New-York tribune., 1916-06-23
Four Hundred Drill
for First Time at
69th ArmOry.
14TH REGIMENT
NEXT TO LEAVE
Ambulance Corps Off to
Beekman - Cavalry at
Van COrtlandt Park.

What happened st Csrrizal brought
New York a good many hundreds OF
miles closer to the Mexican border yes
terday.
The realization that Carranza and his
soldiers were not just small boys IN
line for a trouncing came home with a
shock TO .he city as verifcation Of the
machine gun slaughter cracked north
ward over the wires.
Until the seasoned regulars Of the
10th Cavalry felt the teeth Of the Car
ranzistas the mobilization Of the New
York national gusrdsmen had seemed
more or less lark. Business as
usual" had been the slogan.
But Business as ususl." with wave
Of real wartime patriotism sweeping
the city. stopped It's wheels yesterday
whenever the wearers Of khaki and
olive drab appeared. Although two reg
iments already have been withdrawn
, the men in uniform were apparently
more numerous than at any time since
Washington ordered the guard to hold
itself ready.
City Salutes Uniforms.
Perhaps that was because Of the
changed conditions. Before the guards
men-in uniform, even as they svailed
themselves of leave 10 close their civil
ian affairs-hsd attracted comparatively
little notice as they went about the
streets.
With Carrizal in mind New York
opened its eyes and its cars. Golfers
in Van Cortlandt Park drove and putted
to the martial music Of regimental
bands in the nearby encampment over
the hills they could see the headquar-
ters standards Of the 1st and I'd Field
Artillery a-futter, the pennons OF
Troops A and of Squadron A, the
picketed horses OF both commands and
the sea of brown tents stretching of
over the parade ground
Downtown, New Workers who re-
mained civilians suddenly became aware
Of the military in their midst; Of the
officers dining in club windows, Of the
other officers rushing through hotel
lobbies on final errsnds, OF the non
CONS and privates shouldering along
the sidewalks; of couriers on their way
from armories TO division headquarters.
A few hours sgo the officers were
lawyers. engineers, brokers. proprietors
of businesses of one sort and another
and Office executives. The non-coms
and privates were clerks mechahles'
motormen and the like.
II had been hard for New York to
conceive them as anything else; hard
TO understand any emergency which
might arise on this side Of the world
70 call them away for more than few
davs from their shops and Offices; hard
20 picture any greater danger than un-
seen street cars and reckless automo-
bile drivers that they might be called
upon TO face.
/ Many Eager to Serve.
The news from Carrizal helped the
city 10 conceive. understand and pict-
ure-and thousands OF men Who would
have stayed placidly by their jobs in
crisis less grave flooded the armories
with applications for enlistment.
In the armory Of the seth Regiment,
n Twenty-sixth Street and Lexington
Avenue. more than four hundred rook-
los were already drilling Captain John
Elm. left behind for the task Of recruit
ing the command 70 its full war
strength. said he would have 500 men
10 send on TO Camp Whitman, at Beck
man. by tomorrow night.
Many Of them will have 10 go in the
clothes IN which they enlisted, for the
War Department has not yet provided
a sufficient number OF uniforms.
OF the organizations scheduled 20
proceed 20 Beekman yesterday. only
two moved. They we're the lst Field
Hospital Corps and the Ihird Ambu-
lance Company-sbout $50 men in all.
The commands. sending on their equip
/ ment ahead aboard the steamer Storm
King. sailed up the Hudson at 10 o'clock
in he morning aboard the Robert Full
ton. OF the Albany Day Line.
On the way from their srmory m
West Sixty-sixth Street. the hospital
corps and the ambulance company
found Central Park West and Forty
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