Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-30
.ART|LLERYMEN ARE STILL.
WAITING FOR ORDERS
Seen Received Here. Though
Daily Expected.
SALE AWAITS INSTRUCTIONS
War Department Says Detailed Or
ders Will Shortly Bc Forthcoming
for Movement of Four Batteries OF
Artillery to Texas.

Acknowledgement Sale has not been
| notified. either formally or informally,
TO entrain the troops for Texas. Au-
! thoritics at Camp Stuart have not been
| notified. The War Departments or
| ders were noe transmitted Yesterday by
| the Department of the East. The First
| battalion and Battery l.. Virginia Field
| Artillery, have not been ordered to
start for the border to-norrow. Adju-
tant-Gcneral Sale and Major 6. l..
! Wright, adjutant of Camp Stuart. again
denied last night that such orders had
! been received
The mistake, thought General sale.
| came from a Observation-Disclosures. Of the
directions from the Eastern Depart
mcnt received yesterday. dealing in a
| general way with the dcpartur" of the
artillery. The communication. sent out
| by the nuartcrmastcr at the
headquarters OF the Eastern Depart
mcnt. Governors Island. y Y. states:
ORDERS have been issued for the
movement of the First Battalion. Field
Artillery, of the Virginia National
Guard from Richmond TO San Antonio,
Texas. as promptly as possible"
y similar order relates to Battcpy
G. Both orders contain directions as
to tho route to be taken by the or
Gani=ations and the railroads which
will carry them
MEN HAVE SEVENTY-TWO HOURS
IN WHICH TO BID GOOD-HY
Orders TO start have not been re-
ceived at Camp Stuart. however. even
though the Uuartcrma ST general
states that they have been issued. In
| view OF the fact that the men will not
cntrain until scvcnty-two hours after
| the order is received, it is certain that
| II will be several days before they
leave.
When tho real moving order comes.
say military men. 1t will give detailed
directions to the exact time the
| men arc to leave, and make many
other provisions not contained in the
bulletins already received. The com
mand to move will not bc issued by
the Quartcrmaster- general, hut by the
commander OF the department.
Although the orders To move did not
arrive yesterday. officers and mon cX-
pected them all day. and Will continue
10 look for them till they come There
is no doubt in the minds Of the SOL
dicrs that they will go to Texas in a
short time. The artillcrymcn have
quit savin., money for tho state Fair
RAILROADS ARE ASSEMBLING
CARS For ARTIILE!,YMEN
While no orders for the movement
of the artillery now stationed at Camp
Henry Carter Stuart have been re-
Cnived, T. s. Moore, of Roanoke. "cp-
rcscn,ativc Of the American Railway
Association. designated to supervise the
movement Of the soldiers from tho Nir-
Einia camp. arrived in Richmond yes
tcrday morning and was working 10
assemble the necessary equipment for
the transportation of the National
GuardSmcn
The Norfolk and Western Railway.
which Will handle one battcry.>of ar
tllcry as far as Bristol, where Conncc-
ton Will he made with the southern
Railway. assembled its equipment yes
tciday and Will be in Il position this
morning. 1t was stated. to move The
soldiers on the arrival Of orders from
tie Department OF the East, Twelve
cars Will make up tho train over this
road. and the men will be quartcrcd
in tourist cars.
Chesapeake and Ohio officials were
working to assemble the equipment
necessary TO handle three batteries,
which will be moved over this road to
Louisville. Ky. Al that place the spc-
ciai trains viii bc transferred to tho
Southern Railway. over which road
they will he handled South. Three sl.-.-
Cial trains viii he required to handle
the troops moving over the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad. In railroad circles
tie opinion was expressed yesterday
afternoon that the artillery would not
leave Richmond for several days. prob
ably not until Tuesday or Wednesday
OF next week.