Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-01

II WAS very lnIeTtSIl1R yesterday
i morning at Mrs Drexers home, when
various women met to plan for the pack
ing Of supplies for our troops. Mrs.
Horace Brock presided at the meeting,
and told how Mrs. Urauhart's unit had
gotten up yesterday morning, shortly
after midnight, when most people were
coming home from the display of fire.
works out at the Park, and were In their
places at the Baltimore and Ohio at $3.50
o'clock In the morning, handing out hot
coffee and sandwiches to the hungry
Johnnies who belonged to Companies A
and B, Engineers, the first to leave Mount
Gretna and pass through the city on their
way to the border
Then In the middle of last night three
units were on hand when the I'd Regi-
ment passed through the city, stopping
for about half an hour. Such scenes you
never saw and such enthusiasm on the
part Of the boysl The cheers might have
wakened the dead as the first section
moved out amid farewells from the crowd
and whistles from the police tugs on the
river and toots from the engines. The
two units under Mrs. Francis Howard
Williams and Mrs, George Urquhart, and
third from Oak Lane, worked like mad
to give the soldiers coffee, sandwiches
and, best of all, tobacco. A lot Of women
lent their motors to the division that sup
plies might be carried quickly and easily
to the stations.
II the country at large were MS we'll
prepared as the women are It would be
we'll for all. Hand 1t to the women
every time for being ready when duty
calls.
A number of women went in the after
noon also to Mrs. Drexel's home and
packed individual boxes of condensed
milk and canned soup. They say that
lemon drops, too, are especially nice for
the men on the march. The acid ia good
for them, and the juice of the drop keeps |
their throats from becoming parched and |
dry. Among the women at the meeting |
was Mrs. Betty Madeira, who did not |
seem to be quite sure to which unit she |
belonged, whereupon some one suggested |
that she be head of one, to which Mrs. |
Madeira replied feelngly, mot for gold |
or precious stones would / be head of |
anything!" However she Joined in the
work most heartily. The meeting yester-
day was for Department, No. 4 of the
emergency commissariat. This depart
ment has three objects: First, securing
money or supplies to provide refresh
ments for troops passing through the
State; second, cooking or making ready
the supplies third, distributing the sup
plies. All this in case of war or calamity
And in the meantime our thoughts turn
TO the laddies who are on their way to
the border, even though the trouble may
be averted yet, and to the others who,
are still in training up at the camp One
girl know went up to camp yesterday,
and she told she had never seen any
thing like 1t in all her life Everywhere
she turned were men sound asleep. The
poor souls get up so early at Mount
Gretna and drill so hard that they just
tall asleep anywhere they can possibly
and. Stores are reaching them daily,
though at first there were three men in a
tent with one gun between them, which
poor thing had to be borrowed whenever
he different drill times came.
My dears, this is a pleasant thought!
Ind it will make us appreciate our own
able more than we ever did in all our
ives; listen These men, who have many
II them appeared to us so we'll groomed
md spandy fresh from the hands of the
,arber and tailor. are given their food in
inpans six by eight inches long, with
handle attachment In these .tinpans, in
promiscuous arrangement, are potatoes,
tring beans and stewed prunes together.
I by any chance one man does not receive
ne of these savory conglomerations he
hares his neighbor's. My friend re-
rained from saying whether she saw
hem eat and whether they were provided
nth forks and knives or not. They drink
heir coffee out of tincups. The men are
citing restless, she says, and are anxious
, be off to the border 1t is wonderful the
lumber of wives and sweethearts who are
D at the inn now and In camp all the
me. I imagine the commanding officers
lust love having them around; II helps
Iscipline so much, You know. And she
lys you ought to see the boards and mus
lches and whislSers! They are all grow
lg gay and untrammeled. no waxed ends
: such little niceties. oh! No And It
all for our dear countIyl God bless
lem. NANCY WYNNE.