New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
Enlisted Men Not Weary, Although None
Of Them Had Slept, Says Richard
Harding Davis
BREAKING OF HOME TIES HARD FEATURE
Transports Conveyed by Torpedo Boat Destroyers Ce
Under Way, with Bands Playing and Movie
Cameras Clicking.
By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.

BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
On Army Transport Fitzpatrick Galveston Tex April
P MTransport Sumner with the 4h Infantry Colonel
Van vet is just pulling first of the
leave for Mexico.
Ten minutes ago convoy black busnesse destroyers
showed her the way Nothing lacking make the departure
brilliant The is blazing the people of Galveston in summer
bravery every wharf and roof They cheering and the
men board waving campaign hats and shouting The band
PLAYING "The Girl Behind Me- and every moving pct'
company in America is perpetuating the scene.
The Mcclellan moving from the wharf Her band ps.
Dixie people give the rebel yell Our going ashore VIII
is sounding and in FIVE minutes start.
ACTION QUICKENs AT DAYBREAK
After wiring you last night Fort Crockett witness
the that should be evident when v housano
simultaneously break home but although was in the
and they were sunrise there was
80 . exc;teent as when folds its tents and silently steals
v to the next village for the big bonre consuming the
~ Debris there was sign that brigade was awake
and on its way when daylight showed through the fog
the action uuickened and everybody was an actor.
rs anv citizen slept last night this morning he did
not look it. Everybody the front porch $780, IN
ranpe gowns cheer the marching Sodie
to wave delight in the comic ree funshed by the
teasers and mule Drawn at two wharVes the Trans
nots rose out the dripping all white and cd white and blue
and gold.
Below them on the wharf thousands of khaki at the
double quick unoaded wagons passed ammunition boxes IN cargo
nets hsd officers personal luggage the quartermacrs type
writer's the big French hon cook pots and pans their own
dog the company tents the
ters tents Donkey snoed wnches ceaked the Whistles
of the boatswans rattle of the running chains were part OF
Of hawhawing mules and panng motor CARS gs 'o'
place in the front
SHOW NO SIGNS OF WEAKNESS
had slept and yet on the part OF enlisted men there was
no sign of wearincss
Hundreds of stood still bearing shoulders
the heavy packs they hkd through the night
and fog
Their eyes they gazed the great transports of white and
gold impatient eagerly alert
here hated the idea that by the hands OF
not too supuous boys should lose his life
of the honor of the hag but looked at them
fror the transport shoulders carrying the packs
lightly lady her cloak at their clean cut tanned
faces and steady confident found that sympathy had been
misplaced.
NV sorrow is entirely the Mexcans At of de-
parture like this should keep aayhey make cruel
assault upon feelings For this brigade has been
Fort Crockett and the families OF officers and men have
joined them
WIVES AND MOTHERS SAY GOODBY.
In year they made this pretty city like home
this morning who left behind supplying human note
that keeps completely miserable be the white haired
mother she who arrived yesterday and who last night
while dining happily her heard him ordered the front
or young wife and the children of the captain she
irving to play the soldiers brave bride and making
rotten failure children swarming up his
utterly selfish utterly only with the big
ships if look the other find the sergeant gazing
unhappiy sky while his wife sobs shoulder her
obs on other shoulder and female friends relatives
wall and weep
They make him feel he good as dead already In an
receive but the whether she lives the line
barracks goes from the wharf echong filled only
ghosts and sits down wait Hers the hardest part and
that fact the only shadow that fell this morning mobizs