Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
q STATES GUARDS
READY TO MOBILIZE
jerseys Militia Would Go to
Sea Girt-PIan Concentra-
ton Camps.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-Army Off
GERS of the Department of the East,
who have hitherto refrained from
commenting on the Mexican situation
as il affects the State militia, said
yesterday, despite the progress of the
mediation proposal, that it was mot
only possible but probable that the
National Guard would be called upon
to mobilize. They are going right
along with their plans with the idea
that the intervention of the South
American countries is likely to fall.
Colonel William G. Ham, chief of
staff under General Robert X. Evans,
commanding the Department of the
East. received reports yesterday from
the adjutant- generals of the twenty
one States and the District of Column
bia, which are under the jurisdiction
of the department, that the State mi
litias could mobilize forty-eight hours
after the Presidents call for volun-
teers. Camp sites for the troops in
each State have also been reported.
The troops will not be modified,
however, until after a declaration of
war or a call for volunteers. General
Evans and his staff on Governors
Island have several concentration
sites selected, where they can send
the troops of the six divisions in the
East after they are mustered in at
the mobilization camps in the several
States.
One of these will be located near
New York, for the convenience of
transportation. The troops of New
York--designated as the Sixth DiVi-
sion of the First Army Corps-those
of Pennsylvania, the Seventh, and OF
New Jersey, included in the Eighth,
will probably be concentrated at that
point. The New England troops will
be assembled near Boston, and there
will also be several concentration
camps in the middle West and South.
The list of mobilization camps in
the department of the East does not
include New York, because the site
here has not been settled. II is al
most certain to be Staten Island.
The other camps in the Eastern
States are: Maine Augusta; Now
Hampshire, Concord; Vermont, Col
chester; Massachusetts, South Fran
ington; Rhode Island, Samsville;
Connecticut, Mantle; Pennsylvania,
Mount Gretna; Maryland, Hale
thorpe; New Jersey, Sea Grit:
Delaware. Newcastle; Virginia, Rich
mond; West Virginia, Terra Alta
North Carolina, Camp Glenn: South
Carolina, near Columbus; Georgia,
Macon; Florida, Camp Fleming,
Jacksonville; kentucky, Fort Thorn
rs; Tennessee Nashville; Alabama.
Montgomery; Mississippi, Meridian;
District of Columbia, Fort Myer, Va.
Most of them are the regular State
camps.
Lieutenant Colonel w. II. Sage, T..
s. A., detailed as inspector instructor
of infantry in the National Guard,
inspected yesterday the arsenal at
Seventh avenue and Thirty-ttth
street, where more than a million
ROUNDS of ammunition are stored.
e.. one Of the visitors to the National
Guard headquarters III the Missis-
Rippi building yesterday was Colonel
Cornelius Vanderbilt, inspectorgen-
cral of the State troops, who had a
long conference with Colonel Walton.
Captain Edward McAleer, command
ing Troop c, in Brooklyn, also called
His SEQ men have been drilling night
ly and are ready to take the field
at once.