Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-20
District Troops Go to Fort
Myer Concentration Camp
at 9 O'Clock in Morning.
RANKS BEING RECRUITED
TO FULL WAR STRENGTH
U. S. S. Sylvia Brings Equipage
From Colonial Beach, Va.-Para-
phernalia Being Distributed.

Another night will be spent in
snug beds at their homes by
members of the National Guard
of the District of Columbia before
they start on the movement which
may end Somewhere in Mexico.
The troops will not go to Fort
Myer concentration camp until
tomorrow morning shortly after
Q o'clock, when the men will take
up their abode in tents and
will sleep on cots, perhaps even
on the ground,
Delay in completing the sani-
tary arrangements at the Virginia
camp site necessiated the issuance
of orders delaying until tomorrow
morning the movement which had
been scheduled for o'clock to-
day. The men have been ordered
to report at their armories at 8
o'clock, according to Capt. E. w.
Fullam, adjutant of the sd In
fantry.
With the call to arms squirting young
men to enlist in a manner which could
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National Guard is fast recruiting its
ranks up to full war strength. While
the recruiting is going on today in sew
eral different sections of the city, in
the various armories occupied by the
guard, preparations for the advance to
the concentration camp at Fort Myer
are being pushed forward by officers
Of the Quartermaster Corps of the
guard.
Men Being Quickly Equipped.
In the armories men were being
equipped and outfitted as quickly as
they were passed by the several sur
seons who are making the examina-
tions, blanket rolls are being made up
and the twenty pounds Of parapher-
MALTA which each soldier carries is
being prepared and placed where the
troops may find them handy tomorrow
when the bugler sounds the assembly.
The U. S. S. Sylvia, training ship of
the naval militia, arrived in Washing
ton shortly after noon today and dis
charged her cargo of camp equfpage
which had been left at Colonial Beach,
Va. when the guard was there last
summer The Sylvia, in command of
Lieut. Commander r. B. Brummet,
made a record run to the beach for the
Of feet of iron pipe used for conveying
water from the tanks to various parts
of the camp. This equipment will be
set up at the camp ground this after
thing is expected to be in readiness for
the reception of the troops and no fur
ther delays are anticipated.
Although the line of march for the
organizations has not yet been made
up, they will march for a part of the
length up Pennsylvania avenue. Capt.
Fullam said this morning that, headed
by the Third Infantry Band, the Sd
Regiment of Infantry would march up
Pennsylvania avenue. pass through
bridge, following the military road to
the post. 1t is expected that the other
organizations, including the Signal
Corps company. the two batteries of
field artillery, the 1st Separate Batta-
lion of infantry, colored troops. with
band. and one troop of cavalry will
follow the same route.
Will Report Separately.
As the War Departments order for
the troops calls only for the individual
units. they will not be brigaded before
they leave the city, but will report as
separate commands to Maj Fenton. the
commanding officer at Fort Myer
Brig. Gen. William E. Harvey, COM
manding the District of Columbia
militia, and his stan are not affected
by the orders issued by the War De-
partment. The call for the separate
units breaks up the provisional brigade
formation and leaves the general and
his staff at home. The orders do not
make any call for the HEADQUARTERS"
under which head Brig. Gen. Harvey
and his staff would come.
In this event the troops at Fort Myer
will ho he