Evening star., 1916-07-24
TO Be PAID AGAIN
BEFORE THEY MOVE
Salaries Will Be Given D. C.
Troops at Camp 0rdway
in August.
MEN ASSURED OF BEING
SENT TO MEXICAN BORDER
Recruiting Going on Slowly-Not-
able Increase in Re-Enlistments.
Enemy" on Potomac Routed.

Troops at Camp Ordway will get an
other pay day before they leave camp.
according to Capt. Horace P. Hobbs.
U. s. A. mastering officer at Camp
Ordway. Capt. Hobbs said he did not
want to send any of the troops now
here to the border until after the next
pay day. in August To send them out
before that would serve only to delay
their pay for a month. and some Of the
troops. the artillery and cavalry, have
not received any pay since they mobil-
lied. II the troops should be sent out
now 1t would be too late to make out
the pay rolls when they reached the
border. SO that they could be paid i'm
mediately.
However. officers of the camp believe
the troops will be ready to go by that
time, and that soon after the pay day
they will move. The regiment Is being
recruited gradually, and only the very
best of men are being taken into the
service.
Nearly 1000 Given Liberty.
While the results Of the two days
liberty, Saturday and Sunday, given the
men. have not been felt here, the Of
ficers believe the recruits will begin to
come in within few days and that the
regiment soon will have it's full COM
plement. and then will start on the
movement to the border. Nearly a
thousand men were given liberty in
the two days in order to go among
their friends and urge them to enlist.
They went out with the information
received by Gen. Harvey that the regi-
ment would go to the border just as
soon as enough men were obtained.
The men are doing everything possible
to obtain recruits, and to help their
various organisations to get the proper
number of men.
There still are some applications be-
ing made for release on account of men
having persons dependent upon them,
but the regimental officers take the
stand that these cases cannot be very
urgent or the men would have applied
his order releasing men for this reason.
Re-Enlistments Are Frequent.
Discharges on account Of the expira-
tion of enlistment are being made al
most daily, but the men, anxious to go
to the border. are re-enlisting In al
most all cases. There has been a notice.
able increase In the re-enliBtments
since the absolute information was re-
ceived that the troops would 80 just
as soon as the regiment was full to its
minimum peace strength.
With the results expected from the
two-day campaign Of the men. the
officers, will be ready to move by pay
day.
Capt. McGonegaI, commanding the
detachment of the LIST Separate Bat
COL t0yn -
marched through the sections of Wash
ington occupied by colored people yes
terday, in an effort to get recruits, and
he brought back a half dozen men with
him. and others began to show up
early today. The command marched
crowd of young colored men were found
standing on the corner the detachment
was halted to let the colored 8oldiers
talk enlistment to them.
Further to stimulate enlistment in the
Sd Infantry, Col. Glendie b. Young COM
manding, has proposed to the officers Of
the command that a picked squad from
each company be sent to the city each
day to give exhibition drills in front Of
the recruiting stations. One squad from
company Of twelve squads. which could
put up a drill worth seeing.
Urged to Enlist Now.
Men who wish to go to the border, but
are hesitating through fear that the
troops now at Camp Ordway will not 20,
are urged to enlist now. The regiment.
say the officers. will go, and II men hold
back in their enlistment they very likely
will be left behind
An advance on Leesburg la being
made this morning by an enemy" un-
der command of Mai Hodg.on. This
force theoretically landed at Hunters
point on the Potomac this morning and
started the advance, blowing up the
electric railroad tracks as 1t proceed
ed and doing what 1t could to retard
the advance guard of troops under
Majs. McCathran and Summers, who
were sent out to intercept the enemy
A contact was made near Ballston, and
then the troops opened hre on each
other. with blank cartridges. OF course
The enemy was put to rout. but not un-
I'll 1t had left a path OF wreckage from
the river to Ballston.
Joseph H. Mcintyre of Company has
been commissioned a second lieuten-
ant. He will be assigned to Company
Lieut.. Col. Anton Stephan, Sd Infan-
try. has established a school for non
commissioned officers. These men as
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