New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-22
O'Ryan Holds Regiments
in City Until Camp Gets
Water Supply.
list, 14TH AND 47TH
MUST WAIT, is ORDER
Mules and Horses Arrive for
Service-Hospital Corps and
Ambulances Go To-day.

Two brass bands swung through up
town streets yesterday playing THE
Girl | Left Behind Me" Behind them
marched the Sixty-ninth New YORK
Infantry the Fighting Sixty-ninth -
and the six last companies of the Iwen-
ty-second Engineers.
They were bound for Camp whitman.
and before New York City sees them
again they may have had baptism oil
| fire somewhere in Mexico.
With the departure of the two OF
/ panizations, numbering together CLOS
| to 1000 men, the mobilization OF the
guardsmen of the state at Beekhlah
was we'll under way.
Cavalry Ready TO Go.
I The First Field Artillery and Troops
A and r Of Squadron A, the cavalry
command whose roster reads ike an
cvtract from the Social Register, spent
] the night under canvas on the national
Guard encampment site In Van Cort-
/ iandt Park. When the other two troops
! of the cavalry squadron reac the camp
this morning both organizations VIII
no ready to start at the bugle cali LOT
Beekman-or, for that matter, for Mex
leo -.
deserted hustled with activity during
the dav. Even in those which had CIV
en- M their men to Beekman and the
Van Cortlandt camp recruiting squads
did a rushing business.
Troop movements which were sched-
uled for tomorrow have practically all
been cancelled, Major General O'ky"n
having been informed that the water
supply system at Camp Whitman is as
yet inadequate. The commander OF the
/ New York division, one OF whose slo-
cans is "more haste, less speed" issued
, orders holding back the Seventy-hrst
! Infortry and the Fourteenth and Forty
seventh Infantry, the Brooklyn regi-
ments which were 70 have entrained
to-day. The three regiments VIII leave
for Beekman tomorrow, according TO
/ the new arrangement.
Hospital Corps Uses Boat.
OF the organizations scheduled 70
move northward to-day only two-the
/ Sd Ambulance Company and the lst
( Field Hospital Corps will go. Ihey
/ will make the first part OF the jour
ney aboard the steamer Storm King.
The crack 7th Regiment. under arms
and waiting the word from headquar-
tiers, probably will not get marching
orders until Sunday. The 23d Regi-
ment, OF Brooklyn, the last infantry
organization remaining in the greater
city. is scheduled to leave the fol-
lowing day.
/ One thousand horses and 500 mules
the first instalment Of 1000 PACK
| and draft animals coming from the
West-arrived in the city last night.
| Their arrival will enable the I'd Field
Artillery 10 move TO Van Cortlandt
/ Park from its armory, at l68th Street
| and Franklin Avenue. The five Brook
/ lvn troops of the 1st Cavalry and the
one Staten Island troop Will also get
n sufficient number OF mounts 70 make
them ready for the field before the
dav is out. Chief Quartermaster Stern
berger promises.
"The sidings at Camp Whitman are
TANNED with freight cars" Colonel
/ Sternberger reported yesterday at Di-
] vision Headquarters, in the Municipal
/ Building. Thirty cars Of supplies are
| on hand, and there will be no danger
/ Of a food shortage. The cost Of mobi-
/ lization. with two weeks maintenance
/ for the men, will be about S65O,0OO,
as ! now figure it."
Coast Guard Wants Men.
A vigorous recruiting campaign was
carried on at the armory of the 9Th
Coast Defence Command, in Four
teenth Street. west of Sixth Avenue.
The men of the 9th, although their
regiment was not included in the mob
ilization order, will not believe they
are not to see service. Half a hundred
of them reported at the armory yes