New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-02
Routes Worked Out for
18th and list, but No
Cars Ordered.
RATIONS INDICATE
EMERGENCY DUTY
Militia Along Border Per-
sist, Gayly, That Muster
Out Is Near.
[By Telegraph to The rribun.l

Headquarters Sixth Division. U. s
A., McAllen, Tex, Sept. To-day
passed without q receipt of furth>
orders for the movement 70 Camp
Whitman Of Sd, l4th and fist infantry.
The Gulf coast lines. first OF the rail
roads to handle the troops. have not
vet been called upon for equipment
for either the New York or the Hin
ois and Louisiana organizations that
have been designated to go.
To get day coaches will require
forty-eight hours, Il Is said, and upon
the receipt of this equipment General
George r. Dyer, commanding the See,
ond BRIGADE. recalled orders tina, had
been issued for the list to strike us
canvas and go into shelter tents.
Routes of the Sd and fist regiments
vore worked out to-day. the former
via Houston. Denison and ~. Louis
whore il will take the New YORK
Central lines 70 Beacon, y. Y; there
il will take the Central New England 70
Greenhaven. The Sd will go TO New
Orleans, travelling by the Queen q
Crescent TO Cincinnati. BY the Bait
more & Ohio to Philadelphia. and oy
the Jersey Central. Lehigh and Hud-
son River to Maybrcok. \. Y. The
route for the 14th has not been worked
out.
Opinions as 70 the reasons for the
orders for these regiments continue
~ differ. That they have been called
for emergency duty seems TO be IN
dicated by the fact that neither their
animals nor their combat wagons VIII
90 with them, but will remain here
in charge of their supply companies
Each man will carry five days garrl,,
son rations. in addition to ten days
travel ratlons.
Nothing can shake the belief OF the
men. however, that the muster OUT IS at
hand. To-day's report that there
would be no railroad strike was or only
passing interest. They said that the
strike had not been factor. at any
time. Men in other regiments hold the
same view, and in the confidence that
their time is coming they look on the
orders for the Sd, 14th and list as
hit Of luck that will make only rev
weeks' difference at the most
The 7th will finish its hike tomorrow
and return to camp about 20 per cent
better physically than IT went out III
ten DAYS but forty men have been sent
hack as ineffectives. During the last
two DAYS not a man has fallen from
the ranks on march, although one stage
vas along q road that knocked out 2O0
men of the 74th.
Work on camp buildings and roads
which was suspended yesterday on re-
CONT Of the orders calling for the three
regiments. has been resumed. AZ the
eame time all men of the list on de-
tail with the military police, military
most office, depot quartermaster, neld
hospital and at division headquarters
have been sent back to their companies.
Nine more men were sent to-day 70
San Antonio as possible victims Of
paratyphoid. uh. -
the adiutant generals staff. returned
today from eighteen days In the neld
With The mixers. He will start Tor New
york to-morrow. Captain Dewitt T.
WeId adiutant OF the I'd Field Artillery
to.dav became a battalion commander
succeeding Major Chauncey Matlocx'
resigned. First Lieutenant Charles ..
McGronan, D Battery, becomes captain
and adjutant.