The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-23
BIENEMANN AFTER VILLA roo
Well Known Police Officer Gets Leave
Of Absence to Go to Drive for Army
Thirty-Three Men in Training on
Jeffrey Track Before the Start.
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The flags were waving out at the
Jeffrey plant again today and all was
hustle and hustle in anticipation of
the starting of the second "Jeffery
Unit of the motor truck department
of the United States army for the
front. Just after four clock Mon
day afternoon telegram from the
war department. reached the Jeffrey
plant. 1t read " Duplicate former
order for trucks and organize thirty
three men to man them for service in
Mexico Get these trucks off for Ell
Paso at the earliest possible minute. !"
Within ten minutes the men at the
plant were busy assembling the trucks
and it was announced on Monday
night that the special train for Ell
Paso would leave Kenosha at two
c o'clock Wednesday morning. This
morning the work Of loading the
trucks was started and with the ar
rival Of Col. Kniskern Of the army,
the plan to wait until Wednesday
morning to start the shipment was
abandoned and it was announced at
the Jeffery plant that the special
would get out Of Kenosha by FIVE
0 clock this afternoon and earlier if
the railway company could take care
of the special train. Down in Chicago
the Rock Island officials were making
special arrangements to handle the
special with view of getting it into
Ell Paso in time to break the record
of SIS hours and "a minutes estab-
lished in the handling of the first
Kenosha motor truck unit.
There was no trouble getting thirty
three men to make up the list of driv-
ers to be sent to the battle front with
the trucks. The call was sent out Just
as soon as the order was received and
there were lot Of applications for
places in the company. They came
from the factory and from all parts
of the city. One of the first volun-
teers was William Biennemann of the
police department. who made applica-
tion to the board of fire and police
commission for leave of absence
that he might join the expedition. Henry
Noering of the fire department was al
SO listed among the men who are to
leave for the south this afternoon.
He is going under a leave of absence
from the chief Of the department.
Frank Scholey, who was candidate
at the primary today for nomination
to the Office of justice of the peace,
told the city clerk last night that
he would decline to accept nominal
tion and that he would 90 south
with the expedition.
The trouble in enlisting the company
was the fact that many of the men
who wanted to go were inexperienced
in driving the big trucks. In order to
remedy this trouble there was a regu-
lar school out at the Jeffrey plant to-
day. More than sixty drivers who
were burning with a desire to get ex-
perience in army service were on the
track driving trucks and just as many
of them were In the sheds studying
the mechanism of the big trucks so
that they would have no trouble in
handling them in Mexico or anywhere
else. 1t was declared that when the
school is over the company of drivers
would be just as experienced as the first
company sent south nearly week ago
No change was made in the equip
ment of the trucks, the specifications
being just the same as with the former
order. The government had fthurry''
notice all over the order and no time
was lost in repainting trucks or any
thing else. It is intimated that there
may be future demands for drivers to
go with the trucks for army service
and it is expected that future orders
will come for trucks and drivers so
long as there is any need for the
service of the men in Mexico or on
the border.
The contracts signed by the men are
the same indefinite contracts signed by
the men who went south on the first
special train.
The list Of the men going with the
Jeffery trucks today is as follows:
E. Harlo Mahonev, truck master;
Hewitt Calender, assistant; William
Biennemann, assistant; John Sadow-
ski, machinist; Frank Hartwig, as
sistant machinist, aud the following
chauffeurs: William Anderson, Herbert
Fl. Brooks, Joe Burg, Walter Gurtiss,
Walter Domhoff, Erick Erickson,
Frank Galligan, Charles w. Hall,
Joseph Heck, Theo. Hugunin, George
Kimball, Elmer Kipp, Peter Kraak,
Edwin Lundin, Otto Nelson, Henry
Noering, George Raine, Lawrence Ner-
musch, Theo. Neumann, Edward G.
Parker, Leo Pawlukanis, Frank J.
SchOley Edward STANCE William Ten