New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
list AND l4TH
ORDERED HOME
Wild Jubilee in Camp at
Prospect of Leaving
Border.
SOLDIERS EXPECT
TO BE DISCHARGED
Refuse to Believe Move
n,ent Is Connected
with Strike.

Headquarters 9th Division, U. s. A..
McAllen, Tex, Aug. 31.-0rders for the
movement of three regiments of in
fantry-"two from New York City and
one from Buffalo or vicinity"-reached
the headquarters Of the New York di-
vision here at o'clock this morning.
Major General Organ was then in
the field with the regiments on hike.
but Immediately after communication
had been established with him orders
went to the list, q. NcAllen; the l4th,
at Mission, and the Sd, at Pharr. The
headquarters Of the Sd are at Roches-
ter, which is the nearest General
Organ could come to Buffalo, the 74th
being still on a hike, with four days
marching yet to do. The regiments
chosen 20 depart embrace all now IN
camp.
The orders were announced to the
men on their return from drill, shortly
after 10 O'Clock. Wild cheering greeted
them, and for an hour all three camps
were in turmoil. Work was stopped on
mess shacks being built for the regl-
mcnts, and pending further lnstruc-
ticns from district headquarters AZ
Brownsville work was also stopped on
roads being constructed on the military
reservation here.
Railroad officials say cars cannot be
made ready for troops before Sunday,
and in the mean time nothing is being
done toward striking camps. Actual
entraning will take from twelve TO
eighteen hours after the arrival OF
~
are now until Saturday, it is expected.
Though the orders direct their re-
turn to their mobilization camps, the
men refuse to believe they mean any
thing except that they are to be mus
tered out. They will not believe there
is any connection between the move
mcnt and the railroad strike. Even
when told by officers they might look
for delays en- route, with the possibility
of actual service before reaching New
York State, the men continued disbe-
lieving.
From division headquarters down
officers understand the orders are the
result of the strike situation alone. A
widely accepted theory is that the rail-
roads to carry troops when the strike
order becomes effective will be COM
Wandered by the government forth
with. -,
Data are being gathered among all
state troops in the lower Rio Grande
/ Valley as to the number of men with
railroad experience Of any kind. In
formation now at hand is said to indl-
cate that the New York division alone
could man ten trains and provide other
essentials of operation as far north as
Kansas CITY. Officials of the Gulf Coast
lines anticipate government SEIZURE
, within six hours after a strike, if one
really comes.
The towns have been filled this al
! ternoon and evening with celebrating
soldiers. and the camps are full of
rumors of every sort. A curious reac-
ton in the regiments under orders is
that some of the men are already ex-
pressing regret that they are gong so
soon. After the first hour OF Jupilation
the camps hWe been as quiet as on any
day since ARRIVAL.
Brieadier General ". s. McNair to-
day reviewed the 1st and I'd Field Ar
tillery. The spectacular ceremony on
the prairie, three miles from town, az,
tracted wide attention. Though sull
far short of the number OF horses
needed, each regiment turned out SIX
firing batteries, each gun and caissoh
drawn by six horses.
Second Lieutenant Clyde +. Marion,
Company X, list Infantry, returned TO
New York to-day. His resignation has
been accepted, following the Hing OF
charges against him for being absent
without leave one night while his regi-
ment was on hike.