Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
BATTERIES WILL
FOLLOW I'd BRIGADE
Continued From First Pagel

| Ma1or-Genera1 Clement to-day set
tied all doubt that he and his staff
would accompany the Pennsylvania
troops to the border. He said the
National Guard of Pennsylvania has
been called into the field as division
and intimated that he and headquar-
ters staff might receive orders to pro-
ceed to El Paso before all the COM
maEds had been entrained.
Artillery Batteries Next
Brigadier-General O'Neill, COM
mander of the Fourth Brigade, COM
prised of the Fourth, Sixth and
Eighth infantry regiments is disap-
pointed because the artillery batteries
will be shipped away as soon as the
remaining units of the Second Brigade
are off. The Fourth originally was
| scheduled to follow the Second Bri-
gade.
The Sixth Infantry includes four
| companies of Philadelphia infantry.
The Sixteenth Regiment is slated to
break camp and move late this after
noon and the Eighteenth tomorrow.
The Tenth regiment left last night be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock, with 1888
men and officers.
Each of the three Western Penn
sylvania Regiments in the Second
Brigade. commanded by General
Logan is recruited above the 1900
mark.
The Second Brigade commands are
working like beavers to entrain
promptly and eclipse the record of
the First Brigade in entraining. With
their transport wagons issued In
krock-down form and not wishing to
set them up. each of the regiments is
confronted with the task of carrying
its equipment to the trains, which are
parked on sidings about a quarter
mile from camp.
Regiment q Day
Following a visit of Adjutant-Gen-
eral Thomas J. Stewart to camp yes
terday, the work of entraining the
troops is to be speeded. and the
schedule calls for a regiment a day.
The troops are expected to leave in
this order: Eighteenth, Sixteenth,
cavalry. Field hospital No. /, and
Ambulance Corps No. of Pittsburgh
viii accompany probably the last In
fantry regiment to leave.
General Stewart said the Ninth
Regiment, of Wilkes-Barre, and the
Thirteenth, of Scranton, comprising
the Third Brigade, which were not
called out by Secretary of War Baker,
may be ordered to summer encamp-
ment at Tobyhanna.
There is a report that six batteries
or the artillery regiment will not be
kept intact at the border, but will be
scattered and assigned with regular
army batteries in order to give the
Pennsylvania artillerymen more ex-
perience and at the same time keep
them under the eye of army men. In
this event Colonel Mckee and his staff
Will not have active command over the
batteries.
Battery c, Of Phoenixville. which
last evening took its physical test, had
twenty-five men rejected.
f. NJ. Roberts, assistant to E. c.
Grace, president of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, yesterday visited Bat
terry A, recruited employees of the COM
pany. Charles NJ. Schwab, who pre-
sented forty-two horses to the battery,
Mr.. Roberts said, expects to visit the
Bethlehem boys before they leave.
The First Battalion of the Sixth
Regiment, comprising Companies A,
of Pottstown; D, of Phoenixville; F,
of Norristown, and G, of Doylestown,
were examined last night. Company +
lost fifteen men.
Captain Moseley in Camp
Captain George Van Horn Moseley,
Second United States Cavalry, who
was assigned by the United States
Army general staff to be chief of staff
of the national guard, arrived last
night and was on duty to-day. Cap
tain Moseley will rank as colonel and
will be no observance of the day.
Captain j. s. Fair, Fourth Infantry,
native of Altoona and a graduate of
Gettysburg College, is assigned as as
sistant chief of staff
Captain Kemper to BE Promoted
Captain James B. Kemper, the senior
mastering officer detailed here by the
War Department, il is reported, will
receive a commission as lieutenant
colonel of the Eighth Infantry where
there is a vacancy.
Movement of troops will proceed to-
morrow, the Fourth OF July. the same
as on other davs. and the medical ex-
animation and muster of organizations
of the artillery regiment and of the
Fourth Brigade will go over. There
will be on observance of the day.
In all probability the organizations
leaving hereafter will take ten days
travel rations instead of five in order
to provide against any delays. The
regiments which have left up to this
time have lad five davs' rations.
These officers have been assigned to
the chief medical examiner at the
camp and at the conclusion of their
duty here will rejoin their organ
izations: Major ]. F. Edwards, Sec
ond Brigade; Captain S. II. Heller,
Fourth Regiment, and Major w. c.
Hogan, Sixteenth Regiment.
State health inspectors continued
tnelr inspections OF the camp, the sur
rounding country and the railroads to-
day. Major w. d. Crookston, the
chief sanitary inspector. made a tour
of the camp to see that the sanitary
orders were not being violated on the
eve of entertainments.
Members of the First City Troop,
First Cavalry, were awaiting to-day
the scouting deroplane and machine
gun which has been presented to them.
Carloads of equipment, uniforms,
rifles. tents and other material are
pouring into the camp and the last
regiments to go. those of the Fourth
Brigade, will have the advantage of
these late receipts. In the event of
division headquarters leaving before
the Fourth Brigade, the command of
the camp would devolve upon General
O'Neill.
The Sixteenth Infantry was mus
tered into the Federal service with
1.123 men, 81 officers, medical Off
GERS and 10 hospital attendants.
An offer of an aeroplane to Bat
terry d, of Williamsport is reported to
have been made by citizens of that
place.
Two Young Men and