The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05

Is Lieut.-Col Edward McLeer, Jr., Of
three generations OF fighters - civil
war, Spanish war and the late I'M
pleasantness-Ison OF Gen. McLeer Of
Brooklyn.
Another from a long line of soldiers
land one of three Brigadier- Generals
furnished by the old National Guard
OF New York STATED is Brig. Gen.
George \. Wingate, son OF the Gem
eral, long in the Board Of Education.
md who secured physical training for
lie boys in public schools. The artil-
cry of the Twenty-seventh never re-
ioined the division. but went into the
trgonne show under Wingate and DIS
tinguis ed themselves at Bethainville,
Chappencourt, Mezieres and Sedan.
With them was Major Guido Yer
beck whose father, formerly Adj
iutant-General of the State. is owner
and manager of the Peekskill Military
Academy. There is also Capt. School
kopf of Buffalo, one of the richest men
in the northern part Of the state, and.
Capt. Chauncey Hamlin OF Buffalo
T e 106th Field Artillery is composed
almost entirely of Buffalo men.
Two Older Generals.
OF the two other Brigadier- Generals
furnished by this old National Guard
division, one is he who started in as
Col. Charles 1. De Bevois of the ia
nous old Huguenot family of Brooklyn
former commander of tho First New
York Cavalry on the border and in
this war the 10th Infantry. until pro-
NOTED to Brigadier-Gener and the
command of the Fffty-third Infantry
brigade. When this occurred, Major
Mortimer Bryant, a we'll known New
York advertising man, formerly COM
| manding the 106th Machine Gun Bat
talon. was made Colonel Of the 107th
Infantry. The other was Col. Corne-
| Illus Vanderbilt Of the 1929 New York
| Engineers. made Brfgadier General
while the division was in Flanders and
sent back to the United States to COM
mand brigade of regular infantry. but
his organization, which he had brought
to a high point of efficiency, contrib
uted materially by its pioneer work to
the successful operations Of the divi-
| sion.
These men have worked together a
long time. The Twenty seventh seems
to have been left intact as a kind Of
National Guard test. It has come out
with flying colors. but the situation
was particularly favorable. Cen
| Organ. from the standpoint Of the
army. had received a military educa-
| ton which few division commanders
have been fortunate enough TO enjoy.
/ He was an honor graduate Of the
Army War College and one of the few
division commanders who had ever
had experience with a real division at
! war strength
For several years the State of New
York maintained tactical division =
and working with this in man9uvres
| in State service and during the long
stay on the Mexican border the Ge
eral and his staff had exceptional OPP
portynity to become familiar with the
practical end of staff work.
, During the Mexican border service
and up to the great war the staff had
been fortunate in working under the
mastery supervision of n most efficient
regular army specialist, their Old chief
! of staff, one of the most popular men
who ever served with the New York
division-Col. II. II. BandholtZ. now
Provost Marshal General of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Force.
! Gil of the division is Lieut.-Col.
! Edward Olmstead. an old member of
! Squadron \ and a graduate of the
| Leavenworth Field Officers School.
G-2, which should have been filled by
a Lieutenant-Colon was ably ham
died by "A young Captain. A. b. Peter
son. = we'll known attorney of James,
town, " Y. The Inspector-Generali is
Lieut.. Col J. Mayhem Wainwright OF
Rye, formerly New York State Sena-
tor. He practises law in New Yorh
city. but he had experience as a COM
, pany' commander in the old Twelfth
New York Infantry during the Span
ish war.
! Thu division Quartermaster, being a
New York stock broker with vast bust
ness experience, was able to contra
diet most of the mean things the SOL
d!ers say about the department. Work
ing with a strange and new system
with four different British armies
Lieut.. col. Henry $. Sternberger never
once failed to deliver the bacon. For
one thing he can pick men. For trans
portation assistant he picked Major
James 7, Loree, vice-president and
general manager of the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad. whose marked
ability in quartermaster work soon
led to his transfer to the Eightietf
Division, promotion to Lieutenant.
Colonel, Az, more recently TO Deputy
Provost Marshal General of the
a. Il. + Sternherger was thirty years
in the old New York National Guard
Others ON the stan Are Noted.
Other popular staff officers are
Lieut.. Joseph DAILY, eX-footbal
star of the New York University COrd
nance Ofiicer), Lieut.-Col, Thoma.
Sherman Of Utica. golf champion ant
, son of the old Vice-PresiGcnt (G-3D
Lieut. col. Waller :. Montgomery ui
New NOTk city, whose fad was follow
inS the engines OF the Fire Department
division Surgeon; Major TristraE
Tuprer, the author-lawyer of New
York city division Adjutant Capt
Joseph Eddy, society man ana son o,
Jesse Eddy. the coal operator who sup
plies SO many railroads Gen. Organ,
personal add, and Jim Sam Wads-
- worth. commander of division head
quarters troop, a brother OF Crail
! Wadsworth and a nephew of the Sena
tor-who himself was formerly of tn,
division, serving as a First Lieuten
ant in the Genesco Troop, now par
OF machine gun battalion. lin
Sam" had two Sons in the service. on,