Putnam patriot., 1916-06-30
CONNECTICUT MEN
 OFF FOR MEXICO
Special Train in Eight Sections
 Lelves Camp at Ni2 ntiC
DESTINATION IS FL PAS0
First Connecticut Field Company of Signal Troops, Seventy Strong, Under Capt. George
 Cole, First to Eutrain.
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Camp Holeomb, Niaulc.-The Con neeueut National Guard comprising all the units of the States militia axeep. the battalion oL field artillery and Troop \. cavalry. Of New Haven. started for the Mexican border Tues. day morning on board a special train o6 e5gnt sections. The contingent. which numbers more than tvo Ihoa- sand men. Will 20 10 Fl paso
 Troop X was detained in camp be- cause it lacked sufficient mounts. It and Che battalion of field arsalery. which includes the Yale Battery. fot lowed in a few days.
 The moving guaFdsmeu are compos- ed of the First infantry regiment. 450 men; the Second infantry regiment S22 men; Troop B, cavalry, Hartford; one company Signal Corps. one am bulance company and one field nos pital corps. They are in command of .8djutant General George Cole veteran of the Spanish=American war.
 All the commands went by the Poughkeepsie Bridge route to Camp bell Hall, \. T.. passing through New Haven. Derby, and Danbury. From Campbell Hall the First regiment went through Chicago and Kansas City. The Second regiment is routed through Belyidere. Chicago and Santa Rosa. The cavalry and special corps go by way of Buffalo, Chicago, Kansas City and Fort Worth.
 Adjutant General Cole received or ders from Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the Department of the East, to start for the border with as large a contingent of quail fed men as possible. The work of examining officers and men prepara- tory to mastering them into the Federal service was begun at once X large force of physicians worked all night and until noon At two o'clock that same afternoon all the commands were ready to entrain.
 There was a delay of many hours in the arrival of trains 10 transport the troops It was after midnight when enough trains had reached the camp for the First regiment. That regiment was the first 10 leave fhe Second and the other commands fol- lowing at half hour intervals. Officers of the First regiment, all of Hartford, are Colonel Richard J. Goodman, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin E. Lamb Major John J. McMahon Major John L. Purcell, Major J, Rau, captain Philip E. Curtiss, Captai~ Wilfred H. Dresser. Captain Michael r. Owens, Captain George Cole and l the Rev. Michael Sullivan. chaplain. Second Regiment officers. all of New Haven, are Colonel Charles F. Mo Cabe, Lieutenant Colonel John c. Til s5n Major Ernest L. Isbel Major George E. Hall. Captain Arthur ". Phillips, Captain William B. Spencer. Captain Thomas H. Newbold, Captain William F. Aleorn and the Rev. Wat son L. Phillips chaplain.
 Troop B officers are Captain James L. Howard First Lieutenant J. H.. Kelso Davis and Second Lieutenant Clifford D. Cheney. Signal Corps officers are Captain Frederick Welles Prince and First Lieutenant Henry M. steinholz. Major Joseph H. Town. send commands the Field Hospital l Corps.
 Many persons visited the camp after hearing news of the troops being or dered 10 the border Gifts were sent by ex-Gov Morgan c. Bulkley who tried to get sleeping cars for Troop B of the Firth Cavalry; by Senator and Mrs. George M. Landers and Mayor George Quigley of New Britain who started a substantial fund for the New Britain companies of the First infantry.
 After an all night drive to Hartford and back two big trucks arrived with ball cartridges, which were served in bulk to the company commanders. The two trucks. which left the camp at 1:30 a. m. arrived at the State Arsenal in Hartford at 9:30 a m. and were back here with the ammunition at 2:30 a. m.
 After the troops had entrained they were held in the cars for hours await ing definite instructions from Gen. Wood giving the objective point in Texas and the routing. The hospital company of New Haven and the am bulance company Of Hartford entrain- ed on the second section train.
 Col. Ballinger of Gen Woods staff telephoned Gen. George Cole. com manding the Connecticut guardsmen, that the objective was Nogales, Ariz. Troop B, the signal corps, the ambu- lance and hospital company went back 10 camp rather than sit in the cars the rest of the night.
 Six trains were held in readiness for the 750 men of the First infantry and s22 men of the Second infantry. who remained in the camp with tents struck and arms stacked. The rock ies" who as yet have not received rifles. will remain here in camp in- definitely under the instruction of reg ular army officers.