Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-22
NEWS OF HARRISBURG TROOPS ON BORDER
GIVE Us HORSES
CRY OF TROOP c
Drilling Afoot in Hot Sun Dis
pleasing to Men Who En-
listed as Cavalrymen

Camp Stewart Fort Bliss, Tex,
July %. - IF you don't want to give
us horses, Send us back home Ger
the land"
This is a snatch OF the song that
the members of the Governors Troop
of Harrisburg, are singing to the tune
of Don't bite the hand that's feed
ing YOU
Robert Fohl, Dick Cover and ].
Heathe Sraselman were the lights
who ccmpos 4 the parody that mas
been sweepi~y the whole regiment
like fire.
The men have not been fed any too
well since leaving their homes in
Pennsylvania.
Within the last few days, however,
the food has been better, as the as
signments become larger and of great
er variety. Still the song is appreclat-
ed by the sun-burned and tanned
troopers in this sandy plain more than
a half mile in the air.
AS yet the men are drilling IN the
hot sun with no horses, and are COM
planning about that. they claim they
were enlisted for Cavairymen and not
as infantry and Captain Jack has con-
siderable difficulty in keeping them IN
good spirits regarding the affair. The
I HarriSburgsrs are good soldiers,
though. and take what comes TO them
without much murmur.
! Cook Weber is still the bug and pet
man of the entire regiment. He has
had more horned toads, prairie dogs
I rattlesnakes. scorpions and other ami
mails in his possession than all the
rest of the troop together.
Yesterday he picked up scorpion
put it on a stick and showed 1t to
all his friends. until the animal be-
came so fidgety that Weber thought
it best to kill it. To-day he picked
up n tarantula-the largest one that
has been found in the camp, and stuck
it on nail on stick and sho" II TO
all in the camp thai would look.
Centipedos - great long ones,
grip of whose feet means great sore,
! if not death-are Weber's especial
friends. He gathers them up on a
stick and plays with them awhile be-
fore dispatching them. In this he
/ possesses more nerve than many OF
the other men, who crush IL em with
their heel at the firsi opportunity.
Paul G. Fink is one of the members
of Troop C, by which the Governors
Troop is now known. who has seen
real service. Fink is the only man in
( the troop who wears the regulation
/ lace leggings of former years, the kind
that are so we'll liked by the cavalry.
Fink is familiar with this country,
| having served with the l4th Z. S.
Cavalry at Eagle Pass, Tex.Sand other
places in the Southwest. He is not
bit alarmed at getting into action in
Mexico. but is doubtful that the troop
will ever get nearer to the border
than it is at the present time.
What l want to do" says Fink, "is
| to get this lighting over in time to go
home to vote. I didn't enlist to come
down here to train for I've had my
training long before I ever enlisted in
! 81. 7 ~
wouldn't see any action, l never would
have enlisted"
Fink is much like the other men in
the regiment and unless the cavalry
! is given some real experience in border
patrol or in action across the border,
the government will nave difficulty in
getting the men to enlist again.
| Edward Roth, former star athlete
of Harrisburg High school, is the
laundryman for the troop. Roth, who
is a rookie" is doing the laundry
work for the troop, charging just half
the prices charged by the FL Paso
laundries. He claims he is getting
rich. The work, however, keeps him
busy. Because he is a rookie" he
has lot of work to do that the older
men in the troop are excused from
and for that reason his time is pretty
we'll taken up.
To-day, however, while up to his
! elbows IN the wash tub, the cry or
mail went up. Roth dropped his
washing and hurried to the mail box
secured his letter and could not be
moved until the missive had been read
through three times And then he went
back to the washing.
Members in the regiment may have
their washing done at the Ell Paso
I laundries, the wagons calling for the
| clothes twice a week. The First
Sergeant, Charles Kline attends to the
laundry for the men, as he does the
mail.
] For a time last night, it looked as
though the boys from Pennsylvania
would be able to get some relief from
this depressing dust. Late in the af-
ternoon the sky, that has been sunny
during all the waking hours of the
troopers, clouded up and from the
clouds came nice little sprinkle
| There was a rush to get the tents
ditched as a protection against rain,
and then, when everything was ready,
it refused to rain. The little shower
that failed to more than lay the dust
on the surface, cooled off the air con-
5iderably. however, and made the long
! drill afoot to-day much more COM
Portable.
The Texans claim that the rainy
! season, when it rains daily, is long
over due. The men are hoping that
the rain will begin shortly, as any
thing-even a flood-they claim
would be better than this dust.
c. H. B.