The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-07
No Sign of Gloom in Ranks as
They Start for Rio Grande.
ALL EAGER FOR ACTION
State Aims to Be First With Full Bril-
pade-Two More Regiments and
Two Cavalry Troops-BraVe
Boys Go Singing to Duty.
Especial correspondence

Sey hopes to be the first State to have
a full brigade of National Guard
troops at the front. 1t is expected
the two remaining regiments of the
brigade now in camp here, with two
troops of cavalry and the signal
corps, will be sent forward at once.
With the next regiment will go
Brigadier-General Edwin w. Hine and
his staff. Adjutant-Genera Wilbur F.
Sadler notified General Leonard Wood
that all troops in camp here will be
ready to move to the border within
twenty-four hours after the receipt
of the remainder of equipment and
horses needed.
General Wood replied that the
equipment necessary would be ship
ped at once. United States Army Off
GERS also were ordered to Englewood
to inspect the horses which the State
has bought to equip the cavalry
troops in camp. 1t is expected to
100 horses needed will be shipped to
this camp Immediately.
"If these arrangements are carried
out" said General Sadler, 1.-The Fifth
Regiment will be likely to leave for
the border. The Fourth will go. With
the Fourth will be Cavalry Troop B, of
Red Bank, and d, of Plainield. The
signal corps will also go with the
Fourth Regiment.
ut is not known when the Second
and Third Regiments, of Camden and
Trenton respectively, will be ordered
out, but an order for their mobiliza-
ton is looked for within the coming
week."
Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers, a we'll
known golf player of Plainfeld, ap-
pealed to Mrs. Fielder, wife of the
Governor, to save her son from serv-
ice IN the militia. The boy is a
private in Troop d, the Plainield cav
airy unit. Mrs. Rogers recently lost
another son who was in the regular
army. He died of typhoid fever. Her
appeal to save the second son from
service was of no avail, and the boy
viii leave with his troop.
Mrs. Fielder was elected president
Of the New Jersey Soldiers Relief
League formed to take care of the de-
pendents of men at the front.
Important movements of New Jer-
sey troops are summed up as fol-
lows:
Fifth Regiment, Paterson, ordered
to the border.
Fourth Infantry, Jersey City; Troop
B. Cavalry, Red Bank; Troop D, Cav
airy, Plainfield, and the Signal Corps,
Jersey City, ordered to the border.
Second Infantry, Trenton, and the
Sd Infantry, Camden, modified at
Sea Girt. This is the information
which was given out by Adjutant Gen
eral Sadler, after a long-distance tele-
phone conference with Major General
Wood at Governors Island.
The dispatch of the troops to the
border and the subsequent mobiliza-
ton of the I'd and Sd Regiments de-
pended upon the ability of the War
Department to get supplies and equip
ent for the men and mounts which
was done.
The I'd and Sd are two of the crack
National Guard organizations of the
East. They both passed high in the
Federal inspections a few months ago.
Major Winfield S. Price, of Camden,
has been put in charge of the re-
cruits. He has detailed Captain Wal
ter l.. Auten, of the Asbury Park Com
pany, Sd Regiment, and Captain How
ard Bodine, of Company E, of Trenton,
to assist him.
A half-dozen men of the First Regi-
ment who refused to take the bath
of allegiance, were hooted and jeered
out of camp, after the buttons had
been stripped from their uniforms.
More drastic action would have been
taken by the members of the regiment
if it had not been hat they were
busy preparing for their departure.
AS it was, they were showered with
loose sods as they walked to the exit
of the camp.
The Fourth and Fifth Regiments
helped the First in chasing the slack
ers out. AS those who refused to
take the oath passed down the road
way IhCy "OAO GOdlCQ " d wiley
of Kisses and ~catcalls. "Quitters" and
"yellow backs" they were called.
Later in the day, when four of the
Fifth Regiment refused to take the
oath, their uniforms were torn off,
and after being ducked under the com
pany faucets they were turned loose.
Jersey Boys All Gone.
All the New Jersey troops called
out by the Presidents order Of June
10 have started from Sea Girt for the
border. The last two commands,
Troops B and D of Red Bank and
Plainfield respectively, pulled out of
the Manasquan station at 5 o'clock
Sunday bound for Ell Paso. With them
went Major William B. Bryant Of the
First Squadron and his staff. Troops
A and G, making up the squadron,
left on Tuesday, and the four will be