Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
MANY OFFER TO
RECRUIT TROOPS
Camp Headquarters List
Names of Enough Volunteers
to Form Brigade
From q STAFF Correspondent

Camp Brumbaugh, Mount Gretna,
IA June S0.-Offers of services from
enough organizations, real, proposed
OF assumed, to make up a brigade have
come 10 camp, either through Gov
ernor Brumbaughs office or direct to
General Clement. There have been
orers by patriots to bring companies
or troops here to enter the service at
once II men who organized are given
commissions. Some of the men are
members of fraternal organizations
ana are eager to get into the service.
IN some cases the offers are contin-
gent upon the men being Immediately
sent to the lighting"
The offers are all listed, but there is
nttIe chance of their being used unless
another call comes, because the Third
Brigade will have the first call. It is
doubtful whether many of the appli-
cants could pass the physical test,
which is worse than that of a life
insurance company.
There is also lots of talk about
formation of a provisional guard, but
nothing has yet been determined. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh in a talk here
strongly favored more cavalry. but the
state really should have more artillery
70 comply with Federal regulations
But regiment of artillery costs about
three-quarters of a million to equip,
ana Uncle Sam has use for his guns
now.
The shortage of wagons has been
overcome by the receipt of 400 regu-
lauon style, which arc to be used at
once. They are for supplies and am
munition. The State will not buy
motor trucks Just now. as it has leased
Two tractors from Harrisburg and a
dozen motor trucks. The War Depart
ment is buying trucks for shipment to
the border. After the mobilization it
is likely that the State will buy trucks
and machine guns, because the law
now authorizes it, and there will be
funds for equipment when the govern
ment pays back what the State has
laid out.
Ice Cream and Drinks Banned
The speed with which the quarter
masters corps moves the feeding of
the men and the furnishing of supplies
is one of the things which attracts at
tention. This corps is run by num-
Der of prominent State businessmen
and they are accused of having sent
out some supplies before they were
formally ordered, a charge which, If
correct, is something greatly to be de-
sired, for it is conducive to prepared
ness. The camp has been struggling
with unfamiliar work and compelled
to make its own system and has also
been literally supplied with red tape
whose ends are in Washington more
than Harrisburg.
General Clements order against sale
of drinks, ice cream, melons and simi-
lar things to soldiers has made a roar,
but when it is looked at from the right
angle it is the very thing needed, as
these men are being hardened, and the
more they get down to a war basis and
subsist on three scientifically worked
out meals day the better for them.
Similarly the sanitary inspection is be-
ing followed up with great care. Major
w. D. Crookston. the officer who was
with the Austrian army in its cam
paigns, is directing this work with a
BUSINESS that is going to bring
results.
The hard-worked medical corps was
visited yesterday by Major A. e.
TRULY, who has beer handling the
work at New York camps. He came
to see how things were going and they
made him work. A. B. II.