New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-21
Intervention RumOrs Hum
Through Camp Beekman,
Spreading Joy.
MILITIA TO TAKE
OATH AFTER JULY !
This Action Will Aid in Shifting
Across Border-Target Prac-
tice Immediately.
trrom . s,.r corr..pondsn, Of The rrbun,.I


Division Headquarters, Peeksklll.
y. Y, June 90 While the small staff
at Major General Organs headquar-
tiers worked under tremendous press
ure here to-day hope rose in the hearts
OF every man that when the guard is
, ordered to entrain after modifying at
! Camp Beekman il will be for Vera Cruz
instead of for the 3,OOO-mile Mexican
border. No one could tell the origin
of the hope, and no officer would dis
cuss it, but it was there.
Its realization, Of course, means in
| tervention in Mexico. Whether Pres
ident Wilson will second the blockade
OF all Mexican ports BY sending TO
| Vera Cruz an expedition similar 20 that
/ of 1914 remains 10 be seen.
Orders for additional units 20 pro-
! coed at once to Camp Whitman 10 aid
/ the 22d Engineers and the seth infan-
try in preparing the camp for the gen
! eral mobilization were issued this af-
ternoon.
list Gets Orders.
The fist Infantry, under Colonel
Bates. was ordered to get TO the camp
] before Thursday night. One hundred
men Of the First Field Hospital, with
! headquarters at Sixty-sixth Street and
/ Broadway. and seventy-Aye men Of the
| Sd Ambulance Company, Of Brooklyn,
/ arc to accompany the 200 men Of
/ the list
Major General John F. Organ, COM
| handing the division of 1900 men,
/ left his headquarters here to-day 20
/ visit his dentist in New York and also
/ 10 look over the situation there. He
/ telephoned back this afternoon that
he was delighted with the rapidity Of
mobilization of the New York City
/ regiments.
Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Van
derbilt, inspector general, 'phoned from
New York short time afterward that a
detachment Of the 22d Engineers had
started for Camp Whitman in fine
shape
4 Before Monday. according to Lieu
tenant Colonel Franklin Ward. chief
! intelligence officer, troops from all four
. brigades in the state will have arrived
al Camp Whitman.
There IL a well founded rumor at
headquarters that the mastering of the
I guard into the Federal service will not
take place Immediately Upon their ar
rival at camp, but will be done after
July /.
The Federal law, recently enacted,
which empowers the President to send
all state troops anywhere at any time
becomes effective on that date.
Eve don't need TO wait until then.
| though" said one officer. "All we'd
have to do with our boys would be to
say, Boys, do you volunteer to service
in Mexico" and they would jump right
forward. with their hands raised to
take the oath"
Target Practice Planned.
Target practice is TO begin as soon
as the troops reach camp. Regiment
by regiment, they will be sent in heavy
marching order from Camp Whitman
to the range here. Because they will
not have had time 10 become hardened,
the tramp will take three days. Most
Of the range work will consist of battle
practice in stimulation of actual fighting
conditions.
The seth and list, Eatur Iy, will be
the first 10 make the trip. The 18th
and the l4th, one from Manhattan and
the other from Brooklyn. are expected
TO reach the camp early next week. and
they probably will come next. Every
man Will be required 10 carry his heavy
pack and 2l0 cartridges on the trip.
The LIST brigade, made up of troops
from Manhattan, will bring more men
TO Camp Whitman than anv of the
other three. according 70 reports being
received at headquarters. The 18th, 18th,
G9th and list make up the lst Brigade.
The Sd Brigade. composed Of the lst,
- A f,r4 rtratk l,a,. raf
ters in Albany. will be next i'm strength.
The I'd Brigade, Of Brooklyn. with the
l4th, 23d and 47th. comes third and
the 4th Brigade, Of Buffalo, with the
Sd. Goth and 74th. is last.
Plans for a three-mile range for the
lst and I'd Field Artillery are being
made By Colonel y. B. Thurston, chief
ordnance officer of Gen Organs
staff II will be in the vicinity of
Camp Whitman and will be adapted TO
direct and indirect firing by shrapnel
and explosive shells The three-inch
field guns will be the weapons used.
A thing that delighted every man at
tached 10 headquarters was the food OF
kilograms from officers and eX-oficers
OF the New York Guard in all sections
of the world.
Captain Coming from London.
CAPTAIN Nathaniel L. Shiverick, Of
Troop VI. lst Cavalry. Avon. y. Y, ca
bled from Liverpool that he was taking
the first ship for America and would
arrive next week.
From Berlin came wireless mes
sage saying that Captain W. j. Dono-
van, Of Troop /. lst Cavalry. OF Buff
falo. was bound for Holland and thence
home He has been in ambulance ser
vice in France for almost a wear.
Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Ward,
the official censor, who will be IN