The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-29

! ne terrible twelfth got az far as
foboken last night on its dash 10
brownsville There In the Iackawanna
station the New York guardsmen we're
catnapping AT midnight. waiting for
''eir three special trains 10 start
Trains were ready a, : O'Clock in the
afternoon. The men, alighting from "A
ferryboat at 6 IS o'clock. were ready as
soon as they finished devouring sand
wiches. rolls. soup. coffee and cocoa
rarded about by the women Of the Red
Cross, The latter. Informed by Gen.
organ that the regiment had to leave
It's armory without a midday meal and
would be delayed az Hoboken over the
d'i ner hour, made a new time record IN
establishing quick lunch commissary.
What the regiment waited for was
r1ules. Seventy-nine OF these essential
h, ,lpmeets along with sixty horses for
The Twelfth. reached the New York
Central yards at Sixtieth street and the
II idson River In Manhattan SO late that
they could not b. f.rried over TO
Hoboken ahead OF the regiment. as had
been planned. So the quartermaster's
outfit, after seeing that supplies were
hacked on the trains. devoted their eve
ning to the mules and horses and
branded the animals by lamplsht
Hope to Get Tourist Slrrpers.
/ The regiment expected TO ge, away
early this morning II is travelling
/ more comfortably than was the Seventh
/ when It left Jersey CITY on Tuesday.
! The men are starting in day coaches
! hut with the prospect OF shifting to
/ ,r,a sla ga ~ al RnffalO
/ cago. The officers have two Pullmans,
+ and each train has a cook stove set up
l In baggage car so that everybody Will
+ get hot rations regularly.
IL was weary but determined regi-
ment that marched through Manhattan
Yesterday afternoon under the eye or
col Roosevelt, who. unobserved by any
Of the marchers except perhaps, his
7 cousin, capt George + Roosevelt of
4 Company A. stood IN a window of his
apartment on the sixth floor OF the
Hotel I.angdon at Fifty seventh street
and looked down upon the lines as they
turned from Ffty-seventh street into
Fifth avenue and headed downtown for
Twenty third street and the ferry.
Few OF the guardsmen had known \
full nights sleep IN a week ON Tues
day night they got no sleep ~ all, for
so feverish was the rush to get ready
for departure that the men wer. packing
equipment and supplies from dusk to
dawn. except for the moments about ,
o'clock yesterday morning when they
stopped to he mustered INTO the service
of the United states. Up TO the moment
they lef, the armory AT Sixty-third street
and Columbus avenue al t;t1 O'Clock
many OF them were still toilinr in the
) sitting heat Of the armory So when
col Wadsworth finally ordered the
bugles to sound the last assembly in the
armory the vision Of even getting a
chance 10 jAcknife oneself i",o the sea,
Of day coach was alluring
, Many to Bid Farewell.
Tobacco smoke and dust notes were
dancing in sun rays slanting from th'
skylight Of the drill hail when the l.03'
privates and forty-nine officers OF M
Twelfth headed out OF the armory to
ward Mexico. Streets OF the neighbor
hood were impossible. save wher'
mounted policemen rode ahead and clef
"A path The men OF the Twelfth arr
mostly mechanics and other hard work
ers. Their relatives and friends-!n
clud!ng many babies--were all aroun'
the armory. The police tried to keep tn
soldiers and their families separated. bu
through Sixty-third street and down Il
columbus Circle the mass moved as one
"Those people" said Col Wadsworth,
are going TO get chance TO say good-b!
: TO the boys. Halt :.
, So the regiment halted while the kiss
, ing went right on. After each ten block
or 40 there was another stop. the mel
. grounding their rifles, hitching thei
: packs to an easier position and w!pin
: their swcaty faces. or course the Fa
nous Players Film Company hated I
have the head OF the column stop righ
, in front OF its stud,, IN West Fifty-sev
enth street. SO taet Pau'ine Frederic
:. had to stand out in front In her re
= automobile and grind movie Gamer
which was trained on a thousand des
, perate guardsmen. while Marguert
/. Clarke had 30 wave from window a
American flag that was almos! as tin
as herself. But there the Twelfth di
sion, and the Famous Players had I
:. make the best OF IL,
= Fifth avenue, just below Col Roos,
: yeIts private reviewing stand, Wa
. crowded, but not particularly demor
strative. II seemed 10 have got used
the sight Of New York's militia marcf
. ing to trains, In front OF st. Patrick