New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

"a Good
Crowd"
Across the hallway the tireless
photograph was proclaiming some
ones unbounded affection for
Dear old pal Of NINE" aided and
abettcd by uncouth harmony from
the lounging troopers The pro-
testations Of devotion reached their
climax in one long drawn wolf howl,
and the captain smiled little wist-
fully.
"Thcy'rc a good crowd" he said
Night after night, while the men
he worked with and was intimate
with in the days before he won his
commission loaf together, Captain
Robinson sits in his Office, a rather
lonely figure, immurcd by the strict
discipline Of the troop that DEGREES
that no commissioned officer can
mingle with the rank and file Of his
command on terms of equality.
Men who once hailed the captain
as "Old Scout" now stand stiGly
before him and in their CONVERSE
tion use the super-formal diction of
the soldier to his commissioned off
cer--"Will the captain want his
horco fbic oftnrpoOpoD
Trooper Dosher in the lounging
room has just returned from
patrol of the state roads to see if
the law against glazing headlights
is being observed and is in the
midst Of q story:
"Hc had only one headlight lit, so
we stopped him. We told him that
we weren't going to pull him this
time, but that he ought to know
better and that the law demanded
he have both lights going.
yes, he says meek enough. 4
ought to know. / made the law
"And by golly, it was Secretary
of State Hugo himself that we'd
held upw
This reminded Trooper Snidcr Of
another story and Trooper Raml-
ton capped this with a third. SIN
bad himself might well feel a pang
Of envy at the yarns that are spun
when G. Troop is in a reminiscent
mood.
Tales of the great war and of
older conflicts, in which The riders
did their share; tales of the MeNi-
can border patrol, where Troopers
Gahan and Rchm rode for two
years; tales of unbelievable and
utterly unprintablc happenings
among the primitive peoples of the
Catskills and Adrondacks; tales of
the training camp, whore the troops
were hammered into shape and
where the troopers for weeks on end
cschcwcd chairs and slept on their
stomachs; tales Of laughablc Incl
NtllNS NIiNt Nll il.tNlNl '7'
$50 Mac arrested this kid
and he was fined 500 for driving II
car under age, and sentence was
suspended. His father was owner
of the only hotel in town and he
was sore at US. We came back two
days later, and he wouldn't let us
have a room at his house. SO Mae
got sore and hid in the bushes and
nailed the kid again for driving the
car, and his old man had to pay $25,
anyway
Every twenty minutes the stable
guard, pistol on hip and hashliQht in
hand, trampcd out into the darkness
to see that the horses were all right. |
This patrol continues from sunset
to dawn, for construction camp
near by has sworn vengeance against
the troopers because the gray riders
interviewed in what the laborers con-
sldered a perfectly private fight |
And revenge in upper New York |
State usually means barn burning.
Onus accompanied the patrol with
grave dignity. She is 4 Dobermann
pinscher of matronly figure and an
intelligence that the troopers swear
is really intellect. They are her de-
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