Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-24
MT. GRETNA CAMP
RECEIVES TROOPS
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| which was alive with khaki-clothed men,
motortrucks and mule teams. The heavy
| trucks and automobiles bearing orders from
| division headquarters to tho various COM
| mands kicked up heavy clouds of the brick
| dust that pads the military roads to n
| depth of several Inches. The dun-colored
| tents arose on every hand and soon the
| blue wood smoke of cookfires arose in the
| air which was warmed with sun of tropi-
cal men.
Into the vast daisy-covered plateau. with
its laboring soldiers and streets of tents.
marched company after company of new
arrivals. A few sharp orders and they, too,
became lost in the hubbub of establishing
the camp.
The rockies recruited to bring the COM
panies to war strength will probably be left
behind after the men are mustered in. The
process of federalzing the troops probably
will begin Monday, according to Captain
Kemper.
In addition TO the typhoid incubation the
freshly arrived troops also will be vac
clnated against smallpox and will be sub
jected to physical examination This
tremendous undertaking. which will keep
every medical officer in camp busy for a
week, will, be In charge of Major Koerper,
u. S. A, who is expected 10 arrive today.
The honor of being Philadelphia's first
troops to enter the camp went to Company
A, of the Sd Regiment. commanded by Capt.
Frank A. Warner, after the boys had been
held up all night at Conewago by a'wreck
down the line. This was one OF the three
companies selected to prepare the regl-
mental sites for the LIST, 2d and Sd Regi-
ments.
1t was we'll after 5 o'clock when the COM
pany, with full marching equipment, de-
trained at Colebrook and marched through
the dew-soalSed high grass to the camping
ground OF the LIST Brigade. The first COM
plete regiment to arrive was the 18th, or
the I'd Brigade, which rolled in at the Mt.
Gretna station in long troop train at
o'clock.
To the brassy blare of its band, the regi-
ment piled out of its coaches and marched
TO the plot allotted to It, near division head
quarters. other regiments OF the "a srl-
gade closely followed the 18th.
The regiments of the LIST Brigade are eN'
peSted this afternoon. They Will detrain
at Colebrook and pitch their tents at the
extreme southern or western end OF the
camping ground
Company A. OF the Sd Regiment ate its
first mobilization camp breakfast with a
relish, after detraining this morning. The
boys were tired after their all'ntght stay
at Conewago, and their long trip from Phil'
adelphia, which they may not see again for
a long time and some perhaps never again
Breakfast was the first order OF the day
after they stacked arms on the field.
10000 BY TONIGHT.
Before nightfall more than 10000 guards
men viii be under canvas. Troop trains
viii pour into Colebrook and Mount Gretna
all afternoon.
The opening of the camp was attended
by no ceremonies. Few of the brisk en-
glneers, the first arrivals in camp, knew
that while their coffee was boiling and
their bacon sizzling over the nres the
training ground OF the mightiest gathering
of Pennsylvania troops since the Civil War
was being opened. The camp was Just
automatically opened. A little while later
the flag was run up the pole in front OF
General Clements headquarters.
The mastering in-that is what is worry,
ing many OF the division and brigade stan
officers. who are facing being dropped as
under United States Army regulations there
is no provision made for them. Small COM
fort was given them early today by Cap
tain David II. Biddle U. s. A, one OF the
mastering Of1leers, whose copy Of the army
regulations is causing almost duplication
of the scenes of 1898. when STAN officers by
the dozen were dropped from the Federal
ICED State militia. Wry and gloomy faces
adorned those whose positions We're in
danger.
Captain Biddle denied that there would
be a wholesale dropping Of stan officers
when the stars are stripped for action"
by the United States.