Evening star., 1916-10-04
Third Infantry and Sanitary.
Corps Leave Rosslyn at
), Five O'Clock.
HAVE BEEN AT FORT MYER
EXACTLY Fifteen WEEKS
Troops to Travel in Forty-Nine Cars,
Running in Three Sections, at
Fifteen-Minute Intervals.

The sd Infantry, National
Guard of the District of Colum-
bia-6fty officers and o67 enlisted
men-and four officers and twenty
four enlisted men of the sanitary
corps, are entraining at Rosslyn
this afternoon for Fort Sam
Houston, San Antonio, Tex, to
which destination Troop A of
Cavalry is preceding them.
The Sd Infantry goes in three sections
of forty-nine cars. the first of which is
due to start at o'clock, and officers in
charge of the work say they expect the
start will be made promptly on time.
and that the two other sections will
pull out at f1fteen-minute intervals.
1t is just fifteen weeks to day and
almost to an hour from the time the
District troops went into the mobiliza-
ton camp at Fort Myer to the time of
their entrainment. They went into
camp at $3.50 pm.
The first two sections pulling out to-
day are each made up of seven tourist
sleepers. One baggage car, three fat
cars. four box cars and one standard
Pullman for the officers. The third sec
tion is made up of eight tourist sleep
four box cars. two fiat cars and one
standard Pullman for officers.
How the Troops Entrain.
The distribution of soldiers in these
sections is as follows:
First section, sixteen carsEFirst Bat
talon and Machine Gun Company, Maj
Joseph F. Hodgson, commanding Off
Ger: Capt. Herbert E. Earnshaw. quar-
termaster; Lieut.. D. A. Tastet and two
ment accompanying; Sergt. Maj Rog-
ers. detailed from adjutant's Office
Second section, sixteen cars-Second
Battalion, headquarters company, Mai.
Wallach McCathran in command; Lieut..
George A. Monagon in command of
the headquarters company until re-
lieyed at destination by the regimental
In charge Lieuts. Gibbs and White and
twenty-three enlisted men of the hos
pftal detachment accompanying: Sergt.
Maj Sullivan, detailed from the adJu-
Third section. seventeen cars-Regi-
mental officers, non-commissioned staff,
the Sd Battalion and the supply COM
pany; Col Glendie B. Young in com
mand' Capt. VIII II. Chase. quarter
master. in charge; Maj. Charles r. Luce
and two enlisted men of the hospital
detachment accompanying; Sergt. Maj.
Hood. detailed from adjutant's office.
All the ofiicers' mounts will be car
ried with the third section. detail
of one orderly to each horse will look
after them during the trip. First Sergt
George Hosmer is in charge of this
detail.
Band Goes in Second Section.
The reRimental band goes in the sec
ond section and the regimental officers
in the last section closing the troop
train.
This train proceeds by the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway to Louisville,
by the Illinois Central to Memphis, by
the st. Louis. Iron Mountain and
Southern to Texarkana. thence to San
Antonio.
kilograms for any of the officers or
enlisted men will be forwarded by the
railroad companies to the nearest point
at which the train can be intercepted.
In anticipation of a big crowd to see
and friends went early this afternoon
to the railroad yard at Rosslyn to
spend last hour with their boys be-
fore they were assigned to their places
In the train. Nearly every visitor
brought a box or bag Of fruit, candy
or other delicacies.
The Sd Infantry. headed by the band
marched from the deserted camp in
leaving the camp about O'Clock. Many
wives. sweethearts, mothers and others
anticipated the hour of departure and
spent much Of the day at the camp.
day carried cameras. and hundreds of
last day pictures were taken.
The welcome and important event of
starting at II O'Clock at thee the tena nHuts; oi
Capt. Horace P. Hobbs. U. S. A. the
mastering ofi1cer. and continuing until
after 2 pm. The men had their last
meal in the form Of picnic dinner
being served regular army rations
from the post.
Load Equipment on Trains.
Despite the fact that practically all
of the tentage was struck yesterday
and that most of the heavy camp equip
nent was packed away, this was the
busiest day of any spent in camp. Mai
John C. Whitaker. the camp quarter
master. WIS directing the work of get.
ting all supplies and equipment aboa rd
the trains on time and with proper rec.
ords checked up for the government.
He had five five-ton motor trucks ant
seven teams at work carting the prom
erty from the camp to the RossIyr
yards. where details from the yariou,
companies were packing them away II
the cars as fast as they were checke,
up by property clerks.
The work of provisioning the trai,
for the trip was in. itself a big task
as more than twenty tons of food cost
ing more than $4,000, had to be pu
aboard in the best possible condition
The magnitude of this work will b.
seen from a few figures Included /,
the supplies were 5000 pounds of beei
5000 pounds of potatoes. 5000 pound
of bacon, 1000 pounds of canned to
matoes. 1000 pounds of corned beef
1.500 pounds of onions, 5000 pounds o
field bread made with a thick crus
to retain as much moisture as posi-
Bile. 200 pounds of rice. 500 pounds o
sugar, 200 pounds of salt. 500 pound
OF coffee. 400 pounds of butter. prune,
apples, peaches and many other sup
plies IN correspondingly large guam
titles
Ten-day rations have been provide
by Maj. Whitaker. In order that ther
may be sufficient food for the men ii
sxpect>d. however. that these ration
win last for dve days after the me-
(Ceatinued on Second Pass.J