Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-28
LACK OF RECRUITS MAY
HOLD FIRST BRIGADE

Continued From First Pagel
here are running about ten per cent.
because the United States army
standards are more strenuous than
that of any life insurance company in
the world. Here I have reports that
West Chester is sending recruits by
automobiles that men are ready at
Harrisburg and other places. York
has forty men awaiting the word to
come here and that Chester is on the
way. I sincerely trust that Philadel-
phia. the cradle of liberty and which
bade farewell to its soldiers with such
enthusiasm and which has been ac-
corded the honor of being first ordered
to move, will send the men to fill the
commands"
The need of men TO replace those
turned down by the medical examiner
is pressing in the camp and the men
who are interested in western and cen
trail regiments are moving at home to
fill up the ranks. The First Brigade
may be held back several hours to-
night by lack of men.
General Price added his word for
Philadelphia to hasten recruits say
ing that 1t was shameful that it had
not responded.
The following medical men were as
signed to organizations to-day: Thos
|
ward Kilbourn Tullidge, Eighth Regi-
nlent and Francis Frank Borsell
Ambulance Company No. 2.
George Wentworth Carr, secretary
of the Philadelphia Mayors commit
tee, and w. H. S. Dram, chief clerk to
Mayor Smith, went through the Phila-
delphia commands to-day distributing
cards for data regarding families OF
Philadelphians in the regiments
These cards are for the information OF
the committee in giving relief.
The engineers and signal corps prob
ably will be the first organizations to
start, officers in charge at the camp
, stating that it hardly would be pos
sible to get the three regiments of in
fantry under way much before noon
/ Railroad officials consulted with divi-
! sion headquarters during the night re-
! garding the troop trains, cars for
which are standing on the sidings
/ Motor trucks. tractors and trailers
were at the camps of the regiments
| scheduled to move and when the med
ical inspection is completed there will
be no delay in getting away
Recruits InoCuIatcd
In the other organizations at the
camp here vaccination and inoculatior
went ahead rapidly and patches OF re.
! cruits were treated and taken out tc
] urlll without nlucn tlme 10 study the
locality. The Second and Third Bri-
! gades are expected to be on their way
to the border before the end of the
| week.
Failure of the First Brigade to star
will result in delaying of the rest ot
! the guardsmen here, but the time will
be spent in training recruits and ir
hardening the men.
On the eve of the departure of the
First Brigade Colonel Charles T. Cress
well, commander of the Third Infantr!
Regiment. of Philadelphia, has beer
rejected by United States medical in.
spectors. A recent operation, the sur,
geons reported, left Colonel Cresswel
in a weakened condition. They sale
J he had not sufficiently recovered tC
permit him to lead his command.
The disqualification of Colonel Cress
we'll caused a stir in the First Brigade
camp and officers rendered their sym
pathy to him. The command tenn
porarily will pass over to Lieutenant