Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-18
TEXAS PULSATES
WITH EXCITEMENT
War Over the Border State
Fighting instinct Makes
Humans Tingle.
PRESENT FLAME OF ANARCHY.
Cavalry Troops Strung Along TIE
Border---Flowers VS. Vaccination
fashions Latest Fad.
PART III.
(Contributed.)
by Mrs Jean Cabell O'Neill.I }
ptpT II

by Mrs Jean Caben o'NeuLI
PART III.
Finy-seven auto trucks were pur-
chased today, and tonight they are
getting on their war paint. and will
some thoughtful person please call the |
attention of the War Department to
the folly painting autos for war sery-
ice TO harmonic with the battleships
The first adapter of gray TO battleships
was genius, for between the color OF
the waves, the mist from the ocean and
the possible smoke OF battle. the neu-
tral gray made the ship well nigh in
visible to the enemy's gunners.
But in this war now wagiug in Eu-
rope | have had many opportunities to
note that gray motor manned by
men in the yellow-brown of the regu-
lation uniform, could be seen as far as
the eyesight could travel TIE red
coats of the British, which probably
gave the American troops the victory
in the Revolution as much as any one
cause could contribute to their over
throw, were no more conspicuous
taGn the gray motor moving down q
dusty road The heaviest dust is not
pow erful 10 conceal the gray-blue used
Tor the cars, and the background OF
country road or cliff of sand throws
the car in high relief. have seen SO
many trucks go into battle that never
came out, and l have never heard or
seen one person who thought of the
probable fault of the generally used
gray for war vehicles.
The boys of the engineering corps,to
be exact, Company &, Second battalion |
OF Engineers, who have just left San
Antonio for as near the Mexican front
as they will be permitted to go. had
poet among them, and he dashed oil a
Dirited little song to the tune of I'm
On My Way TO Mandeley,' which made |
great hit with the brawny chesty
tanned Texans. who largely made up
Uncle Sans splendid engineering
corps.
over and over the boys sang it un-
til the onlool<ers took up the refrain
'dough-boy" carried it back to the
garrison, and when / was over bright
and early TO Fort Sam Houston the
wind was heavy with the tune. either
whistled or sung. 1t goes this way.
as TO words. and | believe the Annap-
oils boys know the tune:
I've got TO go
To Mexico,
I'o- F;9 lting Ere Idle says it's SO:
I've got to fight
With all my might
SO the Stars ard Stripes may blow;
It's goodbye Villa
And I wouldn't ba vor
When we boys see you-that's why
I've got to go
To Mexico-
I'm tellin' you goodbye
Not very good yersifying, but it got
the spot; anything would under the
circumstances
The army has an authorized strength
of 92,973 enlisted men. and SOIL Of
ficers. However, it is up to author
lied strength neither in officers nor
in enlisted men. In the three main
branches Of the service-cavalry ar
tillery and infantry the army has the
following number of regiments: Fiji
teen of cavalry, six of field artillery
and thirty of infantry Some of the
regiments are on duty in the Philip
THAT it has been necessary 10 call
out practically the entire army in con-
nection with the task of appTehending
/ Villa is one of the strongest arguments
/ ia favor IF preparedness, said Gen
! eral Funston. The inability OF rail
roads to furnish sufficient rolling stock
| for the transportation of troops has
/ hampered operations. according to the
General. In Arizona troops are being
carried in box cars. and everywhere
the inadequacy Of equipment is dis
couraging.
Right here in San Antonio we are
having difficulty in securing rolling
| stock for the comparatively small
movement from Fort Sam Houston
remarked General Funston 'You
| can readily see what it must mean in
sections where movements are Oh a
large scale. If the expedition could
have been made with infantry, we
could have been after villa the very
next day after the Columbus affair.
but 1t would have been foolhardy to
have attempted TO pursue a mounted
commend with foot soldiers.
General Funston went on to point
out the difficulty in concentrating
cavalry for the expedition. Cavalry
troops have been strung along the bor-
der on duty over q distance of many
miles. Some have been at points eighty
miles from railraac. Fhe largest
unit of cavalry was at FL Paso. eight
troops of the Eighth Cavalry.
With cavalry organizations so scat
tered much time was lost in assem-
bling them in an army OF operations
ia Mexico. However, the conc mira
ton VIII probably he complete before
this reaches ynu. and when General
Funston and General PershIng think
all ready for the expedition, something
viii start
Everyone here seems 10 have great
faith in these two fighting men. the