New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-28
No Pullmans for Guards
men Who Leave N. Y.
After Wait in Yards.
CROWDS GREET MEN
IN AVENUE MARCH
1,4O0 Depart TO Tune OF wen
Hang Carranza to a Sour
Apple Tree

With two silk American flags whip
ming from her boiler head, engine SOIL
Of the New York Central. gasped long
breath, then coughed, at exactly 2;l'
2. m. yesterday. and the first section OF
the list Regiment was on its way 10
the Mexican border.
Behind the first came the three other
sections Of the "71st Special The
first three were filed with officers and
men and tho last was a long equipment
train. To q string Of hstcars we're
wired and blocked the combat wagons,
IN which were packed the tents and
much Of the equipment Of the regi-
nent: also one carload of mules, four
Of horses, several Of munitions, cars
loaded with rstions for the first days
Ct Brownsville or any emergency and
two day coaches for the armed guards
Of the equipment train. 1t was this
section Of the "71st Special" that de-
lsyed the regiments departure for two
and q half hours while the 1900 men,
in heavy marching order, stood in the
Eleventh Avenue midday sun.
Men Begin March
After the high mass in st. Stephens
Roman Catholic Church, at which
Bishop Hayes oficiated, the men Of the
list returned 70 their srmory, at
Fourth Avenue and Thirty-fourth
Street, ready for the first lap of their
long tourney. Shortly before 10 o'clock
the assembly" sounded and the men
fell in. Chaplain William Croker, Of
The Church Of Epiphany. stepped before
che lines and offered Z, short, earnest
rraver for the men who 90 and for the
a,omen who stay. The flags OF the
lated States and the regiment were
presented. Then a sharp order was
At 1o,50 a. m. the list marched out
NJ the arrlorv and swung across fark
Avenue amid a deafening cheer from
The crowds in the street and in the WIN
6ows of the Park Avenue and Nanoer-
Turning north at Fifth Avenue, led
~ souad Of mounted police ana
hand. they marched up the avenue pc
tween crowds that lined the Walks zen
deep. Governor Whitman, with ms MI M
itarv aid in full uniform, reviewed ths
regiment as IL passed st. PatricKs "a
thedral from the rear seat OF an suIo,
mobile. With the throng that CROWDED
the cathedral steps he removed MS nat
g the cOlors were carried past MN.
The men, in turn, saluted with theAF
rifles as they passed the Governor
Long Wait Experienced.
The first touch Of the hardships that
await the euardsmen greeted them at
the New York Central yards, at Six
tieth Street and Eleventh Avenue. The
SIM was high and the day was oppres-
sivelv sultry when they were halted:
Then came a wait of two and nall
hours.
Nobody seemed 70 know the cause.
Soon IL was discovered that the smmu-
milton was Just being loaded from the
New York Central docks into the NUM-
ton train A hostler with Chaplain
Crockers mount said that he had been
waiting since Z o'clock in the mornlng
for a chance 20 load the chaplain
horse. Two hours later the ammunl-
tion was all loaded, but four carloads
OF noISeSt JUST hlllfONi h@N w
trained. At this point 1t was decideo
70 abandon military custom and allo"
the troops TO precede their equipment
The Older was given and the men en-
trained and rolled away.
For five days, if all goes WELL thos'
1.4OO private will live, eat, wash, eNer
else and sleep in old wooden da!
coaches. Many believed that they wer'
20 have tourist cars, and despite th'
fact that the soldiers ontrained yester
dav in the oldest possible straight
back-seat day coaches, the belief per
sisted that they would get their Pull
mans the other side Of Buffalo.
straight Up" All Way.
They will have no Pullmans. TheJ
will not even have the luxury of Tho
Western chair cars, in which one car
have a fairly comfortable nap. They
will ride straight up" all the way, fo'
they ere travelling as freight" - a
least, they are limited to freight speed
and will probably bump along over tht
outside freight tracks. Thirty miles ar
N hour is 70 be their maximum speed.
|l II they travelled at this rate all last
y night they would not reach Buffalo until
long after sunrise this morning. The
boys would be Just curling up in a first
back-breaking, leg-aching effort at &
snooze last night when they arrived II
Albany and endured the bumps Of shift