The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-29
TROOPERS STAGE
\ i" ..uK|LLER" FOR
{. "OlO' VERA CRUZ
eet, Transports, Hydro
, planes, Marines and Sol
diers Give Gay Martial
Panorama.
~ A. N. JAMESON.
Special Correspondent the lnterna-
tionai News Service With the


tionai News Service With the
Atlantic Floot.
VERA CRUZ, April 2s.-United
States soldiers were landed today
from the transports Fitzpatrick, Sum-
ner, Meade and Mcclellan as rapidly
as they could take up the positions on
shore assigned to them by Brigadier
General Frederick Funston, command
er of the Fifth infantry brigade of the
United States army.
The work of landing the troops has
necessarily been slow, both on &C
count of the physical difficulties at
BENDING the transfer of military du-
ties from the naval forces to the land
troops and also because of the red
tape involved.
1t may be Thursday night before all
the soldiers are on shore and General
Funston rs in position to begin the
complete exercise of his official posi-
tion as commander in chief of the
land forces and the land operations.
Civil Officers.
While the troops we're being landed
the following civil officers of Vera
Cruz, appointed by Rear Admiral
Fletcher, were being sworn in:
Civil Governor-Robert J. Kerr.
lawyer, of Chicago.
Treasurer-Charles H. Stuart of
Indianapolis, Ind
Administrator of Justice-Wil-
liam F. Buckley a lawyer, Of Aus
tin, Tex.
Commander of the Port and In
spector of Customs Captain
Stickney, U. S. N, of the Prairie.
After administering the oath of Of
flee, Admiral Fletcher said:
"All this action may be reversed by
a oh v,o
you know what your jobs are worth
now"
Inspect Damage.
Groups of khaki clad soldiers of the
Fourth, Seventh, Nineteenth and
Twenty eighth infantry regiments, who
were off duty, strolled through the
city inspecting the bullet marked
buildings which were damaged in last
weeks fighting.
No living being that hurried down
the gang planks of the transports
showed more citation on getting to
shore than the army mules whose
work in Uncle Sans service consists
of dragging heavy wagon trains. They
prayed with absolute abandon and
rolled in the duty streets with such
signs of joy as only an army mule
can express.
JoiIies Y. S. Soldiers.
bluejacket with big black CT.
gar in his mouth, sat upon the seat
of a rapid fire gun in front of Consul
ICanada's office.
"You fellows won't have any more
fun than arresting stewed greasers,
he called to a group of newly arrived
soldiers.
This naturally started a discussion
upon a subject which is the sole topic
of interest among the enlisted Ameri
can men.
Are we going on to Mexico City
or are we going to stick here" was
the question that each jackie, marine
and soldier asked his neighbor. The
most of the soldiers want action Of
some kind for their appetites for ad
venture have only been whetted BY
their transfer into Vera Cruz.
Expect No Advance.
Among the men wi whom talked
Hhe opinion was prevalent that opera
tions in Mexico will not be extended
,any further than they are at present
The belief is that Huerta has beer
scared into mediation by the ease
with which the Americans took Vera
Cruz and the increasing strength O
hhe army Of occupation.
Leslie E. Hulburt, formerly of Ro
chester, n. Y, who was found ravint
maniac IN odn Judu uc CAod w lsoh
when the prisoners were released b!
marines under Captain Paul E. Cham
berlain was placed under the care o
navy surgeons who are doing all il
their power to restore his reason. Hui
burt was kept in dungeon cell TO
six years, having been found guilty o
murder in 1905. Later his sentence
was committed to life Imprisonment
.and he was put in a cell under tn
lsurface of the bay, on San Juan d.
iUlloa island, where the fortress pris
ION stands. 1t is believed that HUI
k1,,,r+ Ia hOneleaSIy insane