Von. VEE “Neo, 33:
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1898.
Price Ten Cenrs.
YALE IN CAMP.
First Week Shows the Recruits in
Good Health and Spirits.
It is now a week since the Yale
platoon of Battery A, C. N. G., went
into camp at Niantic. In spite of the
disagreeable weather during the first
part of the week and the discomforts
which are inevitable in a militia camp,
the enthusiasm which characterized the
men is increasing instead of diminish-
ing. They all want real work at once,
and hope for an immediate removal to
a federal camp. |
The men are rapidly getting into
shape and another fortnight will put
them besides the best of the State’s
contingent. W. J. Weston, ’98 S., of
Nebraska, has been commissioned a
Second Lieutenant; D. C. Twichell, 08,
and F. V. Chappell, ’98 S., have been
made Sergeants; and the Corporals are
H. Parkhurst, ’98 S.; C. C. Jones, ’98;
J. R. Paxton, 98; C. L. Sherwood, ’98
S. These officers discipline the men in
earnest, who are learning to obey with-
out word or sign any order, whatso-
ever its nature.
‘No case of sickness has yet occurred
and the examining doctors did not find
it necessary to reject a single man when
enlistments were going on. The result
of this has been that a number of the
substitutes who were taken to fill possi-
ble vacancies have enlisted in the First
Regiment, C. N. G.
The quarters of the Yale platoon are
situated on the extreme east of the
camp, on the shore of the little bay at
Niantic. Fifteen tents have been al-
lotted for their use and the neighboring
artillery stables are serviceable in rainy
weather. Many of the men slept in the
horse barns among the hay last Sunday
night, the tents not being proof against
the fierce storm of wind, rain and
hail which prevailed.
The appetite of the average Yale re-
cruit is large, but indiscriminating. E.
P. Treat, ’98, is detailed to look after
the supplies and superintend the ardu-
ous duty of cooking the meals. A. C.
Ledyard, ’98; G. Foster Sanford, and
E. E. Marshall, ’99 S., are the assist-
ant chefs. There is one Harvard man
in the platoon.
On Monday, Sergeant Chappell,
Corporal Jones and Private Schroeder
were in town securing the names of
men who were willing to fill the places
of men in Battery A, who for one rea-
son or another could not go with the
command. The recruiting officers had
their headquarters at the Second Regi-
ment Armory, and in a short time
twenty-five men had signified their will-
ingness to go, on a call by wire from
Niantic. It will not be known till the
latter part of the week how many men
will be needed to fill. the vacancies,
but it will probably reach as high as
twenty. Yale recruits are at a pre-
mium, as the whole platoon has shown
by its bearing during the last week the
kind of soldiers the students are mak-
ing. |
That the men are kept busy, may
be seen from the following daily routine
of camp life: os on
Reveille, 5.45 A.M.; assembly, 5.50
A. M.; sick call, 6.00 a. M.; mess call 6.45
A.M.; police call, 7.00 A.M.; platoon drill,
7.30 to 8.30 A. M.; inspection of quar-
ters 8.00 A. M.; platoon drill, 10.00 to
11.15 A. M.; orderly calls, 12.00; mess
call, 12.30 A. m.; platoon drill, 1.30 to
2.30 P.M.; battery drill, 3.30 to 4.30
P.M.; police call, 3.30 pP.M.; retreat,
5-45 P.M.; mess call, 6.30 P. M.; tattoo
9.00 P. M.; taps, 10.00 P. M.
Forecast of Dual Games,
The annual dual track games between
Yale and Harvard will be held in Cam-
bridge next Saturday afternoon. Last year
Yale won an easy victory most unexpect-
edly. This year the prospects, after a study
of the work of thc various competitors, at
first seem to be slightly in favor of Yale,
but when the fact is considered that the
games are to be held ona track unfamiliar
to the Yale men, it is safe to place the
odds in favor of Harvard. This is espe-
cially true because it is on the result of the
track events that Yale depends for victory.
With Graff and Conway in the two
sprints, Yale should take the majority of
the points, though ‘she has lost a strong
runner in Chappel, who has enlisted in the
Yale Battery. Rotch, Robinson and Bige-
low, for Harvard, are good men. Yale
also should have the advantage in the 440
yards run. Luce ran in 51% over a heavy
track in the Spring games Saturday, and
Fisher, when at his best, is still faster, but
he has been severely handicapped in train-
ing this year on account of a sprained
tendon. Harvard will havea good man in
Brenner, and in Fish, a new man, who ran
second to T. E. Burke in the class games
at Cambridge last week. Burke is not
eligible on account of the one-year rule.
Grant, of Harvard, should win both the
half and the mile if he runs. Yale has
protested him on the ground that he is no
longer a member of Harvard University,
having severed his membership when he
enlisted. The two best men for Yale in
this event are Ordway and Richardson.
With Grant and Mills; Harvard. should-——.
do well in the mile, though Speer, who
won the event for Yale in the dual games
last year, is a very good man, as is also
Spitzer.
Capt. Perkins, of Yale, can probably be
counted upon to win first in the high hur-
dles, and first or second in the 220 hur-
dles. He is not yet quite up to his old
form, as the duties of his position as Cap-
tain have interfered with his work.
In the field events Yale has lost two of
her best men. Weston, who has been
broad-jumping over 22 feet, has enlisted
with the light artillery, and Waller, one of
the best high jumpers Yale ever had, has
enlisted in Theodore Roosevelt’s regiment
of cavalry. With these two men gone,
Yale is left weak in both the jumps. One
of the weight men, Marshall, has also en-
listed. In his place, Cadwalader, who
played center on the football team last
Fall, has been entered in the dual games.
O’Donnell won the shot-put from Harvard
last year, and may be counted to do well
on Saturday. :
Clapp, who cleared 11 feet 6 inches in
the games Saturday, and Johnson, the in-
tercollegiate champion, should carry off
the first two places in the pole vault.
Hoyt, of Harvard, is a good man, but can-
not probably win better than third place.
Bicycle races are always uncertain, but
this year Yale has some very good men,
and should take two places.
The Yale team will go to Cambridge
determined to make a good fight for vic-
tory. The men, while not all seasoned
athletes, realize that they are to meet close
competitors in every event. Harvard has
the advantage of home grounds, and is
eager to offset the defeat of last year.
Considering these facts, the games should
be very closely contested throughout.
D. TENNEY.
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Phi Beta Kappa Notice
~ Of the 1,640 members of the Yale
Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, before the
year 1853, only 150 are now living. A
list of these 150, with degrees and
present addresses, has been prepared
and will be mailed to them this week.
Other members may obtain a copy on
application. It can easily be inserted
in the recent catalogue.
Any member who has not received
a catalogue may procure one by writ-
ing to the Catalogue Committee, Box
1496, New Haven, Conn.
MONEY FOR THE MAXIMS,
How the Alumni Have Answered—
Colors Too.
The complete gift of Yale to the Yale
will be both guns and colors. This is
one change in the plans for the gift as
announced in the last issue of the
WEEKLY and this is really only a change
of form. It has not been definitely
passed on by the general committee, but
there is no doubt of its acceptability to
all. sib
The set of colors were at once pledged
to the Government and accepted by the
JOHN ADDISON PORTER, YALE, "73.
Secretary to the President.
Navy Department when the Yale was
first named. Mr. Ernest Carter of New
York, and a number of alumni became
responsible for the cost of the colors
and began subscriptions for them.
Since then, Mr. Carter and those who
were interested in this plan with him
became deeply interested in the larger
gift of the pair of guns, and word came
from New York on Tuesday, that those
who had subscribed to the colors would
prefer to turn their subscriptions into
the general fund and have both the guns
and the colors go from all Yale.
The set of colors contain fifty-one
ensigns, covering every need from the
masthead to the smallest boat, besides
a full set of jacks and pennants. The
exact cost of these flags cannot be defi-
nitely. given now, but it is not incon-
siderable.
The total fund which the Committee
have decided on as necessary to cover
the entire cost of guns, colors, and all
contingent expenses, is $6.000.
MORE ABOUT THE GUNS.
In such description of the guns as
was available last week, it was stated
that they could be fired twelve to fif-
teen times a minute easily. A repre-
sentative of the company which pro-
duces them, to wit, the Vickers Sons
and Maxim, Limited, London, has
informed the Committee that they can
be fired forty-five times a minute.
They are a late design and considered
a most effective form of long distance
rapid fire guns.
Some curiosity having been expressed
as to just how the guns could have been
put on the Yale, when it was known
that any order for them took consider-
able time to fill, even from the agent
on this side of the water, it may be as
well to say that Mr. Porter at Wash-
ington found two of these guns ready
for some other purpose, and was able
to secure their immediate transfer to
the Yale before she sailed. Mr. Ernest
Carter of New York, a member of
the General Committee, was with Mr.
Porter at the time, and these gentlemen
took the responsibility of guaranteeing
for the Committee the substitution of
two guns exactly like them. As already
announced, therefore, the guns are
already-on the boat and await only the
inscription plates, which are now ready.
It may or may not be possible that
these guns, when the Government has
finished ‘with them, may come back
to New Haven. Of course this condi-
tion has not in any way been insisted
upon, and nothing has been done to
make the gift any other than what it
was intended to be—a freewill offering
of something serviceable, making a
guarantee in a substantial form of the
loyal goodwill of Yale. —
It goes without saying that the guns
would not remain on the Yale if she
went out of the government service.
At this writing there is the sum of
$3,000 at hand in New Haven, and
about two thousand dollars in addi-
tion pledged. Those who have not
subscribed through one. agency or
another can send such contribution as
they feel disposed to make, and be sure
that their subscription will be as much
a part of the gift from Yale and as.
thoroughly appreciated as though they
had subscribed early.
As to the contributions, it is not pos-
sible to give a detailed report of the
way in which the entire graduate and
undergraduate family of Yale have an-
swered the call. Suffice it to say that
the contribution has been one that is
thoroughly consistent with their loyalty
to their country and to their Alma
Mater.
ANSWERING THE CALL.
When it was seen last Wednesday
that a large sum must be raised shortly,
in order to meet the demands, it was
decided not to try to gather it from
Yale centers hereabouts. Instead of
that, the case was stated in the WEEKLY
and telegrams were sent to all the Asso-
ciations and Yale centers in the coun-
try,—about thirty-five in all—suggest-
ing to each a round figure for contri-
butions. With only two or three ex-
ceptions, the responses were made
with enthusiastic acceptance and often
with the promise to do more than was
asked. The Yale men in Dayton were
the first to get their answer back.
Colorado followed very quickly; San
Francisco was in about the same time.
All of these did what was asked and
offered still more. Cincinnati, which
had already given $118, promised to
make it up to $150; Pittsburg graduates
were ready with a good sum. Others
answered by letter and within a few
days nearly the entire list was heard
from. The work was especially quick
and generous at New Haven and Hart-
ford, with the Long Island Alumni
Association and at New York. _Hart-
ford already has put $300in the Cruiser
Fund treasury. New Haven graduates
have made up between $500 and $600
at this writing.
These are only random references to
the work of canvassing, which has been
taken up enthusiastically in at least
thirty different Yale centers at the sim-
ple request from New Haven on behalf
of the Cruiser: Fund Committee.
THE COMMITTEE.
A full report of the results will be
given in another issue. The Committee
wishes to request that all those who are
canvassing should keep a record of the
donors to the Fund. The records of
those whose subscriptions have come
