Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-21

dcns Of the war ON that day IT Is
estimated no less than 10000 people
TANNED the walks and crowded the
lawns of that civic forum where car
lier Philadelphia always repair at
times Of moment
But seven months passed before
any Of the Philadelphia volunteers
went TO the front Recruiting aud
drilling had been taken up promptly
and soon numerous commands we're
holding practice marches and drills on
the fields across the Schuylkill BY
the end of July no less than thirty
companies had been organlzcd in
Philadelphia, the various guards,
grays fusilecrs, fencihcs, blues and
rifles Of the military nomenclature of
the day
Folks policy at the beginning of
the war however, was one of indcCi-
sion The army heads did not real
i2o the task before them. And out
of a congressional authorization for
10000 volunteers, the president asked
the nation to contribute hut 10000,
combining the first call to the section
Of the country west and south Of the
ONO. AS the war dragged along,
however, and army officers began to
see the long and difficult road that
would have to be traVersed to cross
Mexico on it's longest line, from north
to south, the need of another eXpcdi-
ton along the short and feasible Vera
Cruz Mexico line called for more vol
unteers So in November came the
presidents call for the eastern volud
tcers, among them the troops from
Pennsylvania
ON December 4, 1916, Adjutant|
General Bowman, under the govern
or's instruction. issued the can for the
call for the first of the Pennsylvania
troops to mobilize at pittsburgh and
In this initial order four Philadelphia
commands were included. the Wash
ington light infantry, the city guards,
the Philadelphia light guards and the
Washington artillery. These organ
ilatious were ordered to be ready to-
leave Broad ana Vino streets at $780,
In the morning Of December Z. The
Monroe guards, the Cadwallader
guards and the jefferson guards were
ordered TO follow two days later,
The journey Of the two bodies tel
the mobilization camp was much the
same. Both required a week to travel
from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh go
ing by train to Harrisburg. thence 10y
canal and inclined plane through the
second stage of the journey and fin
ally marching more than $50 miles
from Chambcrsburg to Pittslurgh
Their departure from Philadelphia
brought out great throng and all the
usual sorroWful and joyful scenes in
Cident to the cntraining of troops
were enacted Along the entire jour
nCy to the western end Of the state
they were treated as heroes, the
oountryfolk and towns people vicng
with one another in extending hospi
tality In the shape OF free liquors
pies and cakes, while at the nightly
halts the dinners became miniature
hanQucts
Nevertheless there was lot Of
hardship TO be undergone The canal
boats and cars on which they slept
for part of the way provided but.
bare planks and SO many soldiers
were crowded into "A car or on a boat
that Il was impossible for many To
sleep. Tho weather was cold, and
part Of the time stormy and the re-
ports transmitted to Philadelphia
showed there was the fair share OF
grumhhng at hardships among sol
diers striking the march for the first
time They had hardly arrived in
Pittsburgh, however, and enjoyed the
ChriNmastde Hospitahtics 'tendcred
TO them 10y the people of that city he
tore they We're bundled on board
packet boats and started on their long
Journey down the Ohio and MisSissip
pi 60 the sea. the boats being hustled
off for fear of the river freeztne and
delaying the departure All told $50
men went from philadelphia and but
254 returned on July -, lStN, a year
ana half later. TO receive the great /
welcome which the city then rendered /
its Conquoung heroes.