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Show General Moves From the Hotel Where Bellboy Wears Army Uniform Kansas Cilv, Sept, 20 How Brigadier Briga-dier Oeneral Frederick A Funston became be-came enraged because a bellboy In a hotel here wore a uniform which was almost a replica of that of a captain in the regular armv, and moved from the ho.stclry Monduy, developed today. to-day. Oeneral Funston and Percy Barsh-field. Barsh-field. a former. lieutenant in the Twentieth Twen-tieth Kansas of Philippine war fame; were together when they notice.! thc bellboy. They both demanded of the head clerk the reason for the youth being permitted to wear a uniform of such a pattern. " , "It is an Insult to every man who ; wears shoulder straps," said General 1 Funston. ' It takes years of walling and hard service to earn It, and we'll not see It degraded by use as the livery of a senanL" W hile the clerk was explaining that no Insult to the army had been intended, in-tended, Oeneral Funston demanded that his bill be made out. A few minutes min-utes later he left the hotel. At his home in Fort Leavenworth last night, General Funston said, while he probably acted hastily In the matter, he believed he was right. I |