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Show LIEUTENANT AIRES 10 LEAVTTIIE ARMY Memories of tho "Overcoat Inoi-. dent" at West Point .Are Tims Revived. WASHINGTON. April 24. Today's army orders announced the resignation of Second Lieutenant 11. Fairfax Ayrw of the Seventh cavalry, son of Uouton-ant-Colonel Charles G. Ayres of the Fourteenth Four-teenth cavalry, retired. Lleiitoiiant AyrcV? resignation has bocn accepted b fho rresldenl..to take effect May M neM. No reason for'the young mini s act In ro .dgnlng Is given In tho formal orders an- oimcfng tlie ftict. nor do tho o T corn on dutv nt tho War department make an Slnnniloi, of it except to say t hat some months ago an arflnnatlve reply had been Iven by the department to an lnaulr ald're?t)C(I to It on behalf of young Ay res sklng whether bo would be permitted to resign after ho had received a rominiB-iloii. rominiB-iloii. Me was then a cadet at the mill-tan' mill-tan' academy, and graduated therefrom less than a year ago. Tho positive atate-ment atate-ment Is made that Ayres'a resignation was voluntary. It Is said that. Lieutenant Avres had the physical makoup of an Ideal soldier and excelled In all-aroiiiMl athletics. Uoenuso of this and other reasons, rea-sons, conatdorable. surprise was expressed ex-pressed that he ahould resign from tbo army, , , , .t Lieutenant Ayres was a cadet at , est J'olnt Inst spring when the "Easter overcoat over-coat Incident" occurred, on which occa-fIoii occa-fIoii several of the cadets loaned their heavy coals to girl visitors to protoct them from the weather. This wan contrary con-trary to ordoro and met with tho disapproval dis-approval of tho commandant of cadets. Colonel Ilowzrt Miss Ayres, a sister of vounc Ayres. was among the girls visiting visit-ing the academy at the time. Her mother took up the. matter and a controversy sprang up. the ilnal effect or wh ch was the Issuance of an order from the war department forbidding Mrs Ayres admission admis-sion to the West Point military reservation. reserva-tion. Thereupon Colonel Ayres, father of Cadet Ayres, espoused tho cause of Ida wife nnd In nn Interview was ailcged to have criticised army methods employed In dealing with tho trouble between Mrs. Avres and the West Point authorities. He. declined to answer whether he had mado certain statements In that Interview on the demand of tho War department and was ordered before a retiring board and retired on account of disability Incident to tho service July 2), last. |