Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-10
LAST MEN LEAVE
MT. GRETNA CAMP
Eighth Infantry, Ambulance
Company and Hospital Corps
Off For the Border

Mt. Gretna. Pa, July 10.-The last
units of Pennsylvania quota of 12,-
I'll officers and men for military duty
on the Mexican border entrained here
last evening. They comprised the Sth
Infantry, Colonel Maurice f. Finney
Ambulance Company No. l and field
hospital corps. Accompanying them
is Brigadier-G General G. T. O'Neill and
staff of the 4th Brigade. The detach-
ment is travelling in three sections.
which left at intervals during the early
hours of the evening.
The regiment, which was hard hit
by the United States medical inspec-
tors in the rejection OF more than 200
men, left with q. strength of Sc officers
and 9S6 men, made up of IL compan-
les, two each from York and Harris
burg. and one eacn from Carlisle,
Chambersburg, Lewistown, Bedford,
Mahanoy City, Tamaqua and Potts
vile, a sanitary corps at Tamaqua and
a band from Easton. The hospital
and ambulance outfit numbers 141
men.
With the departure OF the troops,
there are but a dozen uniformed men
remaining here. Among them are
Colonel II. c. Trexler, chief of the new
quartermaster's corps, and his assist
ants.
Some weeks will be required before
they can finish their work, as was
pointed out by Adjutant General Tho
mas j. Stewart on the occasion of a
visit to camp. He placed the cost of
mobilization, transportation and
equipment of the Pennsylvania divi-
sion at $2,500,000. These figures in
clude the cost of transportation of the
soldiers here and thence on to the bor-
der. Their maintenance in camp and
on the way to Ell Paso is fixed at 30O,-
| TAR1a ~ fAfa a1 N-N ~f
exclusive of the vast amount of equip
ment. Five hundred railroad cars
were required for transportation, 400
of them being coaches.
EulogiZe Gen. Hutchinson.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Kemper,
of the Sth Infantry, did not go out
with his regiment, but will remain
here for week or more in order to
complete his work as chief mastering
officer for the United States army, in
which capacity he came here and
! continued up to the time of his ap-
pointment and assignment to the State
! militia, to fill the vacancy caused by
the elevation of Lieutenant Colonel
t1nney to the command of the regiment
on account of the fatal illness of it's
old commander General Joseph
Hutchison, whose death occurred on
| Saturday at Chambersburg. In an or
der posted to-day, Colonel Finney is
| commenting on the death of his old
commander says
In his death the service loses a
highly esteemed, valued and efficient
off1cer, whose impartial administration
has always been respected"
The military post Office which was
opened here with the establishment of
the mobilization camp, has been clos
ed, but orders were issued by Adjutant
General Stewart that the telephone
and telegraph lines are to be maintain
ed in first-class order, and the opera
tors continued at their posts prepared
to meet any situation that may arise.
Lieutenant-Colonel L. V. Rausch and
his arsenal force will take up the work
OF getting the camp grounds in shape
for the coming here, on July 22, of the
Sd Brigade, consisting of the 9Th and
l 9th, and a separate battalion of the
9Th Infantry, for an eight days tour
of duty. Preparations are also to be
made for the reception of all recruits
who may be sent for training prepar-
der.