New-York tribune., 1916-07-11
All but New Men of list
Start To-Day with 69th
for Border.
47TH, OF BROOKLYN,
MAY COME HOME
10000 Applications for Enlist
ment In Roosevelt's Division
Already Received.

Orders for all recruits now in :se
srmories throughout the city to pro-
ceed at once TO Beekman, there to
entrain with the 69th Regiment, sched-
uled 10 leave to-day for the border,
were issued yesterday. All of the
detschments, with the exception Of the
fist recruits, who will not be ready
10 move before Wednesday, owing 20
lack OF equipment. left for Camp
Whitman late last night or early this
morning.
In the New York division there are
s24 recruits TO be transferred to their
regiments in Texas. They are divided
among the various organizations as
follows: 7th Infantry, 2l; 18th lnfan-
try, rs; 14th Infantry, lat; 23d lnfan-
try, 81; list Infantry, All; 74th In
fantry, 81; 1st Cavalry, AZ; Squadron
A, 4; lst Field Artillery, 50i Cd Field
Artillery, 3.
1t was rumored yesterday that the
l7th Infantry, of Brooklyn, now In
camp at Peekskill, would not be sent
TO the border for some time, il at all,
and might be brought back to this city
TO form the nucleus Of the I'd Division,
which the state laws require shall be
formed as soon as the 1st Division Is
moved from the state.
Engineers Prepare to Entrain-
Orders 10 prepare for entrsinment
were issued yesterday to the lst Bat
TALON, 22d Engineers, now at Camp
Whitman; the Sd Infantry, with head
quarters at Rochester, and the head
quarters staff of the field artillery
brigade.
General Wood announced that troop
movements in the Eastern Department
would be slow from now on, and that
IL might be several weeks before the
guardsmen in certain Southern states
would be able 70 move. Every ehort
is being made, he said, TO rush recruits
10 fill the vacancies due TO the de-
pendency discharge order, that com
mands already on the Mexican border
NAV be brought up 70 war strength;
Applications for enlistment IN Colo
mel Roosevelt's tentative division, al
ready christened "Teddy's Tigers are
mourning in at the organiZation's head
quarters, at 42S Fifth Avenue. A con.
servative estimate of the number OF
men who have wired, written, tele-
phoned or called in person TO offer
their services to the Colonel is placed
at 10000.
Among the prominent men reported
as scheduled for commissions in the
organization are ex-Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson, who is said to be
slated for division quartermaster, and
Thomas c. Desmond, a consulting en-
gineer, now building several sections
of the new subway, who has been
picked by Colonel Roosevelt TO raise
a regiment OF engineers.
Many Engineers willing TO Enlist.
Mr.. Desmond is a graduate Of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and has wide acquaintance among
young engineers, several hundred of
whom have already announced their
willingness 10 enlist under him.
General Wood will leave tomorrow
for the military training camp at
Plattsburg, planning TO remain until
Friday. He said yesterday that the re-
strictions for membership in the last
two Plattsburg camps, beginning re-
spectively on August and September
IS. would be waived. Membership will
be open to all citizens between eighteen
and fifty-fve in good health and willing
to defray their own expenses. Some
of the money will be remitted II fund
for that purpose is obtained from the
Federal government.
The candidates for membership be-
tween the ages Of forty-fve and fifty
five must be in excellent physical con-
dition, the general emphasized. II is