New-York tribune., 1916-06-23
Guardsmen in Camp Spend
Day Drying Out and
Working on Wells.
MILLIONAIRE AIDS
AMBULANCE CORPS
Host at "Bit of House'-Lucas
Bushes Sanitation and Water
Supply LaborS.

.T-... Sfsr Correspondent of Tic Tribune.
Carr Whitman. y. Y. June %. Just
IS great crimson sun dipped below
,bc mountains Of the Fishkill range
this afternoon a long line Of tired men
IN Khaki and ambulance wagons creaky
from disuse passed along the road from
,ho Hudson River AZ New Hamburg TO
Rcekman Corners There seemed 20 be
no valley or grassy hillock where the
Cd Ambulance Corps. y. 6. y. Y. could
rest after q Furnishing march from the
river. And the camp was still twelve
miles away.
Along the road came big black eas
that halted at the side Of the first OF
the sixteen ambulance wagons. Its only
occupant. a man. looked back at the
long line Of kneesore militiamen.
Who's in charge" he cried. One of
the men in khaki pointed 20 Lieutenant:
Selrick.
Has House Down Road
III. newcomer introduced himself as
Morris ". Minton. He said ne had "A
h,t Of 2 house down the road and
would be glad to have the members OF
the Sd Ambulance Corps as his guests
"Mr Ninton?" queried Lieutenant
Selrick. 'Not the millionaire :"
NJ Minton chuckled "Tll have 20
confess" he said. Now, if the boysll
follow me, we'll be there in jiffy.'
And that is how the Sd Ambulance
Corps. who had left New York early II
the morning. spent the night in the
"bi- of house down the road that
belonged TO Morris NJ. Minton, broker
70 Exchange Place. That is why, too,
the horses whinnied their gratitude as
thew we're led into the great white
stables, beside Mr.. Minton's thorough
breds.
The boys Of the 69th and the Illus
Ting 22d" are also sleeping under
nlessant. starry skies. The embers OF
many cempfres are still glowing
through the darkness, but II is nearly
half an hour since the hills answered
the last note Of Taps" with their own
trembling echo.
Many Rise for Mess.
The night is vastly diferen, from
last night, with its singing, drenchlng
showers and angry squalls. Then the
seth slept under the small, brown
shelter tents they erected in the ram.
Their clothes could not have held more
water. They arose this morning sut-
jointed, wet and tired. And yet more
fban half OF Colonel Louis d. Conley's
regiment gathered in shivering circles
around Chaplain Francis Duffy st o
o'clock 10 say mass.
When the prayer was finished the
men gathered bits of wood and made
Individual fires and toasted their Sims:
Then they thought Of breakfast, and
while the seth finished its "rashers'
and coffee the sun shot out of the
heavy, black clouds and started TO dry
1000 Of the wettest men IN existence.
Half a mile away, in the camp OF
the 22d Engineers, Colonel +. '. Lucas
vas giving instructions 10 his oinceTs;
You've got TO hustle the work. he
told them. "Twentythree thousand men
are waiting throughout the state pc
cause we haven't the water The 69th
will help YOU
Orders snapped from the officers.
Miles of three-inch pipe. were at the
Greenhaven station. All was to be
loaded on trucks and hurried to the
camp. Here a detail OF men were TO
work on latrines. There a group was
selected TO aid the well drivers.
I'VE are the first TO get there SAID
CORPORAL William Pagan, OF company
A. land always the last 10 leave.
Practice for Concert.
While the 500 men in the 22d were
working like Trojans the 6sth was
alternately erecting tents and summing
itself. The khaki-clad men threw
themselves on the grass and permitted
their clothes 10 dry. II was slow
process. but il constituted major por-
iion Of the days work.
At $3.50 the distant strains Of a band
came from a neck Of woods about a
mile of. The 22d's musicians, under
Bandmaster George Breigel, were prac-
ticing for to-night's concert in honor
Of the 69th.
Later Captain Rupert Hughes, Of
Company II, 69th. gave an audience to
the war correspondents
81 got good one, boys" said the
author. Corporal O'Halloran may take
my head of, but III tell you just the
same. He couldn't get married in time
60 Coropal Ouiulau'c sister before we