The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-24
FIFTH BRIGADE
 SAILS TODAY FOR
 MEXICAN PORTS
Three Thousand Cheer Or ders Which Send Them
 to Support Fleet
Women. Bareheaded Tn Rain, Watch Officers and
 Men Leave for War

GaIvesten, Tex. April 24--TFe re- fnforcedt fifth brigade. the army,s first eKpeditionary force for Mexico. broke camp during the night at Fort Crock ett here and at daylight moved to the transports waiting to take them to Vera. Cruz. They were not expected to sail before late this afternoon-
 The soldiers marched from camp after night spent practically without sleep. The general sentiment appear ed to be that they were glad to escape the routine of camp life under canvas which has lasted here for more than a year since the second division was nobiIized at Galveston and Texas City. The Camp Crockett regiments, the comprising about 5000 men and forming the bulk of theebrigade, were largely veterans, all having seen ser vice in the Philippines
 They worked all night packing and clearing camp and by daylight the sbut the 100 acres they had occupied was almost literally broom-swept, so careful was the cleanup. The whole movement passed quietly
 WOMEN WATCH NGE1N GO.
 Wives of men and officers and oth-s CTS watched When daylight came with a cold rain. manylwonen stood bareheaded on the sea wall overlook ing the camp, seeming unmindful of the weather, as they watched passing companies for a look at their own men folk.
 One lone military prisoner was compelled to remain in 3 low railed enclosure at the end of the camp where all the troops passed in their march to the front in full view. He. walked around his enclosure all the time watching the troops.
 The four infantry regiments which left today Joined the mobilization camp from the following posts: 18th infantry, Fort Smelling, Minn.;; 4th in- ftnry, from Fort Crook, Neb-s 7th in fa.ntry, from Leavenworth. Kas.; 18th infantry. from Forts Meade, in South Dakota, Sill in Oklahoma and Leaven- worth. Company B. engineers. which also boarded the transpo ports, came from Leavenworth The 6th cavalry. which also is ordered to sail with all possf- bie dispatch. came from Fort Des MOines, la Just when the cavalry would get away was not settled early today.
 In addition to the four transports. Meade. Summer, Fitzpatrick and Mc- C1enan. which were taking on troops this morning. the quartermaster's de- partment was endeavoring to secure one or two commercial steamships which were intended principally to transport cavalry and artillery
 SIGNALS RECALL MEN.
 Brig General Frederick Funston. who will command the brigade now enbarking, was waiting at his head quarters last night when the sailing orders came. He had the orders tele- phoned hack to Galveston where the whistles of the four transports blew a pre-arranged signal summ oning their crews. An hour after the order reached Galveston, every officer and man in the city knew it and was either at camp or on the way.
 The quarternaaSter corps of the army over night completed arrange rnents whereby the passenger steamer San Marcos of the Mallory line and 1 the freighter SatilIa, of the Texas l Steamhip Company, are now at the d1poal Of General F'unton an addi- 1 tfona1 transport to take his command I to Vera Cruz.
 Horses and artillery equipment that cannot be placed on the four govern I ment transports already at Galveston l will be put aboard the. Satilla and the I San Marcos will provide transporta~ l ton for the remaining troops.