New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-06
With Part of LIST Cavalry,
VIII Leave YOnk-
erS To-day.
TWO SIGNAL CORPS
COMPANIES DEPART
Manhattan Unit Takes Four New
Biplanes-Yale Club Celebrates
Battery Night" Tonight.

SQUADRON a and the 1st Squadron
Of the lst Cavalry. now in camp at Van
Cortlandt Park. received orders late
yesterday afternoon TO move at II
o'clock this morning 20 Yonkers, there
10 cntraiu FOR the border. The orders
were received with great enthusiasm by
the troopers. who have been anxiously
awaiting chem for several days.
With Squadron 4, which is under
.bo command Of Major W. r. Wright,
will go its machine gun troop, now
numbering nincty-one men ana
equipped with eight machine guns as
we'll as a detachment Of the hospital
corps. The mounts Of the men will be
shipued at the same time, including
consignment OF scvonty-siX horses
which reached camp yesterday, and
which were Immediately branded. It
is expected that the squadron. which
IS now recruited 10 its full strength
and is fully equipped. will be loaded
and on its way by 8 o'clock this after
noon.
The troops composing the 1st Squad
ron Of the LIST Cavalry are B Of Albany
y Of Syracuse. f of Brooklyn and l Of
Buffalo. Colonel Charles I. De Bevoise
Is in command OF the regiment, and
Major Edward McLcer at the head Of
the 1st Squadron. The troops will oc-
Of 40
Squadron 4 another.
Two Companies Depart.
COMPANY A Of Manhattan and Com
many b Of Brooklyn. LIST Battalion, LIST
Signal Corps, entraincd yesterday
morning on the New Jersey Central Tor
the concentration camp Of the New
York National Guard near Brownsville
Tex. The Manhattan unit carried with
II four new biplancs and a complete
field telegraph and telephone equip
mcnt.
Major William L. Hallahan, commando
of the battalion, were Captain ROBERT
NJ. Naloncv. Captain George l.. Schenck,
Captair Arthur L. Howe. Captain Ken
rcdv. Lieutenant Herbert L. Watson
Lieutenant Jerome Sullivan, Lleuten-
ant Gordon Ireland and Lieutenant
Louis IT, De Baum
Other movements IN the Eastern
Department yesterday were the ISM
PENNSYLVANIA Infantry and the -
perr-vlvaula Brigade Headquarters
STAFF. and the 1st Separate Battalion OF
Infantry. made up of separate com
paries from the District of Columbia;
Company a of the Signal Corps and
Field Hospital No. 3, both or the DIS
trict of Columbia; the 4th Maryland IN
fantry and the 74th New York, Of Buf-
falo. a total of at least 5000 men for
the day.
forrcJ with General Wood at Cover
nor's Island yesterday regarding a plan
which viii facilitate the distribution
Of supplies 20 regiments IN the New
York division. ii it Us adopted Cen
cral Stotesbury viii be made respon-
sible for all supplies issued 20 the d.
vision. and viii give one receipt Tor
them. thus obviat.ng the necessity OF
the equipment passing through several
hands in distribution.
VIII Lead New Regiment.
CAPTAIN Daniel W. Hand, of the 9th
Field ARTILLERY. T.. S. A, yesterday was
authorized 10 accept Governor Whit
mans offer commiss oning him as col
onol of the Sd Field Artillery, now be
inc organized from men Of the dis
handed G5th Infantry, Of Buffalo. Inc
new regiment will be the heaviest ar
tillcrv militia in the United States, be-
ing equipped with twenty-lour a.
field hOwItZers, which are already on
their way TO Beekman. 1t was rum0red
Yesterday that the regiment would De
transferred TO Pine Plains Camp, near
Madison Barracks, where an artillery
training camp, similar 10 the one a.
Tobvhanna, Penn, Will be established
The Sd Field Hospital Company,
which was formed at the 41th Rogl-
ment Armory after the regiment left
Tor Peekskill last week, departed for
there yesterday afternoon, with NIFTY
seven men and two officers.
General Wood yesterday received q
request from the Governor Of Geor-
gia for 1000 horses and mules, with
out which the troops in that state are
unable 10 proceed 20 the border, al
though ready in every other detail
The request was forwarded to the
Quartermaster General at Washing
ton
The general also sent kilograms 20
the mastering officers I'm each state M
the Eastern Department advising
them that the physical examinations
Of recruits must from now on be OF the
most rigid character. ABOUT TOUR OIL
fcers In each regiment have been re-
jected after the Federal medical eX-
animation. he said. and new men
coming in must be so physically fit
that reflections hereafter viii be out
Of the question
Yale Club TO Celebrate.
Officers in charge of state troops
were also advised that men who re-
fused 20 take the oath 20 the Federal
government as well as 20 the state
could not be sent out Of their respec-
tive states, although they can be
used as reserves within the state.
Tonight the Yale Club Will cele-
brate Battery Night" i'm an ondeavor
TO raise the hundred recruits neces-
sary to bring the Yale Battalion up
10 the strength required by Federal
statutes. Up to the present time the
four batteries have been composed of