Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-04

TO their homo stations.
MY guess is that tho trooDs left in
camp Stuart will either be mustered
"h' OF III" service or ordered to the
hord"r by the 18th OF this month
sa'd Major e i. Wright. camp adj
Iutan'. last night. ~ have no inside
Information. and the men may Il. hold
h"rH all winter. hut believe there will
he change very shortly"
Secretary Bakers sta,cmcn, was tho
hrsi onIcihi announcement tina, the War
Department had adopted "A policy call
'hs Tor hordcr service for all the ma
,tonal ruardsmcn before they arc mus.
cred out 1, had been understood for
several weeks. however that this cours.
would he pursued Washington officials
expect tho las, OF tho units TO be NOV
ing toward tho border within the next
week or ten days.
War Department announcement is
sued last night lists among tho troops
n mobilization camps in Southern
states:
North Carolina Companies \ and y
engineers
south Carolina Company L cnsi
nccrs
TcnnessecTroops c and p cavalry.
Virginia = First Squadron Cavalry.
company y engineers. Field Company
signal Corps and field hospital No. |.
The War DEPARTMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS,
says tina, the official rnpor, OF muster
lima, South Carolina and Tennessee is
mot matter OF record" hut tho rcport
says these troops win he sent 10 the
border.
CAMP STUART LONESOME
WHEN ARTILLERY LEAVES
camp Stuart felt lonesome yesterday.
The number or men in camp had been
diminished by more than half and the
remainder could not sec through III,
gloom TO the day when they would ali
chcerfully smoke Mexican cigarettes
beside the Rio Grandc. AS the Blues
and tho Engineers and tho Field Hos
pital Company and Signal Corps heard
The shouts Of Battery = die away down
the railroad track. they felt little of
Major Wriehts optimism. More OBJ
servers than the camp adjutant. how
ever. have voiced tho belief that II
speedy ending Of the present situation
IS 10 come
Eattery G.. accompanied by tho re-
cfuits for the First and Second In
fantry Regiments. rolled out OF tho
,orla
'ay morning. The artillery will go to
iau Antonio and the infantry to
brownsville. The train left on the
Scaboard Air Line Railway for Peters
nurg. and was there transferred to the
Norfolk and Western
Just n few hours after the train
left. three struggling recruits for the
infantry reached camp. If they had
taken tho earlier train. or if they had
made up their minds to enlist n day
sooner. or IL they had not fingered at
the corner for that last drink, they
might have gone to Texas with the
others. AS it was, they joined the
waiting list at Camp Stuart
Although the three men had enlisted
for the infantry. they were assigned
temporarily to the Signal Corps Dis
charges have thinned the ranks Of that
Organization until il is below war
strength. and efforts are now being
made to Increase it's numbers Until
the Signal Corps has rcgained its full
proportions, all '"r,Iits willing will
be assigned to it.
SIGNAL CORPS MOVED
INTO MORE COMPACT QUARTERS
Into the spac vacated by the artiI-
lcry. situated between headquarters
and the camp Of the Blues. yesterday
moved the Signal Corps. the Engineers
and the Field Hospital by the draw
ing in Of these outlying organza tions.
the comractncss Of the camp is main
taincd. The Field Hospital occupies
the substantial building OF the artil-
lcry hcadIuartcrs mess. and is i'm bet
cr position to care for the sick il Is
stated. Than ever before.
General headquarters OF the Chcsa-
pcakc and Ohio Railway received Il re-
port yesterday afternoon at O'Clock
showing that tho three sections Of the
artillery that left Richmond for Texas
Monday afternoon were making good
time. At o'clock they were on the
Vshland-LcXinGton division of the
road, near Lexington. Officials OK
pcctcd the trains to reach Louisville.
Ey., carly this morning. Tho troopers
were reported to he faring we'll
T.. s. Moore. OF Roanoke. representa-
tive OF tho American Hallway Associa-
tion, who has been In Richmond for
several days supervising the movement,
of tho artillery from Camp Horny Car
ter Stuart to Texas. returned to Roa-
noke last night. after the last train
Of troops departed yesterday morning. |