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DETAILED TO PURCHASE ARMY HORSES Prominent Members of Hunt Clubs to Relieve Regular Army Officers of Such Work. New York, Aug. 8. A number of civilians, prominent in amateur racing and hunt club circles, have been given commissions as captains and majors in the Quartermasters Department Reserve Service. Thfi civilians appointed as captains and majors are Messrs. Henry Lawrence Bell, of the United Hunts and Long Island; A. Antelo Devercux, a crack gentleman rider of Philadelphia; Victor Mather, of the Brandywine Hunt; Howard Henry, a well known athlete, and horseman of Philadelphia; J. E Davis former M. F. H. of the Meadowbrbok Hunt; Skiddy Von Stade, the well known polo player; W. Plunkett Stewart, the hunting enthu-siast und judge of hunters at many of the Philadelphia and Baltimore shows; Malbon Richardson, joint master with J. D. Thomas, of the Piedmont Hunt; Eugene Reynal, f onner master of the Westchester Hunt; James Appletori, M. F. H.. of Myopia: Harry T. Peters of The Riding Club; New lork, an excellent polo player and all round horseman, and. L. E Waring, one of the founders of the Watchung Hunt. These civilian officers will takn the place of the regular United States army officers, who had been detailed for the purchase of horses for armv remounts and who have now been recalled to annlv their military training in other more urgent directions. Several of the civilian appointees have already been sent to stations established in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia. The horses purchased will be shipped to cantonments nearest to the points of shipment abroad, such as Galveston, New Orleans, Newport News and Baltimore and also on the Pacific coast. Horsemen throughout the country will be pleased to know that the government is taking up the purchase of horses from the horsemans point of view and it is an augury also that a great improvement will be made in officers and cavalry mounts.
