Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-17
PHILADELPHIA
ENGINEERS OFF
FOR NOGALES
Second Company of This
City Leaves for Bor-
der Work
BIBLE CLASS FORMED
BY CARL L. ZEISBERG
Evening LEDGER star Correspondent

ELL I-AOOs lex July IL
Company B, Engineers. of Philadelphia
entraned for Nogales, Ari today This
was the second Philadelphia detachment to
leave for border work The company is
the highest-rated militia engineering or
ganization In the United States and every
man in the outfit is in tiptop condition.
Not without excitement and difficulty
was the entrainment effected. Dynamite
interfered with a smooth departure. Dy-
Mantle is a mule, the most vicious of the
nine untamed Missouri products which the
Government issued to the company. Dyna-
mite, however was subdued and will labor
hard at Nogales, which is 400 miles west
of this city, on the border.
Tho departure of the engineers injected
fresh interest into camp life, which had
grown rather humdrum
Wen go soon now" was the comment
In every battalion, each believing that 1t
would be the next detachment houored by
an order to leave for duty.
Another spicy order came from the War
Department, notifying the 1st and I'd Reg-
ments, of Philadelphia, that the remount
station would furnish them with horses
and mules as soon as they could be Issued
Each regiment will receive % draft mules,
1s pack mules, II of which are for the ma
chine.gun company and one for the sani-
tary detachment six riding mules and 40
horses for officers and mounted scouts All
the Pennsylvania regiments without the
have been issued those lacking.
Tho I'd Brigade, under General Logan,
hiked six miles today in n body. With
their bands playing the three regiments
the 10th, Colonel Coulter: the 10th, Colonel
Richards, and the 18th, Colonel Kearns-
swung around n circuit toward the city and
gained the applause of the fashionable
suburbs.
Water pipes, being laid at Camp Stewart,
the now site for the Pennsylvania camp.
were viewed by the cavalry and the Sd
Brigade with watering mouths The troop
ers, including the smart First City Troop.
have been existing on canteen of water a
day, and the 4th 9Th and Sth Infantry
Regiments of the brigade have been far
ing little better since they detrained on the
level plain to route the prairie dogs out of
their homes Fatigue details of about 100
men from each Pennsylvania regiment are
laying out the water works system and dig
ging sinks in preparation for the big
move of all Pennsylvania troops to the
new camp selected by Major General
Clement
Until the big move" which may take
place this week, all regiments are marking
time. The transfer of sites may be effected
this weelS-"may," because no one ventures
to predict even sunrise on this border.
There is scarce an ailment among all the
host of Philadelphia warriors Physical eX-
aminations of the lst and Sd Regiments
revealed Sc corns, the worst afTiiction in
these two organizations. Treatment to Grad
icate these has been begun Two hours
were required for the third and last inocu.
lation of the 1st Regiment by-NIajor Waags
corps of medical officers, This equals the
record made by the Cd Regiments med
ical corps, under Major Aller.
This week. which may prove momentous
for the Pennsylvania troops. was ushercJ in
by Sunday service, the picturesque effect of
which was heightened by n war of the ele-
ments-a driving sandstorm followed by
thunder and lurid lightning that split the
steel blue Texas sky Men stood with barred
heads while Chaplain McFetridge, of the
I'd Regiment and Chaplain Futcher of the
1st Regiment, preached virle sermons fit
for soldiers ears The Sd Regiment, lack
ing a chaplain attended services in down
town churches and lent its band TO the list
Regiment. which lacks 4 band Chaplain
Futcher organized the first military Bible
class in camp in the LIST Regiment. with
more than 100 charter members. Mass
was said in several regiments for the Cath.
Ollie soldiers.
Help for dependent families of soldiers
may develop from weird baseball game
played yesterday among officers and men
of the I'd Regiment, who propose to chal-
lenge the Ell Paso team and to send the
gate receipts to Philadelphia. The game
was played on. Sunday, II is true but Sum
day baseball is not frowned upon IN this
Western community and, besides, Chaplain
McFetridge was one of the stars.
All memory of yesterdays binding sand
storm was effaced by intermittent rain that
fell during the night while the white
clouds rode along the brow of grim Mount
Franklin and the rose-colored lightning
flashed behind the crags, Today is another
day. different from all the others that Phil
adelphians have found here and each of
the others has been different from it's pre-
decessor.