Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-04
BATTERY B PASSES
EXAMINATION WITH
LOSS Of ONLY II MEN
Only II Men Out of Enlistment
of 157 Are RejeCted-Mem-
berS of Fifth to Get Second
Examination Today
By WARD GREENE,
Journal star Correspondent.

CAMP HARRIS. Macon. Ga. July 8.
With the issue OF the last necessary
equipment today. the Georgia troops at
program Of drills instruction and short
hikes and hoped for early orders send
ing them to the Texas border.
Every unit in the brigade except the
First infantry and the two batteries of
the Chatham artillery has been examined
by the United States army officers.
The First is being examined today.
Fattery B. the Atlanta battery. command
ed by Captain A. J. Mcbride. passed
the examination with the loss of only
seventeen men out Of an enlistment OF
I57. This is another record for Atlanta.
Second examinations for members Of
the Fifth who failed on tho first are
scheduled for today or tomorrow.
Field hospital corps No 1 was mus
tered today. Muster of the Fifth may
take place this afternoon. as the entire
brigade will march in the Macon pre-
paredness parade on the Fourth.
5000 PAIRS OF SHOES.
Six thousand pairs of shoes have arriv-
ed in Camp Harris. They range in size
from fours for the smallest trooper to
number twelves for the big infantryman
from the wiregrass. The shoes are part
of the equipment expressed by the gov
eminent from the Philadelphia arsenal
which arrived in five carloads Saturday
and two more Sunday. They are the
first army shoes 10 get here, but there
are enough of them to allow two pairs
TO almost every man In the brigade.
With the blankets, the cots, the shirts,
hats, underwear and other clothing in
the seven carloads, they will complete
the equipment of the brigade. The men
now lack no quartermaster's supplies.
All Of this equipment has been unload
ed and placed in a big warehouse near
the railroad. They will be distributed
Monday. The officers are greatly pleas
ed that all the equipment has at last
arrived after such a long delay. They
believe II will mean n speedy departure.
They are fixed a good deal better
than when 1 went TO war in 81" said
Dad Mangum. sheriff of Fulton coun-
~, as he gazed on Camp Harris Sun
day. Sheriff Mangum motored down
from Atlanta to see his son, who is a
lieutenant in Battery B.
Il had to go off and leave nobody 1T
home but my old mother and father,
one niger. four dogs and six eats when
went to war" he SAID
VISITORS BY THOUSANDS.
All roads. and not a few lanes and al
leys. led TO Camp Harris Sunday. The
countryside turned out Macon turned
out. The railroads ran excursion trains
From as far north as Clayton and as far
south as Valdosta, Georgia's people came
TO look at Georgia's soldier boys, until
the camp took on the appearance of a
combination auto show. carnival and
concentration camp.
There were many Atlantians among
the visitors. Some of them came in
autos. making the three-hour run down
in the morning and back in the after
noon. Milledgeville sent over 200 cars
packed with patriots who besieged the
tents of the Baldwin Blues. The Amer
icus Rifles had a big picnic dinner which
was brought over by a delegation from
the old home town, and there wasn't a
regiment nor a company that didn't have
at least a dozen visitors.
Men in citizens clothes and pretty
girls in gay hats and dresses wandered
guns and the uniforms the mascots and
the meals, the wrist watches of the off,
GERS and the dog-watches Of the enlisted
men. No spot in camp was sacred, and
If a private trying to get cool behind
his tent in negligee suddenly found him
self surrounded by females. everybody
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