New-York tribune., 1916-07-08
Request for Delay in Or
der to Complete Equip
ment Granted.
VAN CORTLANDT CAMP
SOON TO BE DESERTED
I'd Field Artillery Ready to Go
Wives Ask for Soldiers
Release. .s.fN

General Leonard Wood yesterday
granted the request Of the 69th Regi-
ment 70 delay is departure for the bor-
der from Sunday until Tuesday. The
request came from Colonel Louis d.
Conley, who wished 20 complete certain
Of the organizations equipment which
had become dilapids.cd. The 6sth will
entrain directly from Camp Whitman,
and will not pass through this city,
going west on the New York Central
through Albany and Buffalo.
The Cd Field Artillery, still encamped
at Van Cortlsndt Park. was reported
70 headquarters AZ Governors Island
as ready 10 leave for the border. and
il will probably entrsin before Monday.
With the departure OF the I'd the camp
will be deserted.
Troop movements 20 the border from
the Department OF the East yesterday
included the lst Pennsylvania Cavalry
and the I'd Virginia Infantry, a total
Of about 1000 men. There are now sp-
proximately $4,000 National Guardsmen
from the Eastern Department stationed
along the southern frontier. with 10000
men still in camps and srmories with
IN the district.
On Monday 1000 Massachusetts re-
cruits will leave for the Bay State con-
centration camps on the border. and on
the same day the recruits Of the vari-
Gus New York regiments will be sent
TO Camp Whitman for course of pre-
liminary training before joining their
respective regiments.
Disposition Of Recruits.
Rendezvous for all recruits not yet
drilled are soon 10 be established az
various forts throughout the Eastern
Department. To these all new recruits
will be sent for drill in preparation TO
keep the ranks Of every regiment al
all times full. The states and the forts
to which their recruits will be sent are
as follows:
Ner YORK
Infan,ry--Fort Hamilton
AL other troops-For' ro,ter.
Msine-A FORT on Portland Harscr probably FORT
N.s Hamp.hre Constitution. Portsmouth.
Msss.rhu,e,,s-For, % be selec,ed ~ Detenc, Con-
mttce
Rhode sard-Fort on N,rasanse', Bay. PROBABLY
For Adams
Conne'ti-ut-Fo+ Il 6. wrsht o..
Virginia and ,he DIsirc, Of columbia-For Meyer.
T.nne,sce nsle S North carolna .nd G.orr,-For os,
Florida snd Aasams-For, Barranen.
Mississippi JACKSON Barracks. La
south Csrolna-FOrt M0utrie.
The Connecticut batteries. including
the Yale battalion. yesterday moved TO
the artillery training camp at Toby
hanna, Penn Colonel Daniel W
Ketcham, with two batteries Of regu
lars. a band and hospital unit, has al
ready arrived there from Fort Ogle'
thorpe, Georgia. As soon as the re-
organization OF the 65th New York In
fantry as the Sd Field Artillery ha,
been accomplished. the unit will be
moved TO Tobyhsnna instead OF Pine
Plains Camp, as formerly announced.
Wives Ask Husbands Release.
General Wood announced yesterday
that. in consequence of the order is
sued by the Secretary of War regard
ing the discharge of Gusrdsmen with
families dependent upon them. he had
already received large number of let
ters from wives who wished their huS-
bands dismissed. He desired 1t under
stood. he said, that whenever man
wished 20 be discharged. he himself
must make application to the COM
mander of his own organization. sc-
companylnR lne request Win eNluenSc
as to the dependents furnished by re-
liable persons. Only mer still remain
ing in the Eastern Department are un-
der his command, and all those az the
border must appeal 70 General Fun
stOn.
Captain Gordon Johnston. of whom
Colonel Roosevelt said "he would
charge the mouth Of he'll with a bucket
Of water" was yesterday noon sworn
in as colonel OF the 18th Infantry
Colonel Johnston left last evening 10
assume his command.