New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-27
22d Pioneers and Hospital
Corps Ready-Last of
Outfit Due at Dawn.
CHAPLAINS TAKE
MEMS CONFESSIONS
Pass from Rank 10 Rank After
Order to Move Comes-Trains
Await Detachments.
From star corr+po0a,u, q The rrisun.

Iron 3 star Co-respoudsnt ~ The TrihuDe
Camp Whitman, Beekman, n. Y,
June 26-Major General John F..
Organ late to-day notified Colonel t.
V. Lucas to delay the departure Of the
lst Battalion, 22d Engineers, and the
two hospital units, which have been
ordered to the border. until their full
equipment arrived early tomorrow
This consists Of several trainloads OF
tentage and clothing and 500 mules.
The equipment is expected at Green
Haven at dawn. The men will leave
in the afternoon.
eve can get out Of camp and entrain
in three hours" said Major Frederick
y. Whitley. in charge Of the LIST Bat
talon. after a conference with three
other officers.
Command Came at Dawn.
The command for the pioneer bat
talon and the two hospital units to
be ready 70 move at a minutes notice
was brought from General Organ by
Colonel Lucas at daybrcak to-day. I'm
mediately these three commands
hacked all the equipment they had in
camp and stood ready for the COM
mand to move. In the Hopewell juno
ton yards long trains are waiting on
sidings to carry the men TO Browns
Vile or San Antonio, Tex, or wherever
they may be sent
More troops poured in all day long,
lean. well knit men from upstate towns
and farms. There were approximately
$500 men in camp tonight. Colonel
James Andrews's command. the 22d In
fantrv.was encamped outside Of Arthur
burg. six miles away, with 1850 men IN
his command. Some Of them we're IN
civilian clothes. many or them had no
blankets. no tents. no rifles, nut they
were all fred with intense pairloIlsiI'
Colonel Andrews Will come mo CSnP
THURSDAY. There IS no water lot MN
here now The Sd Infantry one o.
Rrigadier General Wilson's regiments
from Northern New YORK. is cue N'i'
tomorrow. n.u.-.. &c
+ba units in camp were 10 leave lOI
the border Chaplains Francls DuIE
and Fell walked from company 10 com
many 10 hear confessions. IhrouEh 'ne
camp flashed the report that -FOUR regl-
roen4s were 20 leave tonight Oui
wbicb7 The 18th and fist surely ana
the l4th probably, came the lniorna-
ZION. Which regiment was 70 MI the
fourth place no one knew. The 6Sth
boned II would be called, but Colonel
Conley could give no reassuring news
esth Is Disappointed.
I.a+e this afternoon, while the 69th
was taking its first drill in held
rcar the camp. news came that the
e0tb was 10 stay. The 4lth was 60
INC. Ii was a blue Monday for the
But this regiment did not monopo-
Bze the disappointment. In the ranks
of the 22d there were traces OF genu-
inc envy and q general sense OF per
soDal loss. At twilight the boys IN
khak gathered az the base Of the MIL
from which Bandmaster George brel.
gel and his men sent the strains OF
forward. Christian Soldiers ana Auia
Lang Syne" floating over the three-mlIe
camp. The 22d sang the first with
1erNOr, the ldlltI WIN DAN"N--'b
More Troops Arriving.
The place in the camp that the first
battalion Of the Engineers viii prop
sblv vacate tomorrow will be taken by
Troop Il. the crack cavalry command
Of Rochester o.,
At 10 o'clock this morning Corporal
Arthur Chapelle, worlds 10O-mile mo
torcycle champion. shot in from the
22d's armory. He had covered the
seventy-two miles at the rate OF
nils a minute. He brought muster
rolls for Captain ". n. Haskell, I. .
A Without these, the three units or
dered by General Organ TO prepare to
start would have been unable TO do so
Colonel Lucas complimented ChapeHe
on his record.
Troop B, from Albany. 100 strong
under Captain Ernest L. Miller, came
In last night They we're forced "a
sleep around camp fires. as IL was I'm
possible TO pull the tentage through
The mud. For supper and breakfast
Troop b had canned peaches and dry
bread.
Captain Guido T Verbeck. In charge
Of Battery A. LIST Field Artillery, from
Syracuse. arrived az o'clock this az
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