The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-23
NOMORE NEWSExpECTEDNOW
Trucks and Men Ready for Service at
Eight O'Clock Saturday Night After
Record Dash Across the Country
Trip Made without Incident.

The thirty-two Kenosha men who
loft Kenosha early Thursday morning
to make up the first motor truck unit
of the United States army on the
border of Mexico passed into the obi
Won guarded by the press censor just
after eight o'clock Saturday night at
Columbus, New Mexico-the end OF
the line-and it is not expected that
any more will be heard from them
save the few struggling kilograms
ir which mention made of the motor
trucks may escape the eagle eye of
the press censor.
Kenosha friends of the boys who
went to the front as truck drivers had
expected an avalance of post cards
from them, but there was no time for
writing and mailing post cards in the
record dash that the train carrying the
men and the Jeffrey Quads made
across the country from Kenosha
to Ell Paso. For hundreds Of miles
the train passed over the southwestern
prairies without making stop and
no chance was offered to the men to
send letters or other messages back to
the folks at home. The Jefery COM
pany received telegram late Satur-
day night announcing that the train
bearing the Kenosha unit had reached
FL Paso at 11:55 Saturday morning
Just ffty-fve hours and forty minutes
after it had pulled out of Kenosha.
The trip from Chicago to Ell Paso
was made in ffty-three hours, this be-
ing nineteen hours less than the SEIZED
ule which the Rock Island road had
agreed with the government. The
stop at FL Paso was only for a few
minutes and the train was sent along
to Columbus in New Mexico-the end
of the line-and the headquarters fo1
activity of one division of the army
The train reached Columbus at four
O'Clock in the afternoon and four
hours later the trucks had been I'M
loaded and manned and they were re,
ported to the commandant as ready
for actual service in the field. The
trip to the south was made without
incident of any kind save that in many
places through which the train pass.
ed the men from Kenosha were greet.
ed with cheers. According to railway
men the ordinary freight train from
Kenosha to Ell Paso would require six
days, but the run was made in little
over two nights and two days.
The last message sent from the unit
at Columbus declared that the mer
were all in excellent health and spirits
and eager to get out of Columbus fol
the trip into Mexico Large stores
of provisions were on hand at Column
bus and it is expected that these will
be loaded onto the trucks at once and
they will be sent out under guard
to join the army now in Mexico
It is possible that the trucks are al
ready with the army.
Out at the Jeeffry plant today
Jerry DeCou, who has been inc charge
of the fitting out Of the expedition
said: "We do not expect to get any
more word from the Kenosha boys fol
some time. All of the activities Of
the company from now on will be
strictly under the army regulations
and it is probable that the press cen
sorship maintained on the board will
make it impossible for any facts in
regard to the movements of the trucks
to get back to Kenosha We are go
ing to send extra parts to Columbus
and from this point they will be for
warded to the territory where the
trucks are in actual service"
1t is probable that within few
days the friends of the members Of
the company will be getting some
news of the boys, but these viii b.
censored so that the location of them
will not be made public.