River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-07-06
remain TO assist Gen. Orlando Holway
in organization work.
Work Hard for Efficiency.

LII organization WUTh.
Work Hard for Efficiency.
Not single thing which might in
crease the efficiency of the organiza-
ton which is to represent Wisconsin.
in Mexico is being left undone. Ofn-
GERS are determined to do everything
within their power to keep the brigade
in Wisconsin until it is in such condi4
ton that the state may be proud of it.
They do not want men without uni
forms and only partly equipped to go,
out of Wisconsin as the states cons
tribution to the national forces. The
states reputation is too good to per-
NIT such a thing, they declare. If
the federal government is to blame be-
cause an organization is only partly
equipped and only partly trained, the
blame is not going to be shifted to
Wisconsin, which has developed one of
the best military organizations of
peace strength in the country.
$500 Men in Camp.
Upon general orders from brigade
headquarters company commanders
as they arrive 1t was estimated at
brigade headquarters on Saturday that
there were about $500 men on the
reservation
The report that Wisconsin troops
will soon leave for Mexico resulted
in an invasion of tho reservation BY
relatives and friends. Recruits or
IN NV al
way arrive on every train and with
them come their relatives and scores
of persons interested in other men in
camp.
A shipment of ], 200 regulation army
| rifles and several thousand rounds of
ammunition has been received from
the government to be used in fitting
out the recruits.
Orders were received by Gen. Or
lando Holway informing him that
Capt. Martin Imhoff of Milwaukee and
Capt. D. L. Remington, Mansion, are
INSTRUCTED to remain at Camp Douglas
when the troops entrain. This is TAX
en- to indicate that either the new men
will be left behind for instruction in
ganiZation of new state brigade will
be started Immediately upon the de-
parture of the guardsmen
Arrival of Troops at Camp.
Camp Douglas, Wis, June 23.-The
greatest military demonstration in
Wisconsin since 1861 occurred on
Thursday, when over $500 Wisconsin
National guardsmen modified upon
orders of the President.
Thousands of people swamped rail-
road platforms and filed the railroad
yards in forty cities to bid the guards,
farewell. Practically every company
came into camp with the maximum
peace strength, and many are near
the war strength of $50.
That the adjutant general antici-I
pates an early summons, calling hisi
men to the Mexican border, was indi-!
Gated by the absence of tent foors.|
The entire brigade will sleep on straw-
filled ticks laid on the ground. These
usually are laid on a wood floor orr
on cots. Recruiting officers have BEEN
left in all home stations to examined
and enlist volunteers.
Gen. Holway says more than 1,000t
men have enlisted in the state sincel
the call. The number of men now in|
state service exceeds 1000. Five min-I
listers have written him offering their
services. Several doctors have volun-l
teered. DR.. Schwartz, Humbert, Wis.,
didn't wait to come as a doctor, but,
enlisted as private in Company AL
Third regiment. Gen. HOlway may
transfer him to the medical corps.
Few of the men seemed to regard:
the situation as serious. Their faces
beamed with smiles as they marched.
into the big reservation, the finest
military maneuver grounds owned by
any state in the Union. The detraining'
of the troops was observed by thou7
sands of spectators, who came FROM
nearby towns and villages. A troop
train steamed into the station every
twenty minutes.