| Show t vI JUNE GLORIES r FOR THE CADETS I Lively Tim2s at West Point and I Annapolis c THE GRADUATING CLASSES ti FI ° 3r SCHOOL TO THE PLAINS AXD ik THE SEA j7E hot Many Vacancies in the Army Hut There Are Enough Cominis Nions in the Navy to Satisfy All Ucnmmls Interesting Glimpse of Both Departments Written for The Herald June week at Annapolis and West Point is always fraught with the keenest tcrest to the young men who are soon to become the official defenders of the nation na-tion These uays tear asunder the comrade com-rade hip of years transform the boy into a man taking him away from the guardianship guard-ianship ot tareful instructors and launching launch-ing him a fullP Iged officer upon his career The boys at Annapolis are now saying goodbye and in a few days the lucky rnes who pass the severe exam at West Point will be doing likewise Forty and twentyfive in the engineer corps By June 30 there will be eight more vacancies vacan-cies as that number of officers will come up before the retiring board to be placed on tho pension list lieu Aacancies in the Army In the army there are only twentynine vacancies for the fortythree young men and some of them will have to go on the l waiting list Of the twentynine vacancies lt five are in the cavalry three in the Sixth regiment one in the Seventh and one in the Ninth In the artillery there are but three vacancies ono in the First Regiment Regi-ment one in the Second and one in the Third In the infantrv there are twenty one vacancies one in the Third regiment two in the Fifth three in the Ninth three in the Twelfth one in the Fourteenth Four-teenth ono in the Sixteenth two in the Eighteenth three in the Twentieth one in the Twentyfirst one in the Twenty secona one In the Twentyfourth and one in the Twentyfifth At the Naval Academy the last week has been a busy one This programme chows what the boys have just gone through lipnday June 3 1045 a m reception re-ception of board of visitors 5 p m seamanship I sea-manship drill Monongahela TuesdayS Tuesday-S June 4 9 a m o ytttle drill afloat Ban croft and boats iOSO a m target practice prac-tice Bancroft 12 m machine shop drill 6 p m steam tactics first and second JLelasses boats under oars third and 1 JEfourth classes Wednesday June 5 9 a I j c t an battalion of infantry 4 p m eompet rl J itixre company drill 630 p m dress parade pa-rade Thursday June 69 a m battalion of artillery 3 p m fencing setting up and gymnastics 630 p m dress parade Friday June 7 1030 a m graduating exercises ex-ercises At the ball following the graduating exercises Cadet Richard H M Robinson Robin-son of Ohio the honor man of the second class and class president of the same received re-ceived with Mrs Cooper wife of Superintendent Superin-tendent Cooper Nearly all the members of the graduating graduat-ing class made records for themselves infield In-field sports and with few exceptions start the real battle of life with nicknames of a humorous character bestowed upon them by their companions Some Old Nicknames There is Frank Hardman Brumby of Georgia for instance who has always been called Four Hundred because he I came from the state which gave the late Ward McAllister birth He earned the distinction of being cadet lieutenant and commissary in his first class year Arthur I Ar-thur Tremaine Chester son of Commander Command-er C M Chester U S N appointed at large has always been called Kid Walter Rockwell Gherardi son of Rear Admiral Gherardi was always spoken of as Jerry not a very dainty abbreviation abbrevia-tion of such a wellknown name Smi er is the happy name bestowed upon William Gerard Groesbeck appoInted from Ohio He stood No 2 in his class every year and is sure to get one of the I commissions A Japanese Classmate One of the most interesting members of I the class is Motoluko Takasaki a Japanese Japan-ese called Taki for short He was appointed ap-pointed from the empire of Japan and I would have graduated this year with honors hon-ors had he not obtained leave of absence I to join in the recent war against China He is back again now the best envied man in the academy because he can tell stories about real seafights that he took part in David Wooster Todd a thin young gentleman from California is better bet-ter known as Skinny while Samuel Curtis Vestal a longleggeA youth from Indiana monopolizes the nice name of Shanks The others in the class are Henry Bar r k < J < F t 0 t z0 ilJ = 3 j I 0 0 Qclt r f r s r > < h 1 f it tit d t i r i l ti I tti t f oiid i = J = r 4f = = = 4ffj r 0 = TIlE ARTILLERY DRILl one graduated on Friday from the Naval Academy and fortythree hope to do the tame at West Point The latter in a few months will be doing the hard work of Keeping order on the plains teaching ug Jy Indians how to follow the laws of Uncle Un-cle Sam ana battling with the outlaws of the west It is exciting but not pleasant work that the soldiers of the plains have to perform but it is of the kind which hardens the youngster and gives him a sound taste of what real warfare and danger mean The Annapolis youngsters are more fortunate than their comrades at West Point for the fason that all the graduates 0 gradu-ates are certain of immediate commissions commis-sions In all there are now fortytwo vacancies va-cancies in the navy seventeen in the line num Butler jr from Ness York William Reynolds Cushman fro New York William Christopher Davidson from South Dakota Albion James Wadhams I from New York Edward Home Watson from Kentucky Thomas Murritt from South Carolina Edward Howard Dunn I from Connecticut Michael James IcCor I mack from Mchigan John Robert Mon I oghan from Washington James Joseph j Raby from Michigan Joseph Draper I Sayers jr appointed from New York I although his home is in Texas Stuart i Farrar Smith from Pennsylvania Will am Harry Staudler from California Ernest I Er-nest Frederick Ecknart better known as Guflle from Wisconsin Frederick I Newton Freeman from Indiana Daniel Mershon Garrison called JoJo from u I i 2 I t i SOME OF THK WEST POINT GRADUATE New Jersey Franklin D Karns from Ohio the best allaround athlete in the academy and called Dutchy Charles Ring Mallroy from Tennessee Newton Mansfield from Ohio John Francis Marshall Mar-shall from Texas Darwin Robert Mer ritt from Iowa James Proctor Morton from Massachusetts Newton Hamill Hall from Texas but generally called Steer Rufus Z Johnson jr from North Carolina John Valentine Klemann from New York Orb Smith Kneffer from Pennsylvania and Harris Laning from Illinois Hopeful List at West Point The boys who hope to pass the exam at West Point are Messrs Duncan Parker Par-ker M F Smith McGrew F W Smith Conrad Schulz Creden Bugge Sturte jj t 1 4 Trt1LiLt1I1I77riIvfl I l f bo a I I II i1ffl ii ii l E 61AL V da = JjKOTIOV OF THE AJtTSATOLlS GRADUATING CLASS vant Gurney Darrah Prftchard Mc Broom Charles Nissen Watson Mitchell Davis Augustin Springer Herron Dixon DIx-on Nuttman Ames Cavanaugh Simmons Sim-mons Howland Fleming earce Miles Hutton Payne Stanley White Hawkins Bigelow Sills Lewis Richardson Arnold Switen and H B Smith The exercises at the academy finish on Wednesday when the graduating hop takes place Of the many drills which mark the closing of the term the cavalry and artillery are the finest particularly the latter It is an inspiring sight to seethe see-the big guns sweep out upon the grass less plain and fall into position like clockwork clock-work One of the features of the week will be a reunion of the class of 70 when a large number of the oldtimers will I gather to see how the work of the youngsters young-sters compares with that of a quarter of a century ago |
