Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-03
H0W|TzERS LEAVE
FOR BORDER DUTY
flrst Battalion Field Artillery
Takes Full Equipment
to Texas.
GRlMES'S BATTERY TO-DAY
Richmond Artillerynen. Under
Captain Myers. Occupy
First Train.

NhlIc buglcs played and swccthcarta
waved Eood-by, and while tho men %
battery 6 load"d their guns ard cais-
SONS on IN" wait ng cars. the three bat
''ries OF the First Battalion Virginia
Fi"ld Artillery. pulled out OF the yards
one at :, time yesterday afternoon and
S'rrted on the 'ong trip to San .\ntonio.
Ton Battery \. tho Richmond How
'"crs. was the first to starr ica.inr,
about O'Clock. and Battery II. OF Nor
f"!k. and !;at;ery -. Of Hampton fol-
iowrh IN short order The las, train
left at 4:ij o'clock.
with Rauery = wen, Major + NJ.
"oriham and his STAFF. The battery
CAPTAINS arc William ". Myers, raul
k"ar and Frank W. Couch Fifteen
o'hcerF In all left yesterday afternoon
ana 50, men The Grimes Battery
or Portsmouth. which will leave about
~ o'clock this morning consists of
fonr officers aud 1876 men CAPTAIN
hranch Johnson commands this bat
tory.
BATTERY { will hc accompanied on
the star, by tho sixty-cigh, recruits for
the First aud Second Infantry under
command Of FRS, Lieutenant Robcr, l..
Taylor. OF battery u. Some time on the
tfip IN" infantry recruits ."jil bc scpa
rated from the ariiiiery aud will be
sent IL brownsville. Lieutenant Tay-
Tor viii rcjoin his command after
icachina Brownsville
RI.uES GET HOUSES UNFIT
ron USE or ARTILLERY
WITH III" IfowitZors won't sixteen
horses. Tho other horses Of the artil-
| lory. twonty-scvcn in number. had been
inspected for tho United states Army
and condemned Although unsui,ablc
for use by tho artillrry they arc ser-
Niccahl" FOR tho comparatively nild
use of cavalry practices. and were ycs-
trrday afternoon ,urrod over to tho
Blues
All three sections which l-f, ycstcr-
day afternoon went oyer tn" Chesa-
pcakc and Ohio hallway. They will go
directly TO Louisville. Ey. There they
wllI be transferred 10 the Illinois Cen
trai and taken Memphis Tenn
From Memphis 10 Waco. Tex. they
VII be carried on the ST. Louis and
southwestern. and from Waco 20 San
Antonio on the San Antonio and
.\rkapsas Pass. Battery c will leave
oTer tho Norfolk and Western.
Tho trains yesterday afternoon aver
aged sixteen cars each. Three ears
"or" '"uris; siccpers. carrying about
i"r,> eight men each; one was tho
Sftch"r, ON" wa n bagEagc ear. three
N"ro box ears. and eight were nats
yesterday was q busy time for the
soldiers Early IN tho morning the
firs, Battalion rose and struck ix
ien's. Feforc the men left they put
ineiv camp site in order and finished
loading their baggage on the cars
Then came the restless waiting for tho
train 10 leave. Each man bore a pair
-
'ouGiuEs
NnTHER> AND SWE:THI:AItTS
WATCH TRAINS Pull. our
Wong the side of tho track was a
line OF civilian friends and we'll
wishc's. Mothers and swcethcnrts
walked about anxiously trying 20
share the confidence OF the boys that
hey were going on a picnic instead Of
u" war ThronSs OF the idle and GU
ious collected I" see the hours show
.Nlonc the outskirts gathered rroups OF
cavalrymcn, signal Corps men and en-
sineerE. wondering II their time would
ever come. After the Howitzers left
Tho crowd was considerably diminished,
hut some OF tho faithful remained till
'hc las, car of Battery u had long dis
appcared around the bend
What repained OF the crack buc,e
ing footing checrfully as the trains
pulled out. Many OF the original
twentyfour buglcrs were attached TO
the artillery, so that the volume Of
music was reduced by about half
Taps. ITO the Colors." You're in the
Army Now and all tho calls the SOL
dicrs had learned TO love and TO whistle
during their three months stay in Camp
Stua7t rolled forth TO bid them good by
and a "a afc journey.
GRIMES'S BATTERY WILL.
LEAVE THIS MORNING
Battery c was at work pushing their
guns into place on the ears and mailing
them down Tor the trip. AS the last
train left Yesterday afternoon tho
Portsmouth soldiers stopped LONG
enough To wave their hats and promise
to meet you at San Antoine" and then
began loading again. The men of Bat.
tory e slept in their tents last night,
and will be busy until 10 o'clock this
morning in preparation for their de- ,
parture.
Into the space vacated by the artil-
lerNmcn at Camp Stuart will lie moved ,
the engineers. Signal Corps and tho
field hospital. By this arrangement tho
compactness OF the camp will be pre-
served The work will be completed
hcforc Thursday and the camp put In
spotlcss condition to greet tho visit
ing officers coming to sit i'm the court
martial trial OF Major Barrett, Of the
Maryland National Guard
Richmond will be represented by four
men on the Virginia militia team at
thc national rifle match to be held at
Jacksonville. Fla, beginning October
20. Arrangements for the sending OF
the team were completed Yesterday.
All the contestants will be members OF
the Fourth Regiment. Norfolk will
furnish fourteen mon to the team. in
addition to those from Richmond and ,
Emporia will furnish one.
Onicers for the team will be brought.
,ack from the regiments now in Texas.