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in Van Cortlandt Park when the order
came.
One company Of the corps has beer
al Beekman for several weeks, prepar-
ing what was TO have been the site for
the encampment Of the militia next
month. To hurry up the work against
the immediate need, the service OF the
entire corps of 800 men likely will be
required
IL was because of what already has
been accomplished there by the engl-
neers that Beekman was chosen. Ne"
Dorp. on Staten Island, was named IN
the War Departments order for the
mobilization OF the New York guarG.
Beekman was substituted with the ap-
proval of Major General Leonard Wood,
who has the final say.
viii Reach War Strength.
In camp the regiments will be re-
cruited to their war strength. Thus
ii will not be only 10000 but $4,000
men which New York puts at the gov
ernment's disposal. With such excel
lent prospects of real service, no diff
Guilty in getting the additional 1000
men is anticipated.
Although announcement of the order
had been made by the Secretary of War
IN Washington early in the evening, 1t
was not until after 10 o'clock that for
NAL notice reached Governor Whitman
in Albany.
As he set the military machinery Of
the state in motion, the Governor
sent off The following acknowledgment
of the War Department communlca-
tion:
Hon Newton D. Baker, Secretary Of
War, Washington.
"Your telegram calling for a mobi-
lization of New York State troops re-
ceiyed at 10:45 p. m. Have given
proper directions TO the major gen
eral commanding division.
CHARLES s. WHITMAN"
Through the period when official
confirmation was lacking, the Gov
ernor had declined to make any state
ment. When he did talk it was not
at length.
The national guard Of New York ia
in excellent shape 20 respond 10 a
call 70 arms" he said Some OF the
properties of the guard are in Phila-
delphia. but they are Federal proper
ties a. well. So far as the state itself
is concerned, there will be no delay.
Up 20 that time the Governor, flooded
with inquiries, had been busy trying to
find out If there really had been such
order. In New Jersey. Pennsylvania
and other neighboring states the stu
alton was the lame.
Press Informs O'Ryan.
Major General C'Ryan. commanding
the state troops, was at Peekskill last
night. He. like the Governor, was
forced TO get his first information from
the newspapers.
If the Governor and General Organ
Rad any intention of retiring early
they changed their minds. The latter
went into conference with such of his
staff as were at the officers lnstruc
tion school up the river. lie and Gov
crnor Whitman talked frequently over
the telephone. and It was in one OF
these conversations that the general
got an official yerfcatlon Of the or
der
The order itself had to come
through Adjutant-General Louis W.
Stotesbury, then on his way 10 New
York in motor car. When he reached
his home at l54 West Seyenty-fourth
Street. shortly before midnight, the
Adiutant-G General called up Albany.
Governor Whitman read 70 him the
order from Washington. and the adiu-
tant general went AT once to MS Office
I'm the State Arsenal. a. Thirty-hfth
Street and Seventh Avenue, where he
put il into form for transmission TO
General O'Ryan. In this form the or
der went forward a. 1880 o'clock, ad-
dressed 20 division headquarters at
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