Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-23
BRUMBAUGH TO VISIT
MT. GRETNALATE TODAY
Pittsburgh Troops Will Eat
Breakfast There Tomorrow.
First to Arrive
BIZ a star CorrespondcMt

CAMP BRUMBAUGH Mt Gretna, Pa,
June Ex-Governor Brumbaugh is expected
at Mt. Gretna this afternoon. He will
leave Harrisburg in time to arrive in camp
In time to make an official inspection of
the preparations being made TO quarter the,
troops of the National Guard.
The first troops to arrive in camp will
be those of Pittsburgh. including the 10th,
18th and Is Regiments They will leave
Pittsburgh at midnight tonight and will
he In camp early tomorrow The Pittsburgh
troops will sleep aboard the cars but will
breakfast in camp.
The first brigade from Philadelphia leave
here tomorrow morning and is expected in
camp between noon and . o'clock in the
afternoon.
According TO orders issued from Harris.
burg today. the cavalry and arms of the
service other than infantry will leave their
armories early Sunday. and most of them
will be in camp before the colse of the day.
The arrangements have been made with a
view of avoiding overcrowdng and con-
fusion on arrival of the soldiers.
General \. j. Logan came to headquarters
at the State Capital today and conferred
with General Stewart regarding the trans
portation of his men, and the announcement
was made that recruiting is proceeding with
great rapidty in both the Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh districts and satisfactorily in
the State at large.
Captain j. b. Kemper, U. S "A, who has
been made chief mastering officer at Camp
Brumbaugh, reported to General Stewart,
at Harrisburg, that he has established head
quarters on the ground and that his assist
ants, Captain Biddle and Captain Thomas,
have reported for duty
General Stewart announced that Cover
nor Brumbaugh has received from Sec
retary Daniels n telegram asking that the
naval militia be maintained so far as
possible and that recruiting from that
branch of the militia to the ether arms
of the service be discouraged as 1t is
not known when 1t might be necessary to
call for these men for duty with the fleet,
The secretary calls attention to the eN-
pense of training these men for sea service
and believes they ought to be held for
emergencies
Lieutenant Colonel Livingston " Rausch.
deputy division quartermaster. has charge
OF the active preparations and he and his
subordinates are working tirelessly The
first details of the arriving regiments are
expected early tomorrow morning and
Colonel Rausch promises that their tents
and other equipment of camp life will be
ready for them.
Colonel Rausch encountered an uneXpect-
ed difficulty when, after his plans had been
drawn for accommodating about 10000 men,
orders were given to recruit to war
doubling of requirements on the quarter
masters department. But Colonel Rausch
and his force have made such good progress
that the camp Is ready for the first comers
and acquisitions for the later arrivals are
in transit
General Clement today paid high COM
plment to Colonel Rausch upon his eff
fclency Emergency headquarters have
been set up at the Hotel Conewago. General
Clement and his staff took possession of
the house, the regular attaches not being
there when the guardsmen arrived
Comrany A. Engineers Battalion, arrived
here from Scranton this morning. They
are already at work in the task of camp
prepuaration Four men of the 4th In
fantry. under Captain Clarence j. Smith.
uuartermaster, who arrived yesterday, have
completed the laying out of the camp for
that regiment. The camp is laid out in
Iayine, but the force under Captain Smith
worked with such diligence that the natural
obstacles were soon overcome, II. r. Lucas
a United States postal inspector, is here and
is arranging the mail facilities of the camp