Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-23
FEARFUL FAREWELLS,
THREATS TO CARRANZA,
HEARD AT ARM0RIES
Good Fellowship and Good HUI.
NOR Prevail as Guardsmen
Prepare to Leave for
Mt. Gretna
MANY MUSICIANS HEARD

Brigade headquarters in the Lincoln
| Building may be the source of official in
| formation these strenuous days of military
| preparation but the armories of the several
units comprising General Prices command
| are full of unofficial information today.
The drill floors and company rooms are
buZzing with action and information that is
uncensored-as yet. The officers and men,
while fully aware of the gravity of the sit
uation confronting them, have not let the
seriousness of the crisis affect their cheer
fulness or good fellowship. When they
reach Mt Gretna and begin actual cam
paignng the air of military dignity will APP
pear but just now, and until the parting
bugle blows, gossip and good humor are
rampant.
All camp equipment Is packed, arms and
accoutrementS are in trim. and the only
thing remaining is the farewell to 'The
Girl | Left Behind Me"-the whole three
or four thousand of her. That adieu will
be said tonight and then it will he "On to
Mt. Gretna and Mexico
FIRST REGIMENT
The LIST Regiment may go to Mount
Gretna minus a band, but ii Will not lack
musicians. Every company piano was
drilled in double time today, and patriotic
melodies ranging from "rherell he a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight" to II
Didn't Raise My Boy TO be Soldier"
waited continuously over the drill floor.
Howard Berry, Penn's athletic star. is
striving to establish new record for speed
between Eagles Mere and this city Berry
is a private in Company G, and was spend
ing his vacation in the mountain resort
when the call to duty reached him. He
wired Captain Gentner that he would be
back before the regiment departed.
There are several athletic stars in the
rauks OF the First. Harry FryckberE, police
champion, is ordnance sergeant, and then
there are Joseph Foley another reserve
policeman and Shanahan Club star; First
Sergeant Rutherford Warren, reserve po-
liceman at Broad Street Station Sergeant
Herbert Otto, half-mier at l.ehigh and
Corporal Sproule, a Swarthmore athlete.
George II. Johnson, who has been first
lieutenant OF Company II, the Gimbel COM
pany, today received his appointment as
captain of that command, Another new
officer Is Caldwell Lockade who has just
been elected second lieutenant of Company
+. Lieutenant Lockade served as a cor
poral in that company from 1904 to 1912,
when ne became lieutenant He resigned
last year with the rank of first lieuten-
ant but the scent OF battle afar on at
tracted him and he re-enlisted few days
ago His comrades last night advanced
him TO the vacant leutenaney
Howard c. Taylor was unanimously
elected second lieutenant OF Company G by
the members Of that body In the company
rom this morning. Lieutenant Taylor was
formerly a sergeant major in the regiment
SECOND REGIMENT
Raleigh Singer, borough engineer of Nor
rlstown, has enlisted as a private In Com
pany II. Lieutenant Fellman, OF Colonel
Turner's command, is Norristowns chief
OF police
Alexander Adaire president of the Adaire
Lumber Company, has Joined Company /
as a private He had gone to Plattsburg
10 prepare. but resigned when the call for
Pennsylvania guardsnlen was issued. Carlos
and Leo Alvarez. cigar manufacturers, and
Louis Elizardo, their factory foreman. nave |
I John richardson and William 0ttinger
respeetiYaly patrolmen Of the GsFmaniown |
and Manayunk police staftens have Joined
Company 3. Both men WI leave Agifs 4
and ehild Mrs Ottinger sad thar she vas 4
ylad her husband could support his eoun.