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ARMY, subhead United States), and high army 

 officers, usually of the rank of brigadier-general 

 or major-general, are detailed for service in the 

 management of the department. These officers, 

 who are the heads of bureaus, are the adjutant- 

 general, through whom orders affecting the 

 regular army and the organized militia are is- 

 sued, the inspector-general, the judge-advocate- 

 general, quartermaster-general, surgeon-general, 

 chief of engineers, chief of ordnance and chief 

 signal officer. The United States Military 

 Academy at West Point and the military parks 

 and cemeteries at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, 

 Arlington and other places are under control of 

 the Secretary of War. See CABINET. W.F.Z. 



WAR 'FIELD, DAVID (1866- ), an Ameri- 

 can actor who is said to be without a rival in 

 the portrayal of a certain type of character. 

 His specialty is the role of a kindly, elderly man 

 who is somewhat eccentric, but always noble- 

 hearted and courageous. As the Jew in The 

 Auctioneer and the old musician in The Music 

 Master, Warfield is known to countless admirers 

 as one who moves his audiences equally to tears 

 and to laughter, and he does this by acting that 

 i- tin.- perfection of simplicity. 



He was born in San Francisco, and in that 

 at v began his theatrical career as a minor actor 

 in one of the local theaters. In 1890 he went to 

 New York, and for the next ten years played in 

 the Casino Theater and in Weber & Field's 

 Music Hall. His skill in impersonating "types" 

 won for him the favorable notice of David Be- 

 lasco, who starred him in The Auctioneer. This 

 play served as a vehicle for him from 1900 to 

 1903, and was successfully revived several years 

 The Music Master (1903-1907) was 

 equally popular, and was revived and enthu- 

 siastically received in 1917. Another notable 

 success, The Return oj Peter Grimm, was pro- 

 duced in 1911. Warfield was somewhat Un- 

 successful in Van aVr Dccken (1916), based on 

 the Irprnd of tin- Hying Dutchman. 



WAR GAME, or KRIEGSPIEL, krccg'speel, 

 a popular game in Germany, played with a map 

 and colored metal blocks representing soldiers, 

 game is extensively played in the German 

 army and is undoubtedly of great value in teach- 

 um the tactical movement of troops. Tho 

 maps are drawn on large scale, the blocks of 

 troops on the same scale. Infantry, cavalry, ar- 

 tillrry, engineers, signalling corps, every branch 

 of the army is represented. 



There are usually two players on each side. 

 The armies take the field, and the blocks repre- 

 inp the troops arc moved as in a del 



plan of campaign. The distance troops may 

 move is decided, and two minutes are allowed 

 between each move on alternate sides. When 

 two bodies of troops come in contact, the weaker 

 is considered beaten and withdrawn from the 

 field. When bodies of equal numbers meet, 

 dice are thrown to decide the winner. 



This game was introduced, in a somewhat 

 modified form, into the United States, but it 

 did not acquire popularity. It presents some of 

 the same problems that occur in chess. 



WAR'NER, CHARLES DUDLEY (1829-1900), 

 an American editor, critic and essayist, born at 

 Plainfield, Mass. He was educated at Hamil- 

 ton College, spent two years with a surveying 

 party in Missouri, was admitted to the bar and 

 afterward practiced law in Chicago. In 1860 

 he removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was 

 editor first of the Press and later of the Cour- 

 ant. From 1884 until his death he was con- 

 nected with Harper's Magazine, contributing 

 first "The Editor's Drawer" and after 1892 

 ''The Editor's Study." My Summer in a Gar 

 the published collection of humorous sketches 

 which first made him prominent, was followed 

 by Backlog Studies, Being a Boy, As We 11 

 Saying, and many other volumes. Among la- 

 novels are A Little Journey in the World and 

 That Fortune; The Gilded Age is a drama writ- 

 ten in conjunction with Samuel L. Clemens. 

 Warner edited the "American Men of Letters" 

 series, and A Library oj the World's Best Lit 

 ture. He was an author of rare humor, and 

 wrote most entertainingly and instructively of 

 his extensive travels. The last forty years of 

 his life were spent in Hartford, where he was 

 neighbor to Mark Twain and Mrs. Stowe. 



WAR'NER, SETU (1743-1784), an American 

 soldier and patriot, and one of the leaders of 

 the Green Mountain Boys in the War of Inde- 

 pendence. He was bom in Roxbury, Conn 

 the age of twenty he settled in BenniiiL \ 

 where he and Ethan Allen, in 1765, wore lead- 

 ers of a band of Green Mountain Boys who op- 

 posed the officers sent by the governor of New 

 York to expel settlers from the New Hampshire 

 grants. These Vermont patriots were an 

 the bravest soldiers of the Revolution. Warner 

 was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Green 

 Mountain Boys in 1775, and in the following 

 year he was appointed colonel of a Continental 

 regiment. He took part in the capture of Crown 

 Point, in the Montgomery expedition to Canada 

 and in the battles of Hubbardton and Benning- 

 ton. In 1782 he was forced to abandon his mili- 

 tary career because of failing heal 



