New-York tribune., 1916-06-25

Armory at Park Avenue and Thirty
fourth Street.
Acting under the power automati-
cally acquired, the colonel swore IN
his ffty-four officers, who, IN turn, ad-
ministered the oath to their men. A
number of privates and non-commls
stoned officers had been permitted TO
90 10 their homes for the night on
leave, and they will be sworn as they
return.
/. Colonel Botes would read no other
meaning into the order than appeared
on its surface-that the regiment was
not to 20 to Beekman to-day. But whea
| Captain George Perrine, the reglmental
adiutant, was asked If he believed u
meant the command was TO go direct
3 from armory to border. he replied;
at looks that way
The Cd Infantry, which has head
quarters at Troy, received orders with
the list to 20 to Camp Whitman. These
orders stand according TO General
/ O'Ryan. The regiment Will arrive IN
/ Poughkeepsie tonight, bivouac outside
/ the city and make the eighteen-mlle
march to the camp tomorrow. Orders
for the movement Of the lst Cavalry
were delayed, and had not even been
officially transmitted TO the command
before they were revoked.
Concerning rumors that the efficiency
Of the National Guard in New York
had not come up 10 the expectation OF
army officers, and that friction had al
ready resulted, General Wood would
/ only say:
at would have been much more tC
/ my liking if the state troops had beer
given time TO recruit TO war strength
Reply to Supply Complaint.
The general issued a reply to the
/ complaint of Governor Fielder of New
Jersey, prefaoing it with the remark;
when mobilization was first ordered
/ the War Department had no contro
over supply depots for the Guard.
/ notified Washington that, unless ! hac
orders 10 the contrary, ! would imme
/ diately take them over. | am now send
/ ing supplies as soon as they are or
! dered Except in the New Jersey case
there have been no tie-ups. Materia
| for that state was shipped yesterday
and should be there before night"
Then came the formal statement
dated at the headquarters Of the De
partment Of the East.
The statement Of Governor Fielder
charging this headquarters with delay
is wholly unwarranted and not in ac-
cordance with the facts" Il ran. Gov
crnor Fielder is evidently little famil-
lar with the method of mobilization OF
the powers Of the department. The
request of the adjutant general of New
Jersey was acted on here promptly
after its receipt II Governor Fielder
had made any inquiry he would have
learned the facts. The delay was in
no way incident 70 these headquar.
ters. LEONARD WOOD,
"Johnston, aide de camp"
In Brooklyn last night the armory
where the 14th Infantry had been wait
in, impatiently for marching orders
was dark. After a half dozen false
starts the men whose predecessors n
the same ranks were famous on one
side Of the Dixie line and feared on
the other as the "red-legged devils" OF
Civil War days had moved on at last
TO Camp Whitman.
Through streets hung with flags they
had marched early in the morning
from the armory 20 the Flatbush Ave
nue. station of the subway. whence spe-
cial trains took them TO Columbus
Circle They marched to no music
save the clanking of their accoutre-
ments. for a big part OF the city
through which they passed was still
asleep. The regiment, 900 strong, en-.
trained at Sixtieth Street and the
North River.
After two or three days of rife prae-
/ tice on the ranges at Peekskill the l4th
will march TO Beekman, thirty-one