Abstract
[...]De La Salle students and graduates figured heavily in the initial mounted band (see Table 1). To ensure that there would always be enough troopers available for service, Keehn suggested that a unit of "Black Horse Troop Reserves" be formed of boys under legal military age who were interested in horsemanship, who would receive training with the troop, and who would be available to fill in on the occasion of vacancies during ceremonies. [...]they would also constitute a waiting list "from which promotions will be made as vacancies occur in the enlisted personnel of the Troop." John Jay Abbot, vice president of ContinentalIllinois Bank and Trust Company; Eugene J. Buffington, president of Illinois Steel Company; Leonard A. Busby, attorney and executive with Chicago Street Railway and Surface Line companies; Richard J. Collins, Chairman of the board of the Fulton Street Wholesale Market Company; Richard Teller Crane, Jr., head of the Crane Company; Arthur W. Cutten, grain trader and speculator; Charles G. Dawes, attorney, financier, U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover; Rufus C. Dawes, president of the Chicago World Trade Center; Stanley Field, executive with Marshall Field and Company; Leonard S. Florsheim, founder of the Yellow Cab Company, the Chicago Motor Coach Company and the Omnibus Corporation; Charles K. Foster; vice president of the American Radiator Co; George F. Getz, president of Eureka Coal and Dock Company and the Globe Coal Company; Albert W. Harris, chairman of the board of Harris Trust and Savings Bank; John Hertz, president of Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company; president of Hertz Rental Cars; Samuel Insull, president of the Chicago Edison Company; Roy D. Keehn, attorney with Keehn, Keely & McGuire, personal representative of William Randolph Hearst in Chicago and the Central West, president of the Herald and Examiner Co.; William V. Kelly, chairman of the board of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co.; Albert D. Lasker, president of the Lord and Thomas Advertising company; Charles Levy, founder of Chas. WhUe official regulations caUed for National Guard bands to number twenty-eight, bands often enlisted more. Since the 106th Cavalry Band was initiaUy supported privately in addition to government funds, it appears that it was not difficult to augment the number of band members. 58 Ish, Yuma, Arizona, e-mail interview by author, 26, 27 June 2001.