Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-02
CITY GUARDSMEN
AT FIRST REVIEW
BY GEN. CLEMENT
Philadelphians Lined Up for
Inspection-Other Troops
Start Drills
1rEUTENANTS RE- ENLIST
By CARL L. ZEISBERG
Epenino Ledger sta0 Correspondent

Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. 2-The first In
speotIon Of Philadelphia troops by Major
General Clement at Camp Stewart took
MACE today when the Pennsylvania division
commander visited the camp of the Sixth
regiment with his STAFF. Men, equipment,
n,ess tents, camp conditions and every
thing pertaining to the general health of
tbs soldiers were examined under the
ssarchlight of rigid military inspection.
Nothing was omitted except an actual ply
scal inspection Of Colonel Ells's men from
Philadelphia and its environs; these ex-
amlnatlons are made without warning by
the regimental medical corps, which swoop
down upon the human war machines and
catches them unawares.
As the inspection began, the other regi-
ments bright and early began the first
DAYS work Of the drill periods that will
keep the boys on the border for at least
three months, according to the schedule OF
the published order Squads and companies
hIked out on the mesa, their long shadows
stretching like fingers behind them, for the
three hours drill that preceded the heat
Of the day and tho Mexican siesta-
The flow Of Pennsylvania National Guard
lieutenants toward the regular army con-
tlnues and officers predict rolling snow
ball avalanche of applications to follow.
First Leutenants Pyle, of Company NJ, and
Campugano, Of Company I, First Regiment,
of Philadelphia are making application to-
day for regular army examinations and
Second Lieutenant Croft, of Company =,
First Regiment. applied to be detailed to
the regular service. Tho complete list of
iieutenants accepted will be made public
ss soon as word Is received from the War
Department In answer to the list Of appli-
cations forwarded today.
Ordnance officers and inspectors of small
arms practice who expect to be commits
stoned in the new machine gun and supply
companies, after having been mustered out
- hnoo that
abolished, are enllsting as privates II is
therefore not uncommon to see private
in q captains uniform, as the cl-devant
captains wait for their commissions as
ileutenants in the new organizations. Tho
complete list Of the ''unluclSy thirteen hon
orably" mustered out is: Lieutenant Col
onel George II. Smith, division ordnance
officer; Majors q. Claude Goddard, Blaine
Aiken and Charles D. Rhoads, brigade Of
hccre and Captains Edward b. Biddle,
William A. Ruch, Marshall Henderson,
Owen NJ Copelin, Caleb J. Milne, Sd,
Thomas w. Andrews, Wesley r. Roe,
Frank c. McCown, Jr., and WILDER r. Har-
ris, regimental officers. Major Goddard. of
the First Brigade, is on his way homo to
Philadelphia. Many changes among nom
commissioned officers follow the organi-
Eation OF the new headquarters and supply
companies.
on a sad fulrough, Sergeant James W.
Hubbell. of Troop A Cavalry, of Philadel-
pnla' lelI curly touay lor Aipahyt M T.,
after receiving n message that his child
had been drowned.
A happy thought-or was II long study
on the part of Lieutenant 8. d. Foster,
detailed to worry the dusty Alamogordo
road problem into submission, has solved
the question without awaiting the arrival
of the Governisent appropriation that Is
coming to lay the dust. His campaign be-
gun this morning, Is to ignore the Alamo
gordo road. except to close 1t later and
allow the rain of the almost rainless rainy
season to pack the loose adobe soil into a
hard cake. A squad of men laid out n
brand-new road this morning on stony
trail west of camp. toward the mountain
range. where the winds blow away from
tho tents and where If discordant breeze
should back-fre, sparse dust could be COL
lected and deposited in camp. With plenty
OF labor furnished by the regiments the
rocky soil will yield good road