act. began listening
i'm and heard a conversation that
went something like this between one
o. he viii & soldiers and some of the
Buffalocs:
docs this build mg belong to YOU
fellows?" the whie soldier asked.
1--WE built and paid for it SO it
must"
"But l thought saw some white
fellows in here using II the other
day"
"You may have" the Buffalo re
Piled "but is only because We let
'cm. See this bench we're sitting on?
Well | paid for this bench with my
own money; but | don't mind you sit
ting here. And then furthermore We
re going to give it to the Government
when we get our money back"
Eyes. but l thought this building
belonged to the Government and was
just given to you fellows while you
are here.
Government noth:n'. This audi
forum belongs to the Buifaloes every
board and plank" i
"What did it cost?"
"Forty thousand dollars and we did
1tn OH ,nply NJ ,rnr,
Good show here tonight?"
always a good show at the Buffa-
10 auditorium. Come down and bring
your friends-we need the money"
well" laughed the white soldier,
call we want is our moneys worth.
Do you fellows pay to come in?"
"My face don't look like a ticket,
does it? or course we pay to come
in"
MANY white soldiers como down
here ,often?"
Look back there now. Do you sec
many? Well, it's just like that all
the time-just as many white fellows
as colored."
"Looks like you fellows would want
this all to yourselves
"Wcll," said the Buffalo, cts like
this. Lots of white folks helped us
out on this building: and then I've
got Il lot Of white friends in camp
and wherever I go they can go; and
further we won't draw the line here
as long as you fellows don't draw it.
Now next week we've got two white
fellows on the bill we pay 'em just
like we pay everybody else-and' boy
listen to that band" And the lights
went out and the show was on.
The Buffalo auditorium is the great
uem0cratizing institution of Camp
Trton. White soldiers and white Of
fcers attend as regularly as colored
soldiers and officers. The building
is not a colored auditorium. but an
auditorium for soldiers built by the
%67th Regiment with the assistance
of their friends. Eventually it will
become the property OF the Govern
ment.
1t was designed primarily for drill
during severe and inclcment weather.
All of the preliminary bayonet in
struction for the regiment. as we'll as
some Of the white regiments, has
been given in this building. Classes
in boxing by Bonnie Leonard, regi-
mcnta! lectures and lectures of spec
lal classes. chorus singing, and many
ether activities and Instructions that
cannot he held outdoors with any
'"GrCc Of satisfaction and success
have been held in the auditorium
IN the evenings and afternoons and
evenings Of Saturdays and Sundays
"na holidays, the auditorium is dc ,
voted TO religious services, motion
pictures, vaudeville and other forms
Of recreation
The officers and men of the rcgi-
Ment subscribed over fourteen thous
and dollars toward the building and
spent more than five hundred dollarG .
"'Git!ona' in expenses incurred Incl
dent TO the campaign for tho remain
ing hNcntV-SiX thnu9ard dollars. As
the founders Of tho auditorium in
tended that small sum shnrld hn
charged for the entertainments and
shows bonds 'Ycrc issued to cove"
cost CT erection in dcncminat' ons Of
ten, fifty. one hundred arl five hun
drcd dollars. which were to be re-
deemed IS soon as EnTsiblc. and in
The event that tho rn"i~nc1t was or.
'lcred abroad before full rcIcmDtion
such funds as had been accumulated
we're to he proratod among tho bond
holders. the unrcdccmcl portion be. ;
ing considered = contribution.
When Colonel James A. Moss, in
command Of the regiment, first pro-
posed to bui'l tho auditorium and
issue bonds he received n vcrv luke
warm reception from the men: but
when the cola winds of Long Island
searched every crack AMI crcvice,
every toar and rip. tho mon viewed
the project with increasing favor. and
finally voted to back it, to the limit.
THE Colonel must think we're
going to be here for a thousand
years. l overheard q Buffalo say one
day between breathing spells from