The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-16
KENOSHA MENks DRIVERSTOO
Twenty Seven Volunteers from Ke-
nosha Will Go With Big Shipment to
Accept Employment With Army for
Indefinite Service in Mexico.
from Wednesdays Daily

(From Wednesdays Daily
Some time between midnight to-
night and daylight tomorrow morning
if all goes well, more than thirty Ke
nosha men will be on their way to
serve the United States government
in Mexico. They are not wearing the
kahki of the soldiers but the uni
forms of expert motor car drivers and
they are leaving Kenosha to accom-
pany a shipment of tWenty-seven of
the famous Jeffery "Quad' trucks.
Since six O'Clock Tuesday afternoon
the Jeffrey company has been bending
every energy to help Uncle Sam get
ready for the chase after Bandit
Villa in Mexico. Trucks have been
the only thing going through the plant
for the order from the war depart
ment was marked g emergency" The
trucks were to have left Kenosha at
noon today billed all the way through
to Ell Paso by special train, but at the
last minute the government officials
telephoned that the trucks must not
be army gray but olive drab and the
shipment all ready to leave was sent
back to the paint shop for new coat
Of paint. With rapid dryers they
are going to be ready to start before
daybreak.
Here is the list Of Kenosha men Sc
lected to go to Mexico for indefinite
service driving trucks in the chase for
Villa: H. M. Tank, Fred Schulien,
Martin Boyle, George Schneeberger,
George O'Hare, R. Helm, William
Gross, Knuth Plamenhn, FL. Langenbach
j. G. Getz, R. A. Snowdon, A. Morch,
J. II. Schaufel, P. Landin, G. V. Hath
away, F. Miller, t. Jensen, G. w.
Englund, Walter Fagerston, Thomas
Honore, Harvey Bentz, Frank Reda,
H. Carlson, J. Barnes, solon Sawyer,
l.. E. Barrett, I. E. Slater, Thomas E.
Jensen, Leo Ryan, Edward O'Brien,
A. N. Mink and E. Gunderson.
All of these men were busy this af-
ternoon packing trunks and telling
wives and sweetheafts goodbye in an
ticipation Of an indefinite term of
service on the Mexican border. The
telegram to The Jeffery company or
dered the company to send thirty ex-
perienced operators with the trucks
and it is possible that more operators
will be demanded later.
It was just after six O'Clock last
night that the order from Uncle Sam
reached the Jeffrey factory. For three
or four days it had been expected that
the "quads' would be demanded and
demanded quick when the government
got ready to move on Villa. The
Jeffrey quad has been used in the army
service for more than two years and
it has been the most satisfactory truck
In the service. There was no delay
in getting things started when the or
der came and within ten minutes men
were at work all over the big plant
assembling the big trucks in order to
have them ready to get out this morn
ing. They would have been ready on
schedule time but for the change in
the specifications made by the govern
ment by wire this morning.
The trucks with the Kenosha men
TO handle them will go by special train
to Kansas City over the North
Western and the Rock Island and then
down the M. R. and K. to Ell Paso
IT is expected that the trucks will be
in 81 Paso by Friday evening or early
Saturday morning and the Kenosha
boys going with them may have a
chance to take part in the first dash
over the Mexican border.
The trucks are the regular United
States government model of the three
ton type and it is understood that
they are to be used to carry provi-
sions for the soldiers in the rush across
the Mexican deserts.
The call for trucks and men brought
great excitement at the Jeffrey plant
and lot of the men were asking,
Who is going to get the chance to
CO. Some people may have thought
that it would be hard to get thirty
men for service in Mexico, but within
an hour after the call was sent out for
volunteers expert drivers began to
pour in. Four hundred applications
for places in the expedition were on
file before noon today and the com
pany simply took the first who volun-
teered. Applications for places were
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