Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-26
NO "FLUB-DUB"
AT MT. GRETNA
Business First" Keynote of
Mobilization Camp Where
All Is Hard Work
From a Stan Correspondent

Camp Brumbaugh, Mount Gretna,
Pa, June 26.-"How is your face this
morning." asked a high-up officer of
the Guard of another with consider
able emphasis on the pronoun. The
other man grinned and rubbed his
chin.
This little incident tells the story of
this camp when you understand what
1t means. At other camps there are
BARRIERS for the officers. At this camp
the officers have to shave themselves,
and II by reason of habit they have
become accustomed to a barber shaw
ing them daily and by reason of
physical construction bear a tender
skin, 1t brings home mobilization"
A couple of girls who had visited
camps in other years remarked last
evening that there was something
different" about this camp. There is.
And the difference in atmosphere be-
tween this camp and the National
Guard camps strikes one Immediately
upon entering the great fields which
the Keystone State has bought for its
soldiery. The officers are putting into
practice the things they have learned
in the long evenings of study and regi-
mental and battalion school and the
men transformed themselves Saturday
from young citizens with thoughts OF
home and a readiness for fun into
AoStllliB prepared lot an
mediate call to go anywhere. The
discipline which the guardsmen have
had instilied into them was apparent
the minute they detrained and il has
never left the camp.
\ Business Camp
This is business camp. There were
good many people here on Saturday
to get in the road and to stand around
watching the men put up the tents and
there thnHIEa n6S nf N-teifnrc
terday because the men in charge are
human and like to see people and
naturally desired to give the soldiers
a chance to greet such friends as
might make the farewell trip. But
things are a bit more strict to-day
The medical examinations are in full
swing and 1t will not be many hours
before the recruits will be called upon
to raise their hands and become mem
bers of the National Guard of the
United States, Seventh Division, in
stead of members of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. Seventh di-
vision means Pennsylvania because
this Commonwealth is furnishing a
division, which. when recruited to war
strength, will be something like 5000
men.
Camp With History
In the last twenty-five years there
have been some stirring scenes at this
camp ground. Twenty four years ago
to week the Philadelphia troops were
modified here to await call to follow
the rest of the Guard into Homestead
Eighteen years ago the Guard mo-
bilized here on the outbreak of the
war with Spain in some Of the most
atrocious April weather known. There
have been camps of regulars, training
camps, division camps, brigade camps
and annual rifle match camps, but this
camp is different. The men are more
serious minded than they were in 1898,
If ii be possibl because that was a
time when weather added to uncer-
tainties tried hearts. The men have
said farewell to home and are anxious
to get down to border duty. They are
not boasting of what they are going to
do, but want to get into service. Some
of these young fellows have been
working in the Guard for several
years and hearing their grandfathers
and uncles tell about the Spanish War
and they want to go through with
their bit" too. And, incidentally, to